So I bought the Forza Horizon 3 Standard Edition about a week ago. Then today I looked at the Microsoft store to find that the Ultimate Edition version is $40 less than the original ($60). I have progressed in Forza very much and was wondering how I could get the Ultimate Edition without paying anything, because I am really pissed off that it came after I bought it. Any help is helpful!
Thanks
you cant get it without paying anything, that’s just the way life is
you always try to get a refund from wherever you bought it and re-buy it but good luck with that as they wont give a refund for the reasons you have given
Yeah, pretty much happens with every Forza title, Motorsport and Horizon.
The idea is the mass hype thing I mentioned earlier yesterday morning. A large majority of the revenue made from game sales are made from from the day one release to around three months after that. (What I’ve dubbed the “half-life of Forza”.)
This half-life of Forza cannot be precisely calculated, but it has decreased immensely over the past three Horizon games, around a 1/3 loss of longevity (referring to the replayability aspects). Usually some time passes after this “half-life” and Microsoft slaps a lot of stuff relevant to the game if not the entire game on either deals with gold or games with gold. (The latter usually happens much, much after the game’s half-life, approaching the end of life stage.)
The concept remains the same, however. As soon as a certain percentage of net profit is reached, everything goes onto deals with gold to squeeze every last penny out of both existing and potential customers. The problem with waiting for something like that to go on sale is deciding between playability and what you spend your money on. If you have the money, you’ll sacrifice it to compensate for possible lost future playability. On the other end of the stick, you can save that money and essentially buy both the game and all the DLC (except the pre-order cars we can’t use) for nearly the same price as the ultimate edition was at launch. But with that, you also sacrifice the time you may have spent playing with an exponentially larger player base whose population has decreased so much by the time you end up buying the things, no one plays it anymore. Same situation with Horizon 1 when Horizon 2 came out. Same situation now with Horizon 2 since Horizon 3 came out. The odd thing is that I see more people playing the O.G. Horizon than Horizon 2 after a bunch of stuff has gone haywire in recent days.
But yeah, that’s the idea. It’s your choice. Spend the $60 or don’t. Sometimes, with Horizon 2 especially, two months before Horizon 3 came out I think everything related to the game went on sale. A select few DLCs went on sale in December last year (right after Blizzard Mountain was released), but that is two years after the game first came out.