Gears 5 is NOT F2P. Stop Treating it as Such

Gears 5
#36

Games also have a larger market than they did. More people play games than ever. Advancements in technology and development practices have also made it easier on their time and budgets. Stop peddling this non-sense. I’m not even completely opposed to microtransactions but I ask of the game to be decent in their system, which Gears 4 at the start wasn’t especially with that first event box (remember 4k credit UIR boxes?) and Gears 5.

$7 for country flags? 1k headshot kills for 1/6 the progress to Winter Kait? A campaign skin of the lead character? Needing to complete challenges for arbitrary star amounts to the ToD to unlock basic ■■■■ like campaign variations of the campaign’s main cast? This is ridiculous. This is a F2P battle pass model shoved into a Gears game.

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#37

“easier on their time and budgets”… lol
Wildly incorrect. The development teams and financial investments are incredible compared to the era I referred to (when games first hit $60). It’s silly that someone would claim otherwise. Final Fantasy II cost me well over $60 more than 30 years ago. The production crew for that entire game is probably smaller than the janitorial crew who cleaned up after the Gears 5 team.

#38

500? I only got 250. Tf

#39

Yes, is insane the time need to get some stuffs. Only for those who don’t have a job or go to school or have so much free time. That’s crazy.
I understand why today games can’t let unlock items offline or even customize my character and weapon skins because this horrible system always online on anything, even campaign collectibles aren’t recorded unless you aren’t online.
I can’t play offline horde again because this mania of do always online. That’s why I never returned to Gears 4 horde.
One more thing, the quitters on any mode, specially horde, again like Gears of War 4, people who only join a game but don’t play, or play like lonewolf, 0 teamwork, but this is not TC fault, is that stinky behavior of the players. But the rest if TC fault.

#40

Lots of people wanted to get rid of the loot boxes and credits. Now look what is brought us. I’d rather the credits that you earn throughout gameplay.

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#41

It’s all about the Benjamins…They don’t care about the (hardcore) community anymore…
Gears5 ? Or call it Fornite modern warfare:rage:

This game is broke, but i hope the communty will punish The Coalition for this ***ing sht

#42

I grew up with NES and such and i somewhat disagree with the statements about games price. The thing is back then when we were kid we didn’t needed the game at release. You could get it very far and it was still as good. It was complete on the cartdridge. Also we could rent games on weekends and have tons of fun. Now if you rent a game for a weekend, you barely can do anything in it. Actually you gonna spend time installing it and patching it first… how fun lol.

As a kid i owned some cool games that i got on my birthday and christmas, and the rest we rented on the weekends. You could play a game for months and still have fun, games were simplier back then.

As an adult, in an internet world, its not the same.

I think the best era was the earlier years of the 360. Remember Gears 1? 2 free maps, then 4 maps for roughly 12$. Didn’t mind at all to pay that !

Now the problem is the ridiculous prices. I wouldn’t mind paying 15$ a pack of 4 maps every 3 months, if that was the ONLY thing i had to pay for. Or hell, gimme me emotes and banners etc for 1$ each… im cool with that !

But right now, its made in a way that you need to grind your butt super hard (wich as an adult with a life ain’t easy) or pay LUDACRIS ammounts of money. 7$ a flag really?

Characters should be 3$ at most, other cosmetic stuff 1$.

And as i said previously im worried for the tour of duty as its linked to an achievement too… so we HAVE to do it. But no way im wasting ludacris ammount of money on iron to refresh my objectives…

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#43

Personally I loved the credits system.

Just didn’t like the low amount of scrap worth for dupes.

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#44

I miss the credits man. I played a ton of Horde and left Gears 4 with 420k worth of credits. I never had a problem getting skins I wanted.

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#45

I’m ok with the way they did this, I could care less about a lancer with neon lights. No random loot boxes you can buy is a good thing. They are the biggest peeve of mine.

I understand game developers and publishers need to make money. We as the consumers don’t have to buy their over priced skins if we do not want to. And not buying them will do more for lowering the prices than getting mad about it.

As far as less content in game, I know it sucks but with inflation prices will either go up or content will go down. Since they are not raising the price on games (yet) it is only expected to see content going down. I don’t like it but I understand it. If you really don’t like it wait a few weeks, video games loose retail value fast. I’m sure by Black Friday the game will be 50%-75% off somewhere.

#46

Xbox Game Pass is a thing… This game is very, very cheap.

Is there anything in the MTX that you have to purchase to play the game?

I will never understand these complaints tbh. Who is forcing you to buy silly skins? Just…don’t buy them if you think they are too expensive (they are).

#47

At this point, I am surprised to say that Gears 4 system looked fair. For playing couple of hours of horde, I could get 1200+ gold which would give me 3 horde packs. Here in Gears 5, no matter what you do you are always few irons short of anything at all.

#48

You - “Hi, I excuse ■■■■ being rubbed in my face because I can’t understand what someone is saying because we gotta think about the poor millionaires and billionaires making these games.”

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#49

You do realize…we got these unlocks in previous games before? You realize Xbox Game Pass in 4 months pays off a big triple AAA game under Microsoft right? You know a lot of people are looking favorably on the game pass system right? Skins and unlocks are PART of the system in enjoying the game right? You get unlocks for playing. You see your character, you show off your skin to everyone. Skins were explicitly marketed as the content as the reward for gameplay right?

#50

You ok there guy? I’m guessing that melt down was due to the fact you couldn’t figure out how to debate the point any further so it looks like we’re done.

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#51

Ah yes, reply with “mad bro”, very debate like. You’re excusing the cutting up of content for a damn large videogame publishers who definitely aren’t struggling. Psst. Things do lose value over time. Also btw again you’re using 1 point to somehow prove that my point was false? I’m sorry but you just happened to ignore everything else that I said, instead you went “hurr durr they have larger staff sizes so obviously they should be given free pass to overmonetize”.

We got characters with vastly less grind and even had a larger selection in previous titles. Gears 4 has an in game currency system far more generous than Gears 5’s grind your heart out for this campaign skin. 1k headshot kills for 1/6 the challenges for 1 skin. Very generous.

#52

Comments like yours is why AAA games are now running rampant with BS mtx’s and half baked releases. Stop defending multi million dollar companies. Unless your being paid to, just stop…

Me and others warned about this BS back when horse armor dropped and how it will spiral out of control. Decades later. Behold… now with have slot machines in sports games and mobile f2p schemes in full price games.

Stop defending these practices.

#54

I know you and the other guy will have a hard time accepting this but explaining the logic of the situation does not equate to defending. I didn’t spend a dime on Gears 5 and probably won’t, because I don’t like how they monetized it. Believe it or not, you have power as a consumer. You are wrong in saying comments influence aaa titles. It’s MONEY that speaks. Just because I understand what they’re doing and why they’re doing it doesn’t mean I’m supporting it. Just think about that for a little bit before going into another tantrum.

#55

Didn’t read past your first sentence because I already proved you wrong earlier and now all you want to do is fight but read the above.

#56

Crazy I’m not even tripping on skins, don’t care how I look in gameplay. So crazy comparing what ppl complain on Twitter to TC about and what ppl complain on here is day and night. Forum’s are way more negative. Game is only a few days old what did people think? They were going to have some Hugh option and skins and characters? Prices come down on every game once they figure out what reasonable.

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