One of our current members just informed us that their friend was recently banned from the Epic forums for criticizing Gears Of War.
Bryantson was commenting on how while the single player game was fantastic albeit short, the multiplayer was filled with bugs and other shortcomings. Soon after the post, Epic contacted Bryantson to inform him that he was banned from the forums forever.
So, I move on to multiplayer with high hopes only to be letdown faster than Hillary when she announces her bid for presidency. How the hell can the multiplayer for "the best" game available today for the 360 not be at least as good as a game that was developed over two years ago and designed for a previous generation of XBOX??? GOW is an amazing single/co-op game but the multiplayer just plain sucks, and I'm mainly commenting on the lobby/connection/results screens. WTF. You click A and wait 20 seconds only to get an error message saying you've been disconnected, search again. Click A, search again, try to connect, can't, search again. Oh ok finally after 5 minutes of this crap I'm playing some multiplayer which isn't that amazing. WTF. It's obvious that GOW developers left a lot on the table, this is a Halo killer in Campaign mode only but doesn't touch H2 in multiplayer. I'm now considering trading in my game! I'm sure a ton of you will soon follow and GOW on XBOX Live will disappear after everyone has beaten the single player 8 times and realizes that the multiplayer flat-out sucks, and that's by the standards of a game released two years ago.
continued trolling, railing against moderation
Date the ban will be lifted: Never
I'm sure the post wasn't the most tactful way of putting things, but banned for life? This doesn't seem like the right way to handle user feed back especially when all the problems in multilayer actually do exists. Apparently the message is, "Don't like our game, then we don't need your feed back."
You can continue learning more about this saga by checking out the forum post in our Gears forum.
We sent an email to Epic for more information and shortly after this incident the poster joined 2o2p to blog about it.
Bryantson was commenting on how while the single player game was fantastic albeit short, the multiplayer was filled with bugs and other shortcomings. Soon after the post, Epic contacted Bryantson to inform him that he was banned from the forums forever.
Bryantson's Post
OK, here's the real story on Gears of War. The single player version was awesome! I loved it like I've never loved a game before =) However, I've never finished any game in my entire life and this one I finished in about a week. This game was shorter than Danny Divito. How is it that someone like me who has a life/job/wife and almost no time to game, finishes one for the first time ever by playing a few hours for a few days???? WTF. WTF. Some people are looking forward to playing the same game again in tougher modes. How is that fun? It's not like new environments, enemies, weapons etc will be generated. You basically know what's going to happen but it's tougher.So, I move on to multiplayer with high hopes only to be letdown faster than Hillary when she announces her bid for presidency. How the hell can the multiplayer for "the best" game available today for the 360 not be at least as good as a game that was developed over two years ago and designed for a previous generation of XBOX??? GOW is an amazing single/co-op game but the multiplayer just plain sucks, and I'm mainly commenting on the lobby/connection/results screens. WTF. You click A and wait 20 seconds only to get an error message saying you've been disconnected, search again. Click A, search again, try to connect, can't, search again. Oh ok finally after 5 minutes of this crap I'm playing some multiplayer which isn't that amazing. WTF. It's obvious that GOW developers left a lot on the table, this is a Halo killer in Campaign mode only but doesn't touch H2 in multiplayer. I'm now considering trading in my game! I'm sure a ton of you will soon follow and GOW on XBOX Live will disappear after everyone has beaten the single player 8 times and realizes that the multiplayer flat-out sucks, and that's by the standards of a game released two years ago.
Epics Response
You have been banned for the following reason:continued trolling, railing against moderation
Date the ban will be lifted: Never
I'm sure the post wasn't the most tactful way of putting things, but banned for life? This doesn't seem like the right way to handle user feed back especially when all the problems in multilayer actually do exists. Apparently the message is, "Don't like our game, then we don't need your feed back."
You can continue learning more about this saga by checking out the forum post in our Gears forum.
We sent an email to Epic for more information and shortly after this incident the poster joined 2o2p to blog about it.
