My letter to Turn 10 (Porsche)

I love this game but…

I went through each post individually (yes, all 1,518 of them)

This is the number of people who mentioned Porsche or a specific Porsche car they wanted in the ‘Forza 5 Car Wish List’ thread on ForzaMotorsport.net: “193” out of “1,518” as of May 28, 2014. That is roughly 13 percent.

Also here are a few of the best quotes from members in the Forza Community that posted in the same thread of the forum:

“Porsche et. al. what is your problem getting this license straightened out… you cant say you have the best in the game and miss them…come on guys…”

“Porsche (Many many of them) especially the new 918”

“I am a huge Porsche enthusiast and Porsche owner myself… and I understand with EA and Porsche, the whole licensing problems… But I would love to see Porsche Models in the game soon. Models form Forza 3 & 4 (944, 911, Gt Cup Cars, Panamera,…etc) Especially the 918!!!”

“Yeah, having Porsche in the line up would be great.”

“All Porsche thanks”

“I Want Porsche , so please bring it back to Forza”

“Forza needs Porsche! The Problem is that Gran Turismo, Drive Club and Need for Speed have new Cars like Porsche, M235i, M4 or Corvette Stingray and Forza has only the new Honda. Honda is nice but why they bring not the new M3 for example!?! Only old Forza 4 Cars were in the Car Packs.
Turn 10 please read this. Bring Porsche and the new M3 to forza !!!”

“WILL PAY FOR PORSCHE DLC AND NORDSCHLIEFE 24 hour track…”

“Anything that was in the Porsche Pack from Forza 4! Love them Porsches!”

“5 NEEDS the Porsche DLC. I can’t keep putting GT3 RS liveries on RUF’s”

“I could easily see myself shelling out $25 or $30 for a VERY nice Porsche DLC. It would have to include the 918 spyder, 918 rsr, Carerra GT, 964, and plenty of other classic Porsches.”

“Are we gonna ever get Porsche in Forza 5???”

“Any car that begins with P and ends in a E.”

Going through the list of cars people wanted I also noticed a few other request repetitions that stuck out to me. There seemed to be a very high demand for DSM’s/Mitsubishi (1990 Eagle Talon TSI, 1991 Galant vr4, etc,…) also the new C7 Corvette. All these cars I see are demanded the most on the forum thread yet I see non of the fan based selected cars… Turn 10, I’m just looking for an answer. Thank you.

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ea owns the rights to porche in videogames. the only way to aquire that license would be to buy ea, much more expensive than forza could ever hope to make. if that ever happened it would be to aquire the nfl exclusive license and fifa license making them xbox exclusives. forza wouldn’t even be an afterthought in the deal.

Unfortunately, despite your search, you’ve missed the important aspect regarding exclusive licensing. Microsoft/Turn 10 Studios don’t own that license, nor did they express interest in bartering with Electronic Arts (who does own the license). If you want to direct a letter to someone, I suggest tracking down a reliable address for Porsche to express your dissatisfaction in their licensing strategy.

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Heres a quote from me:

“fix the game before flooding it with more cars”

but yes, Porsche would be nice

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Here is a quote from me “fix the game and add content.”

Hopefully the fix it person is not the car modeller or track modeller.

It was in fact Porsche who has been denying their entry into a lot of games outside of EA’s stuff. Not EA. There was an article on Jolopnik about this some time back, I even posted the link to it back in the Forza 4 heyday.

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I remember that Jalopnik article that was ref’d here — it was an opinion column, not a factual “here’s the documentation” column.

Regardless, companies dealing with licensing issues put a LOT of money into the legal staff, particularly when it comes to something along the lines of “Exclusive to Our Game” situations. Whether someone wants to blame Porsche or not, when the deal was made somebody at Porsche thought it was a good deal.

It is possible - but highly unlikely - that EA does not have the exclusive license. I say this based on published Turn 10 commentary. To say otherwise would be to blatantly claim that Turn 10 staff out-and-out lied, in print. Pretty strong accusation to make, with nothing other than some opinion column on a website to support it.

  • Don Ente

I don’t honestly remember seeing Turn10 say this, if they did, then well hey, no harm no foul, I redact my comment.

To the OP — you should now (perhaps) have a little bit better understanding of why Porsche in particular is not currently in the game.

Any other discussion on it is just creating a duplicate Car Wishlist thread, so we’ll lock this one up.

  • Don Ente
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I would like Porsche’s, I would like the Nurburgring, I would like one million dollars. More importantly than Porsche’s re-entry to the series however, is the re-entry of features that have been lost since Forza 4.

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its not just turn ten. porche isn’t in gran turismo, dirt, project cars, and alot of other games. i think the only way they got in gtr was via fan made mods.