I don't know what to think of these stats, when I play (I play a lot) I'm one of the few guys using the Gnasher while there's usually at leas 4-5 guys using the SOS for every single one of their kills and the gametype doesn't matter.
They should have listened during the Beta, non of my Gears friends play this game. The people on my friends list that play are the COD noobs that hated Gears 1 & 2 and they'll be gone as soon as MW3 drops, and even they hate the SOS.
They did change the SOS from the Beta, they removed the downing ability but they increased the gib range. During the Beta I would always do the double kill with the Gnasher against SOS players (when 2 players kill each other at the same time), but have only done it about 10 times in the retail game and it was mostly by luck.
The player count is already way down from 300,000+ at peak to less than 120,000, I think MW2 is getting more players. At least they didn't pull a Bungie and just left their game to die, but Armor Lock was never as annoying as the SOS.







