I think it is stupid for EA to not include an offline free roam on the new Need for Speed!!!!!!!If they did it in Need for Speed Rivals, why cant they do it now. Come on EA, please pleasePLEASE come out with an offline free roam for Need for Speed!!!!!!

Hi @mhl2469, Need for Speed is committed to being a live service so we can deliver an ongoing experience that is constantly changing and evolving. Being connected allows you to take advantage of the live service. Please also see: http://www.needforspeed.com/news/nfs-update --Tom

Will there be an update for offline freeplay in Need for Speed?

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Straatford87
DICE Team
10 years ago
Hi @mhl2469,

Need for Speed is committed to being a live service so we can deliver an ongoing experience that is constantly changing and evolving. Being connected allows you to take advantage of the live service. Please also see: http://www.needforspeed.com/news/nfs-update

--Tom
Anonymous
10 years ago
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I agree, there's really no reason at all to force this on us, unlike EA claims, it does not give any advantage whatsoever in solo play.
aurel-92110
10 years ago
I hope you will reconsider the permanent connection for players, like me, who don't have a stable connection. Please listen your fans !!!!!
subacetylene
10 years ago
Can you play this game using a dial up connection? Also, what happens if your connection is unstable, do you immediately get disconnected? I'm just wondering because a friend of mine really wants the game but worries he won't be able to play since he has a really bad online connection.
Anonymous
10 years ago
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I have horrible connection as well and yes, you will get kicked out of the game from disconnecting from the EA server. I happens to me all the time. Like a few people said before me, EA needs to listen to their fans before the loose many people!
Anonymous
10 years ago
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I have talked a lot of people out of buying this game for this very reason. As a real life car enthusiast and occasional track driver, the small issues this game has when it comes to things such as realism and accuracy with car values don't bother me that much because the need for speed series to me has been more about entertaining game play than realism. But the fact that you can't pause the game for any reason is ridiculous. I understand the idea EA was trying to achieve, but just because an idea sounds good in theory does not mean it will be good in actual use. It's happened to me many times already where I was on the last lap of a difficult race or about to escape a pursuit and I got a phone call, the door bell rang, or even a sudden itch on my leg or something ruined would ruin the race or pursuit.
Anonymous
10 years ago
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Well i need to play offline because i dont have the net at my house. And its not just me, i bet you there is thousands around the world that dont have the net too.
I bought this game last night thinking yeah im going to play it but nope i cant. So am i ment to travel to a friends house with my ps4 every time i want to play it??? Or do i just return it???
All the other need for speeds has had offline. Why this one now only have online...
Anonymous
10 years ago
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I live in the middle of nowhere. Where stable internet is not possible. Not to mention I don't have Internet to play it. So I drove an hour to pick up a game I can't even play and wasted not only time and gas but I spend money on a game I can't play unless I get internet by moving to a bigger town. So I could completely wasted my money. Thank you.
Anonymous
10 years ago
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it absolutely sucks and completely going in the wrong direction... it is bad now and i assume this is from the amount of people that have brought the game, no doubt it will get better in the coming weeks and then go * again after a while because EA will decide to reduce the bandwidth to the NFS server to a point where they will cease support on the server THEN there will probably be a patch to play offline and everything will be just as it should! i am luck to be able to get fibre broadband and i have a stable 100+meg connection yet i lose connection to servers every ten minutes or so... TBH i kind of cant be bothered to play the game because of this and in my mind the product isnt fit for purpose because the bank end is so sketchy...
xpsychosamuraix
10 years ago
@Straatford87 please stop with the cookie cutter responses to this question every single thread has the same reply an offline mode needs to be put in EA servers are unreliable at best and awful at worst they have always been 2 examples are Simcity and Battlefield, Simcity servers were screwed on launch and still have some issues which is why Simcity got an offline mode, NFS needs one the connection errors and disconnects are something we shouldn't need to deal with and alse having people messing up our races or our cop chases is something we don't need.
it's something we need in the game