Hidden 2 x Escape Character XP behind double boost paywall

Gears 5
#1

Typical greed, you will only receive double Escape Character XP if you have Double Boost active. Basicly, you need to pay for double Escape XP via purchasing Double Boost if you don’t currently have any active.

See alse this Reddit post:

This is the lowest of low - well done TC for ruining a great franchise with your greed and carelessness.

You’ve had so many chances to to make amends, yet you still don’t give a flying f@ck about the Gears fans. You still persist to show how greedy you are. How can you not even deliver an XP event without thinking about $. I mean come on, seriously? (No pun intended)

Undoubtedly one of the worst developers to date. It’s shown by lack of goodwill, pure greed and just straight arrogance.

I really do question who makes these decisions? What on earth goes in those boardrooms is beyond me.

Useless.

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#2

You have to pay for events now.

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#3

Makes me wonder, when this 2XP Escape weekend was planned last month (and then cancelled) was it also reliant on having Boost? I don’t remember them mentioning it, if so.

Or was this just a new, last second idea as a way to further milk us?

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#4

Played 1 escape and noticed that I did not get any 2 xp so I stopped playing. It was trickery.

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#5

I knew something was up. Played a few games yesterday and was still getting 400-1200xp per game (depending on the difficulty and number of times I died)

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#6

I’m not quite sure how they thought they would be able to avoid a serious backlash from what’s left of their rapidly diminishing player base.
Unless something drastically changes with their business model then there won’t be a Gears 6. They are killing the franchise by alienating one of the most dedicated fan bases in the gaming community.

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#7

very disappointing, no wonder this game is hemorrhaging players. Treating a AAA $60 game like a free-to-play mobile app

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#8

It finally happened.

#9

It’s really crappy. Not to mention that double stars should apply whether or not you have boost. That’s also wack.

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#10

Double star weekends don’t apply unless you have boost active?

#11

Yes
You have to have boost to get double stars.

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#12

Yes this is the gift from TC… Extra salt to everyone.

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#13

Sounds like boosts are going up before Christmas! They have to buy Christmas presents!

#15

Don’t play this game people. Let it die. Show them that you won’t put up with any of this bs.

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#18

Damn, I was just coming on here to see why there was no bonus stars…

Thankfully I got a few Pringle codes saved up, but still…

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#19

ow thats it i placed a topic why i didnt got 2xp
well thats a bummer i ony got 250xp well being mvp with lahni in the trap
over 15 escape since Friday and it looks i am getting less xp

#20

It wasn’t hidden, we knew before it launched that it was tied to boost.

But yeah, really bad and greedy move on their part

#21

Alright listen gears 5 maps free and so are the characters but everything docs you can pretty much get as long as you play the game. TC need to make money for resources to make the game. I’m tired of gears fans complaint that’s all people have done since gow1. Man up and grind the game. Yeah so what that’s pay to lvl up faster but who cares it’s ur level it doesn’t mean anything. TC is trying hard this is the first gears game where you don’t have to pay for anything.

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#22

Didn’t play gears4 then? Maps were also free for everyone, which yes is a great thing, i personally care not for overall xp and player level, and I totally support MTX as a way of supporting games I love getting future content/sequels

But THIS isn’t THAT to me, it’s all about the stars for challenges, I’ve been ‘grinding’ the game every minute of my available play time since launch EVERY DAY, and it’s still not enough. I would probably need to buy boosts or pay to reroll challenges to hit General for that part of the achievement, and I find that particular element of it all VERY distasteful

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#23

Yeah I thought this was a shady move by TC and Microsoft.

Although on the flip side if you tend to buy boost on a weekend which I’m sure people do then you will get more value for your buck.