Need For Speed Team Shifts Focus to Battlefield

Team Kaizen has announced that with live service for Need for Speed Unbound coming to an end, they are joining their colleagues to focus on Battlefield Labs.

The team will no longer update or make any changes to Need for Speed Unbound, with the last update being for Volume 9. However, they did highlight feedback and answer questions from the community, just as they have throughout all the other volumes, while also offering a brief hint about what’s to come in the future.

We’re thrilled to hear that you feel Lockdown is a fun and interesting new way to play Need for Speed. The extraction gameplay and the introduction of those coveted rides added a whole new dynamic to the experience, so it makes sense that you’d want to see those vehicles crossover to other parts of the game – but as we’ve mentioned before with other modes, we weren’t able to make this happen within the time we had. We also saw many comments asking for more variety in the rewards offered through the game mode, to encourage repeat play, as well as ways to play the game mode privately or exclusively with friends – something for us to keep in mind for the future. I think the thing we take away from this the most is that you are all up for new ways to play in the NFS-verse as long as (a) it compliments the feel and tone of NFS through context, world setting and gameplay and (b) we get the core and fundamentals right first.