Need For Speed ProStreet

Just got it :)

Just got it, woot. Finally can get rid of this damn game.

I got it too!

I was unbelievably happy for this to be active

Finally EA listened to the gamers and petitions! Although I will trade this game back in for 99 cents and my house will be free of EA games for life!!!

Ah, Rob, the pretitions did nothing. They never have, and never will xD Its a bit like protesting outside your work with signs, nobody cares. Put it all over Facebook though? And you'll have an audience ;)

25 "thumb-ups" in 7 hours! Is that a record!?

Not for me

Good work guys! I'm happy Twitter is actually good for something haha

For once, EA making something right !
Thanks for sharing the news ;-)

yeah can get this game done

if they patch Carbon the same way i would be real happy.

hmmmm not as many people playing this!!!

hmmmm not as many people playing this!!! but hey got cheevo thumbs up!!

they should of switched from race day then back to race day 2, in other words everyday is one or the other. Get it?

They're working on possibly doing that

I have problems entering the race day I'm from Latin America (Mexico to be specific, I wonder if the servers are discontinued because there is little time here and I can not even get into a game please help I will be grateful

Another comment, it seems the servers are/were 'down for maintenance' which is why you and others are having such issues.

Can't get a game up! This sucks! Just got the game in the mail!

Anyway we can contact EA about the race day? I need race day 2 and have to get my game back...

Twitter has been the most effective way though i dunno if they'll reply now https://twitter.com/#!/NFSDrew

yes me too so no answer jet from EA ?

I'll try again tomorrow but it looks like if we didn't get it last week we might be boned on this one. Which really sucks because I could not find a game locally and had to mail order one. There goes 10 bucks.

tomorrow its the last day for race comunity day 2 bro better y get sun or the server are back up this is for sure ma last game of EA :( sad but true

I am trying since 7-4-12 and the servers were down ! Is like they never allowed us to get into race day 2...:S

They shut it down. Holy fuck! They have it turned off for FOUR YEARS and all they gave us was one week and they fuck the servers up on the last day to turn CRD1 back on. I really really REALLY hate EA now.

9th was the day they were taking down race day 2 unfortunately.

OMG I fucking hate EA...I was trying to unlock this achievement since the last 3 days but servers was down...Now that the work this achievement is unobtainable, fuck ea!

^same here man, i know that feel... i thought the 9th was the last day it'd be up, not the day they take it down :(

me too

According to @NFSDrew on twitter, it seems they are turning it on for tomorrow again.

Well thats good.... gotta update my solution yet again

Are they turning it on? Also can anyone help me get the viral achievements?

i chek and no they not need more time pherhabs in a couples of hrs

This is avaliable today only get it while you can.

Ive updated my solution but no one has been scanned in having won it today so im dubious

Well he said "Tomorrow morning PST", maybe it just takes a bit.

Ah i didnt pay attention to when he said PST! wooops thanks

I'm playing right now and don't see it yet. A few people are still getting Race Day 1

Well it depends on the definition of "morning" ^^

https://twitter.com/#!/NFSDrew/status/190109092910604289

It's back on!!!!!!!!! WOOT

Race Day 2 is obtainable NOW!
I just got it.

FYI:

https://twitter.com/#!/NFSDrew/status/190129277025533952

Race Day 2 will be on until the servers go offline, so go get it.

FYI thats my twitter account :P https://twitter.com/#/NFSDrew/status/190129277025533952 (So its clickable)

I got it!!!! I GOT IT!!! I FINALLY FREAKING GOT IT!!!

All thanks to NFSDrew who seemed to be the only person in 4 years to actually give a crap about us gamers.

Just wanted to spread the word ^^

I got it too! Yeehah! Another game complete and just before time. I still hate EA though, they need to support their games properly. Now fix Carbon please

NFSDrew wrote that they can't fix Carbon.

Thanks Spilner for keeping us in the loop. I got mine today as soon as I saw you post that twitter link :D

Np, good job i have nothing better to do

I got this today (12 April) and got race day #1 Yesterday (11 April).
Epic win for the day before the shutdown

noone plays it now ...need the cheevo too ...someone knows a session to get it ?

You could create your own race day (Make sure you set it to ranked) that way you dont need to find people, people find you.

I've noticed that there are a few people that have obtained this achievement after the last official Community Race Day 2. I wouldn't want to give the good folks at XBox Live a dead give away that I hack my games like that if I was you.

i unlocked the first race day in 2010 last night in fact so not everyone hacks maybe its random

@ cliche1: the first race day is still obtainable, it's the second one that isn't

Thank you WolfheartSpell.

You guys sure this is still glitched? it looks like people are getting this achievement unless they are glitching it.

GreyGingerHalo - Date Won : 28 October 10
Messiah x64 - Date Won : 02 September 10
FallenMohsen - Date Won : 20 July 10

Isn't it obtainable between Aug 15-17...?

Says that in some of the loading screens.

It's not. I even tried playing it on all three of those days this last August just to make sure and i didn't get it. Like the solution says "If you missed out on the last one you are stuck with an incomplete on this game just like me." sad face :(

The game has the August date in the load screen from waaay back in 2008. EA has not touched this game since then. So that load screen is out of date.

solution by NonFaith... Ironic.. hahaha.. There's no faith in EA as it seems..!

has any 1 tryed putting the time and date back on there xbox to august 2008 to see if it unlocks

Isn't the Xbox getting the correct time and date from Xbox Live when you connect ? I guess it is, so it won't help. Actually I don't believe that the unlock requirements aren't in the game itself but flagged on the server. I don't really get it, I heard that someone from EA said that it isn't possible to make CRD2 obtainable beacuse of the server management or something like that, even though I ask myself why they switched CRD1 on permanently and can't do the same to CRD2. Damn you EA.

^^ yea wtf

not the brightest bulb around.

The moment you go online ... your xbox 360 will default to the correct current date ... any manual changes to the date/time will be undone.
To unlock the achievement you have to play online.

Well, Mitch Man what do you think will happen if I put the time and date back on my xbox to august 2008???

^^

Wow, that's unnecessary and rude. His idea was good, but it won't work ... that's all there is to it.

Any news on this one......i h8 cing 49 out of 50 and cant complete it.....

Nope, just a whole bunch of people complaining and EA ignoring them.

EA are cunts.

I would agree on this one.

Big fat hairy c**ts

I heard tht there is a chance 2 get this inAugust, but im not positive

yup, August of 2008 if you happen to have a time machine ill come too

lmfao can i come too!!

Apparently EA thought they updated the game so that race day 1 and 2 would unlock upon playing a race, but obviously only Day 1 works...so how hard could it possibly be to fix it so that number 2 works aswell if they already planned on it happening?

look at the recent winners aug 15 2011 won offline looks like cheaters

feel bad for all of you im looking at the completion leaderboards and thres alot of ppl that have this in the way of 100% glad i didnt put this on. this is why i dont buy EA

So any Idea on how to glitch this achievement, how these people are doing it? Microsoft says the achievement is on the disc and has no actual correlation to xbox live. In other words, its like back Hatching the achievement on the PC? anybody got any idea.

The only way to get this achievement is by save hacking which WILL get you banned from Live.

Only way to get this achievement is to put your gamertag on your PC/LAPTOP and edit the hex value of the achievement to "unlocked". Then you will get it. This will get you banned (not instantly, but eventually). Not worth doing it if you respect all your hard work on your gamertag, but this is the actual only way to unlock this achievement as it stands - thanks to EA and their insouciant attitude.

Is it too late to get in on that time machine party? That sounded like a lot of fun....

Probably a stupid question but did any one actually race on the race day it tells you to on the loading screen ( chicago airfield ) on august 15-17?

Check the additional above.

Yes but they didn't mention if they played the track which is required for the achievement which is what i was asking about.

The load screen is for an event that occurred in 2008. There has to be an event for you to get the achievement and EA has no plans to have any future events ever again. So unless you have a time machine you are out of luck.

Time machine plan wouldn't work. Firstly i would need to take my profile back in time on a usb storage device, go play on the race day. This would then get me banned from xbox live for having achievements with a time stamp on them for the year 2012 in 2008. Secondly if i went back in time and unlocked the achievement this would stop me from needing to invent a time machine in the future to go back and play it. Rookie time traveller mistake :P

Wow...you really thought that through didn't you Jam?! :) Anyway, I think the only hope we have for this one is if EA re-activates the race day. Unlikely, but they did reset the leaderboards for LOTR BFME II before they shut the servers. So...you never know.

If EA ever fixes this I'll eat my hat.

It's official, this game's servers go down April 13th 2012. This is our last hope for this stupid achievement, we need to get EA to set up just 1 more day for this. They came through on LOTR BFME II so there's some hope.

Sent EA an email for what it's worth. Don't expect to be successful, but if you don't ask you don't get. Response in 24 hours apparently.

somebody should send EA an e-mail with the list of 240 ppl that signed that they want race day 2 turned on.

https://help.ea.com/

If you go to the link, on the right it has a grey box which says

"Talk to a game advisor. Level up your experience."

I clicked on that and logged in (already had an EA account). This allowed to me to log a question/send email.

i sent an E-mail to

I emailed them too.

I'll email them now aswell. Cm'on people, let's barrage their inbox and try and get this sorted before the servers go down. I know it probably wont get sorted, but we have to try. And Jam, if you did go back, flash drives wouldn't even work on the xbox, another major issue in the time machine plan!

Email sent !

I've sent yet another email!

Awesome guys, and thanks Nonfaith for pushing this. I've just created a forum post for this, would be great if everyone could comment just to gain some interest and hopefully sort something out before SS-Day. (Server Shutdown Day). Community Race Day 2 Achievement - ATTACK!

Thanks again

i also started a thread on the need4speed forums yesterday..

http://forum.ea.com/eaforum/posts/list/8278625.page

aswell as putting my GT to the list I nakedLEE I sent, at least i think its the same list.. if not its one hell of a coincidence, the list i added my GT to had 245 names aswell last time i checked.. it was on prostreet forums at x360a.org.

I sent an email to them, and posted on the thread. Not getting my hopes up that they will make it achieveable again, but I guess we will see...

I emailed them lets see what kind of response I will get I will post it here when it comes in

If anyone gets a response post here what they told you. I haven't got anything back yet.

Here is the response i got when i asked if it was possible to make this achievement possible before the server shutdowns, in the part where you could select the nature of your query i pcked in-game and achievements and this is the response.

Hello James,

Thank you for contacting Electronic Arts.

I apologize for any inconvenience caused to you.We have gone through your email and found that you are facing the ingame issue.

We here at customer support can only assist with issues related to the game itself. Since it is related to gameplay mechanics, we would suggest you to post this issue on our forums so that other players and game developer can help you with this.

Official forums for Need for speed ProStreet can be located at the below given link: -

http://forums.electronicarts.co.uk/need-speed-prostreet/

If there is anything else we can help you with please let us know.

Regards,

Rohan
Electronic Arts – World Wide Customer Experience

I have added my plea on the EA site for a fix to the Community Race Day 2 cheevo...

I've seen that e-mail before. Never had a developer respond except to say that EA no longer supports this game.

Thank you for contacting Electronic Arts.

At first, please accept my apologies for any delay in addressing your issue. I can understand the frustration you are enduring at the moment for not getting a timely reply, but please know that due to high volume of contacts we were unable to provide our level best to get back to you as fast as possible.

Yes. We are shutting down servers for Need for Speed™ ProStreet for PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 on April 13, 2012. As we are from customer service team so we aren't able to make any changes to the game itself. Please post your question on our forums. The best way to get this information straight to our developers, so they can start making changes to these issues, is through the forums. The more people you get to talk about the issues you are experiencing, the more the developers will take notice. You can get to our forums by visiting:
www.forums.electronicarts.co.uk

Most of our developers take their leads from the forums, so you should definitely post something up there. The more people you can find to post this issue, the more the development teams will take notice.

The decisions to retire older EA games are never easy. The development teams and operational staff pour their hearts into these games almost as much as the customers playing them and it is hard to see one retired. But as games get replaced with newer titles, the number of players still enjoying the older games dwindles to a level -- fewer than 1% of all peak online players across all EA titles -- where it’s no longer feasible to continue the behind-the-scenes work involved with keeping these games up and running. We would rather our hard-working engineering and IT staff focus on keeping a positive experience for the other 99% of customers playing our more popular games. We hope you have gotten many hours of enjoyment out of the games and we appreciate your ongoing patronage.

You may check the link http://www.ea.com/1/service-updates

If there is anything else we may do to assist you please let us know.

Best Regards,

Akhilesh
Electronic Arts - World Wide Customer Experience

A fancy way of saying....Pfffffft....buy a new game!.

Also, how in the world do you pronounce that guys name??? Ack-hill-lee-sh?

Here is the response I got:

Hello (removed name),

Thank you for contacting Electronic Arts.

Firstly, I genuinely appreciate your interest in Need for Speed ProStreet. Please allow me to inform you that we don't have much information regarding it.

The best people to speak to would be the developers and the only way to do that would be to post your issue or enquiry on the forums. By posting your issue on the forums, you may also get assistance or suggestions or information from the fellow gamers who have expertise regarding the issue.

Official forums for "Need for Speed ProStreet" can be located at the below given link: -

http://forum.ea.com/eaforum/posts/list/7471963.page

We at Electronic Arts, assign pivotal importance to offer exceptional service to our customers and believe in exploring all the possibilities in doing so. However, we apologize for having disappointed you unintentionally. Your affiliation is valued by EA and requests it in the future. To know more about our online assistance, please visit: http://help.ea.com/

Regards,
Aparna
Electronic Arts - World Wide Customer Experience

They keep telling us to contact the game developers. Their damn logo is on the game and it says to contact them for customer service and if the developers need contacting why cant they contact them? If the game developers are who we need to contact about a fix how come they won't give us a method to contact them? EA told us to post the issue on THEIR forums not the developers and this game is so old no developer is going to be looking at EA's stupid forums. I think since it is an old game and they don't want to deal with it they are pushing the blame on the developers. With this kind of attitude I will bet my left nut that they have absolutely no plans of helping us with this just ignore it until it's too late (if by some miracle they do I will have to rush to delete this post so someone doesn't try to cash in on that bet).

As for the EA reply above mine about how it is not feasible to have them continue to keep the servers running. If they set up their games like Gears with host and dedicated servers they could just shut down the dedicated servers but you could still play host server games and get achievements and play online. The only reason they don't do this is because if people could still play all the old games after they shut down the EA servers it would somewhat affect the sales of their new games but it might also make it harder for them to shove their online passes down are throats. They keep saying these stupid statistics only 1% of gamers on these titles and if we shut down these servers we can better serve the games people play as if to say they are doing it for us and our best interest almost like they are doing us a favor and it doesn't benefit them at all. I hate this attitude and approach from a video game company and I will be buying my EA games used as much as possible just so my money will not go to them and I suggest others do the same.
Balls on EA's chin

I have actually never bought an EA game after this one (Which was actually given to me), apart from Mass Effect. And I plan on never buying more. They have no respect for their customers, Valve may take way too long to do anything, but atleast they do everything than possibly can to help!!!

If you do happen to post on the forums, DO NOT post in the Prostreet or 'Older Titles' forums, use the new ones. Its a new issue, it needs to be brought to the front where it is more likely someone important will actually read it!

I don't think anyone has got anything more than an automated response on this issue since 2009. EA sends out these grey e-mails to all of us to give an illusion that they "might" actually do something when in reality they could really give a rats ass about it. I would not expect a fix before D-day.

lotr conquest, nfs prostreet, any ea sports game. Unless you are dedicated to play online right when an ea game comes out and do not stop until all u have left is single player, do NOT buy EA Games. I do have a leaderboard on the bottom of my profile page supporting the anti ea server shutting down theme. scroll to the bottom and find this. if enough people join and stop buying ea games maybee they will smarten up. because that whole 1% of ppl play old games is bull shit. ea is the only manufacturer that shuts down their servers and they are one of the richest. you dont see cod or any other games being shut down because they are 'old'. in order to put it into action there must be strength in numbers. i feel for you guys and hopefully u get a chance on april 13th cuz ea has pissed to many ppl off!

You don't have to stop playing EA games to boycott them if they have games you like just buy them used and EA doesn't receive any money for that purchase. EA sports MMA was the first EA game I bought new in a long time only because the servers were going down and it would be more expensive to get it used and buy the online pass when I payed less than $15 for it new.

What is up with all these customer service names? Rohan, Akhilesh, and Aparna what nationality is that?

yah well the used games had to have been bought from ea at some point buddy

lol indian call centres answer ea emails im guessing, rohan akhillesh aparna and soon to be rupti patel and jasvindaloo patel answering our cries post on mass effect 3 forums and get developers to take note come on 1 month left!!!!

man i wish the guys who hacked PSN would hack EA ROFL. EA Sucks they prolly wont turn it on. i dont have high hopes but you never know with EA.

I sent a email also, this is really stupid of EA to do this, like that guy said all they would have to do is update the game for us take a few minutes out of there time otherwise i am going to be sitting with a bunch people looking at this game with 49 out of 50.. EA can go suck a big one lol...

I vote that all future EA games have the following disclaimer:

WARNING: We may screw you at anytime after this games initial release date by shutting down the servers and thus making all online achievements unobtainable. PLAY AT YOUR OWN RISK!

i have had nothing but trouble when dealing with EA, i created the original petition thread on the x360a.org forums to try and get this f@cking achievement turned back on. I emailed them constantly, phone calls and even had the petition posted on the EA forums which got me a big ol 3 month ban from the ea forums (guess they didnt want the rest of the world to see how many unhappy EA customers there are). As of right now my hope of getting this achievement and finally completing this game is long gone. But if by some divine light of intervention they get this thing switched back on ill squeal like a pre-teen at a justin bieber concert.

this is what i got back from ea customer service the other day..
Hello ,

Thank you for contacting Electronic Arts and letting us know about your issue.

I appreciate your interest in the game and assure you to provide the continual support throughout from my end.

Please accept my genuine apology for the way you have been made to feel. We at EA, strive to make our customers have an exceptional experience. Any deviation from this is dealt very critically. Your case definitely merits attention and I assure you my support in getting this sorted out.

I went through your issue and truely understand your concern. In fact, your involvement and affiliation with EA, motivates us. I assure you my support throughout.

Please have a glance to this link.
http://www.ea.com/1/service-updates

I humbly ask for your understanding regarding this matter and I apologize for any inconvenience caused to you.

Electronic Arts values your affiliation and looks forward to hear from you. If you have any further questions or concerns please reply to this email or visit our extensive knowledge base online at http://help.ea.com.

Kind Regards,
Arun J
Electronic Arts – World Wide Customer Experience.

keep bugging then on Twitter we are seeing the best replys from devs.

Bugging them nicely, is the key word to add in there. If you annoy them, they'll not care about you as they know they will only have 2 weeks to deal with it.

and we do as a solution quickly it will be well

if you guys dont tell them nicely in twitter if it can be turned back on they will just forget about it......

now obtainable :D go go go!

Yeah Baby Wooooo Twitter Worked lol

Time for Nonfaith to eat his hat!

Please quit giving EA credit for this they didn't do anything it was the developers that turned it on I bet EA is still unaware it has been fixed someone should send them a message and test it.

Good point wbs 101. The people at EA probably still don't care.

A TOAST TO THE DEVELOPERS!!!

May they some day be freed from the shackles of corporate oppression.

A TOAST TO NFSDREW FOR PUSHING FOR IT TO GET TURNED BACK ON. EA dont care its the Devs that care.

congrats everyone.... once again if you are interested in actually being apart of a group against EA click on my profile and scroll to the bottom where u will find a "leaderboard" protesting Ea and its servers

This is avaliable today only get it while you can.

ITS ON TODAY NONFAITH GET IT NOW!

Just got it

I can say now that after 4 years I have finally unlocked this as well.

I waited all morning grinding my teeth away waiting to see if this would ever activate.

NFSDrew.....YOU ROCK!!!!

Congrats to everyone who finally unlocked this achievement after campaigning for 4 years to get it turned back on.

General Public outranks Private Sector!!!

I'm speechless... I've been battling back and forth with EA for years now with this and now it's finally active. Even though it was a long shot, I knew the servers getting shut down would get something done.