Paying Customers Only People Not Playing Forza Horizon 6 Right Now
Playground Games warns honest players not to see or hear the game before May 19
Opportunists have allegedly spread the latest installment in the Forza Horizon series far and wide following what the studio calls a reviewer / influencer leak, and now pretty much everybody is playing the game but you.
The leaked files, according to one forum on Reddit, seem to include the entirety of the upcoming game, totally unencrypted, paving the way for unrestricted access for players like your dad who likes to see if new Forza titles still have his 2015 Jeep Cherokee available for purchase in the store.
“This is a major screw-up,” said the elderly lady who walks your subdivision every morning. “But you snooze, you lose. We’re playing the shit out of it at my house.”
Playground Games acknowledged the leak in a social media post this week, denying that this was made possible by the manner in which they configured the game for preload in digital storefronts. In addition, the developer warned that players found playing the game early may face “franchise-wide and hardware bans.”
“Bummer,” said your little cousin whose parents don’t watch him very close. “Guess I’ll have to pirate their future games, too.”
Since players who have already paid for the game or intend to pay when it’s released seem to be the only people Playground Games has any control over, the SIC Gaming team suggests carefully obstructing all the senses until the game’s official release so you don’t say or do anything on social media to arouse suspicion. Our reviewers found that you can cover eyes and ears very effectively using otherwise useless items you already have around the house, such as a Meta Quest 1 headset and wired Apple Earbuds.
No precaution is too much when you risk a publisher ban expected to last “until the year 10,000” or the next time they trust an influencer named TruckNutzRacing.
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