Board Thread:Game Discussion/@comment-27370080-20180108174159/@comment-28169398-20180110040309

Indyracer411 wrote: Amrosa wrote:

Indyracer411 wrote: The prospect of not having any more NASCAR excited me :) hence I decided to check looks like the exlusive agreeent happened in 15-Jan-2015 http://hc2.com/investor-relations/Newsroom/?ir_type=9&ReleaseID=2007881.

So we still had more NASCARs in EA racing post that agreement so sadly looks like FM can definately add few 2018 NASCAR's just like they did last year and added 3 (Ford, Chevy and Toyota which was sneaked in) Where in that release does it say FM/EA or the length of the deal or when it took effect?

"DMi will publish a robust set of high quality NASCAR games for video game consoles, personal computers, tablets and smart phones, beginning in 2015." so we know the start date of that exclusive agreement. The reason why FM/EA mentioned in agreement is beyond me if you check wiki there are lot more games that offer NASCAR content as per WIKI latest of which is forza motorsport 7 (Released in 2017). FM released multiple NASCAR's in game post the above agreement (as did forza 7) so FM/EA looks to be unimpacted and it's business as usual for them concerning NASCAR. The agreement is definately not the factor in the decision by FM/EA to release new NASCAR content (I doubt we would see new tracks but Cars have been added in the past post the agreement)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_NASCAR_video_games#Games_with_NASCAR_as_a_non-core_element Are you sure that DMi did not distribute through FM/EA, given that the first NASCAR update in RR3 was September of 2015? They do show that they have had development partnerships with EA before.

And if FM couldn't deliver as they hoped, and 704 did, then it is easily possible that FM's distribution agreement was not renewed... with exception of the 2017 cars released, which may have already been in development and they were allowed to keep.

I guess we will see in a few weeks.