Gears of War Realm

So there is a lot of talk around the community since Emergence Day that Gears of War doesn’t play properly on some user’s Xbox 360 consoles. If you too have this problem, you are not alone it seems.

Some bloggers over at Xbox 360 Fanboy and IGN have put up some information (and video) of the issue, along with ways they prevented or solved the problem. There are also lots of user comments on both sites telling of similar issues. It seems you either need to replace the Gears of War disc or theXbox 360 itself to solve the problem. Sadly it seems Microsoft isn’t being incredibly helpful with the issue, while Epic Games (who is not at fault) is trying to keep passing the issues back to Microsoft who are pushing it off on them.

Here is what Mark Rein, Epic Game’s VP had to say about the issue in the Epic Games Forums.

Guys — we don’t make the discs, Microsoft does that. Microsoft is also the publisher of the game which means they do all the support and testing. If some Microsoft support person is telling you to call Epic please ask them for their name and phone number and we’ll pass that along to Microsoft to handle because that absolutely should not be happening. We have no facilities for end-user support other than this forum and even then all we can do is listen and pass you back to Microsoft.

We especially can’t help you with hardware problems like scratches on your disc or unreadable discs. We don’t make the disc drives either

Lets hope Microsoft can start handling this issue properly so all of you getting copies of Gears of War under the tree this holiday season can get right to playing without issues.