Forza Horizon 6 creator Playground Games is looking to change the way it speaks to fans, players and its community. It is also “looking into” how it handles future post-launch updates following recent criticism.
It follows a change in strategy for the sixth game in the series, stripping away livestreams, video explainers and developer personalities. Instead, it solely relies on long-winded website posts to announce new content and features.
Throughout the majority of its predecessor’s live-service run, the official Forza YouTube channel would publish monthly streams as part of a Let’s ¡GO! series. There, a host would interview developers, showcase new content and highlight new features and player-created EventLab tracks. These ceased for Horizon 6.
It made the new content sound interesting, but also showcased the personalities behind the game, making it seem much more engaging and community-driven.
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Growing discontent
In recent weeks and months, however, without public explanations behind certain decisions, Forza content creators and fans have taken to the internet to express dissatisfaction with post-release support.
The vehicles in question weren’t the issue so much, but they were being hyped up despite several returning models. At times, I thought some of the messaging within the aforementioned blog posts bordered on misleading.
It is also obvious that the majority of content so far, outside of the paid Car Pass DLC, is repurposed models from Horizon 5 and Forza Motorsport.
Mercifully, Playground has listened to these critiques, and it seems like change is on the way.
“We’re reading all your comments about Forza Horizon 6, and we realise that we haven’t been talking with you as much as we could be,” reads the statement.
“While we continue to deliver regular content and fixes into the game, we want you to know we hear your feedback about our post-launch updates and we’re looking into future changes to both in-game content and the ways we communicate with you.
Earlier this week, a new Series 6 update was launched, and to its credit, any repeat Festival Playlist cars (or models readily available within the game) were omitted from the Forza website’s promotional article.
Seven free vehicles were added. Of those, one is all-new to the franchise (BMW M4 CS), and a second (the Citroën 2CV) is a newly made model of a returning vehicle (last seen in Forza Motorsport 7).
The rest were either in Forza Horizon 5 or the recent Forza Motorsport.
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