Microsoft released Forza Motorsport in Early Access a couple of days ago. And, although the game will be officially fully released on October 10th, it has been fully cracked, allowing pirates to play it before those who have purchased it.
Now before continuing, I have to rant about one of the worst things I’ve seen most recent games do, and that’s this “Early Access” bullsh!t. Basically, publishers now force you to pay extra for the Premium/Ultimate Editions of their games to play them a few days earlier. We’ve seen this with Lies of P, Starfield, Mortal Kombat 1 and The Crew Motorfest. And, from the looks of it, most upcoming games will use this anti-consumer approach in order to exploit gamers. Oh, and ironically, of all publishers, Ubisoft did not resort to something like that for Assassin’s Creed Mirage.
So, with this rant out of the way, let’s discuss what has happened with Forza Motorsport.
Microsoft released Forza Motorsport in Early Access on October 4th. Then, on October 5th, Razor1911 cracked the Microsoft Store version, allowing pirates to play the game in free mode. The Career Mode, however, wasn’t available as it required players to be online.
Things took a wild turn earlier today though when “0xdeadc0de” released an online crack/fix for the Steam version. This crack allowed pirates to play on legitimate servers. And yes, the Career Mode is now fully cracked.
Basically, Microsoft has given the finger to those who got the game’s Standard Edition. The fact that pirates can now fully play and enjoy Forza Motorsport before those who have purchased it is laughable. And this, right here, shows how anti-consumer this “Early Access” crap is.
And then publishers wonder why some PC gamers pirate their games. Oh, why indeed?
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John is the founder and Editor in Chief at DSOGaming. He is a PC gaming fan and highly supports the modding and indie communities. Before creating DSOGaming, John worked on numerous gaming websites. While he is a die-hard PC gamer, his gaming roots can be found on consoles. John loved – and still does – the 16-bit consoles, and considers SNES to be one of the best consoles. Still, the PC platform won him over consoles. That was mainly due to 3DFX and its iconic dedicated 3D accelerator graphics card, Voodoo 2. John has also written a higher degree thesis on the “The Evolution of PC graphics cards.”
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