Forza Horizon 3 features going offline as fans wonder about the possibility of the Xbox server shutting down in 2025

In recent days we have seen Reports Xbox fan in 2016 Forza Horizon 3 Experiencing server issues – some people even claim that the game is completely unplayable online for them at the moment. As a result, we took a look at the game to see what it was, and our results were mixed when loading FH3 in early 2025.

One thing is certain at the time of writing, which is that many Forza Horizon 3 features are not working properly at the moment. When turned on, the “Rivals”, “Clubs” and “Auction House” features are available. Offline – It’s simply greyed out and you can’t access it at all on Xbox (the Marketplace tab has been inaccessible since then The game has been removed from the Xbox Store).

However, when we played the game today, we had… no Problems accessing standard online sessions here at the PX offices. For example, Online Free Roam and Online Adventure worked well on the first try – and we found players right away in both cases.

Here we are testing FH3 racing online in January 2025:

However, this does not seem to be the case for everyone. On top of those gray features we encounter Pure Xboxit seems that some users cannot play the game online at all at the moment. once again, we We didn’t have any issues getting into races, but it seems like a lot of players are having a very different experience with Forza Horizon 3 at the moment.

Does this mean that the online portion of the game will be closed soon? Well, maybe. We have not received any confirmation about such an event from Xbox or developer Playground Games yetbut its predecessor Forza Horizon 2 will go offline in summer 2023And, considering FH3 arrived two years later, we could easily see this being dropped online very soon.

Hopefully this is just a passing image and that Horizon 3 will remain playable for a while yet!