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0.0 hrs last two weeks / 15.1 hrs on record (14.2 hrs at review time)
Posted: 22 Jul @ 10:04pm
Updated: 23 Jul @ 3:58am

Such a Rich corporation as Microsoft that spends 75 billions on Activision can not afford to spend few thousands of dollars to renew licenses and to keep servers running, so instead they removing game and its DLCs from sales and shutting down multiplayer after just 3 years since release! And they do it with quite popular game that sold millions of units! This is insanity! Game preservation not existent anymore, custom user operated servers not existent anymore! You can still buy Quake 1 and 2 originals after 25-30 years and still can play multiplayer... but this game it getting wiped out of existence after just 3 years!

I did not even manage to play all features of games after i purchased it and now those features will be gone! Waste of money! I was going to buy Forza Horizon 5, but after this im not going to give my money to Microsoft for any game with life services again, because i dont want my games to turn into brick in just 3 years!
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♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥, games should be fully functional forever! And we should have warranty that official servers will remain operational at least 10 years! And once official support is ended all features should remain functional and server binaries and sources should be released and game should be patched to allow to connect to custom servers so that users can continue to operate servers of games unofficially! This is how it should be done!
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16 Comments
Piazano󠁳 ⁧⁧[G59] 15 Aug @ 10:03am 
"Glad that you are leaving Forza Community"
Lmfaoo :savagepatrick:
Kosmux 14 Aug @ 4:24pm 
The Steam release date is very misleading, this game was released in 2018, now 6 years ago. Forza Horizon 5 is the one from 2021. I also agree they should keep it for longer anyways.
Swilleh 12 Aug @ 6:38pm 
FH3 and i think H2 also still has multiplayer servers on. Just because it's no longer sold it doesn't mean that you won't be able to play it.

Glad that you are leaving Forza Community.
FlaWinde 11 Aug @ 9:30pm 
realest comment EVER
vum 11 Aug @ 3:05am 
They will keep the servers running for a bit more than you think. Also you will be able to play FH4 offline when the servers shut down forever. This isnt an ubisoft case. The game is 6 years old. It came to steam 3 years ago but its still 6 years old. Oh and also,Turn 10 and playground games dont have acces to the millions Microsoft has. They are a subdivision. Hence they arent at fault. Theyre just doing what theyre told.

If you wanna bash on Microsoft shady practices,do it somewhere else,on theyr feedback app or something. Trying to make Forza Horizon look bad and its studios wont do anything. :steamfacepalm:
Uriel 10 Aug @ 11:17am 
Well keep up the good fight, then, my dude. I guess I'm just a cynic who don't believe it will make a difference, but hey, I've been wrong before.
v00d00m4n 10 Aug @ 10:55am 
Dude, what makes you think i discovered it just now? Im fighting against this for many years. But not buying only does not help, you have to be very vocal about issues, and a lot of people have to be vocal about that, to be heard. Thats what im always doing for years when crap like this happens. And many years i was almost alone complaining about crap industry does, some blind cunsomers who eat crap from publisher even recognize me across Steam and say stupid crap like "Another rant from voodooman about non important thing nobody cares about".

But gladly recently i dont feel alone anymore in my fight against shitty business practice, as more and more people joining this fight as they got enough of this crap. Still we need more people to open their eyes and join the fight and demand a better treatment of customers from publishers and developers. This is why i keep speaking about it and keep ranting and warning people.
Uriel 10 Aug @ 10:46am 
I never said I agreed, bro. I'm just surprised you discover that kind of shady practices only now, considering it's been around for what, decades now ? It's the main reason I only buy indie games, or if I buy so-called AAA, it's when they are extremely discounted.

My wallet speaks for me : shit like this, I don't buy, or wait til I can pay for what it's really worth. FH4 will probably be very nice when it goes -90% in december before the delisting. And if it doesn't go this low, it will save me a few bucks by not buying it.
v00d00m4n 10 Aug @ 10:23am 
In other words - if Uriel agrees with how industry does business and does not try to fight against it and make world a better place and force business to play a fair game, Uriel is still have to find that he is just a slave who will never get out of chains, until he starts to speak out and act against his enslavers!
Uriel 10 Aug @ 9:37am 
In other words : "Man discovers video game is an industry that aims to provide money to business owners, whereas entertainment isn't the goal, but the means"