I suspect those recent unlocks are not legit. TC is flat out not changing the event ribbons anymore, so the only possible way to unlock it these days is if you already had 29/30 and have not played the current event.
Yet these people are claiming the event changed randomly and is now stuck back in the one it’s been on for years? Sounds fishy to me…
It isn’t fixed, so unless they were somehow at 29/30 for the past few years and only just got it, then they are cheating.
Figures. But no one at TC seems to care. Tried to ask and best response Ingot was to go tell Epic Games about it.
I hate how their streams are not always advertised in the same place or streamed on the same channels. I downloaded Mixer and Twitch apps and follow Gears of War, Azteca, and EGL, so I get notifications when they go live. That way I’m not searching around to see when the streams are. They gave away the rest of the Desperado skins on Beyond on Mixer, and because they streamed it on a different channel, I didn’t get a notification. I’ve been watching for years and I have never seen them stream on this channel before. Also didn’t see it advertised on their Facebook, Twitter, or website. Sometimes streams are only broadcasted on just Twitch or just Mixer, too. Last night’s dev stream was done on Domez’s channel. The only way I found that out was through a mod in Mixer chat. It seems so random sometimes.
I couldn’t agree more in the sense that the official forums is the most ignored part of the community yet filled with some of the most OGs of dedicated gears. I think tc should have a special tag for post that they put on here that gets jumped to the top of the feed page so we know when they give us an actual update but of course none of this will work unless TC decides to give the forums a chance but I cant recall any big tc members coming on here since March. And it’s funny that this forum is actually moderated for the most part and kept clean with only good thoughtful posts actual being successful and read and pushed forward. Wheres twitter, youtube, reddit is filled with even more “this game trash” people which I’m not sure what kind of good problem solving info they get from that but I have seen so many smart posts on forums (one of the best being this one here friend) just being ignored or forgotten. I do agree this is the first place all official information should be posted (official forum?) And for them to be putting there information separated all over the place and some of the biggest changes and news are covered for 5 minutes an hour in on dev streams while watching gameplay that you could do better in lol just doesn’t do it for me. Especially when you are to jump in and ask the important good questions the best answer they have is to avoid and change topic. Just overall very confusing community and I’m tired of seeing weapon/character/ emotes that were made for special event but poorly communicated to us gears unless you just know everywhere to check and are easily able to read all these sites while playing the game there just isnt enough time for both and it defiantly to me wears this community down by the day. I know the most recent tournament skin wasn’t announced on the forum till it was after the first day, and I didnt get the information till I was scrolling youtube and saw it from a popular gear there which is just frustrating. Anyways hopefully tc will be better with bringing all there info to one place(hopefully OFFICIAL forums) but we will see, thanks for the post
I agree with you that the Official Forums should be the authoratitve source. But that being said, there are multitudes more people on twitter, facebook, twitch/live streaming services than on the gears forums. It makes sense from a numbers perspective. You’ll get more eyes and ears on those sites than you will here.
It would be awesome if they always posted info here first (and they should) but I imagine the new CM will say “hey what’s up?” here on the forums and then hop on over to twitter and the like.
That’s fine if they do.
They can make Twitter the official place if they like.
Just don’t make this the official place and spend more time elsewhere.
Once again, people will be where the devs frequent most. Not vise versa.
Excellent points, as always. I mentioned this same thing twice, once on the old forums for Gears 4 and once at the launch of Gears 5 when they were having issues. To further illustrate why this is needed, I’ll summarize what I wrote the first 2 times.
Case in point: The first Christmas for Gears 4 there was a skin to collect for logging in on one of 2 days. That was announced on the Gears page as well as the log-in splash screen for Gears 4. Come the day to collect and people are wondering where the skin is (was supposed to be the 23 and 28th I think). Turns out that one of the old Community Managers had tweeted out that the date had been changed and now it was just 1 day, on the 29th now. But the old dates were still present everywhere else. No one had updated them and not everyone saw the tweet. Not a big deal, right? Except the date to collect was now after the 2 original dates, so it sounded like a perfect troll opportunity and no one knew what to believe because TC never put out the info in all locations. Or even in their official forums or anything. And don’t get me started on why there’s even an Official Feedback program that you can sign up for if it never gets used.
TC has said they would focus on transparency more in Gears 5 after all the blowback from Gears 4 (especially the Lambent debacle). But I asked for some background on their decisions, especially the ones where TC said it was based on ‘fan feedback’ and TC refused. I suggested they do something like use the Official Feedback program to gather feedback and then publish a summary of the feedback, like a chart showing a summary of how many players wanted a suggested change. That way we could see if the feedback actually reflected the change proposed.
As it is right now, I feel like TC is just making whatever changes they want and cloaking in the guise of ‘based on fan feedback’ to justify doing whatever they want. If TC truly wants to be more transparent they should implement something like what you and I have suggested.
Let’s see if they respond. @TC_Andius @TC_Robbo
This is the same thing that 343 did with Halo 5. They would announce news and updates everywhere else but there forums. Of course they made a post saying that they heard the community and would start updating everyone more on the official Halo forums but that didn’t last long.
TC also said on live stream that they would communicate with the Horde community more on the forums, but again, that didn’t last long.
So even if they say they are going to come to the forums more and post updates, I wouldn’t expect them to continue doing it.
I loved it when the MP guys posted the playlist popularity week on week, and they had a discussion on the thread. Yeah, we didn’t get numbers, but we had a solid middle ground. Shame they don’t do it anymore.
I would like to see something similar here. TC are obviously not going to post population numbers, but it would invoke a little more discussion between devs and people on the forums.
they use the forums ,twitter, facebook ,redditt ,twitch , everything is out there if you know where to look but having the info in one place would make it much much easier , it use to be the forums was the go to place back in the day ,but TC has seemed to move away from the forums
Gears Utility has some of what you want in it …lets see if we can talk to ProGear and see if we cant have him add some more if possible
I should add that I also use Jay’s app to tell me when skins are available for esports streams, as well as for when info releases.
I agree the forums are severly lacking. These forums are the biggest place to share information, have discussion, provide feedback, etc. What good is a quick Twitter post or a post with a link to the website? Also, the website isn’t being updated as frequently either.
Has anyone looked at the history of Dev posts? It’s lacking massively
It would be really nice if someone from TC like @TC_Andius were to chime in and say topics like this have at least been relayed to someone that will review.
As of a couple of days ago on desktop a menu is up the top where news feed is selectable. It doesn’t contain twitter or reddit responses but does have the blogs published on their website.
It isn’t perfect, but it is a start.
Per your request, a thread about trying to get a one-stop catch all that we’ve already had. No point reinventing the wheel since there’s an existing thread on the matter.
Just an additional thought about the “where to have the catch all”. Just because people don’t go to a specific location (twitter, dev stream, trello, etc) now, that doesn’t mean we would not start if there was content there that was of interest to us. To quote a movie “ if you build it, they will come.”
Agreed. Tc themselves said the forums was their main homestead or wht ever you want to call it.
Not everyone uses twitter, fb,Instagram etc etc.
My social media is YouTube ONLY
And I see it’s from enough months ago that the rest of the community didn’t really embrace anything that was set out.
So either, you want us to remove every other community outreach and be inaccessible to users that rely on those, or what?
I get what and why. But you are still failing to see a How.
I never said anything about getting rid of other avenues. I’m just trying to champion a collection point for info. That’s not unlike how there’s a central avenue for submitting bugs and tickets, even though they are discussed in other avenues.
And as you’ll note often on the forums, having bugs brought up here means they rarely get to their central destination, in fact, it has to be mentioned to those posting bugs here to send them to Support.
Sorry, but no, we go to the community where the community is. We have a stop for information. It’s the News Link at the top of this very web page - https://gearsofwar.com/news/ - which has been around during all this. It may not say everything, but it’s what updates we can give when we can give them.