If you are planning on buying a Xbox One and Forza 5 when they both launch then you will have to wait a few minutes before you can play. Turn 10 Studios has said that their will be a day 1 update to the game when it releases. This will be a patch to the actual game and will be adding in new tracks and cars to what is existing already on the game disk.
Turn 10 Studios’ Forza 5
I know some gamers will be dissatisfied with this but in the end it really has become common place for big AAA titles to come with a day 1 patch and considering it usually takes 5-10 minutes to actually implement patches it shouldn’t be a big deal. I found this information over at CVG and they made a good point that will Microsoft’s reversal of certain policies, namely the always online requirement, that Turn 10 needs to tweak Forza 5 to change it along with some other things such as content that was added late in the production schedule so the most cost-effective and easiest way to do this was to have a day 1 update to the game. Here is what Turn 10 had to say about Forza 5 and the update.
What Turn 10 Studios saying about Forza 5 Day 1 Update
“When speaking with IGN, Dan Greenawalt of Turn 10 Studios said “when you first boot up the game we’re going to ask you to log in, and when you log in you’re going to get a whole bunch of content: tracks and cars. That is required content to play the game.”
“Greenawalt also said: “You do have to connect the game in order to get the latest Drivatars, because we need as many people training them as possible. And so rather than having just a launch-day set that was created by us, every day that people race is going to make the Drivatar set that much more accurate, that much more diverse, that much more interesting. All of the cloud and online features make the game far, far better.” But of course it is all, completely optional after the title update on release day, you don’t have to connect if you don’t want to.”
“We’re not making a launch game. We’re making Forza 5, at launch.”
All in all this shouldn’t be a big deal. You get more stuff to play with in-game in exchange for a few minutes to let Forza 5 update. Like I said earlier with most games these days on console, Forza 5 isn’t immune and should make the game better for the player experience.
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