Halo 5's Forge isn't technically free, since they require you to have an Xbox Live Gold subscription to use it.
Wrong: players can still party chat, forge, and play customs on H5: Forge all on PC even if they don't have Gold. I know this because I do it. Why would the PC community even give a spec of interest in a game(mode) that's advertised as free but requires a subscription to play?
Not wrong. I said "Halo 5's Forge" meaning the Xbox One version; not "Halo 5: Forge" which is for PC and doesn't have much of a community from what I hear due to 343i's seeming lack of care to fix bugs. If you're like me and can't use the PC version and are stuck on console, the game basically becomes a ~98GB space waster on your Xbox without Xbox Live Gold. The only thing there is to play at that point is the campaign...
The worst forge trend - Complaining about how bad the game is, the game mechanics, the forge and yet still building maps for it and never finishing them, but always hyping them up. Never the less Goat you will be missed.