Why the hell can't EA get this through their stupid, stupid skulls? Multiplayer does not belong in Mass Effect! Ever!
And what is up with their obsession with making it "accessible" to people who never played the other games? If they do that, it just means less depth for the people who did!
By making it so that you can just jump in, the choices you made in the previous games are going to matter about as much as they did from ME1 to ME2. That is, we'll meet a few characters from the previous game, and get 500 emails from characters we don't run into, and
none of it will make any goddamn difference.
I hate you, EA. I hate you so, so much. First the Kinect, now this...
I still have hope that the third game will be good, but I'm losing faith.
Edit:
Android2137 said:
A Mass Effect multiplayer isn't a bad idea.
A Mass Effect multiplayer in the last game of a trilogy is.
Come on, Bioware. Surely, you should know better. Save it for after we've defeated the Reapers. Or make it a prequel if you don't want to establish your own canon ending.
Now, that actually sounds interesting. Make a First Contact War multiplayer game? That would be lots of fun.
But nothing good will come of multiplayer in Mass Effect 3.