Only time I’ve really used EZ is when you just annihilate the other team and it’s really not fun playing the game because it’s super uneven. A team gets a GG from me when it’s a constant fight for the win and both sides show strengths.
So, you annihilate the other team then insult them. That’s my point. Why add negativity to a situation? What’s the point? If anything, it makes people less enthused with playing the game, and shrinks the player base.
I noticed they got rid of the “worst k/d” ribbon. How many times do you have to be told you’re the worst, before you just say f it and stop playing. I’m sure they realized that that ribbon was hurting, not helping.
I don’t think insulting people in any situation is every warranted.
I don’t use any one of them…
I just say " hey man It was fun thanks for allowing me to play with you ":
My comment was in response to GodSteveBuscemi’s
I started to just write “HARD” now. Had some pretty good reaction. I don’t know what they are saying in Spanish. Seems like they were going off on me. Every round win or lose “HARD”
I don’t want to make this an argument but what I will say is that at one point in time I felt like I was the very worst whenever I played. I would get messages on Xbox 360 from teammates and also enemy teams telling me how bad I was. Does that really bother me? No, not at all. Because if you enjoy the game enough, another persons ignorance will not ruin it for you. The EZ spam is definitely annoying and I understand what you mean. All I’m saying is that you can’t blame people for being hyped to have such a successful game and then assert it. If the chat bothers you, I do believe you can turn it off. But don’t be surprised if you still get messages through Xbox because it still happens regardless. Letting something that simple ruin your game experience is silly to me but I understand the frustration from your perspective.
Myself would say Many thanks GG,Whatever game mode I play ,It does work get back GG
Gears 3 is the first game my wife and I actually played online in a pvp environment. We were so bad. The hate mail was absolute numbing. Plus we were on spilt screen. We still joke about the “plz leave” one of the nicer comments we endeared. It actually didn’t make us quit, it made us want to get good. We knew nothing about Gears multiplayer, our goal use to be just go 1 for 1 and try to not hurt the team. Combined our Lancer fire to help get a down or a chainsaw kill. We were easy Target’s and we loved every minute of it. Since than this was the only game we ever played, without the toxic smack talk, the open lobby chat. I don’t think I would of turned into a Gear Head. So I do know what you mean. Gears toxicity has a special place in my heart. It’s what started the Grind.
I’m happy to hear that you was like me during the gears 3 days. I played gears 2 but only small amounts. Gears 3 is where I really invested time. I was absolutely horrible, lmfao. I only really played cod and halo and then I downed somebody in gears my first match and thought I got a kill lmfao. Then he got back up and chunked me. I was so mad and felt so dumb but also felt an urge to learn and get better through all the toxicity that this community can endure sometimes. People can brag, people can feel pumped to have a good win. It all comes with work and practice for anything in life. Also, just like with most things, you are going to have bad people try and ruin it for you.
I’m sure some liguist out there will correct me but isn’t the letter “Z” pronounced as “zed” in pretty much every dialect of English outside The U.S. ? (and similar in many other languages.i.e. French-zed, italian/spanish-zeta )
That said, why did people universally gravitate toward acceptance of “EZ” for “easy?”
ez? That must have been brought up by some Fortnite kiddies. Back in the good old Gears 1 days you left the last one down and banged him with your whole team to show him disrespect. 
Honestly I would love to see more gg as an indicator for sportsmanship too.
Never heard the letter Z pronounced as “zed” but I would think it’s easier to type up rather than typing easy? I mean, abbreviating is easy.
Majority of the Gears community is pretty toxic. Kind of accept it and have fun with it. In the communities defense. TC kinda “F’d” us with a half finished game, that only recently feels like a complete game a year later after any hope for a new community has come and gone. But yeah, I’ll try and hit that “gg” 1 extra time for ya.
https://grammarist.com/usage/zee-zed/
Guess it depends on whether or not you learned to speak English from British or American influences. i.e. Canadians say zed.
I get that EZ is faster to type than “easy” in American English. Point still stands that most of the world says something closer to zed so adopting “E-Zed” for" easy" would make less sense for everyone outside the US; This is especially true in Spanish speaking countries where pronouncing EZ sounds nothing like “fácil.”
Doesn’t matter in the slightest though. I still respond with “cool arrow” because it doesn’t sound vulgar in English.
Well said. Have you noticed it’s normally the under performer of the other team who normally says EZ? Daddy didn’t show him any approval when he was a kid. Here in the UK we read it as “eeee zed” so is hilarious coming from a nation whose leader is called trump. Which means flatulence. Laugh it off. Those kids will be serving your burgers in McDonald’s next year 
XBox360 thought me how to insult in lots of different languages so to French players being toxic to me I just say Je nique ta grand mere