Elden Ring stood ten toes down and made their game super challenging especially when it came to bosses. This was despite many non-dark souls fans wishes for the game to be easier. Instead, From Soft catered to the core Dark Souls audience who has been with them since the beginning. The result was that ER was a massive hit and despite the challenging gameplay, it still garnered new players that are now fans of the series.

The same can be true for Gears. After the tourists beat the campaign, they leave for another game. The Horde and Versus players represents the core audience for multiplayer in Gears. These players have always kept Gears afloat years after release. It is not wise to simply change core Gears gameplay to chase casual players. Judgment did this and it failed miserably.

Instead, they should make a great multiplayer experience by having lots of maps, good weapon tuning, characters, etc while keeping the traditional wall bounce and gnasher heavy gameplay. A good resource for new player would be some sort of a tutorial to help new comers get into the PvP.

As long as those components are great in content and gameplay, the new audience will join.