Mark Rein explains why GoW 2 Live activity has slipped behind Halo 3

[Zeus]

Mark Rein has made the following statement about Gears of War 2 only being the second most played game on Live behind Halo 3 during for the week of November 24th. "Gears is in second because Halo 3 has been out for over a year and a half and has probably sold nearly 9,000,000 copies by now. So when they offer reduced-priced multiplayer DLC users come back to the game and they get a spike in their user base that drawfs ALL of the other games on Xbox Live - especially new games that have only been out for a few weeks such as Gears of War 2 and Call of Duty: World at War. But being in second is still pretty amazing considering we've only had the time to sell a small fraction of the numbers they have sold." he said

News Source: <a href="http://gearsforums.epicgames.com/showthread.php?p=25780601#post25780601" target=_blank">gearsforums</a>

[CommandrX]

WTF is Galo 3?

[JordanBlack68]

First Halo 4 not now Galo 3 on the same topic. EPIC :D:D:D:D:D:D

[poisonousjuice]

lol on the front page the headline says "halo 4" and I click here and it says galo 3? must be some late nite drunk posting.

[MacorgaZ NL]

Jezus, Zeus edited it from Galo 3 to Halo 4 :'). Sad.
At least make it Gaylo 3.

[JordanBlack68]

Maxconsole - Home of Typos

[Appleseed]

lol, ok i try not to be horrible like this, but really. this is just....something else.

[Bretters]

No, it is second because GoW2 matchmaking was/is busted and people moved on to something else for now. I played some Halo 3 and the numbers online are the same as they have been for several months.

[manias]

Next it'll be J-Lo 5...

[dgknight500]

I thought it was second cause the multiplayer was broken... spent over 45 mins trying to connect last weekend, and me and my friend just gave up and played COD4 instead...

[OmenLW]

its second because multiple player SUCKS! the match making takes forever, you cant pick the exact game you want to play, you have to vote on a map...its just a fat piece of crap...plain and simple. L4D > GoW2

[BurningLung]

Simple, a lot of people have gone back to playing Gears of War 1. Gow 2 isn't as nice as the first ones online game play.

[Snaileater]

well yes that AND a lot of players are kids that aren't allowed to play games with blood

[JusR23]

Its gonna keep dropping if it ain't fixed

[FearEvil]

The news submitters here are not so adept at typing

[AceMilo]

I'd like to see people spell words 100% accurately in a language that isn't native to them. Zeus does not speak native english.

[Mchief298]

well yes that AND a lot of players are kids that aren't allowed to play games with blood

that really has nothing to do with why GoW2 has fallen behind... nothing at all