Real Racing 3 — Please Give Us One More Lap

Dear EA and everyone who still remembers what Real Racing 3 meant to us,

I am not writing this simply because I miss a game.

I am writing because I believe there is still something alive here.

Real Racing 3 was not just another mobile racing game. For many of us, it became the game we opened after a long day, the game we played for a few minutes when we needed to clear our heads, and sometimes the game we returned to week after week for years.

For me personally, I did not need to play it for hours every day.

Sometimes I would simply open the game, look around my garage for a minute or two, maybe drive a race, and close it again. Sometimes I would only play once a week. But somehow, that was enough.

That is what makes the shutdown so difficult to accept.

Because a game does not have to be played for ten hours every day to have value.

Sometimes it becomes part of someone's life simply because it is always there.

We understand the business side.

We understand that servers cost money.

We understand that licensing costs money.

We understand that maintaining an old game requires people, infrastructure, security, technical support and resources.

We also understand that EA cannot keep every game alive forever.

But I would like to ask one question:

What if the players helped pay for it?

What if Real Racing 3 did not have to return as a constantly updated, fully supported free-to-play game?

What if it simply returned as a Legacy Edition?

No major new content.

No expensive development roadmap.

No promise of endless updates.

Just the game that already exists, kept alive.

And if necessary, give the community the option to contribute.

For example:

$1–$2 per month.

Not as a demand.

Not as a guarantee that millions of people would pay.

But as something worth testing.

Because I genuinely believe there are many players who would say:

“Yes. I would pay a small monthly amount just to keep Real Racing 3 alive.”

I would.

And I know I am not the only one.

Don't take our word for it. Test it.

EA could simply ask the community.

Create a voluntary registration or pre-subscription campaign:

“If Real Racing 3 returned as a Legacy Edition, would you pay $1–$2 per month to keep the servers running?”

Let the numbers speak.

If there is not enough interest, then you have your answer.

But if hundreds of thousands of players are willing to support it, then perhaps Real Racing 3 is not a dead product after all.

Perhaps it is a product that was given up on before its community was asked what they were willing to do to save it.

And please understand something about the people asking for this.

We are not asking for a miracle.

We are not demanding new cars every month.

We are not demanding endless events.

We are not asking EA to spend millions developing Real Racing 4.

Some of us would be happy just to see the garage again.

To hear the engines again.

To drive Spa.

To drive Nürburgring.

To take out a car we spent years building.

To look at a collection we slowly created over time.

To have that little place we could return to whenever we wanted.

That may sound insignificant from the outside.

But to the people who played this game for years, it isn't.

There is something else worth considering.

Real Racing 3 already has something that a new game cannot simply buy:

A community.

The cars are already there.

The tracks are already there.

The physics are already there.

The artwork is already there.

The progression system is already there.

The history is already there.

And most importantly:

The players are still talking about it.

Even after the shutdown, people are still discussing ways to preserve it, play it and keep its memory alive.

That should mean something.

A new racing game could take years and millions of dollars to build a community that Real Racing 3 already has.

So before closing the book completely, please consider opening one final chapter.

Give us one more lap.

Let the community prove whether we are willing to support it.

If the answer is no, then at least we tried.

But if the answer is yes...

EA may discover that Real Racing 3 was never really finished.

It was simply waiting for someone to turn the lights back on.

Please don't give us another new racing game.

Give us our Real Racing 3 back.

One more lap.

That's all we're asking for.