Gears 5 Players Are Getting Banned for Nearly 2 Years

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Gears 5 players who consistently leave matches are being faced with some hefty bans for their habitual quitting. Like any punishment, these bans can vary in length with some players getting off a bit easier than others. Those who have the most egregious leaver tendencies have been receiving bans that prevent them from playing the game for nearly two years. These bans came after more than one warning from The Coalition when the developer advised players to stop leaving games so much.

The Coalition tweeted about the impending bans earlier in the week by telling players that it would be distributing bans ranging form a month to a year depending on how severe players’ quitting behavior was. It said that impacted users would be unsuspended in an apparent attempt to give them one more shot, but they’d be one quit away from being suspended.


As players soon found out, the warning was no joke. A day prior to The Coalition’s tweet, Dana Sissons, Microsoft’s director of communications for Gears of War, told players the quitter penalties were active. People sounded off on Twitter to say that they had received lengthy bans personally or that others had with the most severe bans being a 640-day suspension from Gears 5.

A ban that big would likely raise suspicions that there was something amiss and that the ban wouldn’t stick, but it seems like that’s not the case here. Sissons responded to some of the reports of the bans on Twitter to give specific examples about players’ accounts and say why that individual had been banned. In the two examples found below, the offending players quit 18 out of 21 matches they played.

Dealing with quitters is something every multiplayer game has to do and is in no way exclusive to Gears 5, but The Coalition seems pretty serious about its quitters. The penalties become more severe the more players quit, so it’s probably not a smart idea to test your leaver luck in this game unless you want to be banned until the next Gears of War game comes out.



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Source: https://comicbook.com/gaming/2019/10/12/gears-5-player-banned-for-nearly-2-years/

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EskShadowZPosted:

Zema Lmao idk why, gears is being so strict barely anyone plays that game and there banning people who do lol backing out of a match ain't that serious lol


You have no idea what you're talking about. A lot of people play ranked, and when you have over half your team quits after 1 round It becomes very frustrating.

Those types of people should not be playing ranked, and instead casual. I disagree that they should ban for prior quits without warning, but now that they have warned people and rescinded previous offenses NO ONE has the right to complain.


uphroahia Those kinda bans will lead to the games downfall!


These kinds of bans will extend the life of the game, by making it more legitimate.


Alias Absolutely pathetic, like in some way I get it. Quit too much you get a temp ban(like 5 minutes on halo)
But holy shit months to years? That is way too much. Sometimes you get unlucky and match with shit teammates 5 times in a row, I'd rather leave than waste my time.


This article fails to even bring an example from the GOW5 subreddit where a user on twitter was complaining about being banned for 600+ days. When TC (The Coalition) looked into it, he had quit early in 18/21 ranked games of escalation in one day. 110% agree their decision.

ZemaPosted:

Lmao idk why, gears is being so strict barely anyone plays that game and there banning people who do lol backing out of a match ain't that serious lol

junoPosted:

Those kinda bans will lead to the games downfall!

XboxPosted:

Damn 2 year ban who would want to play after that. Guess it will never be as bad as that 12/31/9999

MazePosted:

Absolutely pathetic, like in some way I get it. Quit too much you get a temp ban(like 5 minutes on halo)
But holy shit months to years? That is way too much. Sometimes you get unlucky and match with shit teammates 5 times in a row, I'd rather leave than waste my time.