If you don’t recall, it was earlier this month that the developers over at Playground Games opted to close down the Auction House for Forza Horizon 5. This was all due to a recent exploit discovery that allowed players to fill up their virtual bank accounts. Ultimately, that made the in-game economy to crash and left a mess for the development team to clean up. So until they could get a grasp of how to get rid of this newly exploited money, the Auction House for the video game was closed down. 

The fear was that with so many players having an excessive amount of in-game money, the Auction House would quickly lose out on different vehicles. Then there’s the exploited money that would exchange hands with unsuspecting players. Playground Games developers had to figure out what to do, so before Playground Games made any decision, the Auction House was taken out of the equation. Again, the root cause of this issue came with an in-game exploit that players could rack up money. Fortunately, those that partook in the exploit won’t find their accounts banned.