Need for Speed MMO turns free

By Robert Purchese Published 10 September, 2010

Celebrates one million users.

Racing MMO Need for Speed World has zoomed past the one million registered users mark.

And so happy does that make creator EA, that all charges for the game have been dropped. Specifically, the free client that allowed career progression up to level 10 but no further: that's been unlocked - you can play for as long as you like.

However, there are still micro-transaction items like double XP bonuses and power-ups available to buy.

Need for Speed World launched at the end of July. Check out the Eurogamer review for our verdict.

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About Robert Purchese

Bertie is Eurogamer's Senior Staff Writer. When he's not hunting down news stories he's often found playing with his kids or gabbling about fantasy games and strange online worlds.

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Comments (10) Latest comment 1 year ago

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  • Miths #1 1 year ago

    Is it still forcing steering wheel owners to park their shiny Logitech G25s and other wheels in a corner, while we resort to the preposterous task of playing a racing game with keyboard input?
    I spent exactly three minutes in the beta test because of that stupendously braindead omission, and I read later that it apparently still applied to the release version.

    Hell, at that time in the beta the controller options menu was entirely grayed out, so you couldn't even use a gamepad without using third party control mapping software.

  • Stepharneo #2 1 year ago

    @Miths

    uhh...Snap

  • Miths #3 1 year ago

    I can't believe Eurogamer gave this a 6 by the way. Just for being able to use a 360 controller without any hassle on the PC version, Mafia 2 was a much better driving game :) (I just started playing Jimmy's Vendetta - it's great to be back in Empire City, in car or on foot).

  • HyperShadow #4 1 year ago

    Free? I paid £15 for it to go free 2 months later? I feel a little hard done by.

  • makememoo #5 1 year ago

    Yes, we all know insanely popular games go FTP immediately because, you know, devs just don't like to recoup their costs!
    Edited by 1 at 10/09/10 @ 17:44

  • Miths #6 1 year ago

    I'm almost certain I tried my wired 360 controller when I loaded up that beta (must have been around two months ago, although don't hang me up on that, I'm terrible at keeping track of time), and just like my Logitech G25 the game didn't register it.
    I visited the official forums afterwards looking for answers, and other beta testers were making the same complaints (although apparently both wheel and controller had worked, and the controller options been available, in some previous beta phases).

    Well, in any case, if it works now in the release version, at least that provides an acceptable option for the majority of the potential players - although for me quite a few arcade racers over the years have benefited just as much as racing sims from a force feedback wheel, assuming the implementation is decent, and it has been in several NFS games (Shift is obvious, but also I also remember playing the Underground games with one of my older Logitech wheels years ago).

  • CaptainKid #7 1 year ago

    After the BFHeroes debacle, I'm not even going to try "free" EA games.

  • Mkwone #8 1 year ago

    I fully aprove of the latest trend of MMO's turning free.

  • Ryze #9 1 year ago

    I'll not spend 1p on this until they allow CONTROLS TO BE CUSTOMISED.

    Fucking hell. I remember exactly why I fucked off PC gaming 10 years ago. Waste of fucking download, update and install time.

  • PlugMonkey #10 1 year ago

    Fucking hell. I remember exactly why I fucked off PC gaming 10 years ago.

    Because of the 1 shitty PC game in 10 years where you can't customise the controls?

    (Something which is a standard feature of PC games, and very rarely exists in console games?)