Idea for the Next Forza Horizon - Forza Horizon World

tldr; make Forza Horizon an evolving platform with multiple maps added over time to reduce impacts of delisting content.

One of the biggest issues with Horizon is that older games get delisted after a few years due to licensing, meaning new players can't buy them and the community gets split across multiple titles.

My idea would be to make the next Horizon a long-term platform: **Forza Horizon World**.

Instead of releasing entirely new games every few years, Playground Games could add new locations as paid expansions. Each expansion would include a map and campaign comparable in size to a traditional Horizon release.

Previous Horizon maps could also be remastered and brought forward to the latest graphics and physics engine, allowing players to revisit them without needing older titles.

While each Horizon game introduces new features and improvements, the overall formula remains fairly consistent: a new location, new cars, and new events, so a platform approach could preserve content while still allowing new experiences to be added.

The game could continue to receive new cars, event types, stories, and engine upgrades over time, creating a single Horizon ecosystem that grows for many years rather than being replaced every few years.

This might also reduce some of the issues caused by licensing. Rather than licensing content across multiple Horizon titles, everything would exist within a single ongoing platform.

I appreciate licences would still expire and some cars, music or brands might have to be removed from sale in the future. However, that seems more manageable than entire games becoming unavailable to purchase.

Similar to previous Horizon games, players who already owned licensed content could potentially keep access to it, while new players would simply be unable to acquire it once the licence expired.

From a player perspective, losing access to a handful of cars or songs seems preferable to losing the ability to buy an entire Horizon title.

The obvious downside would be the risk of the game becoming enormous in terms of install size and potentially making progression difficult for new players.

What are your thoughts to this approach?