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Gears of War Forums officially shutting down in favour of Discord and other social media

  • SpirochaeteSpirochaete3,628,163
    Posted on 30 March 23 at 16:12
    Jazzy201 said:
    I never really liked Discord. I had to get into it heavily during the Gears Pop days. Never before and never since-
    Discord is not for everybody.

    Including not for me. Reading a conversation backwards, that then tends to reset itself when you open a link is facepalm
  • EazyE2285EazyE22851,147,010
    Posted on 30 March 23 at 17:55
    I know I’ve seen hundreds of posts here where someone suggests a discord and people say no thanks and look elsewhere for their answer. This doesn’t effect me personally but I’ll never join discord.
  • Posted on 30 March 23 at 20:06
    I miss the good old days...
    Beware of the grammar police!
  • Posted on 30 March 23 at 21:59
    Damn, this hits hard
  • vgmkylevgmkyle216,701
    Posted on 31 March 23 at 07:11
    I continue to use forums on a daily basis. Too bad to see this one go; it wasn't a bad forum. Especially during Gears 3.
  • EI BikerboyEI Bikerboy563,275
    Posted on 31 March 23 at 07:16, Edited on 31 March 23 at 07:22 by EI Bikerboy
    Resident eLail said:
    Resident eLail's blog post - Quitting Gears

    ^^ Don't regret this choice and have kept my promise. Haven't booted a single Gears game since I posted that. Gears hasn't been "Gears" for a long time, and it's squarely the fault of The Coalition...
    You should have finished Gears 5 bro..
  • Darklord1899Darklord1899610,842
    Posted on 31 March 23 at 09:31
    This is typical of the Coalition who have done everything they can to destroy Gears of War. Product support for 3 years while the awful ESO has 29 pieces of new DLC, and something is always happening in the game. This is the level of support we need for Gears.
    Fifteen men on a dead man's chest Yo ho ho and a bottle of rum Drink and the devil be done for the rest
  • Ashley6200Ashley6200812,170
    Posted on 31 March 23 at 09:38
    Discord is not the same as a forum. They do not do the same thing and Discord is not a replacement for a forum. I don't play Gears but I've had a few games force you to go to their Discord for anything, even news and I hate it. Trying to get a specific piece of info from a Discord is like searching a stranger's old MSN Messenger chat logs, so much time wasted wading through inane chat and emojis.
  • NotShibaNotShiba57,235
    Posted on 31 March 23 at 10:35
    Steve Stref said:
    They like discord because of it's fascistic thought policing abilities. Discord has been politicized and weaponized by the delusional Twitter crowd to shut down speech. Any company who abandons a forum based discourse for this loser app that bans people from it for opinions they've had completely separate from the app itself, is not a company that has any interest in what the fans have to say.

    They're just another corpo shill garbage company who can't handle criticism so they stifle the community and only listen to the morons who praise them and everything they do while simultaneously not buying the product, just so they can blame all their failures on "ists and phobes" and not their contrived, low quality, box checking, bullshit games that suck.

    Cliff Bleszinski ended up being a d-bag anyway so not surprised he handed his company over to another bunch of little shits who probably spend more time writing their DEI statements and HR guidelines than the code and scripts for their games hahaha.
    This is the funniest comment I've read all week. Thanks for the laugh!
  • Posted on 31 March 23 at 11:33
    and Ubisoft are doing the same
  • Steve StrefSteve Stref510,597
    Posted on 31 March 23 at 12:07
    NotShiba#8819 said:
    Steve Stref said:
    They like discord because of it's fascistic thought policing abilities. Discord has been politicized and weaponized by the delusional Twitter crowd to shut down speech. Any company who abandons a forum based discourse for this loser app that bans people from it for opinions they've had completely separate from the app itself, is not a company that has any interest in what the fans have to say.

    They're just another corpo shill garbage company who can't handle criticism so they stifle the community and only listen to the morons who praise them and everything they do while simultaneously not buying the product, just so they can blame all their failures on "ists and phobes" and not their contrived, low quality, box checking, bullshit games that suck.

    Cliff Bleszinski ended up being a d-bag anyway so not surprised he handed his company over to another bunch of little shits who probably spend more time writing their DEI statements and HR guidelines than the code and scripts for their games hahaha.
    This is the funniest comment I've read all week. Thanks for the laugh!
    toast
    I'm just a guy, staring at each new Rockstar update, asking it to be single player DLC...
  • boldfoxrdboldfoxrd574,927
    Posted on 31 March 23 at 16:10
    This is terrible. I loved and used forums so much in the 00s and even made my own gaming one. Why the original has to be shut down in favour of Discord, I'll never know. Do Coalition have only £1 in the bank or something? There's no way they can't afford to keep it running.
    rdenton85 that is my ps3 id
  • DiegoTanDiegoTan685,862
    Posted on 01 April 23 at 17:25
    I am thankful to TrueAchievements for letting us comment under news and stuff. It's always interesting to read varied opinions on things.
    Gotta keep moving
  • Posted on 03 April 23 at 23:34
    its done now, its shutdown because "fewer people were using the forums as opposed to last year", and now GOW4 and GOW5 are designated modern, and GOW1, 2, 3 and Judgment are "legacy"
    it sucks because now it's split up, unless they can somehow control the flow of 175,000 people rushing in and spamming general
    ImmatureHealer - Hybrid Soggy Mango - Since November 2014
  • xMoBBzYxMoBBzY559,310
    Posted on 06 April 23 at 09:33
    Considering they banned you for disliking an aspect of the game and having a discussion about it, good riddence.
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