ForzaMotorsport.net Responds To Allegations That Forza 2 Crashes Xbox 360 Units
By William on Monday, July 2nd, 2007 at 12:42 PM PST In Microsoft, Microsoft
The Forza 2 forum fiasco caused a lot of widespread discussion concerning problems with Forza 2 and the Xbox 360. One of the issues many people were concerned about was the forums on the subject that seemingly vanished into thin air. I dropped my two cents Forza’s way wondering why this problem suddenly happened and asked them what the real facts are behind the problem. I primarily wanted to know exactly why the forum topic vanished. Here is the response that was emailed to me from Che Chou, the “Community Manager” :
Hi William,
We’ve tested Forza 2 extensively and have confirmed that the game itself does not brick Xbox 360 consoles. Although it might seem like the number of instances is high, especially if you go by forum reactions, it’s actually a very small percentage that it’s happening to and we acknowledge that it’s very frustrating and unfortunate.
As for the forum thread, I moved it to a moderator’s section. It has not been deleted and I can easily prove it. The thread no longer served a real productive purpose other than as an excuse for folks to violate FM.net’s terms of service with ad hominem attacks. Thanks to the thread, we are acutely aware that it is a very real issue with a small percentage of our community (but a problem nonetheless).
There’s also already a pretty good thread in the same forum that tries to discuss the problem in a more productive manner. The bottomline, however, is that this is indeed a hardware issue and not a software issue, and as such, Microsoft already has a comprehensive plan on replacing people’s faulty Xbox 360s.
Thanks,
Che Chou
Community Manager
http://forzamotorsport.net
I would like to thank Che Chou and forzamotorsport.net for sending us this crucial information that shed a little light on the subject. There’s always two sides to every story, and I really felt as if the Forza team needed to get their story out there. Credibility of forum user complaints are often questionable and in this case, it definitely looks like this is an issue Microsoft needs to fix with their hardware. It also looks like a case where numerous individuals may have abused a forum. At least we know they are aware of the issues and working with Microsoft on them.
I ALSO GET CONSTANT FREEZING FROM THE GAME!! ITS DISGUSTING THAT ANYONE CAN MAKE MONEY ON SUCH SOFTWARE!!!
ITS TOTALLY PUT ME OFF THE GAME AND MICROSOFT!!!
I WILL CONTINUE TO TELL EVERYONE TO NOT BUY THIS GAME AND SELL THEIR XBOX’S AS SOON AS POSSIBLE BEFORE THEY BREAK!!
WTF WUD FORZA RELEASE A GAME NOT PROPERLY TESTED!!!!!
TOTAL WANKERS!!!
TO HELL THEM ALL
i have ran into a problem with forza2 it seems to go to wide screen were i am unable to take it off of it to have full screen can u help me by message me as soon as possable
shawn,
I never encountered that problem with Forza myself, but you never know. It sounds like more of a problem with your Xbox. Perhaps your Xbox settings are not matched up with the tv settings.
What video settings do you have on your Xbox right now and what kind of tv are we talking about.
crashed mine, my 4th one that is, i’m so sick of MS and their shotty hardware
TO ALL THOSE WITH NO PROBLEMS YET WITH THE GAME!!
NOTE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
SIMPLY TRY PLAYING ON THE ‘NEW YORK CITY TRACK’ AND SEE FOR YOURSELVES!!!!
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HOW CAN WE ALL GET OUR MONEY BACK FROM THE PEOPLE WHO HAVE ROBBED US!!!???
WHERE IS BILL GATES THE BILLIONAIRE SHUD PAY US ALL OUT!!
FORZA 2 SHOULD NEVER HAVE BEEN RELEASED. FULL STOP!!!
IT HAS CAUSED HUGE TROUBLE AND GLOBAL STRESS!!!
NEVER TRUST IT AGAIN!
(but) seriously how can we all get our money back due to this?
anyone got their money back yet???
let me no plz
ok listen up we have to do something, im on my second xbox 360 and second disc of forza 2 and both have crashed again, why is microsoft selling hardware and software that is flawed a mean how can they legally get away with it, i dont understand how a company can make so much profit but yet people still buy xboxs and stuff, my dad warned me about microsoft because of there flawed windows 95 right up to vista lol i now own an apple computer (much better no viruses as people only make viruses for microsoft) im also going to buy an ps3
hi pll the game is not bad but i can not send my mates cars on forza2 it wiil not let me do u know y it want pll.
AND YOU KNOW WHAT!!!
FORZA 3 IS JUST AS BAD!!!!
Forza 2 has allways crashed my x-box and I have been hanging out for Forza 3 so I could actuly finish a race or 2, assuming that they would have fixed the problem but NO crash’s the same way as Forza 2.
MATT.
realy cranked off!!