Pirates, you greedy motherboard-munching fuckwits, thought you could joyride Forza Horizon 6 a week early? Playground Games just yeeted the banhammer from Valhalla, slapping hardware and franchise-wide bans that last until the year 9999 – that's 8,000 years of blue-balling your ass from every Forza game Microsoft ever shits out.

This ain't some Steam preload oopsie – Playground swears the 155GB PC build got yoinked by some early-access traitor, maybe a slimy reviewer or insider with sticky fingers, and now they're cracking skulls with HWID bans that tie straight to your rig's guts. "We are taking strict enforcement action including franchise-wide and hardware bans," they thundered on X, while pirates flood Reddit with cope about spoofers and kernel dodges – cry harder, basement dwellers.

Already bodies are dropping: YouTuber DVS Squad got nuked for 69 million hours after streaming leak gameplay, another chump banned til December 31, 9999 just for firing up the crack – that's not a ban, that's a goddamn geological epoch of regret. Want back in? Pony up for a new motherboard, you cheap fucks, or rot in piracy purgatory while legit fans drift Tokyo streets on May 19.

X is lit with pirates seething and normies cheering the purge, r/PiratedGames turning into a clown fiesta of 'bUt MuH fReE GaMeS' – Playground, keep swinging that hammer till their rigs melt. Legit players, sit tight; this scorched-earth justice is the appetizer to Horizon 6's feast.