Back in 2015, Electronic Arts shut down the official servers for the online racing game based on the Need for Speed franchise, Need For Speed: World. However, PC gamers will now be able to play this racing game in offline mode as an offline server mod has just been released.
Created by modders berkay2578 and Nilzao, this offline server mod will allow you to have the full control over your game with a customizable, fully functioning local offline server.
According to the berkay2578, this is a modified release of the last stable build(v1.9) published by the original development team. This modified version was released by Keule306 in 04/02/2017 and almost all functionality in the game is restored and is working properly, except of the following features:
- Purchasing card packs
- Achievement progression
- Local multiplayer
- Online multiplayer
I’m pretty sure that the fans of Need for Speed World – if there are any at this point – will appreciate this mod. If you are one of them, you can go ahead and download it from here.
berkay2578 claimed that you will need Java, otherwise the mod will not work. Once you’ve downloaded it, you’ll have to extract the mod archive, run ‘nfsw1930.jar’, click on ‘Change exe game path’, browse to your game installation folder and select nfsw.exe. And then you will be able to launch the game in offline mode.
I strongly believe that developers/publishers should start offering these offline modes for every online game they are shutting down (at least for preservation purposes and for younger gamers to at least try the cancelled online games).
Have fun everyone!
John is the founder and Editor in Chief at DSOGaming. He is a PC gaming fan and highly supports the modding and indie communities. Before creating DSOGaming, John worked on numerous gaming websites. While he is a die-hard PC gamer, his gaming roots can be found on consoles. John loved – and still does – the 16-bit consoles, and considers SNES to be one of the best consoles. Still, the PC platform won him over consoles. That was mainly due to 3DFX and its iconic dedicated 3D accelerator graphics card, Voodoo 2. John has also written a higher degree thesis on the “The Evolution of PC graphics cards.”
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I cant understand, what the difference with the version, published in 2017.
lmao bait
oh man i wasted so much time and money on this game good times
This will be shut down faster than you can say “Surprised Mechanics”…
Well, there’s nothing to shut down. It’s just a file download.
EA can’t touch it anyways, unless it uses any of their copyright material, which it likely does not.
Please elaborate.
Why would they shut down this if Soapbox online (the free online version of NFS World, made by fans) has been running O.K. for years now?
very nice! that game has most wanted+carbon hybrid map as far as I remember
Would try if local MP was available. Since it’s not, I’m out.
Again.
Playing the need for speed underground and carbon series, these games were near perfect.
I would probably be interested if there wasn’t any new race games since 2015..
EXFuqingACTLY….
“I strongly believe that developers/publishers should start offering these offline modes for every online game they are shutting down ”
Like i dont know….cough cough, DARKSPORE.
Speaking of ea isnt nfs 2015 always online?
yeah it totally harms their sales….somehow.
DSO is barely catching up, it’s been a solid 2 or 3 years if I recall correctly when offline mode was released, but unknown to media.
Hi John,
This article is about 2 years behind on time. There’s already some online servers that allows players to race each other, instead of being all alone on an offline server.
Cheers for the article though!
Boo, team member and moderator for SoapBox Race World
Overrated NFS game tbh. Ho ye and the offline mode works only on certain machines. I kept getting Out of Memory Errors while setting it up…
doesn’t work, dammit