Forza Horizon 4 is being delisted from sale at the end of the year

thesixthaxis.com:

Playground Games has confirmed that Forza Horizon 4 will be delisted from sale late this year on 15th December 2024, thanks to those pesky “licensing and agreements with our partners”. Between now and then, the game will be going on a steep discount, with the possibility to grab a game token for Xbox Game Pass players who bought any kind of DLC for the game.

This discounted pricing hasn’t been announced or put into place on Xbox yet, but Forza Horizon 4 is 80% off on Steam at £10.99, while the Ultimate Edition with DLC is now £16.99. All standalone DLC has already been delisted, so the only way to get the Fortune Island and LEGO Speed Champions DLC packs are to buy the Ultimate Edition.

Xbox Game Pass players who purchased DLC content and who had an active subscription yesterday, 25th June 2024, will receive a game token through the Xbox Message Center that will be delivered in the coming days to turn it into a full digital license for the game.

With the game being delisted, the next Festival Playlist will be its last. Series 77 will run from 25th July through to 22nd August, with the usual smorgasbord of weekly challenges and activities to take part in. After that point the festival playlist history will stay in the game, but players will be skipped through to the Festival Site screen instead of to the Playlist. There will also still be daily and weekly challenges in the game.

This final Series will be the last chance to earn the following Achievements:

Forza games being delisted used to be a yearly occurrence in the late 2010s, as licensing for music and/or cars expired on a game-by-game basis. However, there’s been a lull since Forza Motorsport 7’s delisting in 2021, and Forza Horizon 4 stayed relevant at the start of the Xbox Series X|S generation thanks to a native port to the new generation, before Forza Horizon 5 arrived two years later. As game releases have spread out, it’s possible that Microsoft has signed longer licensing deals, so that the 2018 game will