EA and Codemasters are on a roll. While announcing the demise of the Project CARS franchise, 2 of Codemaster's titles from the DiRT franchise have been taken down as well. From now on, you officially cannot buy both DiRT 4 as well as DiRT Rally anymore. Newer titles are not affected.
Publisher Electronic Arts seem to be restructuring its racing portfolio quite intensely. Yesterday saw the announcement of Project CARS, developed by Slightly Mad Studios being cancelled and the team reshuffled into other teams. Slightly Mad Studios is, or was, owned by Codemasters, developers of the DiRT franchise, GRID and the F1 Games and owned by EA.
It is unknown whether this restructuring of racing games under the EA umbrella has been sought after by EA itself or Codemasters. What is clear, however, is that major disruptions in the racing genre are currently happening.
If you still want to buy either of the 2 titles unlisted for PC, unfortunately, the only way would be by buying codes online. But if you do, be quick about it. DiRT 2 codes currently sell online for over 300€. So it can be expected that codes for DiRT 4 and DiRT Rally will increase in price too.
Or you can wait for the inevitable DiRT Rally 3.0 title that will be running with the WRC license at some point in the future, probably in 2023 or 2024. DiRT 6 is also expected to release no earlier than 2023.
But with no news on these new titles in the franchise, all we know is that currently, if you want to enter the DiRT scene, you need to do it via either the arcade racer DiRT 5 or the rally simulator DiRT Rally 2.0.
What do you think about this? Let us know in the comments down below!
Publisher Electronic Arts seem to be restructuring its racing portfolio quite intensely. Yesterday saw the announcement of Project CARS, developed by Slightly Mad Studios being cancelled and the team reshuffled into other teams. Slightly Mad Studios is, or was, owned by Codemasters, developers of the DiRT franchise, GRID and the F1 Games and owned by EA.
It is unknown whether this restructuring of racing games under the EA umbrella has been sought after by EA itself or Codemasters. What is clear, however, is that major disruptions in the racing genre are currently happening.
If you still want to buy either of the 2 titles unlisted for PC, unfortunately, the only way would be by buying codes online. But if you do, be quick about it. DiRT 2 codes currently sell online for over 300€. So it can be expected that codes for DiRT 4 and DiRT Rally will increase in price too.
Or you can wait for the inevitable DiRT Rally 3.0 title that will be running with the WRC license at some point in the future, probably in 2023 or 2024. DiRT 6 is also expected to release no earlier than 2023.
But with no news on these new titles in the franchise, all we know is that currently, if you want to enter the DiRT scene, you need to do it via either the arcade racer DiRT 5 or the rally simulator DiRT Rally 2.0.
What do you think about this? Let us know in the comments down below!
