Now that we had an opportunity to thoroughly play the new Forza, I’m curious to know if you guys prefer this formula or the old formula of two years of development time, since we could’ve all been playing Forza 10 (three whole new games) by now since Forza 7.
Feel free to share your opinion on why you chose one option over the other.
I don’t prefer any formula at all. I’d rather they fix this game “from the ground up” before even dreaming of releasing another product.
The new formula is the way to go. Having a new game every 2 years just doesn’t work anymore, game development needs way longer than back in the day. Graphics, realism, physics need so much more time nowadays, because people want more and more quality. I’d rather have a game that is going to be finished in a few years of development than a half finished product every two years with the same old engine. It’s just sad that after 5 years and a completely new engine with ray tracing capability and much higher simulation standards, the devs rushed it and delivered a bug fest of a game.
I have no problem with releasing a “unfinished” game, if you look at Cities:Skylines at release vs 8 years later, that game changed so much it’s amazing. I’m sure FM will eventually have most of the content that people want, that still wouldn’t excuse the bugs in the current state. 
More iterations would just mean more times that people cycled through the complaints.
No, More iterations means we wouldnt have had the “reboot” which to Forza, means stripping all the features that have been built up in the series all the way back to bare bones.
And we would have naturally arrived at the current driving model likely much sooner.
For all the issues I had and still have with Horizon 5. At least it was just stagnation for the most part. Not a total regression from every angle besides the core fundamentals. Which are expected to advance every entry anyway.
All of this development on the new physics and tire model could have been done while putting out new games.
It took them 6 years to release this hot mess so I’m afraid to think what less time would’ve produced.
Also, the poll is kinda predicated on a “what if” so it’s sort of hard to answer, but I chose 8. 
What is the point of this thread? What do you hope to achieve exactly?
What is the point of any thread in this forum? It’s not like the devs come here for tips or suggestions on how to develop their games.
Just curious what everyone thinks. You’re free to check out the other hundreds of more informative threads…
There’s a bit of a difference between discussing bugs, issues, improvements most of which can be actioned vs suggesting a small indie company change their release cycle especially since it took them 6 years to produce this unstable mess.
Fair enough. I don’t deny you have a point, but it was just a “what if” they had gone the usual route, since this new approach didn’t quite have the desired outcome we all wanted.
But wont. They say themselves to put stuff in the suggestions hub.
The devs have never come onto these forums.
He’s right, its all just us talking amongst ourselves.
This is literally in the “discussion” portion of the forum. This isn’t the place for bugs, issues, improvements (suggestions) etc. Those all have thier respective areas in the forum.;
That’s not the point. I’m sure everyone would favour a 2 year release cycle over a 6-7 year release cycle, assuming the game iteratively improves each time. But ultimately this is out of our hands and it’s clear they are now struggling to deliver within a 6-7 year timeframe. So if anything the poll should be, would you prefer a 6 or 12 year release cycle because this is more realistic.
It’s a hypothetical. Before the live service era of updates, Forza successors weren’t much more than the same game but with some updates. I’d opt for live service over that. I feel like Day 1 FH5 compared to now is more different of a game than Forza 5 was compared to 6. From what I recall they just added more cars, tracks and weather on some tracks.
No, it doesn’t. See FM5. Among the complaints of which was that it was stripped down compared to previous versions. Not shaving a number off the end doesn’t prevent that from happening. Then revisit the cycle of complaints for every iteration of FM5-7 and FH2-5.
The music sucks.
The UI is terrible.
It doesn’t work with unnecessary/arbitrary hardware X.
It’s too dark.
It’s too bright.
There’s no sense of progress.
Progress is too grindy.
Every car I want is missing.
Every car I hate is there.
It has a bug so it’s an early release/beta that clearly was never tested (not a complaint unique to this series).
And on and on and on.
Which was also a reboot.
And yeah. All those complaints are definitely not either strawmen, or completely reasonable.
FM5 is the worst possible example lmao, it was literally the only other time FM has been rebooted. Seems like every console generation T10 gives us less & less.
FM5 still looks better in the main menu space then FM8. And they’re practically the same space.
But yes. More power means less gameplay features now.
You would think with the decade of talking about cloud computing and the past 2 years of generative AI they could have SOME semblance of improved AI.