From the top-rated Xbox racing franchise, comes an all-new way to race for PC and mobile devices.
Mobile racing game Forza Street will close on 11th April 2022 on both iOS and Android and will never be playable again.
"But but but Phil, what happened to game preservation?" I thought Azure servers were large enough to hold content?
Here's another game and another reason why digital might be the future, but the end of preserving games.
Classic games changed from their original content when made digital losing items, levels or music. Games becoming unplayable because the game is connected to online servers that are closing. Or, games just removed all together because of licensing or for any reason. Even if you bought the game. Proof? I bought Gemini Rue. Check the Play Store to see if it's there. No licensing issues. It's just gone.
Convenient. But Digital is not all it's cracked up to be. I had to obtain Gemini Rue by other means... just to get it back. Games should not be vanishing.
i am with you. that's why if given the option buy physical and not all physicals are the same either. a game could be on disk on one platform while come with a voucher code on another. Mortal Kombat and metro complete edition come complete on xbox while playsyation even with its 100GB disk requires voucher codes
best thing to do is wait and do research than buy. physical game prices are going up and up and i am not even talking about retro games. ps3 games are crazy high
This is the mobile game, where you don't steer and only tap the screen to brake at the proper time. I don't think this will be missed. You DO have a point on digital games and preservation, but not all games need to be kept around, and this is especially true for mobile games and shovelware. This game was Forza in name only.
Good or bad, no game should disappear no matter the platform. We have the technology for content to live on for as long as servers and the Internet exists. As long as memory devices hold without failure.
We shouldn't pick and choose what's allowed to stay because there could be other parties that think certain good games should be removed. Forever. That goes for movies, music, art, etc.
You could place your family photos online in the cloud to preserve them and a company can say your family photos aren't worth saving. Only celebrities, scientists, politicians, etc. You probably wouldn't like that when you want future generations to know who you were.
You'd think differently if it affects you. I might not like the game. Someone else did. There are mobile games that deserve preservation. I couldn't buy X-Men Days of Future Past on Android. Know what I had to do? Something that I shouldn't have to do.
Legacy games should have their license fees reduced over time until they become pennies to keep. Only newer games should have negotiated license fees that are reasonable until years later when they too, drop in licensing price. Those Marvel games were delisted. When it should have just reduced in licensing fees over time where Capcom wouldn't be paying much at all. Making newer licensed games doesn't mean erasing the old ones from existence.
All very interesting points but none of that is particularly relevant here as Forza Street is a free mobile game.
Mobile games aren't ever physical though (unless you count a 15 year old NGage) plus on android at least you'll be able to download it from somewhere if you really want to.
I get the point being made and don't necessarily disagree but it's not overly relevant here imo
I get what you are saying, but you are saying it to the WRONG game. This is not new news... it was known about for at least two months. https://n4g.com/news/246091... Maybe you missed it?
And what an odd choice to use as some sort of example. A free to play mobile game initially known as Miami Street. Most have a disdain for mobile games, so this one is no different and likely wont be missed. So you can stop the virtue signaling, it makes you look bad.
Every game deserves to stay. You might move on. Doesn't mean there aren't others who play the older games for fun and nostalgia just to compare like an old Mario game. Erasing any games as if they didn't exist is wrong. Free or not.
Eventually, downloading games you purchased with MONEY will disappear. When that happens, would you say that that is okay? Digital ownership shouldn't be any different than physical. There's nothing in a TOS that says my ownership and money will be erased. They get to keep my money. But I don't get to keep the product I bought? What's up with that?
Very passionate about losing a shitty free mobile game that's not even really a forza game.
Who will miss this game or want this game in the first place? Not every game deserves to stay like you said. First of all, if no one is playing it then why should it stay? Why would MS pay out of their pocket to keep the server up? And secondly, this is a trash free to play mobile game. Like I said, who want this to exist in the first place?
So do you propose that mobile games get physical releases?
I'm so confused. Lol.
Go buy Gemini Rue on Steam or Gog. Looks like it's $5-10. Support the devs!
Good riddance. Turn 10 and Playground have worked hard to uphold the Forza name. This title was just shovel ware.
It isnt even a Forza game. The original name is Miami Street. Im betting the dev approached MS for the chance to boost their numbers by changing it to be more Forza related. Good riddance indeed.
If only we could get a Forza Underground, but its the diversity department wont allow it.
Xbox and Turn 10 Studios have announced that Forza Street--the mobile Forza experience that first debuted in May 2018--will be closing for good later this year.
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I just saw gameplay from this thing, i hope this is a hoax.
Cool your shit people it's mobile.
What is this?
What why?