Bioware Appeals For Calm Regarding Mass Effect 3 Multiplayer

[Frostbite3789]

Before Battlefield 3, I'd have said that Multiplayer and Single Player can co-exist without weakening one another...but now, I'm concerned that adding Multiplayer to Mass Effect will sacrifice quality when it comes to the single player campaign. If it's the same studio that did ME 1&2, they should have had another of their studios take up the slack, put the Dragon Age 2 makers to some decent work that dosen't involve story or plot, that way they can't hurt anything.

Battlefield 3's singleplayer had an adverse affect on it's multiplayer? How?

Or do you mean the other way around? If so, that wouldn't make a lick of sense, since Battlefield is a multiplayer franchise. This is the first full on non-spin-off Battlefield game with a singleplayer campaign.

 

[Frostbite3789]

Don't worry, you don't have to play our games multiplayer. You should, because we spent all our money on multiplayer mechanics instead of single player, so you would feel pretty ripped off if you only played single player. Also, you can't play multiplayer on PC, because EA has it's hand up our ass and we are only releasing the game on origin.

This post is everything wrong with the gaming community. Take note everyone, if your post looks like this, you look like a troll trying to get a rise out of someone.

For one, that first part a disingenuous assertion. And I think you know what happens to people who make those. You have absolutely nothing to back it up and are just looking for something to rage about, you wanted to rage. So you're going to rage. Plain and simple.

As for Origin. Ah yes, the only place you download games like Battlefield 3 [http://www.amazon.com/Electronic-Arts-40834ttlefield-32-Battlefield/dp/B005WWZUQ0/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1320037959&sr=8-3]. Mass Effect 3 and The Old Republic.

(Hint, the Battlefield 3 link is to Amazon, where you can in fact download the game from. Looks like Origin isn't the only digital distributor for it, but you have raging to do, who needs facts when you have that? In fact, check to see if any of your favorite Valve games are available to download from there. I'll wait. Or I can save you the time and let you know they aren't.)

And until the games are released and aren't available for download there, I have no reason to think they won't be.

So sick and damn tired of unfounded claims followed by rage for the sake of rage. If these people could bother to do two seconds of research before hitting the 'post' button they could save everyone, themselves included a lot of damn time.

 

[shadowmagus]

This is why I hate the gaming community. It has been ready to crucify Bioware for every transgression since DA2. I think our community needs a forcible cleansing.

 

[Kelethor]

Shepard, Dat face.

OT: they already told us MP wouldn't adversely affect the single player. and now that I don't have to play it anyway, my fears are completely alleviated.

 

[rohansoldier]

I personally am interested to see how the multiplayer mode plays out in ME3, as long as what bioware have said is true and it doesn't take anything away from the single player, which is what 99.9% (if not 100%) of us are going to be buying ME3 for.

If the mp sucks but the single player is unaffected, that's fine, I just won't play it again, but if it sucks and the single player is worse for it, I would be quite annoyed.

On the other hand, lets have a little faith here people. I don't think Bioware will screw up the ending of this story at the last hurdle just to chuck in a half hearted multiplayer mode, no matter how much EA might have them by the balls to make some extra cash off the game.

 

[cross_breed]

I'm every bit as inclined to not play the multiplayer as I was before, but I don't think a lot of non-fans get why the raging is happening. We're afraid that a nonessential and mediocre multiplayer mode is going to pull resources away from making a carefully crafted and enjoyable single player campaign. This is known as the "BioShock 2 Effect." I'm still really excited for this game, but I'm getting more and more cautious. I want so badly for this game to be great, and I don't want a lackluster multiplayer component to screw that up.

 

[Genericjim101]

I really feel bad for BioWare. It seems like their fanbase is prepared to scream about how the game is ruined forever whenever BioWare changes or even adds something.

Indeed.

No matter what BioWare does, the fanbase always seem to jump at the chance to tear them apart.

Hey man, release some modding tools with ME3, and let modders go insane on the multiplayer component.

Asari sex MMO incoming.

They already said that they won't release modding tools for Mass Effect 3. The engine they use for the game doesn't allow for much modding.

Do they realize the reason some of us are mad is because we feel that the multiplayer is just taking resources that should be used to make sure the single player ends the story well? Multiplayer is fine and all but, when concluding an epic story you don't screw around with a new feature no one asked for, you polish the story and save the new feature for another title. I swear there will be a lot more angry people if the ending fails to conclude the story properly because they decided to put resources to multiplayer.

BioWare has said that two separate divisions are working on each part of the game, and that no resources are being diverted from the single player team. Whether you want to believe that or not is up to you, but that information has been available since around the time of the multiplayer announcement.

Also, the Baldur's Gate games had multiplayer and those are still considered BioWare's best games by a lot of people.

Shhhh your logical argument of Baldur's Gate having co-op will just enrage the unreasonable XD
To be fair all major concerns are addressed in the FAQ's; from diverting of resources from single player down to if it affects singleplayer. In short people have given the FAQ's a TL; DR : /

 

[TheCowman]

I am sorry but DA2 was far worse than "not quite as good as the first."

http://www.metacritic.com/game/pc/dragon-age-origins for the original

http://www.metacritic.com/game/pc/dragon-age-ii for the sequel

Yeah, apparently a great number of people think of the second as an abomination.

I'm apparantly in the severe minority of those who actually quite liked Dragon Age 2. Sure, it was a big departure from the first game, but I appreciated it for that. Instead of just going with the "Oh no! Another Blight! Gray Warden to da rezcue!!" thing, they went with a smaller (initially anyway) scale story that mixed up the game mechanics a little.

The repeating dungeons, while obvious, never bothered me much. Since the entire story takes place in one city, it gave me more of a sense of familiarity than anything else. Recognizing landmarks and returning to places made me feel like a citizen of Kirkwall. Plus they did it with the random encounters in the first game too, so I was used to it.

I also felt it had a little more personality to the overall design. The armor alone was much more visually fun to look at.

I'm in the minority though, as I said before, so this is just my reaction to it. And, admittedly, I've found I'm not very hard to please.


As for Mass Effect 3 multiplayer.....

Yeah, I was never that worried about it. Bioware has been aces so far for me (see above for my position on most people's 'one exception') so I trust them to do it right. I like that it's co-op multiplayer since that means I might actually play it. At best, it'll be a fun thing to play with; at worst, it'll be a dud that I'll never touch and happily stick to the single player.

Of course, if the multiplayer lets me play as a gun-toting Volus, then I'm down for sure.

 

[brainslurper]

Don't worry, you don't have to play our games multiplayer. You should, because we spent all our money on multiplayer mechanics instead of single player, so you would feel pretty ripped off if you only played single player. Also, you can't play multiplayer on PC, because EA has it's hand up our ass and we are only releasing the game on origin.

This post is everything wrong with the gaming community. Take note everyone, if your post looks like this, you look like a troll trying to get a rise out of someone.

For one, that first part a disingenuous assertion. And I think you know what happens to people who make those. You have absolutely nothing to back it up and are just looking for something to rage about, you wanted to rage. So you're going to rage. Plain and simple.

As for Origin. Ah yes, the only place you download games like Battlefield 3 [http://www.amazon.com/Electronic-Arts-40834ttlefield-32-Battlefield/dp/B005WWZUQ0/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1320037959&sr=8-3]. Mass Effect 3 and The Old Republic.

(Hint, the Battlefield 3 link is to Amazon, where you can in fact download the game from. Looks like Origin isn't the only digital distributor for it, but you have raging to do, who needs facts when you have that? In fact, check to see if any of your favorite Valve games are available to download from there. I'll wait. Or I can save you the time and let you know they aren't.)

And until the games are released and aren't available for download there, I have no reason to think they won't be.

So sick and damn tired of unfounded claims followed by rage for the sake of rage. If these people could bother to do two seconds of research before hitting the 'post' button they could save everyone, themselves included a lot of damn time.

And you complain about me not being able to back up what I say. Regardless of where you wish to download Battlefield 3, you still much launch it from a browser window, which much be opened by origin. I have no problem with developers moving to their own method of distribution, blizzard did it, and they did a great job. The problem is, Origin is the worst thing ever to grace the earth with it's shitness. Here is the thing about origin. When you launch a game, it will launch in a browser window, and that will be entirely on EA's servers, so after the highly likely scenario when people realize that EA is a cash hungry *****, you won't be able to play your games any more. With steam, all the resources for launching a game are on your computer. So when valve goes under, you can still launch any games that don't rely on their servers for multiplayer. A publisher as large as EA COULD give their customers more control over their purchases but they would rather have more control over their customers. My favorite studio was shut down by EA shortly after they bought it. If EA wants to enter the digital distribution scene, they need to do it by doing better then steam, not worse.

 

[CalPal]

Oh my, that is... that is a very nice looking Shepard you have there. I wonder where I've seen him before...

On a more serious note, in regards to Multiplayer, Bioware has yet to fail me, and what they've presented with ME3 MP sounds very enticing. I would definitely give it a try, but I know for sure I'm buying the game for the most important thing about ME3: finishing the story I started back in 2007.

Ladies and Gentlemen, it has been an astonishingly awesome 4 years. I will see you all on the Galactic Battlefield.

 

[Therumancer]

The bottom line here is that even if they have multiple studios involved, that money and effort invested in the multiplayer could have been invested in the single player campaign.

Not to mention that Bioware has already been slotting off the fans that made them, the RPG players. This game being twitchy enough where it supports competitive multiplayer doesn't bode well for a lot of the initial fan base.

Time will tell what is going to happen, but I'll admit that I'm not all that happy about this either, it's showing that Bioware's priorities are changing. It seems like the Mass Effect franchise is going to simply become Activisions Third Person Shooter franchise.

Any way you look at it, the changes going on with Bioware mean we're going to be seeing less varied games out there. The whole "we shouldn't fight there are enough games for everyone" takes a blow when one of the biggest RPG producers starts making third person multiplayer shooters.