The Coalition has just revealed some new details about Gears 5. According to the team, Gears 5, or Gears of War 5 for those that fancy the older title, will not feature a Season or Gear Packs.
Furthermore, all future DLC maps will be free for matchmaking and Private Play. The team will also introduce a new system called Tour of Duty, via which players can earn content by playing the game. Players will take on Daily Challenges and seasonal Medals to rank up and earn customization content (including character skins).
“The path to each piece of content earnable is clear – you will know what you need to do to earn each specific customization item. In addition, there is no ‘Premium’ pay-only content for Tour Of Duty.
Tour of Duty will also run in a seasonal format, delivering brand new content and challenges to chase every season.
In addition to Tour of Duty, you’ll also directly earn rewards in other ways, such as leaderboard placements in Escape or Versus.”
Gears 5 will also feature Supply Drops. According to the devs, every minute you play (across every multiplayer mode) contributes towards a random item drop from a unique pool of content we call Supply.
“If you draw a duplicate card, we’ll automatically turn it into Scrap. Scrap can be spent on crafting Supply items you don’t have or character skills you want to upgrade.”
The good news here is that Supply Drops and Supply Drop Content cannot be purchased with real-world money. However, the game will feature micro-transactions. Players will be able to purchase Iron (the in-game currency) so they can spend it in the game’s store, and there will also be an optional purchasable that provides accelerated progression for a period of real-world time.
“Exclusive customization content can be bought with a premium in-game currency called Iron. Iron is purchased with real world currency.
You will also be able to earn a limited amount of Iron through each Tour of Duty to spend in content in the Store.
Content found in the store is direct purchase, meaning what you see is what you get. No Gear Packs, no randomness.
Boost is a new optional purchasable in Gears 5 that provides accelerated progression for a period of real-world time (e.g. 1 Day, 7 Days, etc.).
Boost offers the following benefits:
- Double Multiplayer XP
- Double Character XP for Escape & Horde
- Double speed Supply Drop Progression
Boost is not required to earn or unlock any content.”
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Microtransactions BOOOOOO
agreed. not like they’re reading this anyways. no major company is.
considering how many complaints of MTs have been issued some 50,000 with a million likes. i don’t think any major company cares. MTs are here to stay. it’s how they make their ends meat.
No that’s PR. MTs are absolutely not how companies fund(ed) games. Stats show R&D expenses have been declining this entire gen. AAA companies are giants in the industry, not a bunch of small starving studios, now more than ever and they are very well funded from the initial flat price of a game because gaming is now mainstream – but they mislead people. The rest is price gouging in an already paid product.
There’s a reason other industries get cited for violations for all the little extra nickel and diming fees – and there are laws to regulate them except with digital goods.
No that’s PR. MTs are absolutely not how companies fund(ed) games. Stats show R&D expenses have been declining this entire gen. AAA companies are giants in the industry, not a bunch of small starving studios, now more than ever and they are very well funded from the initial flat price of a game because gaming is now mainstream – but they mislead people. The rest is price gouging in an already paid product.
There’s a reason other industries get cited for violations for all the little extra nickel and diming fees – and there are laws to regulate them except with digital goods.
“it’s how they make their ends meat.”
It’s how they make their ends “meat” is it? That’s great. They opening a butcher shop with the money? You “should of” corrected yourself, so when people read that, “their” not confused by your university grade spelling.
Secondly, if you’re stupid enough to believe these are needed, then you’re already beyond hope. Go play in traffic blindfolded, so you’ll finally stop f***ing things up for everyone else, with your colossal degree of stupidity.
Making their ends meet would be releasing a game as if it used to be – feature complete. They are profitting from addiction, it’s that simple.
It doesn’t matter, I’m only playing Gears 5 for the single player campaign.
As long as you don’t pay for it, it’s all good.
GTFO, pirate.
FU too, corporate wh0re.
STFU, you are what’s wrong with PC gaming. Be a consumer, not a thief.
Consume product, get excited for next product.
Thank god for MT’s. I don’t know about anyone else, but I feel so bad when these game companies don’t make every single red cent they possibly can, at whatever expense. They deserve ALL the money in the world. No questions asked.
Omg! Are you serious!
This is some high quality trolling
Wow. You sure told him. Nicely done.
The joke
Your head.
A joke
Your head.
I agree that you don’t think.
You’re projecting. Again.
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Believe whatever you want, sweetpea.
There’s always a catch. Welp, another one I’m not going to hand money over to support. Full games at a flat price or gtfo.
“Welp, another one I’m not going to hand money over to support. ”
I guess that leaves ball in a cup left to play with.
Nope. Lots of games without them. Lots of games coming. NO microtransactions are permitted on games for which I already paid full price – or I dont buy them. Simple for me. I dont bargain or try to convince myself how they are ok and I can ignore them like other people who cant have some gd responsibilty and just not play with tEh ShINy tINgy.
If companies were fine putting out full and expensive games because they made a lot in return (before micrtotransactions), then they will be fine without them. EA, BGS, R* all made tons more games when they were charging a flat price. But somehow now they needed to monetize? Something strange is afoot at the Circle K. Last gen R* gave us 2 GTAs, an RDR, Max Payne, LA Noire and others (this gen a GTA remaster and 1 RDR). EA with their 3 entire Mass Effects and 2 Dragon Ages and others. BGS with 2 Elder Scrolls and FO3. Activision with good SP campaign CODs. I could go on.
If you google the most expensive games made, those game budgets have not been topped by games with microtranasctions to this day. Even GTAV had online added a year after so its sp was already funded and done – without microtransactions. This means they are now able to make more money with less game. And we are getting worse quality at higher prices PLUS monetization.
Required monetization is just lies perpetrated by ESA member executives who are basically like the oil and cable company oligarchs. The games industry makes billions every year just like those – because of anti-consumerism and lies.
I was thinking a cat and laser pointer, but come to think of it a ball and a cup is just as fun if not more than the monetized scams AAA has been putting out – so not a bad idea. Or you know, there’s always other hobbies like going outside.
I don’t know how you survived his ingenious burn, man.
“I guess that leaves ball in a cup left to play with.”
How in the world did you recover from that? Well done.
No $99.99 Ultimate Edition? Oh darn. Shame on you MS! Shame on you!
You will still buy it $199.99 edition right? off course you will, how will you know if Marcus Phoenix finally transitions and do ghey secks.
sadly no Ultimate edition at all…
it also has the feature of alienating its audience with horse sh*t no more manliness/dark theme and for a low low fee it can suck a peter.
does anyone actually care about this game?
It’s gears of war so I will get it 😀 I could care less about the story dealing with the new generation of characters. I just want to see what ends up happening to the old 😀
So pathetic it looks like a paid bot from MS.
lol it’s my money… Not yours. The only thing pathetic is you getting triggered over somebody wanting to buy a game series 😀
chances are the old is destroyed by the new like it happen with star wars so i dont see the point.
The point is to stop thinking and continue consuming next product.
Microsoft Studios, some SJWs on Twitter and some other dimwits will care.
Gears 5 will not have Season Pass or Gear Packs, ?
DLC maps will be free ??
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will have micro-transactions ???????
Gears of war sucks goddamn dicks… am I right, or am I f*king right, folks?!?
literally.
I love it when they do that. Because that’s when I say “F*ck you, bish” and sail the high seas. S my D.
“Gears Of War IV is… 525 GB of data”
lol wtf, the new cartridges will be called hard drives with this insane size
Retail games are more and more aping free to play addiction schemes.
Nor fun.
get bent