Pre-ordering

Forza Motorsport Legacy Motorsport FM6 Discussion
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1: when will it be available for pre-order?
2: will there be a pre-order prize?
3: will you be able to transfer data from FM5?
4: i’ll be sure to pre order regardless.

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It’s available for pre-order on Amazon UK now, not sure about other countries though…

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Hello, poketube6681. While each of your questions really are a bit early to give any certain answer to, we can go by Forza’s history to make a fairly safe prediction of the answers.

  1. Pre-ordering will surely become widely available when the game is given a full-fledged presentation at E3 in June, at which point a release date is very likely to be announced. At this moment, the team probably has a moving target as a release date; but, in four months time, that should be firmed up to an exact date. In the interim, a few retailers like Amazon are already accepting pre-orders for the standard version of the game.

  2. I wouldn’t anticipate a pre-order prize, per se. Of course, if you sign-up to receive any sort of special edition that might be made available, there will be special bits of content associated with that; but, you’re getting what you pay for which hardly constitutes being labeled a “prize”.

  3. The only time data has ever been transferable was back on the Xbox 360 and that was relegated to paint shop designs … nothing more. I feel it is fair to expect that nothing in regards to credits or cars will transfer. At most, the livery and vinyl group transfer may return.

Now, this is all speculation which, again, is merely based on Forza’s past. Shy of Turn 10 responding to you directly, all of this is up for guessing. It is also fair to remember, Forza Motorsport 6 is not anticipated to release until the Fall, giving you and everyone else plenty of time to sort out the details when official information is released. That said, I suggest you keep checking the official news feed for the absolute latest.

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shadow there will probably be retailer specific content. game stop will get a car, probably walmart, and a few others. fm3 let you import some cars from fm3 and i dont own it so i’m not sure but i think you could import some fm4 cars into horizon 1. heck i even got a car for buying a live gold 1 year card in fm5. not that it mattered since cars were so easy to acquire anyway. i dont plan on preordering anything from now on. i’ll watch twitch then decide.

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Yes. There may be some vehicles associated with pre-ordering at specific retailers - though, I don’t consider those “prizes” so much as I consider them incentives and part of your purchase for choosing a specific retailer.

In regards to previous versions of Forza, vehicles were never imported over. There has been several occasions where vehicles would be added to your garage based on your progress in the previous Forza titles, but there was never a direct transfer of vehicle assets. They were merely gift vehicles rewarding you for your loyal gameplay in the past.

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I would be very surprised if we didn’t receive some gift cars from Forza Rewards. You may not consider that a “prize car” but it will be free.

I would also expect to see a demo closer to release. I’ll be preordering my version from that.

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I agree. But receiving gift vehicles via Forza Rewards has nothing to do with pre-ordering the game, which is what the original poster is inquiring.

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This is correct, you were rewarded vehicles based on your progress. In Horizon 2 (I believe) depending on your Forza Rewards level, denoted how many cars/credits you were gifted at the beginning of the game. It’s loyalty based. Not import certain things based.

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Amazon has now released the game for pre-order. Forza 6 on Amazon

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I pre orderd my copy at eb games.

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I personally think people are bonkers giving people money for a pre-order, and the only thing you know about the game is it has a blue Ford GT in it.

And it’s for xbox one.

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And, yet, it’s their money … not yours.

In addition to that, some places like Amazon don’t actually charge you until the game is shipped. For those other retailers that take down payment, they offer refunds for cancelled orders.

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I’m not disputing who’s money it is, but to organise a pre order, whether cash is involved or not, for a product nobody knows anything about - tracks, cars, features, release dates, age restrictions, peripheral comparability - is in my opinion, bonkers.

And I stick by that. Especially after the huge levels of disappointment from the community, from the last release. And now there’s not much of community left as a result of that. Most of who pre-ordered to get the LE and VIP, only to find there was no real benefit to either (unless you count a few poorly tuned cars, and the odd paint, of which I know painter who do produce better stuff)

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I’m guessing when people have already decided to pre-order a videogame, they aren’t doing so based on some purported “huge levels of disappointment” from within a segmented community; I certainly don’t place my purchasing power on the backs of the opinionators of this forum.

In the end, the pre-order concept is just a way for people to show their excitement and to “get their place in line” for a product’s release. I completely understand your opinion is that the idea is bonkers, but when you come into a community forum to shake your head at how the system works, you are effectively suggesting that anyone who takes part is equally bonkers. Again, you’re free to have your opinion, but don’t expect to be able to stake your claim and back out of the URL like nothing happened.

No matter how you want to word your interpretation of early pre-ordering, I support people’s decision to plan to spend their money how they wish and as early as the market will allow–it’s the idea behind free will consumerism that helps keep commerce going. Certainly, as someone who seems disappointed in the options and features–or lack thereof–in Forza Motorsport 5, you can appreciate there being at least one more option made available in the real world, whether you buy in or not.

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Well, you can count me as one of those who was disappointed with quite a number of aspects of FM5

BUT ---- bonkers or not, you can also count me as one who WILL be pre-ordering FM6

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Hear, hear.

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I actually loved the LE paints. But I can be a bit odd sometimes, lol. I do agree that pre-ordering is premature, but to each his own. I’ll likely pre-order once full details come out. I’ve learned a lot through the release of Forza 5 and Horizon 2. With all these various editions, special editions, packs, incentive cars/offers, etc., pre-release purchasing has become somewhat complicated. So I’ll wait until I know more about the game and what all the possible incentives are and I’ll decide.

I was disappointed with Forza 5 for a list of reasons. But I’m expecting that now that they’ve actually had time with the new platform to devote to making the game complete it will be what we expect.

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me too. So far, because the game will have a blue Ford just isn’t enough for me to pre-order.

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I like the colour blue.

Anyway its forza, I am a fan regardless of how good it is or not. I don’t know, I don’t care until I play it. Its forza 6 and its going to be out in the future. I don’t care if its a blank disk.

Wait I will cancel my preorder and demand that they make the game better in every way and until I preorder again.

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This is a perfect case of why you shouldn’t pre-order. You openly say you don’t care whether the game is good or not, yet prepared to support an unknown product.

I know it’s your choice and I don’t dispute that, but this idea of blindly buying into an industry without even any consideration, without the company having to lift a finger to entice you, is how the gaming world has turned into the way it is.

If so many hadn’t pre-ordered FM5 with there being so little information about what features were actually in the game, other than you could drive a McLaren around Prague, it may have forced T10 to up their game. They may have even released a demo for potential suitors to play. They may even have put features in the game people want, and we could have pointed out little things like how they forgot to implement a distance meter even though the option was there for it, and one of the turbos is called “race springs and dampers”.

Then people could have actually made an informed decision on wether to buy an Xbox one to play FM5, and I dare say many wouldn’t have bothered. We all know someone who’s gone back to the 360.

By preordering the game, you gain nothing at the moment. But T10 will possibly presume that what they are doing is already what you want, because your supporting them off the back of FM4, and a blue car.

I’m not trying to be argumentative, so apologise if I come across that way.

For the record, I made the informed decision to pre-order pCARS, but I have seen lots of in-game footage, I’ve read the reviews, I’ve spoken to those who’ve played, and I know that I get a particular car I very much want for doing so.

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