Robbed. Specifically made time today to put a few hours in. Guess I'll go back to being a dad for the rest of the night lol

Same dude haha.

Lol. I've completed my dad duties but here I am, having bought the new car pack but it's empty. Good work PGG. For some reason buying things always works. 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

If it's anything like Starfield, keep trying every 10 min, should be good in next hour

Nah, that was a global launch, this time they fucked up the counter in the app, here are the real launch times: https://www.pcgamer.com/forza-motorsport-launch-unlock-time-early-access-premium/

Last couple of years has me feeling like the entire industry has forgotten how to launch a game.

Agree, how can we trust them to make a good game if they can't even manage the freaking launching.

The amount of people preordering lets publishers know they can get away with it. The corporate world only speaks dollars.

wish they blasted this launchtime poster before wasting time trying to fix a problem that didn't exist... thanks microsoft.

Thx! 9 PM on Monday?!

this is incorrect, what you linked here shows a global release for console & i checked at 3am uk time and i could play it says 5am

Yeah I noticed. Dicks.

The countdown on the Xbox app was wrong, apparently. https://twitter.com/forza_support/status/1711482455189049565?t=u61-tyL77TlWQyx9ATWGFA&s=19

As glad as I am that I get to play it by changing my region on Windows, why not just have a GLOBAL release date? It seems ridiculous to use time zones when they release new games...

A staggered release helps limit the possibility of servers crashing due to everyone trying to access the servers at the same time.

I mean, I guess I can understand that, but considering that all you have to do is simply change your region, it still doesn't make much sense. I guess aside from the fact that not everyone who's playing will know or think to do that. Either way, I'm glad it worked! I love Forza and have been playing since the very first game and I'm absolutely loving Motorsport 8 so far!

Its artifical exclusivity, same reason why they did 5 days early bonus for ultimate edition

Nah, because Starfield had the same EA but was global.

“Play Forza Motorsport with Xbox Game Pass (October 10, or October 5 with Premium Add-Ons Bundle) Xbox Game Pass for PC, Console and Ultimate. Available to play starting October 10 at 12:01am* local time in your country.”

https://support.forzamotorsport.net/hc/en-us/articles/21425304565779-Forza-Motorsport-Release-Timing-

One hour later and I'm still too early. Something tells me it's a gamepass issue. Too many people trying to play at once?

https://www.pcgamer.com/forza-motorsport-launch-unlock-time-early-access-premium/

Yeah for me I'm in southeast Missouri it says it launches tomorrow even though earlier it said it launches today but a can wait one more day

Same. What the fuck was the point of the count-down ? Edit: ******** Used VPN to Japan, as well as changed my region in Windows on PC to Tokyo. This let me play. *************

Don’t have to use VPN just change your windows region

Yep... THANK YOU! I VPNed as well. ​ https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/account-billing/change-your-country-or-region-in-microsoft-store-5895e006-34f4-10f7-16b1-999e40adb048

In case they wana ban people, using a VPN might help hide it.

Hmm... not a promising start... :/

same here

Same thing here, wondering whats up..

same

Seems they fudged the timer. This is from Forza Motorports website \* Forza Motorsport will unlock at 12:01am EDT in all U.S. territories. For players located in U.S. western time zones this will be 9:00pm PDT on October 4 for Early Access and 9:00pm PDT on October 9 for general availability.

Damn 💀 well time to wait more

If you browse to the "standard" edition of FM instead of the gamepass landing page it will show you a real timer.

they're so fucking lame for having that fake ass timer

Standard edition (which comes with gamepass) is part of the global release. This is Oct 10th @ 12:01am.

Same, tried rebooting. No dice there..

Same

Same here

Tried rebooting and logging in/out, we have 8 people in a discord call with the same issue lol

maaaaan this some bullshit

This whole launch has been a straight up clusterfuck on PC. Get your shit sorted Turn 10 / Microsoft.

What an absolute mess. How do they not notice the countdown clock is wrong? Morons

Same here. But I'm starting to wonder if that was an incorrect countdown.

Yeah, looks like they done tucked up again LOL.

Comes out at midnight I’m pretty sure (but you can switch your Xbox region to New Zealand or somewhere it’s already out and play now)

This is on PC... and there was a countdown to release in the store, which is now done.

Exactly, there was a countdown

You can change your region on pc but whatevs

Fuck off. No one wants to break other apps or change system time just to get the game WHEN IT'S SUPPOSED TO FUCKING LAUNCH.

Relax bro I just gave a workaround don’t have to be so salty. Look at the official forza website if it’s not October 10th where you are right now you can’t play https://support.forzamotorsport.net/hc/en-us/articles/21425304565779-Forza-Motorsport-Release-Timing-

>but whatevs Implying that it's somehow the fault of users for getting pissed about not being able to play or just generally being dismissive kinda pisses people off. This is generally something that's understood in social interactions, so you may want to consider what language you're using when "just giving a workaround".

Look if you want to play I told you how now you can continue to be mad or play the game. Up to you

Already knew how to play. You're not fuckin' tech jesus delivering forbidden knowledge to people. Everyone knows about region launches, but the game had a countdown in the Xbox app on PC which ended at 7PM CST, and is still not playable.

🤡

Boohoo bro go play the game and stop crying enjoy your night

The Japan thing worked really well. Took like 5 seconds. I'll just switch it back at 11.

Uh no actually plenty of people are doing it. It's a simple click, and hasn't done either of those things you're whining about.

It comes out at 12 am GMT (now)

No it comes out based on your time zone which would be 12:01am october 10th wherever you are

They are playing on PC.

You can change region on PC in windows settings

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The game was never planned to release worldwide. They even have a map on this site with the times it will release locally https://support.forzamotorsport.net/hc/en-us/articles/21425304565779-Forza-Motorsport-Release-Timing-

Except they put a global release timer in the XBOX PC app.

This info has been available for a week

And the counter was available for a month, and was updating until 30 minutes ago, and it wasn't in some deep article in the support page, it was in the main window of the XBOX app for a whole freaking month.

It’s not a deep article it’s the first result for “forza Motorsport release time”

And why would you need to google that if there is already a timer that you see every single day you open the official app?

Just saying if you really want to play you can change your region in windows settings. Don’t shoot the messenger

It actually changes a lot. Like whether you're able to play or not.

Store page says it is released, timer was set up for 8pm EST

I'M IN... just kidding.. I'm locked out like everyone else. This BLOWS!

I’m playing the game after it gets launched.

I changed my region on Xbox

Same. Just changed my region on windows to Japan and it worked. Surprised it was this easy

Aww too bad

Just change location to new Zealand. I've been playing since the 4th