Gears of War Multiplayer Map Pack 2

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PHC x NaZ — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 19:44:08 GMT

Wait 30 more minutes, thats when new content I notice usually appears after it's released.

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ScuzzyBunny FTN — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 19:44:08 GMT

Where is it???

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MediaSoldier — Tue, 08 May 2007 07:04:40 GMT

Great maps, got them yesterday the only one I didn't really find that good was Garden but still worth those 800 points! I wish people would quit complaining it's pointless.

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H1TnRON — Tue, 08 May 2007 00:17:49 GMT

Going to wait until September. I really want these but MS is really pushing the boundary of squeezing too much out of us. We are paying monthly or an online service that is FULL of sponsor ads and we already paid for the game. Something stinks when the developer wants the content to be free but the publisher is forcing them to charge. But yea, I bet it was a very difficult game for MS to make. Oh wait, MS didn't make the game...Epic did.

BTW- I probably would have shut up and paid if MS would have sold them for $5 instead of $10. I wonder how many others are in the same boat...

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Shot2 — Mon, 07 May 2007 14:29:24 GMT

So..

£40 for XBL Gold

£45 for Gears of War

and you charge for download content? I think you are basically ripping the Gamer off, you know we'll buy the maps so your taking us for a ride, thanks Microsoft.

Can we please go back to the days of GR:IT with about 12 d/l maps all for free...? What happened to those days? Oh yeah The Marketplace, Microsoft's new scheme to rinse gamers for every penny.

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GunForHire — Mon, 07 May 2007 13:12:56 GMT

I'll be waiting till they're free.

The way Epic intended them to be, no?

It's not that £6 is a big deal to me (that's about $12 though!), but they wanted it to be free, and that's the principle here. After all, with DLC, aren't we supposed to get stuff cheaper because there's no distribution/packaging costs other than bandwidth?

To be honest, I'd have been a lot happier if the maps were £1 a piece. Why pay £6+ for 4 maps when you buy the ENTIRE game for around £20 on Ebay? It just doesn't make sense.

It's been said a million times before, but Microsoft's pricing system is awful.

Horse Armour, Lumines in general, GHII tracks, now this, which the creator wants to be free.

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Quicksand — Mon, 07 May 2007 13:10:17 GMT

I am really enjoying the new maps. I think they are great for Annex. Yesterday I played some public matches and the glitching is ridiculous. The people that exploit these glitches are pathetic. I almost always play with members from my friends list so for the most part I don't have to deal with glitcher trash. I really wish Epic would work on a fix (maybe they are).

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II CHIEF OO7 II — Mon, 07 May 2007 12:30:57 GMT

Yeah Me 2 got the same prob with finding lobby's

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ScuzzyBunny FTN — Mon, 07 May 2007 00:39:24 GMT

More info:

I play Gears a few hours every day or so, with the same group of people, which is how we knew there was a problem on the "other" end. Like Waldo said, Ranked match searches in Warzone or Execution were only turning up one or two games, whether you searched with wide or narrow parameters. Also, if someone hosted a game, it wasn't showing up at all on anyone else's search (and many times the "no matches found" message was received). This began Friday evening for us (we played that afternoon with no problems), and continued throughout the weekend. Again, everything worked fine Thursday morning prior to and following the map release (all of us made the purchase), and no one had a problem until about 10:00 CST Friday night. Forums have been receiving similar complaints from some other games as well, but the online online problem I ran into was in Gears Ranked matches. The workaround we ran across was to simply play games no one was playing (Assassination and Annex), and it worked, most likely to the much reduced volume on those game types.

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waldo15 — Sun, 06 May 2007 21:07:39 GMT

More data for the Matchmaking issues. Perhaps not as technical as the XOC team would want but I hope it helps somehow:

Right after downloading the new maps on Thursday (05/03) at about 5:00pm PST, I launched Gears and I saw only a handfull of games (<5) when trying Ranked matches (I searched for ANY match 1-19 rounds). I thought this was due to the fact the maps were freshly minted.

That same day at around 8:00pm or so, the number of games dropped to less than 2, even at times no matches would be available. In the games I was able to join, other folk were stating they had similar experience.

On Friday I was pretty much out of luck, I was able to only see one Ranked game over a period of about an hour! I tested my network connection and it was good, open NAT and everything.

However, last night (Saturday) around 7:00pm, I was able to see plenty of ranked matches. I thought the kinks had been worked out so I did not pay too much attention after that.

If you open a new post Major regarding this XBL connectivity maybe we can do follow ups and whatnot. Not that the Ranked system hadn't been borked in the past :)

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Major Nelson — Sun, 06 May 2007 20:45:07 GMT

If you are having matchmaking issues....please post as many details as you can about any problems you are seeing. I have the XOC looking into it...but they need more data.

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StingerMS — Sun, 06 May 2007 19:33:52 GMT

Which is irritating, since those are the two important gametypes.

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ScuzzyBunny FTN — Sun, 06 May 2007 15:10:35 GMT

The maps aren't broken...XBL is. Supposedly there is some "pre-update" maintenance that started Sat night that is messing up a lot of XBL ranked games (most noticeable in Gears because of it's popularity). My friends and I found that Assassination and Annex still seem to work, but Warzone and Execution are virtually dead.

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Anton — Sun, 06 May 2007 11:29:46 GMT

"...although I was going to post about the stuff they posted on the PR blog about 'Xbox 360 Marketplace Territory Controls Strengthened' but I am not sure I could add much more to it."

It's ok Major, we've got the work-around ready to roll as soon as MS tries to sabotauge Live some more.

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visionrider — Sun, 06 May 2007 08:58:46 GMT

A lot of people are not buying maps as it is wrecking on line you can not get in game if you have maps you can only play with people with maps and as a lot of people will not pay for what was to be free online has gone to dogs very few matches comeing up on game lobbys to chose from I buy a lot of online but in europe we dont get a lot of stuff US market gets when it first started we had artist of month not now very few music items with out paying for them we still have trailer for Narnia as download film has been out on video for over year you need to clean up and get upto date content for europe we are like Atlantis the lost gamers its like we sunk into sea to be forgotten

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Mike — Sun, 06 May 2007 08:39:38 GMT

@sidearms

So why didn't you comment about my first sentence? Trying to stay away from that topic? As the new warranty update states(which you posted the link to) wait wait, copied word for word, you know...VERBATIM! It states:

In either an in warranty or out of warranty situation, MOST customers will now receive their original console back from Microsoft.

Most customers! But in your case not...so again, they(MS) didn't lie about the warranty, but apparently if the rep and supervisor did tell you otherwise, then they did lie. The support staff and their supervisors are a different department than the repair techs... they have no idea what will happen with the repair and can't find out(That's what I was told during one of my many calls!) So who's right...those you spoke to, or the techs I spoke with? Like I said, different answers all the time. As for them being able to fix the console, you don't even know what was wrong with it, you only think you do going by when the console broke. I would say I feel for you in this situation since I've been through it myself a couple times, but with your attitude and ignorance....well I couldn't care less! You can reply if you wish, but I won't be back to read it...this is not worth anymore of my time. As for me getting over it, don't worry, I was never bothered by it!