Originally Posted by: gtq838 
they never had any intention on making a racing game. Their idea was obvious...
"We can just take APEX add loot boxes, charge $100 and be RICH!"
No place in the discussion of the development of this game did ANYBODY stop and say "hey what would make a good racing game", let alone "what would make a good FMS game"
They couldn't even get the stupid badges right... come on... you got the badges system perfect in FM2!
FM2, FM3, FM4, FM5, FM6, FM6 APEX are ALL superior to FM7 in literally every single way I can think of with the exception of the AI being slightly better and graphics are a little bit better on 7 than 2 and 3.
overall though FM2 is a far better game. especially considering you can pick it up for about $5 which is what FM7 should have sold for. It was garbage at release and now it is barely better. If they had released it in this state and then sold 2 expansion and 20 car packs it might have been a good game...
they just gave up and just didn't care. I really hope everybody leading the design of this game is fired.
They might well have killed FM all together. 2 years after a motorsport game and not even whispers about an expansion or a new game.... normally we would have had 2 expansions, and a new game release this year. At this rate Horizon 5 will be out before FM8
Lot of false narratives here:
1. Never once were loot boxes ever purchasable with real world money. Nor were there any micro-transactions in Forza Motorsport 7.
2. Explain how all those Forza titles, particularly FM5, FM6 & Apex are "superior in every single way" to FM7? That's just plainly false:
No Auction House in FM5 or 6 or Apex
No Dynamic weather in FM6 or Apex or weather at all in FM5.
Terrible Force Feedback for wheels in every game except FM7.
Hardly any content in FM5 or Apex and much more content than FM6.
No Homologation system at all in FM5, 6 or Apex.
No dashcam low field of view camera for wheels in any game.
No per car FFB tuning or semi-softlocking in any game.
No Forzathon
No speciality dealer
Terrible careers in both FM5, 6 and Apex
No wide body kits and severely less car customisation.
No driver gear, no mod cards in FM5.
No Forza Race Regulations
Terrible post game support for every game in the franchise.
The list goes on and on...
I agree however that FM2, considering it's time, is still the best ever Forza game. It was groundbreaking for 2007 and really pushed the franchise forward. It's the FM game I started with and still the best in the franchise imo. FM7 was absolutely terrible at launch, an insult I'd go so far to say, but really, barely improved? What FM game has ever had this kind of post game support? Every FM game had 1 year post game support and then it's abandoned. Not only that but there's no longer complete and utter radio silence from the developers to the community. The management has become a lot better and the post game support has been by far the best the franchise has ever had.