Open-World Racing Game Sees Surge in Player Numbers After Unfortunate Announcement

Game news This excellent open-world racing game sees its number of players explode following this bad news concerning it

On December 15, Forza Horizon 4 will unfortunately end up in the scrapyard. Microsoft and the Playground Games studio announced it on a official press release : after this date, the racing game will no longer be available for sale on the Microsoft Store, Steam, and will even leave the Xbox Game Pass catalog… In the announcement, the British team mentions the end of “licenses and agreements with its partners”. Owners of a digital version of Forza Horizon 4 – whether on PC or Xbox – will still be able to “download and play normally” the title, whether offline or online and in multiplayer, the press release indicates. Please note that physical copies purchased after December 15 will function completely normally. For their part, the Fortune Island and LEGO Speed ​​Champions DLCs are already no longer available for purchase – on the Microsoft and Valve stores.

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One last trip

Bad news that made fans react… A short day after the publication of the press release from Microsoft and Playground, the number of players on the PC (Steam) version of Forza Horizon 4 suddenly skyrocketed. As we can see on Steam DB, which compiles a whole bunch of stats on the Valve platform, there was a peak of more than 48,000 simultaneous players on the day of June 26. Earlier in the week, we were between 2,000 and 7,000 people at the same time!

Sales that accelerate

A craze that is also noticeable on the sales side… On Steam, Forza Horizon 4 is, at the time of writing, in 8th place in the store's 100 best sellers. It must be said that the racing game is currently the subject of a nice -80% reduction on the Valve platform, whether for its standard edition, Deluxe Ultimate. Please note: this discount ends on June 27, 2024, at 7 p.m. French time. Offers are also planned on the Xbox Store on July 14 – we can read in the press release. In short, it's now or never to recover this title unanimously acclaimed by the press (18/20 on JV, 92/100 Metacritic). A part which also has an original setting: the countryside of Great Britain, the homeland of the Playground developers.