If he’s from Europe, I think they’re still experiencing issues in regards to the servers so that may explain it.
If he’s from Asia, that market is a lost cause. Truly feel bad for the 1 or 2 people from Asia who bought the game and end up on NA servers with 800+ ping.
I think he was from Scotland,cool gamer,as I’m from England,having a good laugh,between us,many thanks for the info thou, I will stay away from pvp,until fixed especially ranked,loved playing that on gears 4
stream/viewers and steam charts are the only two metrics I know to get an idea of how big a playerbase is.
https://steamcharts.com/app/1097840 Gears 5 came out a mounth ago and cant break 1,200 concurrent players a day on steam.has less than 2 k viewers on twitch.
it’s a good indication that the game is falling hard and I wish I could see how many people are playing on Xbox because it would probably reflect the same way.
Edit: also it dropped from the top 10 most played games to 256th game on steam in a matter of weeks.
Personally the Steam thing is not really relevant to me for this game, since it launched on Gamepass, I would think most people would have played it through that on PC.
I can find matches super quick in almost any mode I play, lots of people hosting servers when I search manually, and the game is still pretty high up on the XBL charts. I just looked and BL3 dropped quite a few spots as well. This is a very busy period with games and imo Gears 5 is doing fine and it will have its ups and downs, but personally I’m not worried at all about population.
It should continue to do well as more Gamepass subs happen and it is of course up to TC to continue to support and update it to maintain & grow a healthy population, that’s definitely part of the equation.
You would think more people would be playing for under 20$. I’m willing to bet there are less than 15k people playing at any given time on all platforms. That it is surprising seeing the game is barely a month old and a AAA title.
The way content is now and the way they are updating the game content won’t be here till the games dead af. Pretty soon you will only be playing the same people.
meh steam and twitch, most good streamers use mixer, then again most people that stream and played gears 5 never play any other gears and the fact it is through game pass is most likely the only reason they played/streamed it. But after all said and done people need to STOP watching people play the game and actually play the game themselves.
437 people watching streams on mixer. even worse.
Not True, maby doc and shroud.
All I can say is that I hope Halo Infinite doesn’t also bungle the first month so hard.
Regional Matchmaking is so important to get right from Day 1, people just stop playing if the experience is ■■■■■■. People on the wrong servers, quitters, bots in quickplay, and mainly just what feels like BS gibs and moment to moment gameplay (the broken kill cams DO NOT HELP at all) are the driving factors I would say.
Even on my local server there are some absolutely hair pulling moments of questionability. The game doesn’t feel fair. You can’t see where you went wrong or got outplayed if it just looks like they teleported or glitched. Wallbouncing and moving around like a spastic has always been part of gears gameplay but here it just feels frustrating rather than impressive because 1 in 5 is clearly a bug/connection issue so ti makes you question the other 4. Puts a sour flavour to the whole experience.
Can’t believe they got the weapon tuning wrong for a whole month.
All the good decisions they made get drowned out by these factors. Even the excellent and well received campaign can’t save it at this point. Sad really.
I’ve warned them several times this was going to happen, but they don’t seem to get it.
They make bad decision after another and the thing is, the game could be the greatest Gears that’s ever been released.
There is so many minor things wrong that it just ruins the experience.
Last night I was playing and I literally killed a guy full on to my left that o clearly missed and he should have killed me. I felt his pain even though I killed him. This issue is bullet magnesium, I don’t even understand why this is in the game at all.
Then when you use the sniper or torque all you have to do is put the guy in the middle of your screen hold left trigger and the game does the work for me. I’ll admit I’ve always been absolute trash with the torque bow, not in this game 5/5 every time and I even missed a few times and it still sticks to them. Aim assist shouldn’t be in any of the multiplayers.
The omen itself has killed me from simply losing track of opponents due to having a hard time seeing. Should have kept the original, it wasn’t broke, don’t fix it.
The lancer is super strong, but this could be due to the magnesium and aim assist helping it as well. Remove those 2 and we’ll see where we are at.
Shotgun is has stupid range again. Needs nerfed on that and the clip size needs to be put back to 8, idk who said that needed to be changed. Again, not broke don’t fix it.
Shooting delays need to be removed with the shotgun, makes the game feel clunky and can’t get any fluid kill sprees going.
How do you expect any game to compete with Farming Simulator 2k19?
It’s not possible.
Bruh they’ve even got a pro circuit for the game. I almost wanted to throw away all my gaming related possessions when I learned that and pickup another hobby like rock or stamp collecting. 
meh I would rather play the game than sit there watching someone play a game
Some people like myself watch streamers every now and then to either A. Learn something, or B. See if I like the way a game looks before I buy it.
Me aswell, only used twitch to get a feel for how the game is doing. Like I said I dont know of any other metrics to judge player count.
16th most played Xbox game (well, what I see) on https://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/store/most-played/games/xbox
Whatever that means lol!
Means it’s not in good shape.
It’s getting that way already, I was day off yesterday and decided to try again, same names every match.
Absolutely. The game itself isn’t really terrible but they have made horrendous decisions.
It’s sad that not everyone thinks like this. If it helps them - good. If it hurts them - bad. No no no, it is either good or bad and it is clear that it has never been worse in Gears.
Yup, been saying that. Have to tone down the aim assist and remove the magnetism to truly see what is up.
This is an infuriating thing for me here. They know, whether they like it or not, that a lot of people equate Gears to Gnasher. Why insist in going to such lengths to nerf that play style? Not only reduce the ammo but have the dumb new reload for it. The thing is that for them, it was broke so they fixed it - smfh.
The shooting delays - I keep hearing lots of talk about that but I’d like to see actual stats on it because I personally feel like the delay is not a problem. In Gears 4 it was absolutely unbearable but in Gears 5 I love how I can get the kills that I wouldn’t have gotten in Gears 4. That is one thing I like about the game, how you can fire right away like in Gears 3. Again, would love to see actual numbers because people don’t seem to agree on this.
Never heard of that guy…was he your typical trash streamer or one of the not so bad ones?