It's funny that Forza 7 got such a bad reputation for 'loot boxes' when it's actually the first Forza MS game for a long time that doesn't have any microtransactions. The prize crates in the game were 100% bought with in game currency and 100% optional. It got this weird reputation that you needed to spend all of your credits on random drop loot crates instead of buying cars and it's just bonkers.
Still, good to have it in writing that they're not using tokens moving forward with Horizon 4 either. Good!
Doesn't change the fact that they were supposed to have tokens in the game a couple months after release. The only reason why they didn't come is because they messed up Forza 7 at launch so bad, ruining even things like VIP by turning the 2x credits into limited mod cards and alienating their most loyal fans like you couldn't believe. And shipped with half the new features being "coming soon". No Forzathon, no auction house, no leagues. They came eventually three months later, but the auction house is still a huge mess (you can't sell cars that were gifted to you) and Forzathon took until May until it was actually working without issues (like progress not tracking). Multiplayer still suffers from the worst ramming in any racing game and it didn't help that modding went to community members instead of a dedicated enforcement team. Truth is, T10 lost a lot of goodwill with FM7 and the only reason why they are doing this is because GT Sport is showing off and likely takes pole position again. It's a shame, really, because T10 used to be the innovator, the pinnacle of racing games. But they completely lost it with FM7.
But they are turning it around, I hope they have a year longer for FM8, because they clearly need it. They need a new and improved decal editor, they need a new lighting engine, they need to model coxkpits in full 3D and not just the front 120 degrees, they need to get rid of tire stack pollution, they need a working multiplayer rule system, they need to bring old favorite tracks back, they need to bring more Motorsport feeling into Forza Motorsport. The series is stagnating, but the updates look promising. Still don't understand why they teased new track limits months ago when it's still nowhere near in the game, though.
I hope they can turn it around, the Forza games are why I am in the ecosystem. And for the love of everything: Change rewards payouts for the old games to the same 500k max as for the new ones.
