Calling it "nasty" is not stupid, it's an opinion. I have had a low opinion of Playground for a while despite acknowledging their game is fun to play.
It being an opinion doesn't really change anything though. People can have opinions based off facts, and things that are actually happening while others can have opinions based of things that are far from the truth. They can be wrong, right, stupid, smart, and anything in between.
Repeatedly trying to mock me for calling it "nasty" just because I criticize your pretty precious perfect game is what is stupid here. This is an FH4 discussion thread not a circlejerk thread.
It's not because you're criticizing our "precious perfect game" (can't believe you're actually grasping for that
), it's because it sounds more ridiculous the more you go on.
Yes it's a discussion thread, so get used to people having differing opinions, and people disputing yours. That's how a discussion works, so it's stupid that you'd pretend otherwise. If you didn't want to have a discussion about your
public opinion, than don't post it. Or maybe write it in a journal or something.
Games have had unlockables for a long time, yes, but timed events are a recent development. There's a clear difference in how the Top Gear and the Playlist unlockables were handled. One is an old-school method, the other is a shameless attempt at squeezing more "engagement" from players in a game that's almost a year old now and got backlash for doing away with features (which they had to bring back upon realizing how stupid it was to remove them in the first place). I remember how FM7 got criticized, and rightly so, for forcing people to play on Leagues to earn certain rewards, and the same should apply to Forza Horizon.
What about the way Forza used it do it with their Unicorn cars, where you had to actually join the forums and participate in a
Timed, limited event like photomode contests or livery contest in order to attempt to win one of the many cars locked with absolutely no other ways to obtain them outside of those contests and only had one winner per event? That was as far back as FM4, probably even 3 if I remember correctly? This way now at least leaves everyone with a chance. Your real life priorities are your own problem, you still have the same chance everyone else has, and if you can't because of real life time restrictions then I can't really say you should entirely be blaming the game at that point.
News flash, devs and publishers want people to play their game! Read all about it!
FM7 wasn't any different in regard to how it handled free DLC vehicles either. Some got added directly to you, some required you going through hoops to get. Fm7 also had it's very own Forzathon with locked vehicles, did you forget about that?
In fact the only reason Forzathon even exists is to punish late adopters. Is it ok for a company to do it? Well, it's business. The game needs to sell the week it comes out. But FH3 reached end of support and Playground wasn't even nice enough to unlock all the cars, they gifted a few HE cars to players and that was it. On the other hand, T10 put even the FE cars in the Autoshow, and that was before the last update. See the difference?
Is to punish late adopters? That's the only reason?
and you wonder why someone called your opinion a stupid one. No, it's not ok for a company to force a policy that is set up to punish late adopters, but that's literally not what happened no matter how hard you're trying to pretend. That's a delusional thought if you're really believing that. Your opinion to support that is "because it needs to sell the week it comes out"? That doesn't really make much sense.
Asking people to play their game in return for putting in free vehicles doesn't sound remotely unreasonable to me. I'd much rather have that approach than not being able to afford it even if they do put it in the game. Spending millions on a car sounds much more intrusive than actually playing the game (that I'm likely already going to be playing in the first place) and acquiring said car for free. I'm one of the guys that usually doesn't have too much money stored up.