No gifting in Forza 6? Suggestion

[White_Phosphate]

Been a Forza fan since Forza 1 and Forza 6 is certainly an improvement over Forza 5. Enjoying it.

One thing I wish would change in the series is a move away from gifting. Gifting used to be an important part of hosting tournaments, because my gaming group would host a private A,B,C,D etc. class tournament, and the winner would be gifted something from the host as a prize. At one point the losers gifted their losing car to the winner. No longer can that happen now, the private tournaments are just… meh, with no prize. “Just for fun” is unfortunately not as much fun.

A suggestion for Forza 7: incorporate some kind of gifting system where you can give credits or cars to other players. Credits could be collected from tourney members and then those used to buy a very expensive car, then that car is gifted to the winner. Or maybe some kind of way that players can buy a Gift Prize Spin, and then give that Gift Prize Spin to a player of choice. This could just be low level winnings like 10,25,50,75k credits or some such. Idea: three types of Gift Prize Spins, bronze (10k credits), silver (25k credits), gold (50k credits), platinum (100k credits), each with appropriate prizes. You purchase it and it asks which friend to send it to, done. They are notified of Gift Prize Spin(s) is available.

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Anyway, just an idea for an old gamer…

[PJTierney]

It’s too late for Gifting to be implemented into Forza Motorsport 6. Your best bet is to email forzafb@microsoft.com and let your feelings be known.

I did the same a few weeks ago with the following:

After spending some time with Forza Horizon 2 recently (I bought an Xbox One last week) I have come to conclusion on the one feature I feel most strongly about wanting to see make a return to the Forza series: Gifting of User-Generated Content.

I’m a creative person and have been heavily involved in art and design since I was a child. As such when I want to customise my cars in Forza I strive to have a car with a high quality appearance; one with accurate and well-created logos for example. You can see some of this in my signature as I was an active livery painter in the past when I had more free time.

After a week of playing Forza Horizon 2 (the first Forza I’ve played since Turn 10 removed the Gifting options) I have come to realise that the vast majority of design work created by people is flat out bad in terms of design quality. This is understandable as the game has a huge fan base and only a small percentage of that would have the time, talent and patience to spend hours creating detailed, accurate logos and applying them to cars with consistent design principles. It simply makes “finding the good stuff much harder” (unless you follow the Paint Forums).

However, what has become clear to me is that as everybody now has to create every single detail themselves the overall design quality of logos and liveries is far weaker than what I was used to seeing in Forza Motorsport 4. For certain cars, even the best livery designers may not have the time and talent necessary to painstakingly (re)create every detail to perfection. In the past that did not seem to matter much as there was a great sense of collaboration within the paint community and if somebody couldn’t quite get a part of their car to look right, another painter would step in and share some of their talents to make the car “complete”.

An example from tonight of how things stand currently: I was looking for a Pirelli logo vinyl as I didn’t have time to create one. When I did a search I had to scroll past hundreds of logos before I could find one that was accurate in terms of its shape proportions. This is not a complicated logo either, it was only 18 layers when I made one back on the 360, but in order to find one of decent accuracy I had to sift past dozens of “default font” type-outs, badly-proportioned interpretations and so-on. It was simply disappointing. I get the same feeling when looking for complete designs for any car I buy.

So to cut this wall of text down to size let me say this: The gifting of user-generated content between friends was a great way to maintain community interest and a great way to create high quality work. Not having this feature limits the true potential of the painting and tuning tools available to us as less than a handful of painters and tuners truly have the talent and time to create astounding work on their own. Please consider bringing back this feature, as it will have an immensely positive effect on the creativity that this series is capable of producing.

[Dragnet]

@PJTierney

It’s too late for Gifting to be implemented into Forza Motorsport 6. Your best bet is to email forzafb@microsoft.com and let your feelings be known.

[Rabanski]

Couldn’t agree more!

I too have been a (Forza) painter for a number of years and feel the decision to leave out gifting will only harm the community.

In my circle of Forza friends I am the main painter. I will often create a design for my team, put the relevant names and numbers on, and gift them out. We looked cool.

Furthermore, friendships were formed just from people wanting to trade designs and vinyls. Removing the storefront has killed this.

I’m not going to boycott the series (I bought an Xbox One solely for this game) or start some internet revolution but feel Turn 10 is doing the community it has grown a huge disservice.

Turn 10, if you read this, please consider adding/patching in a storefront or at least bring back gifting.

Peace.

[XboxOZ360]

@Rabanski

Couldn’t agree more!

I too have been a (Forza) painter for a number of years and feel the decision to leave out gifting will only harm the community.

In my circle of Forza friends I am the main painter. I will often create a design for my team, put the relevant names and numbers on, and gift them out. We looked cool.

Furthermore, friendships were formed just from people wanting to trade designs and vinyls. Removing the storefront has killed this.

I’m not going to boycott the series (I bought an Xbox One solely for this game) or start some internet revolution but feel Turn 10 is doing the community it has grown a huge disservice.

Turn 10, if you read this, please consider adding/patching in a storefront or at least bring back gifting.

Peace.

I agree wholeheartedly with you and the previous poster. I too spent many hours re-creating Aussie company logos to fit in with the V8 Supercars back in FM3, plus we had access to a huge slue of real manurfacturers logos, which aided many painters more time to create even better designs.

But now, as you stated, many make poorly formed logos that look out of place once placed on various shaped vehicles as they change shape depending on the contours of any vehicle.

It would make the game stronger if they brought back the several pages of proper manufacturing logos, and allowed something similar to the Shopfront and trading of user-based content/skins etc.

I created a skin that racers needed to use I a worldwide comp with Fanatec. The only change each player needed to make was the vehicle race number and drivers name on the roof and doors, plus ad their own country flag.

This applied to a series we ran in V8 Supercars, and everyone pitched in to help create some amazingly beautiful recreations… If Turn10 brought back these abilities, their userbase would certainly grow…

[EpicEvan777]

It’s always baffled me why turn 10 took away gifting. I thought it was probably the best community feature we had. I hope they bring it back or at least have it in horizon 3 as I think it would suit that game even more.