They still sell some Esports skins so it does really make sense.
I’m sure they have zero plans on making any updates to gears 4, only matter of time when dedicated servers get yanked and go to peer hosting like 3
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Everything in store should be free but that won’t happen
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Yeah I’m forced to play ranked due to ghost players but I think its more fun that way
Can you guys get on ranked? I’ve on got on social quick play for the passed year but never ranked, what this game really could of done with is hosting public games so we can find each other, I really wona get a game of execution it’s been too long!
Tc would not reply though
Excellent choice i like
i think now this may increase…im back and hear other say they are too
Gears of War 4 is far from dead for me :). I get into KOTH matches in about 30 seconds, which are almost always sweaty and fun. Gears 5 can take anywhere from 2-15 minutes for me to get into a KOTH match. And they are almost always boring.
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Dude it’s far from dead, I spent all weekend on it, and even through the week has full rooms
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This might be the best time to start pushing TC a little on this, as it seems from the Dev streams that they are starting to put a little less effort into Gears 5 now, at least from a VS perspective (and its the feeling I’m getting with PvE as well).
So yeah, come on TC, give Gears 4 one last bit of love, its the least it deserves.
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It’s not. Lots of people still play it. I do too and never have to wait for more than a min to find a game.
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I mostly play gears4 so this update would be nice!
Dont like gears 5.
TDM is still very active.
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I’m more than happy to pay for black steel characters lol
That seemed like a reasonable statement, long time ago…
I wonder what percentage of players just gave up on gears after experiencing g5, lol…
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The person that introduced me to Gears games doesn’t play it anymore and he basically said he doesn’t want to play it anymore after we completed the 5 story he hated. He hasn’t played with me since, I can’t even get him to play 4 or 3 with me now 
I think I’ve reached my end of G5 interest…
I gave up on pvp a long time ago, but I stayed in Horde…
I had an experience few night ago which just kinda just killed it for me, the last straw for me…
I loaded up g5, looked to see what custom games were running… So I jump into a Horde on Overload, mid run… I see they have everything except a heavy hitter, so fine, I go in as Demo…
We get to 35, I think, Sentinels… Two…
Ok, hey, I can mark two right? Great!
Nope… 1 stays hidden in the back… 1 comes out… Ok… fine… So I mark it… wait until it stops moving, I drop artillery…
The MOMENT I hit “artillery” the marked sentinel just floats out of the way of the rounds… and I’m like ‘ohh, sure…’. The OTHER one comes out now I used up my ultimate, and both go straight for me, and hover directly over my head, staying above it, so I can’t even shoot at them with the boomshot and keep peppeing me with salvos…
And I just looked at that whole situation, and I thought to my self - what TF am I expected to do here? Really… What’s the “skill” here that I’m supposed to use? Enemy which moves out of the way of my shots, then hovers directly above me so i can’t shoot them…
I just quit (after i got blown up, of course), and I think I’m done with this game…
I discovered that MIT put up a lot of their lectures online. I’ve been watching lectures in nuclear engineering (for fun) and mathematical finance (for my work), and I found those much more interesting and fun than G5…
Sad thought, eh?
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TC_Kilo1062
Could you chase up to see if or when anything is happening with the update here please.
Yeah it’s sad to see the Gears community get split like this, but I also made the switch back to Gears 4 two months into the release of Gears 5 because I just knew it didn’t feel like Gears of War. I never went back for any operations/updates as my main joy has always been (always will be) VS multiplayer. And let’s all be serious here, MOST of us will not enjoy any other mode, i.e., horde, escape which I never even tried because come on, if the gameplay is not fun, these new modes are nullified.
The fact that TC was willing to make all these unnecessary changes to the actual gameplay (i.e. 6 shells instead of 8, knife lunging) made me release that TC has no idea who their fan base is. Absolutely no one asked for these silly changes. They should have just improved on G4’s gameplay, use as your canvas and enhance it even more but instead they watered it down and brought in silly blood sprays and now the characters are doing silly dances etc… I dont even know at this point.
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Ohh, no, they knew exactly what they were doing…
The former studio head said in an interview that G5 was going to be (partly) about “managing fan betrayal”. They knew they were betraying their fan base, making changes which they hoped would open up the game to more players…
Thats all this is about: appealing to AND KEEPING new players… Thry were very open about it…
If you gain 2 new casual players for every 1 loyal '06 veteral fan that you lose, thats a huge win for them…
All these changes… I’m 100% sure that the overwhemling majority of changes are purely the result of their player data analysis, and have nothing to do with that is said here…
Their mandate is to expand the player list… Full stop.
Maintsining the Gears fan base, maintaining the Gears legacy, look and feel of the game, etc: those are distant seconds, those are " nice to have’, only considered if they dont interfere with their plans…
Remember: “it’s always been in gears”: argument used by them when it suited them, but completely ignored when it didnt…
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