Love to see a road map for Forza Motorsport for the next 12 months
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A comprehensive vision for the game and a road map to get there would be welcome. And i mean specifics, not just well Motorsport is the competitive game vs Horizon. What does that mean?
What are the single player improvements coming like actual motorsport events with spec cars and spec series rivals? When are drag and drift events single player and multiplayer coming? Is there a vision of what multiplayer will be in a years time and how are we getting there? What are major fixes you are working on for stability, bugs, quality of life, and broken tracks corners (like at Mugello and Barcelona), etc.
There is the always the risk of alienating some players with a vision, but a vision and road map can also lie players back to check out the things they are looking for.
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I presume theyâre shutting down official support in April or March 2025. Maybe theyâll keep the servers up to have people able to play the game for another year or two before sweeping the whole thing under the rug and pretending the Motorsport franchise never existed. Until they ârebootâ the IP in 2037 with none of the features.
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As if / Wishful thinking / Keep on dreaming / Donât hold your breath.
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I would say T10s saving grace is the fact 343i has been allowed to fail consistently for 13 years straight and still not get shutdown. But the difference is that people are still playing the bad Halo fanfics. No one is playing the Motorsport âRebootâ
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343I ? Whatâs that ? No idea what you are on about.
Itâs 343 Industries, a studio responsible for the Halo franchise (owned by Microsoft as well).
Ah thanks.
Iâve only played the 1st Halo.
Console + Shooter = bad mix for me.
Perhaps somebody here can find something, but how many first party Microsoft studios have done a year-long roadmap in the recent past?
While itâs easy to request such a thing as a fan, the reality of publishing a roadmap is more complicated. It requires a few different things, such as a near locked down gameplan internally for the next 12-15 months, greenlit funding for the development, and (most importantly) permission from Microsoft to publish such a thing.
Normally, any major announcement that goes beyond the current or next fiscal quarter is scrutinised far more than you think, as announcements further out than the near term may have an effect on a companyâs valuation.
In other words, publishing a roadmap may not entirely be a Turn 10 decision, as much as weâd all like that to be the case. Thereâs a reason they keep things pretty close to their cheat most of the time, and itâs not merely to tease/spite their players.
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Not many companies are going to share their upcoming plans, business plans and models for the the next 12 months. Unless itâs advantageous to them, in which case, take it with a pinch of salt anyway.
Why not release a roadmap for FM2023? Microsoft implicitly stated before, at and after launch that this game will be a platform they will continue to build on. The one and only Forza Motorsport we ever need, No FM9 or 10 is the idea.
So if this is their plan, I think it would be good for the community to release a roadmap to know what we can expect in the future. The Car Pass cars are already all in the game so whatâs next?? Forza Horizon 5 gets soooo much new content and has almost 900 cars. What about Forza Motorsport???
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Ye, I know I that but remember, no promises, built from the ground up etc? Besides from over promising under delivering it shows potential competitors ( if there were any) what they were planning.
All in favour of it, just not something weâve ever seen before or likely ever will for the reasons stated.
Also, by not releasing a roadmap, any plans they do have are free to be flexible as the public doesnât know about them yet.
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Iâd rather them just do stuff not say theyâre going to do stuff. Actions speak louder than words as they say
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I dont care for roadmaps myself. I dont care for dev communication with players about what theyâre doing at all. All I care about as a player are accurate patch notes. Which T10 incidentally fail to do as well.
There is no reason you need to know about what theyâre working on or when they plan (and inevitably fail) to release it. This whole âcommunicationâ thing is a nonissue and has only arose out of recent times due to players getting so invested in BETA testing for studios, and trying to backseat dev. Its mostly* inconsequential if you know what theyâre planning or not, to the end result of the product.
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Considering the state of the game 10+ months post-launch, it appears theyâve been âfree & flexibleâ to do very little.
The aim of feedback is to compel the decision-makers behind this game to make better decisions that result in a better game, at whatever level of the organization those decision-makers happen to be.
That doesnât automatically mean their reasons are good (beneficial for the gameâs quality & success, or beneficial for customers) or that customers should like/praise/support those reasons.
The reality is that theyâve lost a great many fans (& failed to attract lots of new fans) by failing to implement a delivery approach that delivers what fans want.
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Certainly good points and while i think its more unlikely than ever that weâd receive a roadmap, besides the radar and changes to the upgrade mechanic, everything that theyve done so far could have been put into a roadmap.
They knew what cars and especially tracks theyd be releasing. They didnt necessarily need to be specific but could have said weâre adding X amount of cars and X amount of tracks over the next 12 months. They could have let people know if/when drift and drag would be added as well as the spectator mode which was talked about months before release.
I think a major issue this game has faced since pretty early on, barring a few pr type comments, is what kind of future it has. They had to have known the game was light on features when they released, they had to have known people would have questions as to if/when things would be coming back into the series.
There has been little to no assurances about anything and its kind of strange. No mention of the major issues and bugs, or any form of even slightly being apologetic about these things.
Im sure theyre working on things as well and as fast as they can, but they havent done themselves any favors at any point after launch. Any form of a roadmap would only help ease peoples minds and expectations about the future. By not doing so, its almost as if at any given time they could just cut all communication and stop supporting the game.
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Mustnât have remembered it that well either 
, since 343i was named after the annoying AI antagonist in the first game (343 Guilty Spark)