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coolbeans said:

Ryuu96 said:

Meh, I didn't even know Forza Motorsport had split screen until now, Lol. So I looked it up and the split-screen in Forza Motorsport sounds barebones (read that it's 1v1 only with no AI), I feel like split-screen is the new easy rage bait, nobody cares that Forza Horizon doesn't have split-screen, do people honestly largely use split-screen in Forza Motorsport? I'm guessing Turn 10 has the data that says otherwise.

It's worth listening to the video, he gives actual gameplay reasons as to why the other two features aren't coming which is different to why split-screen isn't coming (technical difficulties). The reason for spectator is because the spectator takes up a player slot in featured multiplayer. The reason for racing with AI in featured multiplayer is because of impacts on your safety rating (new feature).

For these 3 missing features, Turn 10 has added dozens of new features, which often get overlooked in these complaints. The level of track detail far exceeds what previous Forza Motorsports have had. This wasn't so much an "announcement" of what not to expect, they were announcements in the middle of a huge video delving into the multiplayer and all the new features, but the negativity gets more clicks, Lol.

Also, there's another ? in that he says two of these features aren't available in their new featured multiplayer, but doesn't make a comment if they're available in other multiplayer modes, here he was specifically talking about the featured multiplayer, we know that "no AI" is 100% talking about featured multiplayer only, it's likely that "no spectator" is only featured multiplayer only due to eSports.

Imo, they're all very minor missing features, I'm also not sure why, how many people, play online multiplayer for the purpose of playing against AI, Lol.

Well, I'm a bit partial to split-screen, but that's influenced by playing past Motorsport titles with family/friends.  I don't want to overstate the importance of these few features akin to Infinite's Forge/Co-op ordeal.  It's just getting annoying to see these little pre-release interviews where they talk about some older staple that won't be there at launch.  

Funny thought I just had is that if we were still waiting for split-screen to release Infinite, the game still wouldn't be released, Lmao.

That's fair, that you personally enjoy it and will be disappointed by its removal, but it's worth bearing in mind all the new features they've added too, when these articles get made about the 3 missing features, they often miss out the dozens of new features that have been added, people often are drawn to the negatives.

It sort of misses out that two of the missing features are missing only in the new multiplayer mode, featured multiplayer not having AI but private lobbies will, featured multiple not having spectator but private lobbies will, spectator mode is only really important for eSports so as long as it's available in private lobbies which is where eSports are hosted, it's fine, Imo. AI not being in featured multiplayer is fine given the design reasons for it, Imo.

No split-screen sucks for those who wanted it, but I wouldn't agree that it would deserve delaying over it.

It's worth listening to the entire video, this was a little 1-minute segment in an over hour long video going into their multiplayer, where they briefly touched on a few features that wouldn't be in their new featured multiplayer. The little 1 minute segment in an hour long video is going to provide more clicks though because negativity is good for clicks, Lol.

The only alternative to avoiding this marketing negativity is they don't mention at all what won't be in for launch, Lol.