Maybe, but I still confused myself on the year.
To be honest, I don't think anyone is conveniently ignoring the faults, but more so this is a part of the forum that is for GTS. It doesn't make much sense to bring in every other game when talking about GTS in a GTS specific thread. Although, that's not to say that it doesn't happen from time to time.
Cool...except I didn't give any opinions about any game so I'm not sure why you quoted me. I disagreed with the idea that the size or structure of the team had anything to do with ongoing support for previous games. It's easy to see that games with smaller teams and budgets are able to do so.
Black Friday weekend mate. I'd say a lot of people, including me, knew about the game and didn't think it was worth it. Then when it is cheap then it has makes more sense for what it has.
We have nothing definite on Forza, but really, the divide is not even that large to be honest. Even considering past titles, these are way more closer than they've ever been. We don't have any numbers whatsoever with Forza but the initial race leaderboards is sitting around 5-600k individual people, even knowing that some people could have duplicates. If we imagine that 100% of the people that have set leaderboard times are using two accounts(which obviously isn't the case), that still has it sitting at a pretty good number of players.
I'm not saying that this is the number of sales, but how is 500-600k a month in bad if the series usually caps out at 2 million, years down the line as of late? True sales numbers are obviously going to be lower than that, but still, it's really not that far off, if any. The issue with the leaderboards right now is that there's upwards of about a thousand of them now, considering there's 120~ layouts, multiply that by the vast amounts of homologated classes now, and you'll see the issue. Forza 4 didn't even have half the amount of leaderboards available, and I much prefer the class system for leaderboard hunting compared to the homologation efforts.Forza is not doing good. 500.000 - 600.000 is nothing on Forza. This Game has not even real Rival Leaderboards and the participation in These very few leaderboards is massivly declining compared to the Peak numbers on Forza 4...
I must say: a LOT People playing FIA races (in Europe alone) than the only competitiv modes on Forza. And this Comes from a FANBOY (got every Forza Game ever, played it seriously in Forza RC Events etc.)
The customer interest for Arcade/Sims is sinking for years now. GTSport is no exception...
What do you mean is there a start race? I'm not exactly sure I'm following. Do you mean like a free race mode?
I keep forgetting that these games are on PC now. As for quality and content, it's definitely there, but the game still gets plagued by minor inconsistencies, some that make you sit there and think "What?"But still, you expect rising sales from Forza becaus FM6 + 5 were on lower Installation base. Quality and Content should be a lot better, too, atracting more new Players. But this is not the case
They're not directly comparable though. Rivals is so watered down now because of homologation, and not only that, it's very much a side-aspect of the game where as Sport mode is one of the main advertised draw of GTS. It wont show even similar numbers. What would be comparable is if you had way some to look at people in multiplayer lobbies rather than activity on some random Rivals.At least not in the only competitiv modes (Rivals), where participation is very low compared to FIA races on GT Sports. Even thou we cant see complete data ( 3 regions, Just 5 time Slots etc), even then ist opvious that GT Sport is more "active" in Terms of playerbase
Forza also got Forzathon updates for free vehicles, DLC, patches and fixes, a full 4k update for consoles, and the like. They're developing for multi-platform now, and I wonder if that prolongs things. Their priorities just land in different places, and with GTS seemingly having such a high focus on online components(even with the career patch coming), it makes sense.Forza got like 2 Patches for PC Players and some Hopper updates... Compare that with GTS Progress in Shorter time!
I definitely agree. Why anyone would try to attack a company for selling a good amount of copies is beyond me. If they sell more, we get more in return, hopefully.In the end, every raacingfan should cheer for better sales for all racing games. Thats the only way we will receive new and better Games in the future
I'd say GT Sport is around 3m-3.5m right now.
Why not? It doesn't cost you any time and it prepares you in case you come back to the game at some point in the future.
Yeah, seems to be a trend with most racing games to be honest. Although, with Forza 5 came the introduction of digital sales, so I wonder what the difference would be if we had stats on those. Where were those numbers pulled, by the way?
