Well, I'd rather have Hot Wheels cars in FH5 than in the new FM, don't you agree?
True, but I don't think that their inclusion in the FH series necessarily means they won't ever turn up in the FM series, but we can hope.
There would be a much better way for them to leverage a Hot Wheels partnership in the FM series that seems super obvious to me:
Make a Hot Wheels car pack that includes relevant cars that HW has castings of (for example Acura NSX GT3, Corvette C8.R, Shadow MkII, Dekon Monza, etc). If you download the pack so you can paint the cars you can enter into a livery competition. For each car, 1 fantasy livery will be selected and 1 realistic livery will be selected. The fantasy livery will become part of a general series, and the realistic one will become part of a special Forza premium series (all metal, RR tires, etc).
The crossover makes sense to me. I can't imagine any painter in Forza that wouldn't think it was pretty awesome to have their livery turned into a real toy, for HW collectors it could be an excuse to buy the game for their kids or for themselves to try on their kids console (I know many Forza players who started playing because they bought the game for their kids, then tried it out and liked it) and possibly enter the livery contest themselves, and I'm quite sure there are a lot of both Forza players and regular HW collectors that would buy the resulting series off the shelf.
While it wouldn't please the guys who like the wacky fantasy cars I guess, it would make Hot Wheels fans happy
and the more serious racing game guys happy because they get some more relevant, requested cars added to the game.
While Minecraft wouldn't have been my preference, it at least would've been something unique to add and would've given the game some sort of standout feature.
I'm not sure Minecraft would have been unique though going on their previous run. It could be done unique yes, but I'm not sure what it would bring other than silly graphics... Although they have shown that was all they really needed for them to include something with the Lego expansion.
The Lego one was a huge missed opportunity in my opinion, the only way I saw it being interesting was if you could actually build something, or at the very least swap out some parts on some of the cars. I imagined being able to swap out tires for big off road tires and some big exhaust pipes and things like that at the very least. It would have been a cute touch to build a festival site where you have to choose what part you build first, like building the garage first to upgrade your car, building a dealership to buy more, building the concert stage to draw more people and get a "rep" or "fans" (or whatever they were calling the XP then) boost, and so on. Shame it basically turned out to be a re-skin.
No offense to anyone here if you are on-board with this being just a rumor, but the amount of people I see believing this to be true because it was advertised on Steam for a few hours is mind boggling to me.
To that point, the people that came back at me to tell me the Steam was an official source...no, it isn't, the only official source at this point is PG/T10.
Why is that so hard to understand for some people? Are people really that gullible at this point that they believe everything they see on the Internet?
I think everyone here knows it isn't confirmed yet, but as others have pointed out this is almost equal to a MS Store leak and way different than one of those "some random online store in Russia put up some picture of a car so that means it's in the next DLC" kind of situation we have seen in the past.
This is what you get though when you are slow to deliver something and are vague with your playerbase. People are getting pretty impatient for news and we haven't really got anything from them in terms of hints or teasers or etc, so it's to be expected when something does come out that people will jump on it. Not that I'm saying I think they should have rushed the release of it or been giving us all kinds of teasers and stuff either, just that it seems like a fairly natural result of built up anticipation.
If it does end up being fake, I think it also speaks a bit to how low the expectations are that so many would find a rehash of an old DLC pretty believable.
