Gears of War Online = Barren Wasteland....Stripped Naked by Halo 3

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#1 MikeE21286
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Just tried to play a match, no such luck. It is picked clean by all those Halo 3 converts (or those awaiting Halo 3). I wonder what the other online scenes are like. Probably the same.
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#2 deactivated-5e836a855beb2
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It was already like that before Halo 3 launched, sometimes. I know my friends and I tried to find a game, and it just didn't exist.
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#3 RaveRabbid
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Thats what happens when a better online game comes along.
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#4 too_much_eslim
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It was already like that before Halo 3 launched, sometimes. I know my friends and I tried to find a game, and it just didn't exist.Jandurin
Find that hard to believe I always been able to find game on gears. Anyway once the dust settle down the gears community will be back
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#6 blues3531
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i knew once halo 3 came out my friends list was gonnna look like "10 friends online, 10 friends: halo 3" i havent bought the game yet but i may, i was going to last weekend but now orange box is so soon id rather play ep. 2, then portal then tf 2 for ever
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#7 blues3531
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[QUOTE="Jandurin"]It was already like that before Halo 3 launched, sometimes. I know my friends and I tried to find a game, and it just didn't exist.too_much_eslim
Find that hard to believe I always been able to find game on gears. Anyway once the dust settle down the gears community will be back

the gears community and the halo community are the same people...its the same audience you didn't realise this?? every person i played gears with ever was just waiting for halo 3 to come out, im sure theyll be on gears every now and then but halo 3 is gonna be the main online game now

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#8 KirbyFan10101
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Gears online was dubious at best. All that animation invincibility glitching, bullet delay and horrible weapon balance pretty much sealed it.
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#9 GazzaB
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Expected. The other day i had 67 friends online at once, all on Halo 3 except for like 3 people who were on the 360 dashboard.
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#10 deactivated-5f89ab8e63049
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Heh... I'm not surprised. Gears of War's online is pretty poor next to Halo 3's in my opinion.
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#11 alberth123123
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it happen yesterday..i coundnt join a match....there was like 1,500,000 ppl online at the same time....i think it was just too much..
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#12 cj2121
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Thats strange, because I have still been able to find plenty of games to play on halo 2.

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#13 too_much_eslim
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[QUOTE="too_much_eslim"][QUOTE="Jandurin"]It was already like that before Halo 3 launched, sometimes. I know my friends and I tried to find a game, and it just didn't exist.blues3531

Find that hard to believe I always been able to find game on gears. Anyway once the dust settle down the gears community will be back

the gears community and the halo community are the same people...its the same audience you didn't realise this?? every person i played gears with ever was just waiting for halo 3 to come out, im sure theyll be on gears every now and then but halo 3 is gonna be the main online game now

Not really. There are quite a lot of people who prefer gears of Halo. Also FPSvsTPS are not the same community.
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I expected to see that.
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#15 deactivated-5e836a855beb2
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Either way, I'll be happy to play Team Fortress 2 online while the vast majority of everyone else plays Halo 3 :P.
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#16 smokeydabear076
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That is what Halo 2 did to live last time. I had a feeling it would repeat.
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#17 blues3531
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Either way, I'll be happy to play Team Fortress 2 online while the vast majority of everyone else plays Halo 3 :P.Jandurin

me too, hopefully tf2 will have a lot of players though, the people who think halo is overrated and there being better fps games will be on tf2

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[QUOTE="Jandurin"]Either way, I'll be happy to play Team Fortress 2 online while the vast majority of everyone else plays Halo 3 :P.blues3531

me too, hopefully tf2 will have a lot of players though, the people who think halo is overrated and there being better fps games will be on tf2

Well, the problem with that is that the vast majority of TF2 players will be playing on the computer, I reckon.
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#19 Meu2k7
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Thats what happens when a better online game comes along.RaveRabbid

Not on the PC ... all the games have some life left. The community isnt so sheepish.

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#20 mingo123
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only 1 guy plays Gears on my friends list now, i remember a day after halo 3 come out, i had like 18 friends online and all of them playing halo 3, thats the most ive seen on my friends list, usually the most for gears is like 5-6 people playing max and there always someone playing different game but that day whoever was playing online on my friends list was playing halo 3
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#21 RonnieLottinSF
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I still see a few of my friends playing Gears. A few of them have even started playing PGR4. The majority of course are playing Halo 3.

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[QUOTE="Jandurin"]Either way, I'll be happy to play Team Fortress 2 online while the vast majority of everyone else plays Halo 3 :P.blues3531

me too, hopefully tf2 will have a lot of players though, the people who think halo is overrated and there being better fps games will be on tf2

Get it on PC then.

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It was already like that before Halo 3 launched, sometimes. I know my friends and I tried to find a game, and it just didn't exist.Jandurin

it was active before halo 3 launch. there were a lot of 3 rounds(ppl trying to unlock achievements), 9, 10, 11, and 12, and 19 rounds if you searched. i played gears last night it and there were few games made, but took a while to get a full party. imo i think there will be ppl some ppl going back to gears in few weeks. yea its crazy everytime i see ppl in my friendlist online i see all of them playing halo 3 since game came out.

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#24 blizzvalve
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It's the herd. They go play the games that the wind tells them.
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#25 Nugtoka
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There are to many great games out there for 360 now. I don't have time to play a year old game thats for Ps3 owners.
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#26 NAPK1NS
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About time that awful online got what it deserved. Halo 3 is amazing anyway.
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#27 phoenaxe
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Get use to it. It's not going to change anytime soon. Not that many people are going to be playing any games online except for Halo for a while. Which sucks for other games. My best friend isn't going to buy another game this year because of Halo, not even Mass Effect. Halo = Good for Microsoft but bad for other Devs!