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Wednesday, June 13, 2007 6:01 AM by johnporcaro

Ready Your Weapons

Gamers, Ready Your Weapons. Stop. New “Gears of War” Multiplayer Achievements Added. Stop. End transmission.

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Wednesday, June 13, 2007 11:21 AM by CPaladino

w00t! (yes, even Xbox folks can be excited about updates for their favorite game)

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Wednesday, June 13, 2007 12:32 PM by Reluctant Hero

Nice, this'll give me a reason to really play "Annex" now. I can't stand the normal multiplayer though. Four-on-Four GoW with no respawns is not my style.

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Wednesday, June 13, 2007 1:07 PM by NIN 013

Sweeet. I'm really looking forward to this. Anytime more achievements are involved, I'm definitely looking forward to it :)

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Wednesday, June 13, 2007 2:04 PM by AriesDog

I wish there was an achievement for not whining about getting credit for kills. Having played Halo 3 beta made me realize how much I do not miss the adolescent screech "You stole my kill! You stole my kill!" and then getting negative feedback on your rep.

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Wednesday, June 13, 2007 4:12 PM by Reluctant Hero

@Ariesdog

I agree with you bro. At times I wish XBL had some sort of "age gate" where-in the user has to verify their actual ageto play in online matches. I love kids and my wife is a teacher. But I can't stand playing with little kids and hearing their damned slang (I pwned you, noob, etc.) and their endless whining and taunting.

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Wednesday, June 13, 2007 6:13 PM by ZappCatt

@areisdog and reluctant hero

I hope someone figures out a way to add a "classification" to XBL, or at least uses the self defined classification(pro/family/underground/casual) so that we could always have games where people played hard, but did not whine/moan/swear incessantly etc.

I am not sure if it would be possible to get enough people in a gaming group and tell people entering the game that any of that stuff would be met with EVERYONE giving negative feedback.

One thing that amazed/surprised me was that a top tier game added a "teabag" achievement. I find the constant teabaging and bragging about said teabagging to be even more annoying.

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Wednesday, June 13, 2007 6:49 PM by quezcotl

Wow big misstake by me for paying for this crap.

A. nobody bought the maps so there is nobody to play with.

B to get these achivments im gonna have to play gears of war for months,wtf?!

C... dammit

# re: Ready Your Weapons

Thursday, June 14, 2007 5:26 AM by dice

Gamers, Ready Your Weapons. Stop. New “Gears of War” Multiplayer Achievements Added. Stop. End transmission.

wow just wow -5

# re: Ready Your Weapons

Thursday, June 14, 2007 4:18 PM by John Porcaro

I heard there were some people who aren't getting points for unlocked Achievements after downloading this update.

We have identified the issue and have a solution. If you unlocked an Achievement specific to the latest title update, you'll be retroactively awarded the points after you earn another Achievement in the game.

Sorry for those that had the issue. Didn't mean to freak anyone out.

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John is Director of Customer and Community Relationship Management, Microsoft's IEB Global Marketing Team. His team is responsible for Online Community for Xbox and Games for Windows, and CRM/customer communications. He's been at Microsoft since 1990, where he's been a Product Manager, Channel Marketing Manager, Communications Manager, and Events Manager, mostly working in our Consumer Division (currently called Entertainment & Devices Division).

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