OK, I have a lot of racing to do and we’ll get to why shortly, so I’ll finish real quick. Playground Games has announced that Forza Horizon 4 will be removed from the online stores for Xbox and PC this December, citing licensing and agreements with partners as the reason for the removal.
The full removal will take place on December 15, 2024, Playground explained in a blog post: “This means that the game and its add-on content will no longer be available for purchase. [from that date]Players who already own the game and its content will be able to download and play the game normally, including its offline, online, and multiplayer features; physical copies of the game purchased after this date will also function normally and be able to use online features.
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If you played the game through Xbox Game Pass and then purchased the DLC, you are “eligible for game tokens” as long as your subscription is still active on June 25. Before that fateful day in December, things were also winding down, and the game’s DLC could only be purchased by purchasing the Deluxe or Ultimate Edition, with the current series being the last.
OK, now that that’s out of the way, here’s what I really want to tell you. Do you remember the longest game in the base version of Horizon 4, “Giant”? Yeah, that game takes a long time because it basically has you running around the entire map.
Well, let me emphasize that this is the number of times you can complete this task (roughly speaking) if you drive a D-class car non-stop 24 hours a day from June 26th (today) until the drop date on December 15th. Now, I’m basing my calculations on the time it took The Goliath record holder to complete this task as cited in the community-maintained Horizon 3 to Horizon 5 world record spreadsheet, so you have to make sure to hit all the non-existent apexes.
For Class D cars, the record seems to be 11 minutes and 34 seconds set by a player in a classic 1977 Ford Escort. Rounding up to 11 minutes and 30 seconds, my calculation is that you can do about 5.2 per hour, or 125.2 per 24 hours. Multiply that by 172, because there are so many days between June 26 and December 15, plus or minus a few hours, and you’d be able to do about 21,537 runs if you ran nonstop until the end of the year.
If you’re curious, the D-segment includes the base versions of Britain’s very funny microcars, the Peel P50 and the Peel Trident, both of which were famous cars on Britain’s Top Gear, so feel free to go with either of those.
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