At GDC 2015, Phil Spencer – the head of Microsoft’s Xbox division and Microsoft Studios – claimed that Microsoft is currently not looking into bringing the Forza franchise to the PC as, according to him, there isn’t a ‘tremendous request today for racing games like Forza on PC.’
Naturally, fans decided to launch a petition and show Microsoft that there is actually a demand for such racing games.
Dan Brownlee Edmonton – the one who launched this petition for Forza Horizon 2 PC – claimed that he will attempt to meet up with Phil Spencer once this petition hits 1000 signatures.
Whether this petition will be as successful as the one for Dark Souls remains to be seen.
To be honest, though, we don’t really expect Microsoft to commit, focus and fully support PC gaming, despite its claims all these past years. It’s pretty obvious that MS is not willing to put its big guns to the PC, and we all know why (hint: it would kill Xbox One’s sales, plain and simple).
Kudos to our reader ‘FasterThanFTL’ for informing us!
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Because petitions totally work guys!
They usually don’t, but Dark Souls came to PC because of a petition.
Yes as an terrible PC port…
Thankfully modders saved Namco-Bandai’s Terrible PC Release….
That’s the thing, PC MASTER RACE DGAF about terrible ports, because we can actually make them work!
Don’t be lazy my fellow PC Gamers, just sign it, it literally takes 10 seconds and you never know where this petition will lead, remember the Dark Souls petition not too long ago, now we have that great game series on PC and that petition was a huge reason for the developers to bring it to PC. And the success of Dark Souls resulted in other Japanese developers/publishers to bring their games to PC. So before anyone says petitions don’t work, they actually do work in some way or the other.
Dark Souls was going to be on PC anyway. Devs were already showing interest and petitions just created the hype.
> crap games
it is a good game
They can keep their crappy game. It allows other creators to make games like Assetto Corsa and Project Cars.
To withhold something to promote their crap should hinder them, not us. Specially when it comes to PC.
You are talking about racing simulators. And thats what PC has only at the moment. A game like Forza Horizon 2 is a MUST! Not every gamer enjoys racing simulators. I am not a racing fan but FH2 made me play 90 hours! The game is amazing.
Exactely, was about to write the same words !
I hate Simulators, I want a lot of normal/super cars (not only super mega V12 4.8Liter 1200k $, engine cars), free driving, not that realistic races and voila !
I hope the above answer helps you also. But if you want freedom in racing, go with Sleeping Dogs, GTA4 (with mods looks better than Watch_Dogs) and many more sandbox games. Again, possibilities are great. We don’t need to grovel and beg. We should make it their loss for not delivering, not the other way around.
Dude no offense but there must be something wrong with the way you think. We are talking about a racing game which obviously you haven’t even played and you are suggesting to play Sleeping Dogs? GTA? Play Carmageddon? Or even MAKE MY OWN GAME? Hmmm…. Ok I can play Lotus III on my Amiga as well! There is no need to upgrade my PC anymore I don’t need new games because I can find so many similar older games. Sorry but I want a professional developed game like FH2 which looks and plays amazing even at 30fps!!!! So imagine a PC port at 60fps with even higher settings. It would automatically uninstall all the games you mentioned from my PC. Why some PC gamers are so narrow minded I don’t understand. Its your loss in the end man. I have already had my fun with this amazing game while you think that all those mentioned games will give you a similar or even better experience which obviously will not.. not even close..
For Jebus sake. Play Burnout, play Grid, play Need for Speed, play Dyad, play Dirt, play Carmageddon, play Shift,….. for Jebus…. play roundabout or even Sonic. Go to the mod community and see what they’re working on and pick one of those.
You have so many alternatives, it is daunting. In most cases, it can be better or even made better.
And, if at the end of all of this you’re still not entirely satisfied; download Unreal Engine, gather a few friends or enthusiasts and make your own game.
It’s PC baby, the possibilities are limited more by your imagination than technical skills. More so today than ever before.
GRID is bad because there is no open world. Need for Speed 2015 is always-online. Dyad is a puzzle racing game which is stupid, Carmageddon does not have real cars, Shift is glitchy and belongs to NFS. Modding may possibly corrupt the game.
Stupid Roundabout and Sonic. Nobody plays Sonic anymore. Roundabout has poor reviews.
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we really don’t have good racing games
You must be joking. Rfactor 1/2, iRacing, Assetto Corsa, PCars, SimBin games (i.e. GTR2), etc. The best racing games on the market. Many of them have mods (i.e. Power and Glory for GTR 2), and large supporting communities.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4vQfRrfcS08
None of them have the graphical fidelity of Horizon 2 nor the game replayability. I get bored with the racing games on PC, fast too. Horizon and NFSU 1&2 are the only racing games that kept me remotely interested.
Track racing, non-open world, low customisation games are boring, plain and simple.
Project CARS and Assetto Corsa are very bad. Assetto Corsa has poor graphics. Project CARS has lots of glitches and bugs, like the oversteering. No car in real life oversteers. For a game like Assetto Corsa to have high system requirements and poor graphics is unacceptable. Project CARS has poor ratings. It doesn’t have Lamborghinis, Ferraris or Maseratis. It only has one Japanese car. No Nissans, Hondas, Toyotas, Subarus or Lexuses. There are no sponsorships to take. No performance customization or body kits to upgrade. No true hypercars like Bugatti or Koenigsegg. The controls don’t work properly. Some reviewers even warned us to stay away from this game until the glitches and bugs had been fixed and the missing cars like Lamborghini, Ferrari, Maserati, Nissan, Honda, Toyota, Subaru, Lexus, Bugatti and Koenigsegg come to the list.
Assetto Corsa doesn’t even have rain effects or water effects. There is no racing in the night. The graphics are poor and not even realistic.
No simulator games on the PC come as close to Forza. Test Drive Unlimited 2 could not always be accessed offline. It had glitches and bugs. It had DLC issues.
Gears of War is stupid to me. Either play Battlefield, Call of Duty or Halo.
Need for Speed, its alternative is worse. Recently EA declared that Need for Speed 2015 will remain always-online because of piracy, Autolog, its new snaphot rewarding system and its in-game streaming at all times. I will not buy this game until it gets cracked on the PC or gets an offline patch on all platforms.
Racing games belong on the PC, not the console. Xbox OS will be replaced by Windows 10. The Xbox One will have Windows 10 as its operating system. That console will become a mid-range gaming PC. Xbox One Games will then become obsolete. Those games will then be ported to the PC with all the downloadable content.
What about driving in a big open city, speeding with hypercars, showing off in supercars, drag racing with muscles, drifting in tuner cars or just simply exploring the city? No simulator games possess that. Not even TDU or TDU2.
Only 1000? HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
Pathetic number that will change nothing.
Nothing lasts forever. Remember that.
1000 is too little, in order to have an impact we need at least 50.000
me like some forza but they wont release it on PC unless they release forza horizon 4 on xbox then they will port fh2 on pc.
Forza Horizon 2 is really good.
That I can agree with
the first one was good too, it had 4x msaa + 4x fxaa at the same time in some scenes which was pretty amazing for an old gen game
I want this game and I signed the petition. It is a good game, we only had a thing like this named The Crew which was not good.
What??? Really now dude? Forza Horizon 2 is an amazing racing game and PC doesn’t have a racing game like FH2 at the moment. Have you even played the game? Cause I have about 90 hours on the game (and I am not even a hardcore racing fan either) and I if I didn’t have an X1 I would reaaaally want this game on PC.
Yes the PC does, and it started with the Test Drive Unlimited series. Which in my book, is better than the Horizon games.
:S We are not taking history lessons 😛 No offense man. I am talking about a next gen racing game. Right now there is nothing! Only The Crew which is HORRIBLE. Grid 2 is a killer but still nothing like FH2. I love Sega Rally games but we can’t say we don’t need good and fresh racers with 2015 graphics etc because PC has very good racing games that were released 10 years ago.
i liked TDU and TDU2 but they are really not as good as FH series and both of them aren’t good ports really. but on racing side, PC have Assetto Corsa which is the best racing game i have ever played but only problem i have with it is the content and number of cars and tracks
It’s sad that some people don’t understand that some games can’t be brought to other platforms. Forza, Halo and Gears are system sellers for Xbox One. Don’t get me wrong but this is idiotic. Instead of signing petitions, they should buy Assetto Corsa.
They can keep Halo and Gears and Forza but not FORZA HORIZON
Halo 2 is on PC. Gears of War Ultimate Edition is coming to the PC. For a game like Assetto Corsa to have high system requirements and poor graphics is unacceptable. Assetto Corsa doesn’t even have rain effects or water effects. There is no racing in the night. The graphics are poor and not even realistic.
I rather have Halo or Gears return to PC.
Gears is already coming to PC. Halo and Forza should be on PC.
Yes, glad to see I’m not the only one wanting it on PC, signing it right away and will make any and everyone aware of this
Microsoft can keep their games for themselves as they will see 0 money from me.
Nice petition,
It will never EVER happen
Never say never. Saying such things will have drastic consequences. Ryse Son of Rome was Xbox One exclusive. Then it came to the PC.
wait for windows 10 then you can play it
this is the best part :
Dan Brownlee Edmonton – the one who launched this petition for Forza Horizon 2 PC – claimed that he will attempt to meet up with Phil Spencer once this petition hits 1000 signatures
lolz
Mmmmm petition has hit 10,000 signatures..!!!
This petition sh*t is starting to get really stupid.
Good luck with that, “Dan Brownlee Edmonton”.
Lol, PC gamers still port begging. That still shows that they have no other racing came that is better than FH2.
Your username is an oxymoron.
We have better racing simulators.
We don’t really have open world simcade games targeted for a completely different audience(casuals and kids).
But keep thinking your xobx is better, can’t create xbox games without a PC.
Personaly, i´m not interested, there are better racing games in PC.
why fh2? Considering what the series is known for even forza 4 at this point would be a better fit for pc then some forgettable arcade racer.
Well if we take into consideration that NFSW with be shutting down their servers permanently on July 14th 2015, we will need a Car game that has free roam and all those benefits, so a PC version of Forza Horizon 2 hits the mark..!!
https://www.change.org/p/bring-forza-horizon-2-to-pc?recruiter=101232010&utm_source=share_petition&utm_medium=facebook&utm_campaign=share_page&utm_term=des-lg-no_src-no_msg&fb_ref=Default
because forza and similar racing games are amazing so shut your mouth
Took a while but Forza Motorsport 6: Apex (Free-to-Play) coming exclusively to PC later this year.