With news about Battlefield V being a dead game (as far as being a Live service and future updates) and after reading what happened I can’t help but feel that TC are walking down the exact same path. They should be paying extremely close attention to what happens when the Live service model goes wrong.
I hope this is a wake up call to TC as the last thing I want is for the Gears 5’s roadmap to be ‘terminated’ prematurely
Gears games usually have a lifespan of at least 3 years… We’re not even a year in with 5 and the situation is bleak.
As far as maps go, can you imagine how repetitive the game would be if they DIDN’T copy and paste maps from Gears 4 (Foundation etc)? They were added in out of convenience and not because it was the original plan to but looking back, if they weren’t added when they were, the game might already be dead 6 months in… but I digress
Live service games are a blight on the industry, it makes developers lazy, release a unfinished game then promise to release content in a “roadmap” and add content that SHOULD’VE been there day 1. Let’s also add the whole “Season” crap that games like Fortnite, Apex Legends, COD MW and Gears with it’s Operation crap have where content is exclusive and if you miss out you never be able to get those certain items again.
We dont know for sure with 5. I dont see TC keeping items away from players for the rest of the games life. If its anything like 4 the content will come back around
I have this Games as a service BS. TC needs to step it up
Let’s be honest. 2 and 1/2 years later they are still releasing new content and updates for the game. Gives it roughly a three year lifespan. Ok. That’s normal. Fortnite has been the exception. Most games fizzle rapidly after a couple of years. Boredom sets in. Technology changes.
Develops should work in new games. I don’t want GTA 5 another 12 years.
3 years of support is sufficient for any game. After that community events and such would become the norm.
Oh wow good one man. Great thread by the way. Oh No BF5 is not updating their game with new content anymore. Let’s make a post that has nothing to do with TC or Gears at all and say take notes TC or you will be finished 6 months into Gears 5. Surprised you didnt reference COD in this one either.
To be fair with GTA they keep making quality content for free basically. Thats why its been so popular for so long
Yea we’re already here. Battlefield 5 has been out for 2.5 years with the new update probably adding another few months to the games life which is about the same life span as a Gears game
Big difference. As much as it’s not good I think Battlefield 5 was poorly managed and angered their own playerbase before launch.
Gears 5 is only 6 months on and is making some progress. Whereas Battlefield is already almost a year old if not more, and hardly made many changes (from what I could see) and EA may be wanting to push forward to the next game as well, wherein Gears is in no rush.
Look at all the buisness specialists come out. You don’t have sales figures ( because Microsoft doesn’t release them) and you don’t know what your talking about. Gears is doing just fine. All you doom and gloom people think the forums is a reflection of the community as a whole. Its not!
it’s not just these two releasing AAA titles with missing or unfinished content.
Ubisoft has an amazing history of doing the same.
The last 4 need for speed titles were a mess and completely ruined by the always online BS.
