Forza Motorsport drifts onto Windows 10

[ChuckyDB]

Where's HALO.
Still waiting for something beyond Halo 2 Vista !

This^
At this point, the only way I'll believe MS' commitment is if they port Halo MCC, 5 and Reach! Until then, they have a lot of work to do!

[go4brendon]

Considering the new Need for Speed is out on the 17th I doubt I would even play this

[kalniel]

Considering the new Need for Speed is out on the 17th I doubt I would even play this

What has Need for Speed got to do with a Forza game?

[crossy]

Forza 5 and 6 were free to play games you paid for and were riddled with DLC.

You've confused me - or are you saying that despite being "paid for" they were only at the standard of a F2P? Agree about the DLC though - although there's always the "special editions" that seem to have a lot of the decent DLC bundled. I usual avoid such price gouging on principle - and the Rockband/Guitar Hero titles were worse.

Just because it's free doesn't excuse no SLI/Crossfire, store download being buggy, Vsync being always on, borderless fullscreen, game files being protected, not being able to launch it via the .exe (there isn't one), no fps/hardware monitor software works with UWP, not being able to use AMD/Nvidia control panel settings or anything that depends on detecting an .exe, needing to take control of the folder as admin if you want access to the files, mouse software which lets you create custom binds for each game not working, and no Steam Controller since you can't use Big Picture Mode or any other software that uses an overlay.

Not getting at you, but have you got any hard info that this is the case, or are you just venting?

What has Need for Speed got to do with a Forza game?

About as much as this year's CoD has to do with Battlefield 5?

Back to the article - I like the idea that Forza is available for Windows, but I'm pretty unhappy about the F2P nature. Sure it means that you can get into the game at zero outlay, but I'm pretty sure that you'll play one or two tracks only before getting the "If you enjoyed this then why not purchase our limited, special offer of the following extra content" message. I'd much prefer a lot less DLC but have to pay up front.

[spacein_vader]

It has been reported elsewhere that the game will not support wheels on release, but that support for 'some models' will be added later. If you're trying to convince a new market you are a serious racing game, launching without wheel support is an odd way of doing it.

[Corky34]

Not getting at you, but have you got any hard info that this is the case, or are you just venting?

Not exactly the most authoritative source i know but there's this reddit thread and that was further backed up by Ryan over at PCPer.

[crossy]

Not exactly the most authoritative source i know but there's this reddit thread and that was further backed up by Ryan over at PCPer.

Thanks for sharing that. It'll be handy to know if there's these kind of (daft) restrictions out there - especially as I just moved to W10.

[abaxas]

Why does the PC 'masterbater' race always want things without any restriction.

Play the games, you bunch of twonks.

[chockimon]

Stripped-down variant? Microsoft as usual are taking PC gaming seriously.

[shaithis]

Why does the PC 'masterbater' race always want things without any restriction.

Play the games, you bunch of twonks.

Because we pay extra for hardware so that we can.......if we wanted the "consolised" version, we would have bought the console to run the "restricted" version.

[Corky34]

Why does the PC 'masterbater' race always want things without any restriction.

Because from year dot that's what has defined what a PC is, a computer system without restriction.

[realstock]

Free to play equal no play in my book. Too many times i have invested time in a game, usually to be ruined by, "to continue faster or play that xxx please pay £xx.... DO ONE!

I'd rather pay a usual PC price (£35), which seems a dying breed these days.

[shaithis]

I wonder if they'll do an EA and make you pay real money for petrol.......

[crossy]

I wonder if they'll do an EA and make you pay real money for petrol.......

You can do that on consoles and get away with it, but I assume PC owners will find ways to get around that. Personally though, I'd just ignore a game that did something that monumentally daft.

Getting to the view that in some cases F2P = free-to-fleece (comment seen on EA's support forum)

[virtuo]

Why does the PC 'masterbater' race always want things without any restriction.

Play the games, you bunch of twonks.

My first thought was it's odd that they can release the "full" version on console but not PC, there's no real technical challenges in the way and they just seem to be doing it to promote Win 10. Like they did with Halo 2 and Vista.

MY next complaint would be that for a fairly serious game, charging for more time, more features, more content etc. seems a bit of an insult. Have you seen the other F2P games on the Windows store? Riddled with video ads, 'credits' and micro transactions.

I enjoy buying a game that I know once I've bought it then the outlay is done and I can enjoy it to its conclusion. They even did it to Minesweeper!

[Mauley]

Rubbish