Because a whole host of things went wrong with the update which was why the characters supposed to be out in September are here now(tomorrow). Including the PvE patch stuff not coming into the game. TC is still looking into the things that went wrong and likely have no updates to provide, yet. I reckon when they do there’ll be a Twitter post or Sera informs us of it. Or maybe they’ll post it in the What’s Up. The latest update was this, nearly a day ago :
Not aware of anything else right now.
I wonder if TC was planning on a trailer in a couple of weeks but characters got leaked so that plan went in the trash. But maybe they’ll release a trailer tomorrow. Didn’t they release the trailer for operation 4 the day of the operation?
Official Gears forums on Twitter not updated?
Say it isn’t so.
I sense sarcasm here. But @TC_Sera has been fairly active about this stuff and acknowledging it, so I think we can forgive this one. Maybe.
I haven’t seen anything on the dud update or store mishap.
Not even this?
But there hasn’t been a specific pointer for the update issues other than that things are being looked into that players mentioned.
Ok. They acknowledged.
Missed that.
Were was the hype buildup?
That was not around. If TC standards for hype building were anything to go by so far, they would have teased something a week beforehand and then released another teaser a day or two before this thing got out. I would unlikely have been very interested in it if this was all they were doing for 1 year of Gears 5. No playing Versus so Sraak is of little interest, and I don’t play as Sam or Minh.
But as we all know Tuesday happened and likely threw their plans to the wind so they came up with this on short notice.
We agree.
Nope. Marcus still has his Rifle Feedback card at the original OP4 levels
If we know TC, and we do, it will be patched at 3 in the morning on Sunday with no prior announcement.
I just want my Mac buff 
So … to celebrate (almost) one year of Gears 5, we get a “surprise character drop” that we have to pay for. What a surprise! Outstanding move again TC!! Happy anniversary!!! ( -_-)
So, it’s tomorrow.
Why they not in the store yet? It’s 2:30pm here…
Because it’s like 6:33 AM in Vancouver and Store updates happen around 10 AM there, which is 6 PM in the UK.
To me - that’s not an excuse. lol. Time the releases for the start of the day in each region!
That’s not how TC seems to roll for the most part. Just the way it is.
The game launched that way. shrug Sadface. I neeed Sam!
I don’t get the excitement. It’s new content sure but it’s also old stuff. Can’t we have characters from the game that’s still not in the game and characters from the lore that’s never been added before? This is Gears 5 not Gears of War Greatest Hits Smash Bros All Stars.
We need Johnathan Harper, Will Carmine, Helena Stroud, Carlos Santiago, and maybe a playable Maria?
The weapon skins in this are very nice.
Haven’t seen em yet the store hasn’t update for me at all