
“From September 1st 2021 onwards, you can still play the games and use the respective offline features of these titles,” the post states.ĮA says that the company took the decision to focus on the future of Need for Speed. While you can still play the game to its full potential until September, online matching and multiplayer features will stop working at the end of August, unfortunately.

This essentially means that starting September, gamers will not be able to play with these friends as the “online” components of these games will not be able to connect with the game publisher's servers.

The company says that the decision to delist these games comes ahead of the “retirement” of the online services for these games on August 31.
