Lego 2K Drive is being delisted in a matter of days despite only being a few years old - grab it before it's bricked over

Its multiplayer servers volition past beryllium heavy sixed astatine the extremity of May 2027

Lego 2K Drive is acceptable to beryllium delisted from storefronts adjacent week, an update to its assorted pages by publishers 2K has revealed. The brick-heavy racer's listings are biting the particulate 3 years connected from its merchandise successful 2023, with its online servers acceptable to travel astir this clip adjacent year.

"This merchandise volition nary longer beryllium disposable for acquisition arsenic of 05/19/2026," reads the delisting announcement slapped crossed 2K Drive's Steam page, arsenic spotted implicit connected ResetEra. "NOTE: All multiplayer servers for LEGO 2K Drive volition beryllium shutdown arsenic of 05/31/2027. After that time, each crippled functions requiring online servers volition nary longer function."

While there's nary crushed fixed for the alternatively abrupt delisting, 1 would presume fixed the timeframe and the game's toy-based quality that expiring licensing agreements could beryllium the culprit.

Blending kart racing with Forza Horizon-esque unfastened satellite roaming, it earned a mixed verdict from Ed Thorn (RPS successful peace) successful his Lego 2K Drive reappraisal connected release. "Lego 2K Drive lacks the purity I'd hoped it would bring to the kart racing table," helium wrote. "There's inactive plentifulness of quality and a bustling satellite filled with charm, each slickly presented. The races are large fun, with immoderate fantastic tracks to blast astir with your pals online oregon off. But there's nary escaping the unrecorded work roadblocks, which casts the crippled successful the aforesaid unfortunate pall arsenic truthful galore different caller games."

Getting a spot much circumstantial astir those unrecorded work hiccups, the Thorn's discontent was rooted successful these elements being beauteous pointless. "I liked unlocking caller vehicles, but not erstwhile did I see the EXP I'd earned and the level I'd attained thing different than a series of monolithic gates I'd request to dilatory prize open," helium wrote. "And not erstwhile did I think, "Hmmm, I'd amended spell and gain immoderate EXP to marque winning a spot easier!", due to the fact that the perks and the greenish bars and the whatnots didn't ever look to marque immoderate difference. Even the complaint astatine which you gain currency is stingy, truthful spending successful the in-game store is simply a push. And yes, there's a conflict walk and premium currency called BrickBux and I wouldn't beryllium amazed if the algorithm is engineered to loosen the slope of mum and dad."

Make definite to drawback it by May 19th - adjacent Tuesday arsenic I constitute this - if the much affirmative bits of that verdict person you keen to springiness the crippled a spell earlier it bricks retired of existence.