Following its fairly problematic release, Forza Motorsport has slowly but surely started turning things around at the rate of a first-generation Bugatti Veyron, as it were. While the new updates have been adding lots of content, it just so happens that much of it is temporary, at best.
More specifically, even though the developer Turn 10 has been hard at work producing new events and adding them to Forza Motorsport‘s roster of available content, none of them are going to be permanently available as part of the game’s relatively barebones Career mode. Updates 2.0 and 3.0 have both introduced two new Career Tours each (with four unique races featured in every Tour), only to have them taken out of the rotation as their respective seasons get wrapped up.
Forza Motorsport’s Career championships are pure FOMO
As Forza Motorsport‘s Career Mode doesn’t offer racing opportunities for many of the game’s vehicles, this sets up a situation where Turn 10 introduces distinctive events and Tours as temporary additions, which is a clear signifier of FOMO (i.e. fear of missing out) player retention tactics. Even the Forza Motorsport community has caught wind of Turn 10’s take on temporary content, and players are unhappy about it.
Naturally, there are unique, temporarily accessible rewards attached to these temporary Tours. Players who have missed out on getting the 2020 Acura ARX-05 and the 2020 Audi R8 V10 Performance models while their respective Tours were up can no longer obtain these cars, for example.
Even though this strategy is relatively novel to Forza Motorsport proper, it’s not new to Forza at large. Playground Games’ Forza Horizon 5 is infamously loaded with seasonal exclusivity and time-limited events, for example. One could argue that the new Motorsport‘s take on FOMO wouldn’t be so problematic if its Career Mode had races for all of its vehicle types, but as it stands, there’s just no reason why all of the game’s post-launch content would have to get yanked out of rotation every so often.