This. Mass Effect, the canon has always been about single-player, and the choices that can be made (nvm the lousy ME3 ending).
BioWare made an error incorporating multi into ME3 - they allowed it to take away from the single-player. How? By taking away a mission to increase fleet effectiveness. I believe there once was a mission for that, because the planet Aequitas lit up before, with no mission to do and no artifacts to be found there.
I'm getting tired of hearing MMO and F2P, sometimes both in the same sentence. Although I don't make up the majority, the gaming industry or at least one of its sectors is derailing the fun out of video games.
I would actually like a whole new mass effect 3 alternative universe with three new (good) endings so that I dont feel like a fool after buying three of their games of which the first one was actually medicore.
Space focused MMOs just can't handle the market and the competition for player base with other MMOs ... not to mention that lack of lore = lack of content = loss in interest =game will "burn out" pretty fast = game dies ...
I mean - the ME lore is all about several races and how they are eventually gonna deal with the Reapers ... there is nothing else in the "story" ...
MMOs are generally boring and awful, and I get the feeling that being stuffed into the citadel with 7,000 emoting neckbeards would actually ruin the entire Mass Effect universe for me.
If Bioware did that instead of SWTOR, I'd definitely hop on that wagon. If I was a game designer on it, I would make the following: - Play as Any major race. Male / Female (if the gender available for a certain race) - "Guilds" would be known as Crews and each Crew has their own customizable/upgradeable Ships, logo. - Ships are used to transport Crews to distant planets, exploring various galaxies/solar systems. - Achievements for specific missions will be displayed in the Lounge Area inside a glass cabinet - Procedurally Generated missions issued by Command depending on Faction chosen. - Multiple Factions per race, even able to choose to become part of a mercenary group but then again.... I'm no Game Designer and if EA/Bioware was to make one, it would be disappointing, I'm sure of it.
Well, since you got a lot of "positive" posts, take this and this and hope the next ME will have CO-OP as multiplayer not the "thing" they made for ME 3.
my biggest complain about mass effect is the maps and the story, sooo, yeah the enviroments in a bigger scale with diffirent story would be interesting.
As a sandbox it would be awsome. As a theme-park/carebear pandering WoW-clone, it basically be TORtanic 2.0, no matter what gimmick they found to go with it.
It would be amazing if done right. But making a truly great MMO that doesn't feel stale is one of the biggest obstacles facing devs these days, and that's before even counting the fact that it would be creatively crippled like ToR because budgets will be high.
I think it's a great idea. But BioWare are storytellers rather than creators of computer games. It's incredibly difficult to balance the two and an MMO would make it even harder. ToR showed just how difficult it was by trying to keep story and gameplay separate through heavy uses of instancing.
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