Hey, just wanted to put my two cents in – both of these games would see a rise in player base if the servers were actually fixed and functional, and they may not actually have to be shut down
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Shrug. If you don’t ask…
Fix servers before shutting down. I would like to finalize the achievements online, I’ve been trying this for a while without success. It’s easy to say that there aren’t many players, because you can’t even connect…
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Please, don’t shutdown the servers for Forza Horizon 1 and 2 , the servers were already broken and they didn’t get repaired, that’s why they weren’t many people playing online, if the servers went back a lot of people will play it. So please don’t shutdown the servers in August.
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What is the point of giving people a 2month heads up if the servers have been down for years? Loads of people are trying to rush back to finish the online side of the game. Fix the issues so people can finish things off and actually make use of the heads up they were given…
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I’d hope that you at least get the servers back online for the shutdown period… this announcement just sounds like “it’s broke and we can’t be arsed fixing it so we will just give you a server shutdown date instead” I hope I’m proved wrong
The game would have more players if the servers worked, I was able to get the rivals achievements done earlier this year but still miss quite a few of the multiplayer ones that I’ve been unable to work on due to the servers being down
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There’s been a clear disconnection of the “Community Managers” and executives of Playground from the actual playerbase.
Ever since all 3 games (Forza Horizon, Forza Horizon 2 (X360) and Forza Horizon 2 (Xbox One) got delisted, they’ve always been down more time than they were up, disallowing willing players from actually playing the games’ multiplayer modes and causing the very issue you say is behind the decision to shut these servers down.
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Let’s take a look at each game in a separate post.
Here’s how 2012 Forza Horizon’s achievement list holds up: Forza Horizon Achievements - TrueAchievements.
Whole 23 out of 70 achievements that have been impossible to grab since April 2022 (more than a whole year!), let’s see what they are:
- The entirety of the 1000 Club DLC (10 achievements). Because someone back in 2012 had a great idea for some reason to make the medals only obtainable when the server is fully operational.
- Rivals and Online Multiplayer progression (12 achievements) are all gone because the progression/statistics server is down and as such no progress can be made on any of these.
- The Wheelin’ ‘n Dealin’ achievement for selling a design/vinyl which is down because of the UGC server being gone ever since 2021!
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Now, the Xbox 360 version of Forza Horizon 2: Forza Horizon 2 (Xbox 360) - TrueAchievements
Here, we get 9 out of 46 achievements being dead, again since April 2022 and they are the following:
- 3 achievements for respectively: 100 Playground Games, 20 and 200 Events played.
- the “1.000.000 Credits from Rivals” achievement
- 2 Road Trip achievements
- Car Club, Bucket Lists and Freeroam achievements.
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And for the last, the Xbox One version of FH2: Forza Horizon 2 - TrueAchievements
For this one, there’s the lowest percentage of achievements that are already discontinued or will go down in August (being 12/88) but nonetheless:
- a single Rivals achievement of the Porsche Expansion
- 3 achievements of the Storm Island, each being a separate activity (Bucket Lists, Car Meets and Online Events)
- a single achievement for obtaining the Yellow Wristband (for some inexplicable reason)
- all the achievements mentioned in the Xbox 360 version as well
- an achievement for winning H2H against Bounty drivatars
- an achievement for beating friends/club members on 20 Cameras
- an achievement for earning 500k XP for your Club
And for the end: - an achievement for winning a Showdown on every Car Meet and an achievement for getting a car, livery and a tune in a Showdown at a Car Meet.
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For some reason that Playground didn’t care to mention, they DID fix a part of the Xbox One FH2, making the PR stunts leaderboards/Rivals/Car Clubs accessible again a month ago.
But it’s only a pity fix, as the actual online of FH2 is still inaccessible, not allowing you to allocate a server.
Playground Games is worse at support than the Coalition, which is an insanity.
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Out of the entire available Gears series, The Coalition has only not fixed 2 discontinued achievements which have gone down in the past few months while they fixed others pretty shortly after they go down. (Closure of Gears POP was on Epic Games buying out the publisher and immediately deeming it lost profits).
By comparison, every single Forza Horizon game has issues that have not been fixed at all or have only been fixed after 1.5 years+.
- FH1, both FH2s - as above
- FH3 - the PC servers have been shut down WITHOUT announcement (console is still up, but is showing signs of incoming closure with errors every few matchmaking tries)
- FH4 - Series’ Rivals have been broken for nearly 2 years before it finally started counting again…
- FH5 - Smashable challenges have been rarely showing up in Playlists even though Playground said they’re guaranteed each Playlist. Also, 2 unobtainable achievements on an update release…
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Closing servers that are already dead? Just admit that people spamming to you about it and you wanna cut it off by “official closure”.
Very dissapointed with y’all.
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I’d work on completing the remaining online achievements If the servers were working, I tried going back and completing it after I finished horizon 5 but they were all offline, I managed to get the rivals ones done when they came back up but it hasn’t been allocating a server for online road trips for the best part of a year I’ve been logging in every so often more in hope than expectation but they really need to bring them back online before the shutdown or they may as well just say they’re shut for good already 
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Please at least get the FH2 servers working on Xbox One again before the official shutdown. There’s so many people that have been wanting to finish off the online achievements.
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As these games now have a very small player population
lol it’s not a surprise, both games can’t be purchased on the microsoft store since years AND servers are down since a while too…
It’s really a pity, please restore them at least for these two last months.
And for the future, think about a remaster with FH1/FH2/FH3 combined, community deserve to discover, drive and enjoy these wonderfuls maps!
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Thank you for taking the time to report this issue.
I wish I had better news for you, but unfortunately we no longer actively support Legacy Forza titles.
Limited support is available for matchmaking and leaderboard services; however, access to this functionality is not always guaranteed.
Players who already purchased these items should still be able to download and play them.
We are not able to give out codes for these games or any DLC.
While I appreciate you taking the time out today to write in to Forza Support, we are sadly unable to resolve this request.
That was the reply i got from support on this matter. Says it right there, They no longer support legacy titles.
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That’s been their reply for years to every single ticket about 360 titles. This is just them actually justifying their low effort support with an official announcement. They have obviously used no resources to maintain servers that have been down for years in some cases so the line about moving resources to other titles is disingenuous at best.
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The lack of response from playground games is worrying…
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Low player count?? Uhm maybe that’s because the servers haven’t been working properly allowing people to get achievements maybe if oh I don’t know The Servers Worked the population would be higher I think it’s an absolute disgrace how legacy titles are treated
Closing servers to focus on newer Titles?? That makes it sound like they gave the older games any focus whatsoever which considering how the servers have been down for sooo long it’s clear no focus was given to them at all
This honestly feels more like they are saying “we are fed up hearing requests to fix older games so we are shutting the servers down officially so you stop nagging us” honestly seems that way to me
Rant over
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