A profile freezing issue returns to grief Gears of War 3 players. The glitch corrupts a gamer profile and disables it from loading any game-mode content, hanging up on the loading screen (at least you get to marvel at Marcus Fenix's sprite).
Epic Games posted a questionnaire to figure out the cause of the problem. Possible causes include split-screen play, online play, title update, and beta participation.
A similar issue existed in Gears of War 2, shortly after Title Update 6's release. The problem arose when two player profiles were logged-in to play split-screen and the second profile winds up corrupted in the process. The game freezes before the "Press Start" splash screen if the corrupted profile signed in.
In response to the Gears of War 2 issue, Epic Games' director of production Rod Fergusson replied, "The unfortunate thing is that once a profile becomes corrupted, we can't reconstruct it. So there's no point waiting for a fix if your hope is that the fix will restore your profile. The only thing we can do at this point is create a fix that will prevent this from happening in the future."
Well, Fergusson, Gears of War 3 has some similar issues. While we're waiting for a response, be advised to take cover from split-screen play.
[via Joystiq]
