The team behind EA Sports WRC, Codemasters, has announced its decision to end the game's development, with no new content planned beyond the 2024 season. This revelation comes just over a month after the roll-out of EA Sports WRC's second DLC of 2025, the Hard Chargers Content Pack.
Since being established in 2001, the World Rally Championship or WRC series of rally racing titles has produced over a dozen mainline entries along with some spin-offs. Throughout its existence, the license for the franchise has also switched hands multiple times, with its latest owner—Codemasters—securing the rights back in 2020. After the British studio's takeover by EA in 2021, the devs finally put the IP to use and released EA Sports WRC in 2023 to a positive reception. Since then, multiple expansions of the game, including a major one titled EA Sports WRC 24, have come out. However, most recently, the Codemasters team surprised fans by communicating an end to the game's content cadence, with no promise of reviving the same in the future.
EA is notorious for sitting on franchises, leaving a once-popular series dormant for far too long, where only nostalgia remains for some players.
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