Wtf is happening with FH4 NOW

[Art]

What with all the crap about game closed a week ago? I just wanted to buy it for New Years discount, so I could play in half a year after I could find a decent job and get fresh new maxP PC since 2016 and non of the shops are selling it.

Wdym I can't buy it anymore anywhere? What with the licenes problem? Who the hell would even license their game for a limited amount of time? WHY even closing it? Game is selling more than enough even for today, isn't it? So why not't do smth about it?

WHY I didn't hear a ♥♥♥♥ about it anywhere before? What about FH1/2/3? And what about those who OWN this game? In steam for example? The game is still running, servers are open? Game didn't disappear from ur accounts? Will there be any ways to play it? Even knowing that there [probably] will be more FH games - I don't really wanna miss a whole big ass game. Will it be possibly to play it from "green steam"? And is there any ways at all to buy key or smth to get this game NOW and in the future?

This is a disaster, Ive no idea why everyone so calm about it and Mics won't do anything. Aren't we decided that closing game is a no-no since The Crew incident?

If its music license - just remove it, maybe allow players to insert their own mp3 files to have music in the game, I don't see there much of a problem. About cars - why would you even buy limited license in the first place if you are making so many games about cars every few years. Why don't buy license in general and not separated for every single game?

Pls answer all of those questions. Thx...

[Theon]

Everything has already been answered, use the search button.

https://steamcommunity.com/games/1293830/announcements/detail/4185613970227394262

[Nursemorph]

The game is still running, servers are still up, the game functions as it did before. You can still buy it if you are willing to risk buying from 3rd party key sellers.

As to the whole licence issue, we don't know the inner workings of that and how it works but it probably costs millions a year to licence the cars and there's a point of dminishing returns. Licencing across multiple games no clue but they may end up paying for car licences for multiple games when it only ends up in one game.

Probably part of the limited licences is so that people naturally gravitate towards the curent game.

As to The Crew, that game was completely stopped as it was online only play...Forza horizon has always been possible to play offline so it's not the same

[Art]

Originally posted by Nursemorph:

The game is still running, servers are still up, the game functions as it did before. You can still buy it if you are willing to risk buying from 3rd party key sellers.

As to the whole licence issue, we don't know the inner workings of that and how it works but it probably costs millions a year to licence the cars and there's a point of dminishing returns. Licencing across multiple games no clue but they may end up paying for car licences for multiple games when it only ends up in one game.

Probably part of the limited licences is so that people naturally gravitate towards the curent game.

As to The Crew, that game was completely stopped as it was online only play...Forza horizon has always been possible to play offline so it's not the same

Thx for answering.

It's really good thing that servers won't close and offline will work, I even recall some guy gets FH1 and was able to play it thru emulator or smth, and game was working fine.

Seems like 10k+ playing people at the same time and current sales aren't enough to keep the license or smth.

Its always 40+y.o. people who ruins the fun for everyone just to get max profit for themselves. It's wierd that car companies are taking this much money then, since, I bet, a lot of people would buy a car just because they enjoyed their experience with it in a videogame, and Forza has a giant community, so games like this are great advertisement for them.

At this rate, the game keys will soon run out and many people won't exprience the game. Or even now they won't cuz it will be too much troubles getting the game. Even if its not that unic since there is FH5 and maybe more games of this sereis in the future, it still has unic big map and many routes. Would be hundreds of inexperienced hours.

[alka]

It's business. If you want to use Ferrari etc branding, you have to pay what they ask and agree to their terms. They say x million for y years.

There would be untold complaining if car brands gradually disappeared from the game over time - even the loss of a few Hot Wheels cars has people crying on here.

The time limited licencing and de-listing of the game is probably the best way to maintain the integrity of the game. There was about a 6 month winding down process which was difficult to miss if you were active on Steam and aware of Forza Horizon.

[Top Gun]

This has happened to pretty much every game ever with real-world car brands, and it will continue to happen in the future. There's nothing special about the Horizon series in that regard.

[anferFFmax]

Originally posted by Nursemorph:

Its always 40+y.o. people who ruins the fun for everyone just to get max profit for themselves. It's wierd that car companies are taking this much money then, since, I bet, a lot of people would buy a car just because they enjoyed their experience with it in a videogame, and Forza has a giant community, so games like this are great advertisement for them.

I can assure you that your generation will probably be worse. I'm in my late 40s, I have seen a lot, I have been gaming since the days of the Atari, the very 1st one. I really seen it all. And most of the trouble today in the gaming industry comes from the new people, the young ones obsessed with the "modern audience." I'm not just talking about Woke crap, but the mentality as a whole. Generations are getting worse as they come. More fanatical, more corporate minded, and less inclined towards serving the customer base.

[JabroniCorleone]

ONE QUESTION:
I bought the game long time ago and I still can install and play it BUT what happens if the servers will go down some day? I mean yeah I cant play online anymore but am I able to play the game without servers in "offline" mode?

[cube]

Yes, unless Microsoft's account servers go as well. In fact, half the time the game starts up offline just for the hell of it.

[Nursemorph]

Originally posted by JabroniCorleone:

ONE QUESTION:
I bought the game long time ago and I still can install and play it BUT what happens if the servers will go down some day? I mean yeah I cant play online anymore but am I able to play the game without servers in "offline" mode?

Yes you can. The servers for FH1 and FH2 were both turned off last year yet the games still remain playable. The game has always had an offline mode...the servers turning off will remove multiplayer, remove tune and design downloading and probably custom tracks but the base game will work fine

[JabroniCorleone]

thank you both :-) and merry x-mas

[Prophet]

you had so many months to get this game bro you had your chances now it's too late, and it's not a music license it's their vehicle licenses that had expired.

[Art]

Originally posted by Prophet:

you had so many months to get this game bro you had your chances now it's too late, and it's not a music license it's their vehicle licenses that had expired.

Yeaa. The whole closing from purshcasing thing is new to me. I didn't follow devs in twitter etc. since I don't have yet a single Forza cuz I have potato-PC and steam "Acitivty" page just filled with constant FH5 news and other games that I just missed the notice. Nothing I heard from my social media. Nothing from youtube (probably, I don't remember). I woke up in the morning of 20th December, thinking that it's a good day to buy some games including FH4 for next half a year on winter steam sale. Was quite joyful. Turned on my phone. Saw 3 days old notice from random website on search page that FH4 is closed. Confused. Panicked. Frustrated.

[Top Gun]

I mean even if you don't follow social media it was posted all over gaming sites back when the announcement was first made in June. Not that it guarantees you'd see it, but it wasn't a small thing.

[JabroniCorleone]

why dont you get a key from a reseller site?

[edelweissfr]

Originally posted by JabroniCorleone:

why dont you get a key from a reseller site?

have you checked not the situation bro? you can find acc with a game in most cases, that's not we usually want. Also it's easier to find MS key, but we're here on steam I suppose