Remember the good old days of the Underground series? Where you didn't have to be online to play the singleplayer? Just think about it!

Back in 2003 i played the original Underground for the first time and i was blown away by the variety of customisation that the game offered. I was even more excited when Underground 2 got announced in 2004. It was my ultimate dream of a racing game at that time. Now in 2015 with the announcement of the NFS 2015 teaser trailer at May 21st, i felt the same amount of excitement again. I watched the teaser more than just 3 times and (can't deny) was literally crying tears of joy. 

But it all sounded and looked to good to be true. On May 28, some shocking news came out, stating that an internet connection is required to play the game and that it would benefit of it. You did a great job with the teaser and everything, you made people instantly jump on the hype train but you just shot yourself after that. Why EA?!

Nice one, really nice... here is a list of these so called ''benefits'':

- Many people got unstable internet connections or bad WiFi so they are going to get lots of disconnects and are going to get kicked out of the game every 5 minutes

- Some people don't even like to play online, they hate it and have the streets rather for their own, without some random kids crashing into them and shouting swear words into their headsets

- It forces the consumer to get PSplus or Xbox Live Gold to play the game in singleplayer mode because of DRM

- Sales will decrease, people already lost interest in the game and said clearly that they aren't going to get it, ''they fell off the hype train''!

- You support pirating because hacker groups will try to remove the DRM, so we THE CONSUMER finally get to play the singleplayer as it is meant to be, offline!

- Its just not consumer friendly, no one is really excited because of the always on news, and i can understand why. What happens if you decide to shut the servers down ?

It becomes useless software on my HDD or BD!

I'm really disappointed because when Ghost Games said that they are going back to the roots for a full reboot, I thought YOU have changed. And we all hoped we are slightly getting away from this always on and DLC trend, but we were wrong. Just look what happened to Sim City, wake up EA, wake up!

If you feel the same, feel free to sign this petition guys, i need your support and can't do this on my own. We all know Ghost Games and EA is gonna listen to us, with a goal of 2000 signatures i want them to rethink the idea of being always online.

Thank you for your Support!

Max