Well this title might be confusing to most of you, that do not know me very well, but I am a big Gears of War Addict and after I have played Ranked Matches on Gears of War for 8 months or so, and getting all of my weapon achievements online for the game, I feel like now is the right time for me to retire from Ranked Matches on the game

I just felt like there is nothing else that Ineeded or wantedto do in Ranked Matches anymore and I am totally at peace with this decision and this has been something that I have been wanting to do for a while now

Gears of War has given me a lot of great memories and Ranked Matches were a lot of fun at times and there were just certain things that I just do not want to deal with anymore like the online community in Ranked Matches is horrible and is full of Racist ignorant people and a lot of screaming kids and a lot of stupid young punk adults, that try and know it all and I just do not want to put up with it anymore

I must admit out of all of my years of gaming, no game has ever given me so much pleasure from gaming and this game turned me into a hardcore gamer again and I met a lot of great people on Ranked Matches and we went to War together and we earned achievements and kills together and without the help of great teammates, none of it would have been possible and it kept me playing and I had a blast doing it with all of my friends on Xbox live

I saw this game exprience a lot of highs and lows during it's time, like the Developers making bad patches for the game, made the game unbearable at times and it has been painful to see a game that I love so much be ruined by the developers that made the game and trying to accept that was painful

Like when the game first came out, Ranked Matches were really enjoyable, you could get your friends into matches with no problem at all and you could see who was hosting the games from the outside, instead of having to guess who is hosting and you did not have to deal with as much stupidity on there as you do right now

Then came the first update in January of this year, they removed the host name from Ranked Matches in hopes that you would have a harder time playing with friends in Ranked Matches and after that the online community started to really go downhill after that, because you had more random people in Ranked Matches and the only way to earn online achievements for the weapons in the game, was by playing Ranked Matches and because gamers are achievement hungry and everything, you had a lot of argueing over kills and heard the you stole my kill crap all the time and that just got on my nerves

Removing the host name never stopped the smart people on the game from Stacking teams and playing with their friends in Ranked Matches, because everybody knew that there was a way around it and I stacked teams all the time in Ranked and I showed all of my friends how to get around it

What the game really needed instead of removing the host name from Ranked Matches and trying to trap you in random ranked Games was a true party system for Ranked Matches on Gears of War, so you could match up againist rival clans and have Ranked Matches actually mean something and removing the host name along with some of the other things in the first update, just only caused more problems

I also hated the fact that you had to play Ranked Matches to earn online weapon achievements, because Ranked is so overrated and that does not always mean that you are going to face a good player and Epic games refused to allow people the option of earning those achievements in Player Matches, where there is less drama and where you can enjoy the game more. Now I understand that they do not want you to feel like those weapon achievements are being handed to you in Player Matches by friends, and that they want you to earn those againist players that you do not know in Ranked Matches, but like I said Ranked Matches do not always mean facing the best competition and I saw that first hand for months

I got my seriously achievement at the end of March and I lost my desire to play, feeling like I done everything I could do at the time, I got tired of the game and I was getting sick and tired of the game developers coming out with all of these crappy updates, that kept ruining the game and it was hard to see a game, that I loved by ruined horrible updates, so I decided to give other games a chance, but I must admit, it was hard for those other games to fill that void, because Gears of War gave me a ton of fun

Then last week, I still needed to earn 4 more weapon achievements in Ranked Matches and I decided I put them off long enough and that I was not going to stop playing until I got them and after 8 days of playing for several hoursa day, I got them all and I feel like I can retire from Ranked Matches and move on in peace and go out on my own terms

Last Night I only needed the sniper achievement and I started early in the evening and I vowed, that it did not matter how long it would take, that this was going to be the last day or night, where I ever have to play Ranked Matches on Gears of War and I was on a mission and I would not stop until I got it and after 9 hours of playing and getting several kills with it each match, I finally got it and I was relieved, because now I never have to play a Ranked Match again, unless I want to

I have decided that I am not going to be playing Ranked Matches anymore, unless they are to help a friend out with an achievement and that will not happen very often either

My future on Gears of War when I decide to play will be mainly player matches on Execution and Annex and even that will not be very much, because I have played for long enough and when I decide to play, I want a friendly enviorement, where I do not have to put up with a bunch of idiots coming in and ruining things and in Player Matches, I do not have to put up with that kind of garbage, because you can boot them from the room, something that you cannot do in Ranked Matches

I want to thank everybody that helped me out during the time, and made playing Gears of War a great exprience, I taught a lot of people a lot of great things about the game and how to master Tactics, that would work and get kills and wins and I learned a lot from my friends as well during that time

Sometimes despite how much you may love a game, you just have to move on and say I had a great time with it and it gave me a lot of great memories, but there comes a point in time, where you need a new challenge and have to try and find another game to fill that void no matter how hard it may seem and that is exactly what I plan on doing and that is just the way it is