My Gears of War 2 Calculator has been going for two and a half years now, and always receives large traffic spikes during increased experience weekends – the SD Comic Con is no different.
Over quarter of a million
Since it’s creation (even with Joe Graf saying it was wrong at first), there’s been roughly 300,000 visitors. This means it’s not the most successful site of mine in terms of visitor counts – but it seems to have made the biggest impact/difference in the associated community.
Wings everywhere
I haven’t played gears since I took part in the Gears of War 3 beta a few months ago, so I decided I’d give it ago again. Pretty much every game had several players with their ‘wings’. Much different than when I was playing!
I was badly out of practice, but did have some fun. Although one game I picked up the Torque bow and, well, was pretty bad at it! A player on my team decided to shout and curse at me down his mic for the rest of the game. One thing stood out from the rest of the abuse: something along the lines of “DrMong u fking retard, I bet u dnt even kno how 2 play n just here 4 da 20x event, dickfuk”. In a way he was right – I only played because the event was on (and I hadn’t played in months). It would be very interesting for Epic to release how many more people play during an event compared to normal days.
Level 74
Going by the increase of traffic to GOW2EXP I’d imagine a lot of people play just for the events, I mean afterall, if you’re playing for your wings – playing on a non event weekend would be a waste of time! That 6.8 million experience points is just.. stupid. I gave up at level 74.