This is an open letter to T10:
After a long time I’ve tried FM 2023 again. In the meantime, I had the opprtunity to play GT 7 on a PS5 that a friend of mine lent me. Get me right: this isn’t about FM 2023 vs GT 7 and also GT 7 doesn’t everything right. But after playing GT 7 I have you to ask the question: why is FM 2023 a full price game?
It has still the crap live service content and lack of Builder’s Cup content, it has still not the option to turn off the bad working penalty system, it has still that boring menu and it has still no music/soundtrack.
On the other side ask for yourself: why the community is always voting Forza Motorsport 4 as the best part of the entire series?
There are still only recycled tracks that are announced as “new tracks” and still no city tracks.
Also in GT 7 the developers show their love to cars with a history, museum and so on. FM just hast nothing in the direction of car passion.
Before the launce of FM 2023 you’ve made a really big announcement about the Builder’s Cup and it’s content. “Build a car” for your career. So I’ve bought a Sauber C9 and I still don’t have any race in the Builder’s Cup to drive this car. Now where are the features/races you’ve announced before the launch of the game? It’S over one and a half years now the game is out already and it still feels like a full price early access game with the lack of content and just live service crap with a ultimatum to finish the content.
The biggest part of the community don’t want that FOMO-content and this was posted, mentioned and wished by the community how many times already?
So is the community important for you or not? It’s we, your community, that are paying you that you can do your work and can buy food. But I’ve you ignore the community or don’t response we feel like we’re being fooled.
So let me do a quick sneak peek into the future: that will lead to the conclusion to avoid the next Forza Motorsport and I’m sure this would not be the option you would choose to keep your jobs.
Maybe you’re working on features the community want but if you don’t communicate with us how should we know that?
Look at the devs of AC Evo: the community there is not satisfied with the EA of AC Evo. What did the devs do? They made a video with apologies and communicated how to do it better. In other words: they have the b… to do so.
Or Genki with TXR 2025: the really look what the community want and try to add as much as possible in the game.
Maybe it would have been better also to release FM 2023 as early access first, but I’m sure in the time that FM 2023 is out already AC Evo and TXR 2025 will be done and feature complete and the musch better games that FM 2023 is atm.
So listen to your community and communicate with us. Your “open letters” are not very satisfying and they read like that you don’t listen to us as necessary.
You’ve still got the (last?) chance to make this game much better.