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[XB1, PC] Forza Horizon 3 Ultimate $32.98 @ Microsoft.com

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Was surfing and came across this deal. Couldn't see any duplicates so posting in the hope that it's useful to someone.

Ultimate: $32.98
Standard: $13.18

Xbox One X Enhanced with native 4K support. HDR enhanced on Xbox One S and Xbox One X with supported TVs. Supports Xbox Play Anywhere: yours to play on both Xbox One and Windows 10 PC at no additional cost.

Forza Horizon 3 Ultimate Edition includes the full game of Forza Horizon 3, Early Access, the Forza Horizon 3 Car Pass, VIP Membership and cars, Forza Hub App, and the Motorsport All-Stars Car Pack, which gives you the chance to take 10 of the hottest modern race cars off the track and out on the open road!

THIS IS YOUR HORIZON
You’re in charge of the Horizon Festival. Customize everything, hire and fire your friends, and explore Australia in over 350 of the world’s greatest cars. Make your Horizon the ultimate celebration of cars, music, and freedom of the open road. How you get there is up to you.

EXPLORE AUSTRALIA, HORIZON’S LARGEST WORLD EVER
Drive through the vast desert and rocky canyons of the Outback to lush, wild rainforests, and to the sandy beaches and gleaming skyscrapers of Australia's Gold Coast.

CHOOSE FROM OVER 350 OF THE WORLD’S GREATEST CARS
Every car is recreated with ForzaVista™ detail including full cockpit views, working lights and wipers, and new vehicle types bringing all-new driving experiences never before seen in Forza.

DISCOVER THRILLING NEW DRIVING GAMEPLAY
Danger Sign Jumps, Convoys, and Drift Zones are just some of the exciting new driving challenges that await you. Star in Thrilling Showcase events that pit you and your car against a fleet of powerboats, even a giant zeppelin!

HIRE AND FIRE FRIENDS
You’re the boss. Hire your friends’ Drivatars to help you gain fans and expand your festival, and form Convoys with them to explore the world even when they’re not online. If they’re not winning you fans, fire them!

CUSTOMIZE EVERYTHING
Horizon Blueprint gives you the power to modify every aspect of race events, championships, and Bucket List challenges – and instantly challenge friends to beat you at your own game. Choose your driver character, create custom paint jobs and vanity license plates, add new body kits – even select your own car horn sound.

START AN ONLINE DRIVING ADVENTURE
Online 4-Player Co-op allows you and your friends to experience the variety, competition, and rewards of a Horizon campaign together for the first time.

PLAY THE AUCTION HOUSE
Find rare cars and incredible works of art by the most talented creators in the Forza Community.

Features may vary between Xbox One and Windows 10 versions of game. Xbox One game disc for use only with Xbox One systems. Xbox Live Gold membership (sold separately) required for online multiplayer on Xbox One. Cross-device play only in Xbox Live-supported countries, see xbox.com/live/countries. Some music features may not be available in some countries. See forzamotorsport.net.

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  • +18

    This game is disappearing tomorrow for good! Last chance to purchase it

    • +2

      Man should be cheaper if so

    • Why?

      • Expiring music license.

  • Whats the chance of this going to gamepass or games with gold. Im looking for a fortune teller :(

    • +10

      This particular one is not going gamepass. It's EOL as of tomorrow and wont be sold on the store anymore, if you dont buy it now you wont be able to buy it anymore at all.

      • I wonder why they don't just leave it up. can't cost anything to just have it sitting there getting the odd sale?

        • +16

          All the licenses for the cars and music are expiring and ‘the odd sale’ wouldn’t cover the cost of their renewal.

        • +2

          I wonder why they don't just leave it up

          The reason why they have to take it down was because of licensing expired, so I don't think they can put it on gamepass.

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  • The Expansion Pass is also on sale for AU$15.73 (includes Hot Wheels & Blizzard Mountain add-ons). The Expansion Pass is not included in the Ultimate edition.
    https://www.microsoft.com/en-au/p/forza-horizon-3-expansion-…

    • +3

      What?!?! So the game is Ultimate in name but not ultimate in nature (ie doesn't include every DLC!)

      • +2

        It included everything as of when it was released, mainly smaller DLC (cars, credits etc). Hot Wheels and Blizzard Mountain were full fledged expansions with new areas, cars, missions etc.

        • +1

          The Expansion Pass is also on sale for AU$15.73 (includes Hot Wheels & Blizzard Mountain add-ons)

          Also bought the expansion pass but I found that you have to go to look for Hot Wheels & Blizzard Mountain from Store to install it not from the expansion pass screen you bought.

  • +1

    https://www.ozbargain.com.au/node/557556

    Just bought it today but found that didn't work with 360 controller, so may be also won't work with 360 wheel. 😖

    • I've been playing on my good ol' wireless 360 controller. What's the issue on your end?

      • I've been playing on my good ol' wireless 360 controller

        This game? I have no problem with 360 controller on other games but not this one, the game won't detect this

        • +1

          The 360/XB1 drivers in W10 can be finnicky at times, but the various guides online around uninstalling/reinstalling may help. For me, I can't seem to get my Real Arcade Pro X360 to work at all (crashes my PC) but 99% of the time I'm using my Xbox One Elite controller so I'd rather keep it working.

          ps. Tried deleting the DLL/etc as per one guide, and it did not help at all. Just led to it not being recognised at all.

          • @jace88:

            The 360/XB1 drivers in W10 can be finnicky at times

            No problem with other games, only FH3 didn't recognize it.

          • @jace88: Finally found a way to get the 360 controller to work, the problem was caused by winver 2004 won't allow to manually install the receiver drivers (no problem with 1909)

            I have to use the win7 one and modified the inf file to install it but FH3 still won't recognize it and have to manually change the drivers back to the win10 default drivers (xusb22.sys) the win7 one is (xusb21.sys)

  • How do you still download/access after it’s removed from the store if you purchased it prior?

    • +7

      You should still see it under your library if you have purchased before.

  • How do I know if I own any of the add ons/etc or if it is from Game Pass? It says I "Own" it when I look at the expansion pass/etc… but I only remember buying the OG.

  • Can someone explain what the expansions in ultimate actually are? I have no idea what VIP membership etc is, trying to work out if it's worth the 20 buck premium

    • I didn't think so. Went the standard.

      https://www.windowscentral.com/forza-horizon-3-vip-review

    • The extra content in the Ultimate Edition only contains cars. If you want actual game-expanding content, you'll need the "Expansion Pass" as it contains the Hot Wheels and Blizzard Mountain packs. They both contain new locations, races and cars (different to Ultimate Edition).

      • Thanks for letting me know, I couldn't care less about the additional tracks if they aren't real locations around Oz, that's the only reason I bought it tbh.

  • +5

    Standard plus the expansion pass is going to get you the best bang for buck if you want to have the entire game while spending the least amount of money.
    This is ozbargin after all!
    that said ultimate is ok if you want some extra car packs and XP but it is in no way essential!

    • +3

      Went this option.

  • +5

    Thanks for heads up! Quite enjoying being lost in to F4H at the moment so seeing this is set in Oz and with these savings and it disappearing from sale- couldn’t not grab it. Cheers 👌🏻

    • +4

      Honestly I enjoyed FH3 a lot more than FH4… maybe because it was Australia, but it just felt less cluttered to play.

      • Awesome! Am even more excited to jump into then 😊 If only I had known how good these FH games were sooner - I could’ve grabbed My own XB1 X console, instead of hijacking my nephews XB1 🤣 And that sweet looking cyberpunk console at OG price Would’ve been ideal!

  • The ultimate is showing 71.70 CNY on CN MS store for me.

  • I don't have any car games (or a wheel etc) would this be the one to get? Have got PS4 controllers that seem to work with the PC.

    Cheers

    Edit: The Standard plus the expansion pass seems like the go, $13 for the standard is a no brainer can the EP be purchased later?
    microsoft store terribly slow on windows unless i'm doing it wrong

  • Thanks OP! didn't realise this is going to be pulled. So if we buy this now, will we be able to download it off the windows store indefinitely? Will the free cars also be pulled from the store? Just wondering if i should go through a mad rush of downloading everything if they are going to be pulled. thanks.

    • Once you purchase the game or any DLC - you can download it any anytime.

      You just can't purchase (or access) it once it's gone from the store.

  • -2

    I bought this ages ago using an Argentinian VPN. Anyone wanna see how much this is via VPN?

  • +2

    bought the standard + Expansion Pass( Blizzard mountain and hotwheels) for $18.91, thanks to Microsoft Rewards ($10)

    • Do we need Xbox god go play expansion? I can't play them.

      • +1

        I had the same question. No need for Xbox.

        https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/xbox/forum/xba_wowpc-xba…

        I managed to get it installed by going directly to the Blizzard Mountain and Hot Wheels pages, and clicking on Install from there. I couldn't install it from the Expansion Pass page. I haven't played enough of the main game to unlock these two DLC packs, but the downloads finished successfully.

  • Hey buds, I purchased the Ultimate Edition and received the Expansion Pass as well on PC, maybe because it is EOL.

    I was under the impression I had to buy Expansion pass separate but that's not the case for me :)

    Just confirmed again before posting…

    • wow that's interesting because previously the ultimate edition owners had to pay $10 more to get the expansion pass

    • Darn didn't see this post. Should have checked what came with the Ultimate before purchasing the Expansion Pass…. :(

      • Same

      • Nobody in r/ForzaHorizon has ever received the expansion with ultimate. OP bought it before and forgot

        • Nobody in r/ForzaHorizon has ever received the expansion with ultimate.

          You make me feel a lot better, I didn't purchase it wrong XD

  • If it reaches EOL, they should refund it, so dodgy.

    • +1

      It just means you can't buy anymore. You can still download and play for the foreseeable future from your Library…

      I heard that even online servers will be active for a while :)

  • I own the base game and Hot Wheels addon pack, I guess if I want the rest, I will have to pay again, no discount for me right ?

    • They probably sell some separately but who knowsfor how much? It should be finished now anyway (st least that's what people said yesterday I think?)

    • If you want the Blizzard Mountain DLC, it’s cheaper to buy the bundle (with Hot Wheels) than it is to buy it separately.

      Correct, there is no discount for already-own DLC (like Steam).

  • How are the loading times for this game? I found horizon 4s loading times turned me off the game, getting a series X so maybe it might be better on that?

    • +1

      How are the loading times for this game?

      SSD? You must use SSD for fast game loading nowadays.

  • +2

    If anyone missed out, I picked up the Standard edition for $12.60 @ Eneba - https://www.eneba.com/xbox-forza-horizon-3-pc-xbox-one-xbox-…
    Got the code instantly.

  • Still think it's a little odd that this is delisted a few days before they announce next months Games With Gold lineup. Small possibility it might end up being given away for free.

    • Small possibility it might end up being given away for free.

      If license related I don't think they have the rights to give it away for free.

      • As far as I know, an expired license means they cease the right to continue selling it. Also, the previous game was given away for free before it was completely pulled from the store:

        https://www.slashgear.com/forza-horizon-2-being-pulled-from-…

        Sure, this game hasn't followed the same path but it might be just a strategy to get a few more sales before it's available one last time for nothing. Feel free to call me crazy but in my opinion (and that's all it is), if it's not a Games With Gold this month, then next month might still hold a very small possibility. I'll be convinced it's gone forever after that.

  • Got this back at the time before the game was discontinued. Good great with an Xbox one wireless controller on PC with a HDMI cable to the telly, fast responsive great experience.

    Not sure if I'm missing something, there didn't seem to be many objectives and can't even get to the online play yet. Any suggestions?

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