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Forza Horizon 3's online services continue despite the game being delisted in 2020.
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A community manager confirmed that the servers have been restarted after players reported certain features being unavailable, reaffirming Playground Games' commitment to keeping services online.
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Forza Horizon 5 recently set a new milestone, amassing over 40 million players since its launch in 2021.
Forza Horizon 3Its online services have been given a new lease of life recently, despite the game being removed, and fans are excited that Playground Games is committed to maintaining these features. Shortly after removal, online services for the original Forza Horizon game too Forza Horizon 2 were finished for good, and the community believed Forza Horizon 3Its multiplayer would follow suit. Fortunately, a life-saving figure from the Playground team recently reassured fans that online features are alive and well.
The FORZA the franchise began racing in 2005 with the original Forza Motorsportfollowed by the first Forza Horizon game that debuted in 2012. The latest title from FORZA the franchise Forza Horizon 5 has cooked up some controversy at The Game Awards 2024 after the racing game was left out of the Best Running Game category. The fifth main entry offered more post-launch content than any other game in the series and a number of notable updates, including the Hide and Seek multiplayer mode.

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Posted on Reddit by JoaoPaulo3k, a screenshot of another post asking “Is this the end of Forza 3?” was posted in FORZA subreddit. The player was unable to access certain features and the community was concerned about an outage of online services. Fortunately, Playground's senior community manager was called a “saint” for responding to competitor concerns and reassuring players that the servers had been restarted. Forza Horizon 3 entered “End of Life” status in 2020, which meant that the base game and its DLC would no longer be available for purchase from the Microsoft Store.
Forza Horizon 3's online services persist despite the game being removed
FORZA fans were also dealt a hard blow last year when Forza Horizon 4 was delisted in December 2024, despite becoming a huge hit and amassing over 24 million players since its launch in 2018. However, it's encouraging to see Playground responding to online issues and general concerns related to Forza Horizon 3 so promptly and the community manager also highlighted a positive response in terms of traffic after the servers were restarted.
Three years after the debut, Forza Horizon 5 reached a new milestone last year hosting an influx of more than 40 million players since its arrival in 2021. The open-world racing game has now become one of the most successful Xbox games in history, and fans are already waiting looking forward to the next title, which will probably be named Forza Horizon 6. The player base has long been clamoring for a setting in Japan, and it's entirely possible that Playground is quietly planning the successor while finalizing the anticipated project. Fable title.