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Motor City Online going offline

By Sam Parker, GameSpotPosted Feb 26, 2003 3:12 pm PT

EA will close the online muscle-car racing game in August and will offer to give subscribers a copy of another online EA game.

EA has revealed that Motor City Online's run will be coming to an end this August, and subscribers will be billed for the last time in July. The closure was attributed to the lack of growth in the game's community, and the development team that has been supporting Motor City Online will be assigned to other game projects. The Motor City Online team has posted more details on how the game will wrap up and on the history of the game.

The racing game, released in 2001, lets players customize and race classic muscle cars. For more details, check out our previous coverage of the game.

11 Comments

  • dinkle41

    Posted Jul 14, 2009 8:41 pm PT

    This game was truly unique. It was the first game I'd ever played that featured so many licensed classic and muscle cars. It still is the only game I've played where you could buy an engine block at the auction, choose which performance parts you want for it and stick it in whichever car you wanted. And the parts would wear out! It also had real dragstrip racing complete with xmas tree and redlights. It had so many things that I've never seen before it or since..

  • whitey_rolls

    Posted Jun 27, 2009 6:41 pm PT

    I loved the game, well until they introduced the imports then I actually quit playing.

  • Ny2yanks24

    Posted Jan 12, 2009 3:48 pm PT

    BRING IT BACK!

  • wishbone2203

    Posted Nov 10, 2008 10:47 am PT

    well if they were smart they would have the new cars along with the muscle car era just so people would stay on and if they did have it they could have something like road wars with the same kinda class so people wouldnt get cheated i had the game for 2 mons and got screwed the game was awesome someday they will bring it back its the right thing to do

  • Rusty30

    Posted Oct 10, 2007 8:08 pm PT

    yeah it really sucks that they took it offline, i was a member the day it came out, i really think they should bring something like that back.....

  • Luieburger

    Posted Apr 8, 2007 7:55 pm PT

    This game was very popular within it's niche. I absolutely loved every minute of this game.

  • deardorffj

    Posted Dec 22, 2006 10:08 am PT

    I absolutely loved this game. Wish it would come back, that EA would realize they had a fan base for it and rerelease it.

  • jerrysavast

    Posted Nov 4, 2006 5:15 pm PT

    EA Was Dumb To Take MCO Off Line
    For What Reason Would You Develope A Game To Public
    And Take It Off Line And It Be Non Playable What A Rip OFF
    I Have Bought It Played It For 6 months And Loved It And Then They Decide
    To Take It Off line And Now Its Not Even Playable, I Got Nothing In return
    But A Bill And An Empty Wallet ....Thanks To EA Just A way To Get Your Money $$$$$$$$
    Pretty Sad EA. =(

  • The_InJimid8tor

    Posted Aug 27, 2006 12:09 pm PT

    Yes! EA really needs to have a MMOR Racer again. The Need For Speed series is fun but even with "maybe 6 online" with Need For Speed Carbon just won't do it for the legion of fans of MCO.

    It was just ahead of it's time and a lot of people didn't even know about it or could find it.

    Maybe Test Drive Unlimited will be the ticket although I will miss the Older Muscle Cars and environments.

  • baby3bubba

    Posted Jul 29, 2006 9:34 am PT

    Game was awesome they need to develop a version that we could play offline or on a LAN only

  • 1Zach3

    Posted Feb 27, 2006 11:28 am PT

    It was a great game.
    Someone come out with the same thing!!!

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