Gears of War’s executive producer Rod Fergusson is exchanging Twitter followers for bonus experience points in Gears of War 2 over the San Diego Comic-Con weekend. He’s already in over his head. Let’s make him suffer!
If you’re a Gears 2 player low on rank, then next weekend is your time to play. Baiting players via his Twitter account, Fergusson made the following offer.
Ok, here’s my bribe. The SDCC XP event will be # of my followers divided by 500. So 4000 followers means 8x XP.
Wow, eight times the normal amount of experience? That sure seems like a lot!
As of this writing, Rod’s nearly at 5500 followers. That’s 11 times the experience. He’s a bit shocked.
Ok, so clearly I wasn’t expecting my followers list to grow that quickly. But yes, the higher the number, the more the experience :)
How many Gears of War fans are there out there? The game has sold multiple million copies, right? Let’s milk this offer for all its worth. I bet we can make 100 times experience easy.
How can you help? Just follow GearsViking on Twitter.
Thanks to Richard for pointing out the challenge!
CloneTrooper
Thursday, July 15, 2010 at 7:28 AMThis is just like the time Randy Pitchford offered free Borderlands lewt…
Will these Dev’s never learn ;)
Luke Marshall
Thursday, July 15, 2010 at 8:06 AMIn Pitchford’s case he went through with it. Took him ages, but he did.
Jordan
Thursday, July 15, 2010 at 8:01 AMHaha sitting on 13x now already. He just gained 300 followers in about 5 minutes. Retweeted!
Chuloopa
Thursday, July 15, 2010 at 10:29 AMI think i need to join twitter just to add to the total.. lol
One question, if i have got the basic gears 2 with now DLC and the such, will i still be able to get the extra experience for playing?
DogMan
Thursday, July 15, 2010 at 3:38 PMI’m not sure, but I don’t think XP was introduced until like the second map pack. Either way its 800msp for the full set of map packs. That isn’t a terrible deal considering there’s four map packs in there (19 maps and the ‘deleted scene’ campaign chapter). I’m pretty sure those 19 are all playable as Horde mode maps but don’t quote me on that.
I’m guessing it’ll be hard to find matches without them.
DogMan
Thursday, July 15, 2010 at 4:32 PMOk, I’ve looked around a bit. Seems you get the xp system from a title update and thanks to a later title update you can gain xp by completing waves of Horde mode. Horde gives a single award per wave based on the difficulty level, so its not as fast as playing public matches, but it’s looking like it’ll be at least 6000xp per wave on Normal, 12,000xp per wave on Insane.
You’ll need the Snowblind DLC if you want the rank 50 and rank 100 achievements, but the first three rank achievements (5, 15 and 25) should be unlockable without it (they’re part of a title update for some odd reason).
CyK
Thursday, July 15, 2010 at 10:37 AM15 xp when i just join in the festivities. Have fun GoW players.
Sweating Bullets
Thursday, July 15, 2010 at 11:06 AMSo the XP boost will be this weekend coming or next weekend?
Denaz
Thursday, July 15, 2010 at 12:15 PMYup, 7964 followers when i just checked last! lolz!!
So when is it?
Brett
Thursday, July 15, 2010 at 2:59 PMI didn’t have a twitter account because I didn’t see the point. Have one now though.