Asha Sharma is really starting to grow on me. I will admit I was skeptical at first but holy moly she is really impressing me. With bringing Xbox FanFest back to LA and more cities added, a more focus on Xbox hardware AND the rumour of exclusives returning along with the Xbox only tier of GamePass she is really making a difference.
Our next task as a community is letting her see how important our game was to us. Before all the unpleasantnes Turn 10 were gearing up to make Forza Motorsport 23 the ultimate FM. With the return of Sunset Peninsula and Fujimi Kaido, the implementation of the Forza insiders program, the new cars and car packs we were well on track to make our game the best.
It still can be and it isn’t too late to for Forza Motorsport 2.0 update to be developed. All you need to do is answer the poll below. The vote is 100% private and anonymous.
I honestly don’t think such post going to make any difference but I voted anyways. I think FM in the current state is a great game and with couple content updates more people will probably check the game themselves
Insane that they’re just gonna let this game die. Honestly what’s left of the multiplayer base is having some of the best racing in years from what I’m experiencing. The foundation for a great circuit racing game is there, it just needs all the bells & whistles adding that is missing from what we had previously.
What a waste.
IMO FM23 is not far off from another sim racing game that I play a lot, Raceroom. Both have a get in and do what you want, aire about them, and both are live service games. Raceroom is in active development, and the steps that its devs have been taking are slow but steady.
To me its sad that FM23 did not get the same commitment from Microsoft that KW gave to Raceroom. Theres plenty of potential in FM23 and if work was to resume, I am sure it will reach its potential. Honestly, Turn 10 should get back in there and pick up the pieces of this game.
With all of the work that will be needed to get Motorsport 2023 up to the lofty standards of even Motorsport 5, it would make infinitely more sense to begin work on an entirely new game. And that’s not going to happen until either someone demonstrates to Satya Nadella that they can vibe-code an entirely accurate and acceptable racing game through Copilot or - more likely - the AI market collapses and people come to the grim realization that some things require actual human talent.
What’s probably going to happen is Horizon will be the only Forza in town for years until it’s popularity starts to wane, and then Playground Games is going to be tasked with bringing the Motorsport name back. How that’ll end up playing out is anyone’s guess.
Forza Motorsport 2023 now has the best car and track roster on any current generation console.
Unfortunately when it first came out it was reviewed poorly, which at the time was probably fair. It never became a popular opinion to like the game and unfortunately most people prefer to agree with the popular opinion and not form their own.
Also the current marketplace revolves around gamepass, which necessitates FOMO tactics to gain player hours in order to receive money and support from Microsoft. This actually resulted in more content and cars for us, but the gameplay for which was not creatively presented and became stale.
For a console simcade circuit racing game to do well it needs more creativity in the form of drifting, drag races, checkpoint racing and most importantly more user options. Sandbox games are popular because the player has more options and is rewarded however they choose to play.
The biggest problem I have is that the game saves to a server. This created terrible loading times and the fear that whatever I do and create will one day be unavailable to me
First impressions are everything, and Motorsport 2023’s first impression was that it wasn’t ready for a shakedown cruise, let alone a full deployment. Subsequent impressions failed to improve on that to any meaningful degree. People’s opinions have nothing to do with it. Turn 10 blew it, and they blew it badly enough that they got relegated to support studio status.
It was scored quite generously by much of the mainstream gaming media.
It was reviewed quite poorly by most players.
…which, yet again, showed how out-of-touch game companies & the mainstream gaming media both are with audiences.
Players formed their opinions about the game from the condition/quality of the game, not because “it wasn’t popular to like it.”
If the game was better, it would have been more popular.
As much as I’d love some substantial improvements, I don’t expect any.
The higher up corporate-ladder-climbers get, the farther away they go from boots-on-the-ground reality.
I think many/most corporations now (especially “tEcH” companies) are incapable of making anything good for consumers because executives’ idea of “good” has strayed far from consumers’ idea of “good.”
It’s not a consumer-friendly (or worker-friendly) market, and the only realistic (not idealistic) “pOtEnTiaL” I see is their potential to continue making things worse.
Out of all the feedback that’s been provided for years, will the fate of the game be decided by this single-choice “poll?”
