The Playground Games title will have to give up the keys to the garage at the end of the year, after being put on a drip which began even as you read these lines. Since the release of the Microsoft press release, the DLCs of FH4 have been removed from online stores. To continue playing Forza Horizon 4you will need to invest in a Steam key, in a Standard, Deluxe or Ultimate edition on the Microsoft Store, or in a physical edition of the game. To encourage players to acquire the game, sales are underway on the Steam platform ( 80% reduction on the Standard which goes from €29.99 to €13.99), and a reduction in the sale price will take place on the Microsoft Store from July 14.
The guillotine will fall on December 15, 2024: Forza Horizon 4 will no longer be present on digital stores and Xbox Game Pass. Owners of the game will still be able to download its content and play FH4 “Normally“, that is to say that offline, online and multiplayer modes will always be available. Important clarification: the versions Hard game purchased after December 15 will work smoothly, online or offline. If all this portends a return to the closet of FH4 sooner or later, the Playground Games teams have not announced a permanent closure of the servers. A fate that nevertheless awaits the 12 million players of FH4 eventually.
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Force on the horizon
Strong announcement, strong emotional reaction. It is therefore without great surprise that we noted a large increase in attendance at Forza Horizon 4 on Steam since Microsoft’s announcement. The title went from an average of 5,000 players connected per day (thanks SteamDB), which is more than respectable for an open world racing game from 2018, to a peak of 19,260 players yesterday, the 25th. June 2024. Through a communicating vessel system, Forza Horizon 5 attendance figures on Steam fell to 6,774 on June 25, for a usual average of 12,000 players.
As for the venerable Forza 1, 2 and 3, the best way to play them remains to acquire disc editions of the games, since dematerialized keys can fetch insane sums on the gray market. As for Forza Horizon 6, he remains for the moment in the state of a ghostly presence. Even if we suspect that the reduction in service at FH4 certainly has something to do with this sixth episode of Arles.
