Why is there so much Toyota advertisements in the Long Beach tracks of Forza Motorsport 7 but yet no Toyota production cars? You would think Microsoft or Turn 10 would pull all Toyota advertisements from the game right? Why give free advertising to Toyota when they are not helping the game?
Probably track licensing thing.
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No big loss,maybe they only wanted their cars to sound like Hoovers.
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Maybe they decided that vindictiveness isn’t a business virtue.
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Forza 7 is built around this homologation car upgrading system and Toyota doesn’t like their cars being modified so it is pretty easy to tell why there are no road cars. Every time you buy or win a car it is pretuned and you need to manually choose stock parts if you wish to do so. Toyota doesn’t like that.
So Toyota are like most of the fans?
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Or it might have nothing to do with homolagation. Even with out it, the cars would have been modifiable under the system T10 used in Forza versions prior to FM7. For whatever reason, Toyota are pulling all their road cars from racing games, baring those they already had contractual obligations towards.
This ^^^
I can’t see homologation having any impact.
yeah,all this homolagation stuff blows.
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You assume that it is free advertising.
Why would Turn 10 burn their bridges like that?
Also don’t Toyota sponsor the Long Beach Indy Car race?
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Maybe it was another Toyota recall…
It is because Toyota sponsors the IndyCar race at Long Beach. I agree the Toyota adverts should have been removed. If it were, say, Porsche with its private test track in Leipzig and Porsche pulled out of Forza because it didn’t want its cars modified, then for sure Leipzig would have had to be pulled because it’s actually owned by Porsche AG.
I don’t get why Toyota is up in arms over modifications, when Toyota sponsors and provides parts for the Formula Drift car run by Fredric Aasbo (currently the Corolla iM, which is the car i currently drive IRL), and a Rav-4 currently competing in some North American rallies.
Plus, Ferrari was the same way, especially when Liberty Walk made wide-body kits for its cars. Yet Ferrari didn’t go, “We don’t approve of this use of our cars, you can’t have our cars” and pulled out. Not sure what happened with Volkswagen in Horizon 3, though.
Toyota pulled it’s cars, because of poor market sales in Japan. For some odd reason, they believe video games have something to do with it, saying that nobody will be interested in their production cars, when they can drive them for free in a game.
They failed to realise, kids aren’t racing and tuning new Toyota cars, besides the Rebadged Subaru.
Toyota shouldn’t be worried that a bunch of kids want to take their older cars sideways in a video game, and should maybe focus on building new production cars that don’t make soccer moms bored.
Also, the fact that they also removed Lexus says something too… The only car worth a damn is the LFA.
The LC500 is quite good, and I’m sure the LC-F will be, too.
This is purely a decision on Toyota’s end. Like Markley said above me, Toyota has bad sales issue and pulled all their production cars from video games. The only Toyota in another racing game, Asphalt 8, is the Supra and has been made unavailable for purchase as well.
This is the same issue as Volkswagen is FH3. In case you don’t know, VW had a huge poisonous emittions scandal last year, that’s why T10 never got a chance to include them. They simply didn’t get the license.
Er no, GT Sport has Toyotas in…
GT Sport has been in development for 4 years so it might have got the license before Toyota changed their minds.
Licensing doesn’t work like that — plus, PCars 2 has Toyotas.
How does it work then? From what I know a developer gets in contact with the manufacturer and asks for permission to use a vehicle, if approved the developer will then usually have to pay for that license. That license can apply to that one game or multiple games depending on what was agreed on.