Confirmed: Gears of War 2 will DEFINITELY not be coming to PC

[Hooligunn]

I'm sorry but this has to be posted, I was right. After all the big PC arguments against me and why their WILL NOT be a version - read this from the IGN interview.


We've decided we're not going to do a PC version this time around.There we go. For once I am going to brag to all those PC gamers who slagged the hell out of me for arguing against them and bringing up valid, acceptable points - I told you it wasn't guarenteed.

[SOURCE] (http://uk.xbox360.ign.com/articles/906/906298p2.html)

[Marth]

Wow, that attitude SURELY wasn't influenced by JediMindTricks. :rolleyes:

-Marth

[FYC Punker]

yup already seen this.

im actually happy because the pc port killed gears rep.

Does this mean you are planning a Windows version of "Gears of War 2"?

Cliff: Gears of War is a great franchise first and foremost for Xbox 360, and therefore we're focusing on that platform for Gears of War 2. We've decided we're not going to do a PC version this time around.

[coolcat12]

Seeing as I got a 360 now, I don't care.

[Prod1gyXFXA]

thats awesome.

[< Profess >]

Better to do nothing than to do it badly.

[Fred_Perry]

Man, this is so old. Oh wait, I'm mixing things up !

http://news.softpedia.com/news/Definitely-No-Gears-of-War-for-PC-44196.shtml

[WoolyPower]

My Gears of War PC disc is still sitting in my room collecting dust, poor fella.

[babygirl61194]

Seeing as I got a 360 now, I don't care.

haha, yea same here

[Jay the Arbiter]

No PC version eh? Wonder how PC gamers will take it?

[babygirl61194]

No PC version eh? Wonder how PC gamers will take it?

*angry mob forms outside of epic game studois*
date : november 7th, 2008

[< Profess >]

Lol @ Fred Perry's link. Marketing Deja vu FTW.

[Marth]

Wonder how PC gamers will take it?

PC gamers: WE DON'T CARE!

-Marth

[Kantham]

I'm off this site.

I spend the bills for this computer, and I had hopes that epic Games would please us by releasing the game for the PC with the editor and whatnot, but I was wrong. This studio ****ed up UT3. And now they stick to consoles with the game I had the most anticipation for at this time: Gears of War 2.

Firstly, I did my best to keep Gears of War 1 alive to PC. No matter how many comments/feedback I would get from doing them, I do understand from a point of view that Gears of War 1 got a bad reputation on the PC. Alright, just port the game at the same time, and work a better port in all honesty!

I'm moving on to a game that developers cared about us, it's called Spore.
Long time Epic Games, hopefully one day the PC gaming will have a meaning, but not with this studio Apparently.

Bye.

[itsbulmer]

Aw boo hoo

[babygirl61194]

haha.......... (needed 10 characters)

[Steveox152]

This is good...they shouldnt be wasting time on something that is going to cost more to make then they will profit from. Its practical business lol. This is a really smart move

[Pyrokid55]

I knew it too, knew they wouldn't really waste money on a PC version. Way to many drawbacks on it. Suprised they didn't stop selling it in stores lol.

[Marth]

I'm off this site.

I spend the bills for this computer, and I had hopes that epic Games would please us by releasing the game for the PC with the editor and whatnot, but I was wrong. This studio ****ed up UT3. And now they stick to consoles with the game I had the most anticipation for at this time: Gears of War 2.

Firstly, I did my best to keep Gears of War 1 alive to PC. No matter how many comments/feedback I would get from doing them, I do understand from a point of view that Gears of War 1 got a bad reputation on the PC. Alright, just port the game at the same time, and work a better port in all honesty!

I'm moving on to a game that developers cared about us, it's called Spore.
Long time Epic Games, hopefully one day the PC gaming will have a meaning, but not with this studio Apparently.

Bye.

WTF is wrong with you?!

-Marth

[The_Big_TickeTT]

I am glad, this is our (console owners) way of getting back at you guys for the the extras you received when Epic screwed us over. Oh well, though I do feel regret for the people out there how made bad-ass custom PC content, but that is all.

[Hooligunn]

Wow, that attitude SURELY wasn't influenced by JediMindTricks. :rolleyes:

-Marth

Hahaha. No I posted it like this because of the attitude I got from PC gamers, who constantly harrassed me about it.

[Kantham]

Aw boo hoo

I just logged back in to check the comments this would engender.

Aw, MR. Underground is having a nice time here for sure? Are you sure this was even 10 characters long so you could post it? I don't remember how many times I clicked the Report button to help this board get cleaned by one of the best moderator there is.

This board will still need cleaning, and I daresay, by rats of your kind (Underground right?).

[itsbulmer]

Mr. Underground? I don't see why I'd get banned for just saying boo hoo.
Epic works their ass off to bring 360 gamers a great game and you still find reason to ***** at them about it.
Why do you even care what I say. Honestly I don't care that you're mad about it not coming to the PC. Sucks for you and all the other PC gamers. But thats life.

[Hooligunn]

Man, this is so old. Oh wait, I'm mixing things up !

http://news.softpedia.com/news/Definitely-No-Gears-of-War-for-PC-44196.shtml

The thing is, I think things changed when Microsoft wanted some big titles to launch their GAMES FOR WINDOWS LIVE service whilst there wasn't much of a threat around, and so switched that up since Halo would be coming in 07 and the loss of a big seller for 360 to PC for their G4WL service wouldn't matter - Halo would sell bucketloads and no-one would care.

Now it's different - they have their G4WL service with more and more companies signing on to it slowly but surely but they don't have any more big franchises - Halo is still there but it's not the big story arc any more so it's essentially a new franchise in a franchise, meaning Gears of War is now the lead exclusive for the 360 at this time.


I spend the bills for this computer, and I had hopes that epic Games would please us by releasing the game for the PC with the editor and whatnot, but I was wrong. This studio ****ed up UT3. And now they stick to consoles with the game I had the most anticipation for at this time: Gears of War 2.

Kantham, I hate to be honest with you here, but it needs to be said. You were anticipating a game never confirmed for your platform - you presumed something that was never even rumoured to be coming. Why don't you just pick up a 360? Or if you don't wanna do that, play it at a friend's house. Just because you can OWN it on PC doesn't mean you can't play it.

Oh and finally, what does you spending the bills on your computer have to do with anything?

Transferring it across would be less profitable for Microsoft (as more people would go "oh it's coming to PC, not getting a 360 now, I'll just get it on PC").

[itsbulmer]

Wow you don't get their way and you wish hell on everyone else. Immature brat XD

[ARman]

You missed the point 'itsbulmer' It is stupid that they aren't releasing Gears of War 2 on the PC.

Reverse the situation and you would be in the same mood they are!

[MrWaffles]

Wow you don't get their way and you wish hell on everyone else. Immature brat XD
learn to write english properly. And you're the one whos 13.

PS. The game is already ON pc. Thats what they use to build the damn game. Its not made on an xbox.

[Kantham]

Kantham, I hate to be honest with you here, but it needs to be said. You were anticipating a game never confirmed for your platform - you presumed something that was never even rumoured to be coming. Why don't you just pick up a 360? Or if you don't wanna do that, play it at a friend's house. Just because you can OWN it on PC doesn't mean you can't play it.

It was indeed rumored, but Mike Capps obviously didn't like the idea of porting the game once more. I wanted it because doing the editing bits, modding the hell out of it by creating custom maps and ETC is how I envisioned all this. But this is officially not going to happen now.

Rock-hit-my-forehead news.


Oh and finally, what does you spending the bills on your computer have to do with anything?

Hard earned money spend on a computer, hopping to run kick ass titles like Gears of War's on this machine.

[Hooligunn]

Hard earned money spend on a computer, hopping to run kick ass titles like Gears of War's on this machine.

Exactly man - HOPING. We all spent money on 360's HOPING the exclusives that give value to our console wouldn't be repeatedly ported to PC so quickly. It's not so much a case of PC owners getting games we own, it's a case of 360 owners feeling shafted on exclusives they brought the console for by them coming out elsewhere so quickly, let alone at all - when Gears PC came out a year later with exclusive single player content, it was out of order to be quite frank with you. Exclusive MP content is fine, or timed exclusive SP content is fine, but going "hey here's a bit of the story you missed, shame it's only on PC" to the fanbase that brought Gears in the first place is truly unfair. And this is coming from someone who owns and really enjoys Gears of War on PC.

It is a shame for you I know but, to be honest, if you want to kick ass titles like Gears of War, now you know where to go. At least they confirmed it now and not 6 months later when you'd be even more excited of a possible Gears 2 PC right?

[MonsOlympus]

What I dont get is why this news is hot on the heels of Live becoming a free service on PC~!

Honestly Im not annoyed that Epic isnt releasing it on PC, sure I would have liked to play it but Im not buying a specific platform to play "their" games, it wouldnt be the first console only title from Epic either.


Transferring it across would be less profitable for Microsoft (as more people would go "oh it's coming to PC, not getting a 360 now, I'll just get it on PC").

How do you figure? Some people might have paid for GoW twice once on each platform, same goes for UT3! It might sell more 360's but MS is just going to have to face the fact some of us arnt buying shares!

I dont really have a problem with Epic in all this, they just lost me as a customer when they said it wont come to PC, theres not much I can do in the matter Im not going to buy a game for a platform I dont and wont own :cool:

Its a shame because Gears 2 was sounding really kewl but thats my choice and Im sticking with it, Im sure there are others out there who own platforms other than 360's who might want to play this game also.


Hahaha. No I posted it like this because of the attitude I got from PC gamers, who constantly harrassed me about it.

You know though, one day we will all be gamers, just gamers... Not [platform of choice] Gamers! People need to stop all this stuff, both groups can be just as bad as each other and all that does it make the issue worse. Oh PC gamers said this, oh 360 gamers said that... Honestly it needs to end and the best way to do that is to be fair and polite to your fellow gamer.

Thing is some people are laughing now because they were pissed about GoW on PC getting extra content, are we all that spoilt that we need to have equal coke in our glasses like kids? I certainly didnt have any choice in that it was all Epic and to take that out on people who prefer to game on PC is unfair.

Im not gonna blame 360 gamers for Epic's choice in this! If the game came to a platform I already own then I would buy it, as it stands its not :cool:

[itsbulmer]

Gears 2 they said a hundred times an Xbox 360 exclusive. So you really can't get mad that they said its not coming for PC.

[eth-meth]

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2. Flak is crap admin. Carmine was Setup threatened to rape me in a public post. There are people out there who can verify it. I cant provide evidence due to the fact that as f**king usual, the thread got removed due to the number of idiots posting sexist remarks, and Epic trying to hide the fact that most of this forum is populated by arrogant ****s.

You're worried about some guy threatening to rape you on a forum?...

[MonsOlympus]

Gears 2 they said a hundred times an Xbox 360 exclusive. So you really can't get mad that they said its not coming for PC.

Platform exclusivity doesnt mean a thing, you dont know if its timed exclusive or not... Much like what happened with GoW, this time its a more definite NO!

Honestly if companies were more upfront people wouldnt get their expectations up, I dont remember Epic ever saying the 360 version of GoW would get any of the PC content. Didnt stop people from complaining, but who's complaining here?

I think most people are just stating that would have bought the game if it were on PC.

[eth-meth]

Epic works their ass off to bring 360 gamers a great game and you still find reason to ***** at them about it.
Why do you even care what I say. Honestly I don't care that you're mad about it not coming to the PC. Sucks for you and all the other PC gamers. But thats life.

As much as you seem like an asshole, I can't agree with you more. This is so true.

Just another reason to get a 360. I see no reason NOT to.

All the others will have to endure.

[Marth]

Carmine was Setup threatened to rape me in a public post.

Am I the only one that LOL'd at this?

>_>

<_<

Yes? No? It sounded funny...

Yes, this is Sarah/Phayte. Whoop dee doo to those who had already guessed. I barely tried to hide the fact.

I...never expected you to be Phayte. :S

-Marth

[MonsOlympus]

Just another reason to get a 360. I see no reason NOT to.

Well I do agree about enduring but if you dont see the reason not to perhaps you should look into it and find out why others dont or wont buy a 360. Its a touchy subject though so I wont bring it in here, perhaps talk to some friends and people who are on a similar level... Unless ofcoarse you travel in groups that dont game on PC then it might be difficult, Im guessing youd know atleast acouple though :)

[MrWaffles]

Dissapointed in you Marth.

[StandupDown]

As it was written in the kotaku aricle: http://kotaku.com/5043725/no-gears-of-war-2-for-you-pc-gamers
They point out Epic may not be the team behind it, maybe it will People Can Fly again.

Also I want to point out that there a lot of time between now and Nov/Dec 2009. In other words, they can always change their minds.

This could just be another try by Microsoft to get more PC gamers to buy a 360. Sorry to disappoint them, but I'm not shelling out money on a badly designed (RROD) system for one game, and neither will most PC gamers.

And not long ago there was interview with the head or VP of marketing from Microsoft and he made sure to point out:
1) Timing of what you do and say is very important.
This could be a marketing gimmick.

2) They don't like simultaneous releases because it doesn't maximize profit for the 360 or PC. They prefer to release the PC version later.

And last but not least, Epic is a member of the PC gaming alliance. So they should continue to support PC gaming.

But really, this doesn't affect me. GoW has always just been another game to me, nothing more. If it doesn't come to PC's, it's 70$ I'll save or spend on another PC game.

But my money is on marketing gimmick.

EDIT: Oh yeah, I almost forgot. Currently the game has been advertised as a 360 exclusive. GoW 1 PC wasn't announced until 6 months after the 360 release I believe. All during GoW 1 dev time and up and after release Microsoft and Epic both kept saying it was exclusive, exclusive, exclusive (They did the same thing for Halo). Then they announced the PC version. I expect the same.

I reserve the right to say I told you so when it happens, and look forward to reading the complaints from the fanboys (again).

[Hooligunn]

Actually People Can Fly are working on a project as part of an Epic Games / EA collaboration - so they won't be porting it.

[TheWolf88]

I have both pc and Xbox version and Pc version has like one or 2 good maps and thats about all I got out of it the extra missions where ok but nothing to gloat about. all you Pc brats shut up epic has done everything right so far, honestly if they added the parts to chapter 5 and maps gears of war would probly be better for 360 cause you can pick up and play it and BLAST THE GRAPHICS without dropping hundereds and hundred of dollars.

[StandupDown]

gears of war would probly be better for 360 cause you can pick up and play it and BLAST THE GRAPHICS without dropping hundereds and hundred of dollars.I'm sorry? How much does a 360 cost again? Oh yeah:
hundereds and hundred of dollars.Please spell check and use proper punctuation next time.

[Vevion]

I'm sorry? How much does a 360 cost again? Oh yeah:Please spell check and use proper punctuation next time.



A 360 costs way less than a beastly comp.

[Goggles93]

wow i never thought i would see da gears and former gears community arguing like dis :(

[eth-meth]

As it was written in the kotaku aricle: [url]This could just be another try by Microsoft to get more PC gamers to buy a 360. Sorry to disappoint them, but I'm not shelling out money on a badly designed (RROD) system for one game, and neither will most PC gamers.

It could be. Then again, the Red Ring of Death isn't that prevalent anymore. I haven't gotten one since December of last year. I agree that the RRoD shouldn't exist, but it just happens.

I'm pretty sure it's no loss on Microsoft's part whether you get a 360 or not.

You're the one not going to be playing Gears of War 2.

[banish]

STFU...all of you.First of all i am sick of epic acting like Gears of war 2 is the only game on this planet...you know what by the time you actualy make a pc version(if you do it )..what it will be ??november 2009??by that time there will be a lot of supperior games and of course Gears won't be great anymore...and i am sick off console dork acting like a bunch of spoiled brats(did daddy buy you a XBOX??)and pirating all theyr XBOX games...XBOX can be pirated as well so don't blame the piracii on the PC...it is just that EPIC is LAZZY...becouse it is much more hard to make a pc game...shuld i give you examples of PC games that sold better that consoles one??mannnn.....

[U-R-K]

A 360 costs way less than a beastly comp.

Maybe, but you also have to shell out for an HDTV so that it doesn't look like poop. You'd end up spending the same amount anyway.

[uznkeiqmet]

gears of war is a crappy made for a crappy console made for ms-console-gaming noobs anyways. You can keep your GoW. :D

[uznkeiqmet]

Well, that goes to show how much microsoft cares about the pc gaming platform. They want it dead, so they can sell more of their crapbox360 consoles to the kiddies out there. Not that i care. BTW, when is epic announcing that theyre a wholly owned subsidiary of MS? :D

[uznkeiqmet]

...and console games can be pirated too. Theres no escaping piracy...

[Sniper_Killer33]

and so why do you care about gears of war the game sucks any ways i didnt even want to see gears of war one come to pc if they think their game is better then pc the they can push it up their asses bc we got other games to play **** THEM and THEY GAY GAME so if they are not gonna put it on pc they can shove it up their ass bc i dont care

[alphabetmoose]

and so why do you care about gears of war the game sucks any ways i didnt even want to see gears of war one come to pc if they think their game is better then pc the they can push it up their asses bc we got other games to play **** THEM and THEY GAY GAME so if they are not gonna put it on pc they can shove it up their ass bc i dont care

Gears 1 was on PC, and you seem to care since you're acting so angry. Plus if you didn't care and you hate Gears, why did you even make an account on the GEARS forums?... Kinda ironic eh?

[U-R-K]

Plus if you didn't care and you hate Gears, why did you even make an account on the GEARS forums?... Kinda ironic eh?

Not really. These are the Epic Games forums. You know that they made other games besides GoW, don't you?

[uznkeiqmet]

Not really. These are the Epic Games forums. You know that they made other games besides GoW, don't you?

Yea, but none of them matter, anymore, or actually i think they didnt matter since the begginning. Now i know you havent played UT3. :D

[uznkeiqmet]

and so why do you care about gears of war the game sucks any ways i didnt even want to see gears of war one come to pc if they think their game is better then pc the they can push it up their asses bc we got other games to play **** THEM and THEY GAY GAME so if they are not gonna put it on pc they can shove it up their ass bc i dont care

I dunno, i was inspired, and on a roll. :p

[U-R-K]

Yea, but none of them matter, anymore, or actually i think they didnt matter since the begginning. Now i know you havent played UT3. :D

Didn't matter!? I know you've never played ZZT! Lions, tigers, centipedes, now there was gameplay!

[MyrddraaL]

Yea, but none of them matter, anymore, or actually i think they didnt matter since the begginning. Now i know you havent played UT3. :D
The dumbest thing I've ever read. If you think that other Epic games doesn't matter, I really pity you. Gears is nothing compared to Unreal 1...
On topic: the same thing was said numerous times about GoW 1, and yet we have it on PC, so don't laugh too much, x360 fanboys.

[snaileri]

...and console games can be pirated too. Theres no escaping piracy...

I think it's not about piracy here. It's about selling the game console, and you can't pirate it. I'm sure Epic will get good amount of cash from M$ for making gow2 crapbox360-exclusive.

[MonsOlympus]

Well I agree this isnt the time to discuss piracy but either way if someone pirates it or not theyd be shelling out money for a 360 to play it right?


Actually People Can Fly are working on a project as part of an Epic Games / EA collaboration - so they won't be porting it.

You would be right, there is no news on platforms or even about the IP just that there is a project being worked on.


On topic: the same thing was said numerous times about GoW 1, and yet we have it on PC, so don't laugh too much, x360 fanboys.

I guess this why this news is so hard hitting with GoW Epic never said it wont come to PC as far as Im aware (only that it was exclusive), this time its straight from Mr Bleszinski so Im pretty sure he'd be a trusted source on GoW2 game info :p

It could be possible Epic will go back and revisit a PC version but I wont get my hopes up anymore, I'll admit I was hoping we'd see GoW2 on PC but atleast now I know, it would have been better to know before I heard about Horde and all the modes etc.

Edit: Also on the topic of Dr Capps in a recent GoW2 interview, he seemed to get rather upset over PC review scores. Id like to know what Epic would think if GoW2 360 did get the maximum of 6% improvement on scores leaving GoW2 being a 100% rated game. On PC there is room for 12% odd improvement in review scores :cool:

Ofcoarse GoW2 could rate lower but lets just give Epic alittle benefit of the doubt, if there is any regarding this game. There wasnt a great deal over doubt of GoW but we have heard, even from Epic themselves, that there was problems with the release version of the game on 360.

[uznkeiqmet]

The dumbest thing I've ever read. If you think that other Epic games doesn't matter, I really pity you. Gears is nothing compared to Unreal 1...
On topic: the same thing was said numerous times about GoW 1, and yet we have it on PC, so don't laugh too much, x360 fanboys.

I think you misunderstood. What i meant is that UT used to be the most important game line, which practically made them what they are, and, coincidentally, thanks to PC GAMERS. :) Now, for UT3 they produce a really mediocre product, which shows that to them it wasnt as important as before, probably since MS is pushing with their all mighty GoW. I havent played GoW, nor i care to, I go to epic for UT, not GoW, but apparently Unreal Tournament doesnt generate as much revenue as before, so they have to go where the money is, and thats gow. But to me, Epic is unreal tournament, Gow is just Epic failiure.

[zdrapetr]

As it was written in the kotaku aricle: http://kotaku.com/5043725/no-gears-of-war-2-for-you-pc-gamers
They point out Epic may not be the team behind it, maybe it will People Can Fly again.

Also I want to point out that there a lot of time between now and Nov/Dec 2009. In other words, they can always change their minds.

This could just be another try by Microsoft to get more PC gamers to buy a 360. Sorry to disappoint them, but I'm not shelling out money on a badly designed (RROD) system for one game, and neither will most PC gamers.

And not long ago there was interview with the head or VP of marketing from Microsoft and he made sure to point out:
1) Timing of what you do and say is very important.
This could be a marketing gimmick.

2) They don't like simultaneous releases because it doesn't maximize profit for the 360 or PC. They prefer to release the PC version later.

And last but not least, Epic is a member of the PC gaming alliance. So they should continue to support PC gaming.

But really, this doesn't affect me. GoW has always just been another game to me, nothing more. If it doesn't come to PC's, it's 70$ I'll save or spend on another PC game.

But my money is on marketing gimmick.

EDIT: Oh yeah, I almost forgot. Currently the game has been advertised as a 360 exclusive. GoW 1 PC wasn't announced until 6 months after the 360 release I believe. All during GoW 1 dev time and up and after release Microsoft and Epic both kept saying it was exclusive, exclusive, exclusive (They did the same thing for Halo). Then they announced the PC version. I expect the same.

I reserve the right to say I told you so when it happens, and look forward to reading the complaints from the fanboys (again).

True, true, you all guys think that Epic would said anything about PC version few months before 360 release?? That would be stupid for them to do,remember GoW1 was an exclusive too, how long??
And another thing: Cliff said "we're not going to do a PC version THIS TIME AROUND", so that maybe means that another team will port it or they will port it after the xbox release, cos when you read it he said THIS TIME AROUND.

[banish]

actualy i read this treath once more...Gears of War 2 will DEFINITELY not be coming to PC...tell me are you stupid??if you would read what the man sayd to the IGN...he sayd this time around not never and NOT DEFINATELY...are you 10 years old??he sayd what everybody already knew...the PC version woun't be this year but nobody sayd never...lets not forget about the PC ALLIANCE...as everybody already knows Epic is in the PCGA and sustains PC gamming...and on top of that microsoft isn't that stupid to kill Games for windows...actualy this comes after another interwiev from some dude from microsoft,and he says that microsoft must avoid releasing games on the Xbox adn PC at the same time...to avoid shooting themselfs in the foot...think about it

oh and another thing the PC(/windows/hardware/software/pc gamming) is much more profitable for microsoft...do some reseach before saing somethig like that( i mean the ideea that MS/epic wount do a PC version becouse it is to expensive and there is no profit)

[MonsOlympus]

You think this time around is speaking in years? Not as in Epics development cycle?

I spose you could always say that when People Can Fly became majority Epic held they became Epic, so any outsourced port wouldnt be "We" now would it! Im still not getting my hopes up!

[< Profess >]

I think it's not about piracy here. It's about selling the game console, and you can't pirate it. I'm sure Epic will get good amount of cash from M$ for making gow2 crapbox360-exclusive.

Though you have to wonder, if you already own a gaming PC are you going to spend £40 on a game, or £300 on a game plus the (lesser) platform to run it?

In all seriousness refusal to port the game is just going shift interest to a different title, no one in their right mind is going to spend that much for one game.

Gears isn't that good.

[zdrapetr]

Its that simple, to make gears 2 on pc, they have to sell the xbox version first and to do that they have to say its an 360 exclusive and no pc version etc. etc. but then few months later theyll announce the pc version...just wait and see :D if not Im not going to buy some **** console to play this game, I rather wont play it then playing it on console...yeah Im a PC gamer.

[alphabetmoose]

Not really. These are the Epic Games forums. You know that they made other games besides GoW, don't you?

If you hate Gears you hate Epic, enough said. I do know they made Unreal tournament and such. But Gears is one of Epics biggest franchises from just the first game. So they're pretty proud of it. So if you dis Gears you dis Epic pretty largely.

[banish]

its that simple, to make gears 2 on pc, they have to sell the xbox version first and to do that they have to say its an 360 exclusive and no pc version etc. Etc. But then few months later theyll announce the pc version...just wait and see :d if not im not going to buy some **** console to play this game, i rather wont play it then playing it on console...yeah im a pc gamer.

+1 hell yeah;)

[MonsOlympus]

Id just rather think its not going to happen now and be pleasantly surprised when it does than to think it will and then blow up when it doesnt!

[< Profess >]

If you hate Gears you hate Epic, enough said. I do know they made Unreal tournament and such. But Gears is one of Epics biggest franchises from just the first game. So they're pretty proud of it. So if you dis Gears you dis Epic pretty largely.

No points for guessing what their biggest series is. Lol.

He can be a fan of EPIC and only Like UT, because as he said EPIC is UT.
It's still what their best known for.

[zdrapetr]

Id just rather think its not going to happen now and be pleasantly surprised when it does than to think it will and then blow up when it doesnt!

yeah true, but my crystal ball told me its going to come out for PC xD

[Black RL]

If PC gamers actually bought EPIC games instead of just downloading them, maybe they would deserve a better treatment.

PC gamers spend their money only on hardware, no money remains for software, only downloads.

And that's why you keep getting crapy games, delayed games and ports.

[MozI]

Minus rabid, PC or console support.... this just sad news.

I can understand a lot people's frustrations as being a fellow modder and perhaps as being a full time game designer I can see that most likely the 360 exclusiveness is all about $ because at the end of the day that's what matters....sad but I go through **** at work that I can't talk about in detail that pisses me off, that a cool idea gets shot down for another that may suck in terms of design but has a marketing catch to make $$$....

However, I don't see this as an excuse for Gears to keep it on 360 only heres why. Modding community, there is range of talent here and innovation too from folks like Kantham that made entire game modes from simple tools!

I got my job as pro level designer/game designer from modding non stop in UT 99/2kx series.... and still map for fun. Not having Gears 2 on PC in the future just severed and destroyed one talented community. I fear that in the future this forum (no offense to anyone at all) will just be a discussion thread with useless speculations and arguments that do no one any good.

Levels no matter how simple or pro they are add a ton to a community and inspires a lot of people to bring out their creative side. For me Gears was a lot more fun to design maps in than UT 3 just hooked me.... now hearing no GoW 2 PC just un motivated me to make next community Gears 1 map and really don't feel like making UT 3 maps ( for now...)

So my 2 cents is that Epic, if possible, reconsider Gears 2 on PC not now but in the future to help culture and support a great mod community and continue inspire creative minds to shine like you once did on Unreal Tournament franchise and those mod tools on PC.

[zdrapetr]

If PC gamers actually bought EPIC games instead of just downloading them, maybe they would deserve a better treatment.

PC gamers spend their money only on hardware, no money remains for software, only downloads.

And that's why you keep getting crapy games, delayed games and ports.

Not really, these days when crappy PC ports are made with no demo versions, we actually have to download some games before buying them, before I bought GOW 1 PC I downloaded it and played a bit of single player and multiplayer, then I bought it. Look at Crysis, it has a demo version. It sold like 3 million copies, why didnt gears pc sold so many copies? The game was so buggy that many people couldnt play it and some still cant, cos of windows live crashes etc. I dont think its PC gamers fault at all, we can still buy games but not half a**** ports. Anyways I had no problems with gow on pc, no crashes, but sometimes I got in a glitch ingame, dont know how but it happens so I got over it. So dont say that all PC gamers are pirates...tell me how many people downloaded gears pc and how many bought it when you act so clever about it?

[Black RL]

Not really, these days when crappy PC ports are made with no demo versions, we actually have to download some games before buying them, before I bought GOW 1 PC I downloaded it and played a bit of single player and multiplayer, then I bought it. Look at Crysis, it has a demo version. It sold like 3 million copies, why didnt gears pc sold so many copies? The game was so buggy that many people couldnt play it and some still cant, cos of windows live crashes etc. I dont think its PC gamers fault at all, we can still buy games but not half a**** ports. Anyways I had no problems with gow on pc, no crashes, but sometimes I got in a glitch ingame, dont know how but it happens so I got over it. So dont say that all PC gamers are pirates...tell me how many people downloaded gears pc and how many bought it when you act so clever about it?

You are kidding right? How many pirates games you have? And please don't start being Mader Teresa....

Do you know how many PC's are out there? Do you realise that any game struggles to sell on PC? There are billions of PC out there, there are billions of PC gamers, but most of the good games can't even sell 1.000.000 copies!

So you can only be joking, and yes, you are part of the problem. And if you play FOR FREE why are you complaining at all?

[alphabetmoose]

No points for guessing what their biggest series is. Lol.

He can be a fan of EPIC and only Like UT, because as he said EPIC is UT.
It's still what their best known for.

Theeeen, tell me why he's on the Gears forum arguing about Gears related subjects? If he's a lover of UT why does he come on the Gears forum? To talk crap? Most likely, just look at his post.

I know what you are saying though. He could like Epic, and just like UT. But what was his purpose of him coming on the Gears Forums?

And also yes, Gears is Epics most popular franchise, the first game of the series sold 5 million Copies. Hence their FIRST game of the series. And the Sequel already has over 4 million Reservations. And plenty people will purchasse the game. So we can guess the sales will go over 5 million

I'm not saying Unreal Tournament is a Bad Game though. It's just Unreal has had several games, and Gears has had one. And Gears has nearly surpassed UT on it's first game.

[zdrapetr]

You are kidding right? How many pirates games you have? And please don't start being Mader Teresa....

Do you know how many PC's are out there? Do you realise that any game struggles to sell on PC? There are billions of PC out there, there are billions of PC gamers, but most of the good games can't even sell 1.000.000 copies!

So you can only be joking, and yes, you are part of the problem. And if you play FOR FREE why are you complaining at all?
you didnt understand what I wrote, Am I the path of the problem really? I bought GOW for PC, B-O-U-G-H-T and Im still playing it.
Edit: So youre saying that billions of people download games right? and only 1 000 000 gamers bought it. Yeah whatever, not every pc owner has a pc capable of playing games, not every pc owner plays the pc games...

[Black RL]

If you buy you'r games you aren't part of the problem. But the problem exists and it's real, giving huge losses to companies.

99.99999999999% Of your PC "friends" are the problem, because of them guys like you suffer the consequences.

If I may, and please don't take me wrong, use your PC for work and buy a 360 for gaming, you wouldn't regret :)

Cheers mate :)

[banish]

If PC gamers actually bought EPIC games instead of just downloading them, maybe they would deserve a better treatment.

PC gamers spend their money only on hardware, no money remains for software, only downloads.

And that's why you keep getting crapy games, delayed games and ports.

the same old thing....mannnn...some people...if you know so much about PC downloads i can asume that you know about the xbox360 downloads to??stop acting inocent...and the pc doesn't receive only crappy games and ports nobody sayd that is just that there are some developers that lack talent and are lazzy and don't make very good pc games...that is another story...but i didn't thought that Epic is one of them,i am realy disapointed aniway stop with this acusations...you have a xbox??very well wait for the game in november(this year) and stop posting crap...piraci is the excuse of lame developers nothing more,and piraci does not afect the sales of a GOOD i repeat GOOD game...let's take for example Assassin's creed...it was on the internet 1 month before its official release...so what...have you heard what ubisoft sayd??they said that assassin's creed has sold better that they expected event on PC...and many other games...so please use you brain

[Black RL]

Yeah whatever, not every pc owner has a pc capable of playing games, not every pc owner plays the pc games...

Please continue....

, not every PC owner pays for it games....

LOL :D

[zdrapetr]

If you buy you'r games you aren't part of the problem. But the problem exists and it's real, giving huge losses to companies.

99.99999999999% Of your PC "friends" are the problem, because of them guys like you suffer the consequences.
where the hell did you get that percentage from? right from your ***? :D
and no I wont buy a console for games, why should I buy it if I dont like it?
Are you hooliguns twin or something? convincing people to buy a 360, no thanks

Edit: I will continue if you want, not every 360 player pays for the games

[Jesterdance]

We've decided we're not going to do a PC version this time around.

What a nice strategy to get some more Xbox360 sales.

Well .. i find it sad. I am one of the PC-Fans.. but i won't buy a console just because of one title.

(especially when Dead Space (Whoooohooo!!!), Fallout 3 and Operation Flashpoint 2 are around!)

[zdrapetr]

What a nice strategy to get some more Xbox360 sales.

Well .. i find it sad. I am one of the PC-Fans.. but i won't buy a console just because of one title.

(especially when Dead Space (Whoooohooo!!!), Fallout 3 and Operation Flashpoint 2 are around!)

Exactly!!! and Crysis Warhead too, omg I totally forgot about OFP2 thats an awesome game to play!!! Im forgetting gears.
btw: i have to say it but UT3 is really a crap game :/

[Black RL]

they said that assassin's creed has sold better that they expected event on PC...

Imagine if 99.99999999999999% of the people that PLAYED the game on PC acctualy bought it.

360 Has sold around 20.000.000 consoles and Assassins sold around 4.000.000 copies. How many PC's are out there again? How many PC gamers played the game again? HOW MANY PAY FOR IT?

You are kidding, right?

[banish]

If you buy you'r games you aren't part of the problem. But the problem exists and it's real, giving huge losses to companies.

99.99999999999% Of your PC "friends" are the problem, because of them guys like you suffer the consequences.

If I may, and please don't take me wrong, use your PC for work and buy a 360 for gaming, you wouldn't regret :)

Cheers mate :)

what are you saing is that games like Starcraft 2 and Diablo 3 woun't sell 10 copyes wright??

[Flak]

Let's keep it civil guys or this will have to be closed.

[Black RL]

And if you don't like EPIC, don't like 360, only like to download free games, what are you doing here?

What game are you downloading right now with your bit torrent service? Are you making time untill it gets downloaded?

If you really like Gears, you have a 360, the first game was released there has the second and more to come will be.

Stop crying, go play other games that you have downloaded.