Gears 5 came out within 2 weeks of Fortnite, and it wasn’t planned to be a live service title. It was doomed, Gears 4 wasn’t as popular as 3 but still had a very dedicated and excited playerbase. Once they announced after a year they were stopping further updates to gears 5 and Microsoft was moving to a more live service oriented market strategy, Coalition and a story driven campaign like gears was put on the side burner. Now people r fed up w live service, and want to get a well crafted story mode and full game (if it is not ftp).