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Forza Horizon 6 leaks online after Steam preload data was uploaded without encryption

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We are once again here to tell you about a game leaking before its release, but for once, it's not one published by Nintendo. The game files for Microsoft's upcoming racer Forza Horizon 6 made their way online yesterday after the Steam preload data was accidentally uploaded without encryption ahead of the May 19th release date.

Though you can play the game right now if you know where to look, it should be noted that some "early adopters" have reportedly been hit with a rather conservative 70 million hour ban from online play, locking them out until December of year 9999. As always I'll take a moment to remind everybody of the site's rules, and to neither request nor provide links to illegal content.

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I see it on gg - game looks cool, I didn't know this one was set in Japan.
Nice that it will be released on PS5 too, I'll wait for that.
 
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Playing online, before the game was meant to come out? Of course they were going to be found and banned. That's just stupidity and arrogance on the part of those users.

Even on the chance I went to look up an iso of a game that happened to release early, I made a point not to run it until at least a couple days after. Not just for avoiding ban waves but to give time for any day one patches to sort stuff out.
 
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Bladexdsl said:
how fucking stupid can you be to play a game online before it's out?! i've said it before and i'll say it again peoples IQ are dropping every year. these kid pirates these days they have no fucking clue whatsoever :lol:
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We've both been pointing that out. Pirates are getting dumber with each generation. First they ignored the golden rule of "Mum's the word"/"Zip your lips, numbnuts", then they started deliberately streaming pirated games and advertising their stashes (there was even a news article here of one person getting sued for it), and now they're going into online servers before everyone who would acquire the game through legal means - and getting understandably banned in response (and acting like they're being unfairly punished as a result).

Just giving companies and the FBI more and more reason to cracked down on piracy. It's these newer waves of pirates that are contributing to things getting worse for everyone else.
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Playing online, before the game was meant to come out? Of course they were going to be found and banned. That's just stupidity and arrogance on the part of those users.
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The only difference here is that this scenario doesn't involve a Nintendo game, so there's absolutely no reason whatsoever for even the most neutral of people to defend these morons. They're doing something stupid because they think they're untouchable, and getting rightfully punished for it.
 
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I've never played a Forza game, but them threatening to ban me for 9999 years is tempting me to download the leaked game. lol
 
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Bladexdsl said:
how fucking stupid can you be to play a game online before it's out?! i've said it before and i'll say it again peoples IQ are dropping every year. these kid pirates these days they have no fucking clue whatsoever :lol:
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Bladexdsl making a great point? Stop the presses!
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But to be relevant to the topic at hand...

If you don't know anything about Team10 (the devs behind Forza, well... let's just say they're not the most competent dev studio out there, especially on the community front, so them being dumb enough to let thier game leak this easily despite not having a physical format to have the game ripped from is right up thier alley.
 
I loved Forza Horizon 4 so I definitively want to try Forza Horizon Japan (would've been a better title) on PS5 when it's released.

I did try Forza Horizon 5... Didn't find it fun at all.
 
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ChronosNotashi said:
now they're going into online servers before everyone who would acquire the game through legal means - and getting understandably banned in response (and acting like they're being unfairly punished as a result).
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Nothing new there sadly, people were doing that 20 years ago back in 2006 when Gears of War leaked early on the Xbox 360.

Even before that French version of Halo 2 leaked around 3 weeks before release, 100's of people we're playing that on Xlink Kai. Granted you couldn't get banned for playing a system link game over the internet though.
 
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