Would like some advice and comfort please thank you. So I have been playing Forza horizon since the first one on xbox 360, love cars and enjoy playing Forza Motorsport and Horizon on a pad etc, racing, doing tunes etc.
I am just struggling with something, so my issue is I do not own xbox live gold and when I play Horizon 5 each week I’m missing out on so much because I can’t get the required points and even the daily tasks require xbox live gold too. I do as much as I can from racing taking photos or daily tasks and I only get around 40-42 points and can’t even get the new car. Also missed out on Lamborghini svj plus a lot of others. I have tweeted play ground games about it and also other issues too regarding things not working properly in game etc, no one ever replies and makes me more angry and p off, I’m still debating wether or not to buy FH6 I’ll probably won’t be. I also don’t have a reason to buy xbox live gold or PS plus due to just enjoying single player games. I just can’t get over it but I still like Horizon 5 and it’s a good looking game, some nice cars, lots to do, sound is improved etc. i also am hoping that later on the cars I have missed out on will show up in forzathon shop of for races etc like they did in Horizon 4. Thanks for reading and hopefully I can get over it.
As an XBL Silver member and a hater of multiplayer modes, I agree with your complaints.
What's especially annoying is that they did something similar once with FH4, and in that case they quickly took it down due to negative feedback from the community.
But this time, not only did they do it again, they made it worse.
Play the Eliminator for the Daily Challenge? Are you kidding me?
Aside from that, there are a few workarounds.
One is to use Microsoft Reward.
Do boring chores like searching using Bing every day and you will get XBL Gold for free.
However, this is an even more boring chore than Playlist, so I wouldn't recommend it.
Another thing you probably know, and probably not available due to PC specs or other reasons, is to use a PC.
A PC does not require XBL Gold and allows you to play multiplayer for free.
If you have a PC that meets the minimum system requirements, this is the best way to go.
I fortunately used the latter method to get SVJ, etc., but that didn't change I hate of force multiplayer mode and I sent them the same feedback you did.
Hopefully they'll eventually fix the playlist to something similar to FH4. We can only hope for that.