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Modradrain
5 years ago
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what does black box mean

Tried to buy a nfs Underground and the site says black box.  what is black box and can I still buy a dl of the 1st underground, thanks!
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    Cantiras
    5 years ago

    Black Box Games (aka EA Black Box and briefly Quicklime Games) was a video game developer that was acquired by EA and later closed. EA Black Box developed NFS Underground, which is why whatever site you were looking at referenced the name.

    NFS Underground has never been available on Origin (or Steam, etc). NFS Carbon was the first Need for Speed game available for sale as a PC digital download (via EA Link and later Origin), and NFS Carbon was removed from the Origin store a few months after Origin launched in 2011.

    You can still find physical media (i.e. boxed disc copies) of NFS Underground for sale. Unless I am missing some vital piece of information (such as if EA licensed Cosmi Software to sell downloads of NFS Underground, which wouldn't have happened since EA no longer has license to sell or sublicense some of the content in NFS Underground, such as the music and brands), if someone is selling a download of NFS Underground, then it has been ripped from a disc and is being sold without EA's involvement.

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Cantiras
Hero (Retired)
5 years ago

Black Box Games (aka EA Black Box and briefly Quicklime Games) was a video game developer that was acquired by EA and later closed. EA Black Box developed NFS Underground, which is why whatever site you were looking at referenced the name.

NFS Underground has never been available on Origin (or Steam, etc). NFS Carbon was the first Need for Speed game available for sale as a PC digital download (via EA Link and later Origin), and NFS Carbon was removed from the Origin store a few months after Origin launched in 2011.

You can still find physical media (i.e. boxed disc copies) of NFS Underground for sale. Unless I am missing some vital piece of information (such as if EA licensed Cosmi Software to sell downloads of NFS Underground, which wouldn't have happened since EA no longer has license to sell or sublicense some of the content in NFS Underground, such as the music and brands), if someone is selling a download of NFS Underground, then it has been ripped from a disc and is being sold without EA's involvement.

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