Having been featured for their exhibition race on the official Forza Twitch channel upon the game’s release, the competitive format is a glowing example of playing to the game’s strengths. One of these key community efforts is Team Wars.
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Just because the Horizon series is treated as the less serious, arcadey cousin of the mainline entries, does not mean by any stretch that efforts haven’t been made to mould the game into something competitively viable. Their social teams still do a good job at promoting what competition is still present on Motorsport, making a clear highlight of community events happening throughout the weeks and months through their social media, as seen below. Focusing on team events and expanding upon the framework provided by the game, including putting several hours of testing into developing their own BoP (Balance of Performance) system and their own website for tracking cars, teams and stewarding, the team and other organisations like it are ultimately carrying the torch where the game’s developers no longer can. TORA (The Online Racing Association) are an organisation catering not just to Forza, but ACC and iRacing as well, though most know them for being the key organiser for tournaments in both shorter races and endurance racing, having held their Spa 24h Endurance race very recently. Events and esports at some level are a marketing exercise for their host game.Īs a result, the community and grassroots are carrying the momentum of the franchise for those who were lucky enough to get the game (or get a game key), and many competitive series have risen to prominence, a key player being TORA. Turn 10 Studios are busy at work on the new entry to release next Spring, and with the game declared as End of Life it would make zero sense for the publishers to officially sanction an event for a game that they’ve declared dead and nobody can buy. With that all being said, let’s take a look at both sides of the coin and see what is keeping Forza Esports alive and how we could potentially see a revival.įorza Motorsport as a franchise is in a very interesting position.
While Gran Turismo Sport, the franchise’s main competitor at the time, were partnering up with the FIA and bringing themselves all the way to being featured at The Olympics, the Forza Racing Championship (ForzaRC) was the franchise’s flagship and through various bad calls and issues, ultimately died with a whimper on Mixer back in 2019. This has coincided with a fizzling out of the esports scene for Motorsport – at least officially. With Forza Motorsport 7 being removed from the Microsoft store earlier this year, fans of the franchise are either stuck waiting for the new Forza Motorsport until Spring 2023, or have had to make do with the far more forgiving, arcadey experience of Forza Horizon 5.
While plenty of love (and criticism) has been showered over Polyphony Digital’s technical masterpiece that is Gran Turismo 7, their main rival has seen somewhat of a drought in the competitive simcade department.
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