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[โ€“] SenorBolsa@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

You really think M$ is better about this? You still can't play any Forza Motorsport games on back compat, there may be some technical reason for this, but I doubt it. They delist games before the next one in the series comes out too, which is the wildest shit. you can't buy FM7 anymore and haven't been able to for a while. The new one isn't even out yet.

This practice boggles the mind because I can go on Steam and most publishers are still selling their decade + old games.

[โ€“] ampersandrew@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

That one's on car manufacturers. Anyone that licenses real cars deals with the same nonsense. Those games in particular are not built to be sold forever, perhaps because car manufacturers only want you to think about the new models. It's also probably a factor in why the upcoming Forza is built as a "live service" that will keep getting updated, though I suspect that means old cars get removed in favor of their new models somehow.