EA announced today that the long-running Need for Speed franchise's sales have passed the 10 million mark. In the midst of the flashy statistics dump, they also confirmed the release window for free-to-play PC racer Need For Speed: World Online.
EA knows that it has a strong product in Need for Speed: Shift; one that might just turn the struggling franchise around. We may agree or disagree once we play it, but the publisher's confidence in the game is there for all to see. It's the kind of confidence we haven't seen in a Need for Speed game for quite a few years. But what's really encouraging to see is that even if Shift is a critical and commercial success, EA doesn't plan to milk it for all its worth by releasing a follow-up title next year.
If you live in Taiwan (and can speak Chinese), you can now get the chance to be a part of the Beta testing of Need For Speed: Word Online.
Contrary to other reports, Motor City Online is not coming back in any form, in China or else where, and is not at all related to Need for Speed World Online. EA has not announced the territories, and even still, World Online will not be called NFS: Motor City Online in any of them.
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