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Need For Speed: Then and NowNeed For Speed: Then and Now
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Sinister 10/23/2009 7:19 PM
EA has been working on some community features to help celebrate their 16 years of Need For Speed, and their 100M achievement. We (Mike) were asked to give some information about running the site and how Need For Speed has kept the interest for the many years. However, since Mike has been AWOL in Vegas with his IRL work, I had the idea of asking Sander, the original founder of NFSCars for his opinion and answers for the article. I felt that it would have been more practical and honorable rather than utilizing Rick or Myself to fill the void of Mike who has been misplaced somewhere deep in the bowels of the Vegas Strip. There were three sites mentioned in this article, NFSCars, NFSUnlimited, and IIRC which is a racing club ran by jussi a moderator of the EA NFSForums.
I will post a small part of the article, with the link to the rest.
How long have you been running your fansite?
I am not the current webmaster, but the original founder of NFSCars. It was founded in March, 2000, so almost 10 years ago now. By the end of 2004, I handed over the site to it's current webmaster, Mike Geise.
What made you want to make the effort and create your site?
Back in early 2000, the most recent NFS was High Stakes. There was a lot of user created content for that game (and it's predecessor Hot Pursuit) in the form of cars, tracks and other mods. As the name of the site suggests, I wanted to offer a site where people could easily download the cars created in the community. The idea was to gather most if not all cars available. Dozens over cars quickly became hundreds and later thousands of cars available, which greatly exceeded all my expectations.
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Someone tell them to make a competitor to Test Drive Unlimited, maybe then they'll find their roots.
No offense to Jussi and Bojan who do a wonderful job with their sites but I really don't think that NFSUnlimited and ISRC have been as influential as other websites in NFS history... Besides, ISRC isn't exclusively an NFS site. In fact it's not even a site but a message board!
The unfortunate thing is that the sites I would put in place of them are all already dead like NFSCheats (the thing that got me interested in NFS modding) and ND4SPDWorld.
@ Zpectre: Now it's my turn to agree with you. I've checked out the NFSUnlimited site once or twice but found nothing that would inspire any further interest. The ND4SPDWorld site, on the other hand, featured an astonishing amount of downloadable content including a wealth of patches and custom tracks which - to the best of my knowledge - weren't available elsewhere.
It's funny that the 2nd screenshot accompanying the mentioned article 'immortalizes' two of my all-time favorite threads: Robin's 'Old American Cars' & DJMantis's 'GTC'. :-)
my Camaro's picture on EA's website...
looool..
You're a star, man! Can I have your autograph, please? :-)
Oh God, my 456M is on the old site shot! Hahaha, good times.
so far for this site i still have the same high interest as i did when i first seen it,but after HP2 NFS games i lost nearly all of the interest in them.Thanks to all the talent people the old NFS are still like new.Any tells me that parts 7 to the new ones are NFS i have to say they are wrong but mike and the rest of the mods keeps this site working so good and still interested.
No champagne :(?
LOL all three of their favorite tracks were in PU, just goes to show it had the best tracks, perhaps of all time.