Re: Longevity of the multiplayer?

The multiplayer is pretty fun right now, but I find online console communities die off pretty fast (unless it's a first-person shooter ofc). Do you think you'll still be playing the multiplayer 6 months from now?

I just posted a link in the other DLC idea's thread, it look's like Bioware plan on supporting the MP with further DLC, so hopefully the community will stick around - yeah i'm enjoying the MP aswell and i'd like to see em increase the amount of waves to each level similar to COD zombies

I'm not against multiplayer DLC as long as it doesn't take away the usual attention from single player DLC.. but it probably will. More maps and maybe even new "special" characters or exclusive armors for the characters already existing would be nice.

Honestly I don't see it remaining active for a great deal of time.

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The Horde mode is fun but the multiplayer folk also tend to like competitive modes so will likely head back to a Call of Duty or Gears of War title before long, where  they can fight in horde style battles as well as take on other people.

I was originally thinking about this because I was wondering if I came back to play ME3 in a couple years now - how will I get my Galactic Readiness percentage up if the multiplayer is dead?

They might patch it to where it requires less galactic readiness for all the things.

Naw this co-op mode will not be active in a few years, that's not just for this game lol. But I can see a good month before a big drop off happens unless they keep the DLC's coming (I wish they did some for Syndicate as well). So yeah the mode is fun but it's a bit too short for me.

im open to play mp all the time add me sometime.

Budgier:

I was originally thinking about this because I was wondering if I came back to play ME3 in a couple years now - how will I get my Galactic Readiness percentage up if the multiplayer is dead?

This is has to be one of, if not the biggest reasons I think the whole galactic readiness being tied to MP is the stupidest idea they ever came up with. JMPO. Then, adding the fact that your galactic readiness actually decays over time pushes it right into the moronic realm. My copy of ME 2 sat for months on end without being touched, then I decided to go back and play through it again... I did this 'cycle' several times, play - give it a rest, play... How much will I feel like doing that with ME 3 if I know that a factor which contributes to the ending of my game is tied to a no longer existent MP group? As it is now, I have very few people on my F/L that play MP, they're all playing SP.

They even said that the multiplayer wouldn't affect the single player but obviously it does since you can't get the best ending without the galactic readiness up pretty high. But there is a rumor that BioWare is releasing new multiplayer races and classes.

This is has to be one of, if not the biggest reasons I think the whole galactic readiness being tied to MP is the stupidest idea they ever came up with. JMPO. Then, adding the fact that your galactic readiness actually decays over time pushes it right into the moronic realm. My copy of ME 2 sat for months on end without being touched, then I decided to go back and play through it again... I did this 'cycle' several times, play - give it a rest, play... How much will I feel like doing that with ME 3 if I know that a factor which contributes to the ending of my game is tied to a no longer existent MP group? As it is now, I have very few people on my F/L that play MP, they're all playing SP.

Exactly my thoughts. Hopefully when the multiplayer does die out, like @Ruthless said, they will patch the game giving us 100% Galactic Readiness as default - or at least a new way to obtain it.  Otherwise I'll be pretty ticked.

As long as they keep updating this game with new maps then the co-op should stay fairly active.   I have been hooked on this co-op since the day the demo came out.   In fact I am so addicted to this co-op mode that I only have 6 hours into the campaign!!   We beat it on gold a couple nights ago.    :)

Like any horde mode MP, it'll get lame quick for most people -- especially considering many true ME vets (ie, here since game 1) didn't want MP in the 1st place.

ColonelBoston:

Like any horde mode MP, it'll get lame quick for most people -- especially considering many true ME vets (ie, here since game 1) didn't want MP in the 1st place.

I am one of those ME vets that did not want Multiplayer at all in the ME series.  Luckily they never added multiplayer, they added 4 player co-op and it has been an absolute blast!!   I am shocked to say that I have only put about 6 hours into the campaign. Been severly hooked on the 4 player co-op mode.  The best part is your co-op characters and points can be used toward the campaign.  I have 5 characters that I could recruit right now for the campaign. 

CAMAROBOY69:

I am one of those ME vets that did not want Multiplayer at all in the ME series.  Luckily they never added multiplayer, they added 4 player co-op and it has been an absolute blast!!   I am shocked to say that I have only put about 6 hours into the campaign. Been severly hooked on the 4 player co-op mode.  The best part is your co-op characters and points can be used toward the campaign.  I have 5 characters that I could recruit right now for the campaign. 

Co-op is multiplayer though... "We have some really great multiplayer content and some really great single-player content coming over the air..." -- Casey Hudson (3/13/12) Link here

It really should be called co-op, not multiplayer but no sense in going on about it.  That is good news they have some content coming for both.  Its EA so I am sure the DLC is already on the disk.  Oh well thats just how it is and we all know it.  I was really hoping it would release with at least 10 co-op maps. 

Regardless, coop is multiplayer -- coop or multiplayer, that's just semantics. Either way, in my opinion, despite everything they've said about the MP, it is painfully clear that the story-mode suffered because MP was added. EA almost ruined what could've been an amazing RPG trilogy (ME2 & ME3 are NOT RPGs).

^^ opinion.

ColonelBoston:

Regardless, coop is multiplayer -- coop or multiplayer, that's just semantics. Either way, in my opinion, despite everything they've said about the MP, it is painfully clear that the story-mode suffered because MP was added. EA almost ruined what could've been an amazing RPG trilogy (ME2 & ME3 are NOT RPGs).

tCruzin4lyfe:

^^ opinion.

I'm pretty sure Colonel covered that in his post, Cruzin. 

tCruzin4lyfe:

^^ opinion.

Really? What tipped you off? Was it the part where I wrote "IN MY OPINION?"

I'm still surprised that they didn't include a small versus element in the MP component.  It seems well suited to a 4 vs 4 on the small, set-piece style maps.  Might have been an interesting take on competitive MP for people who are also fans of the series.

Stating that the coop was somehow detrimental to the single player game is nothing but conjecture.  Unless some developer comes out and reveals a bunch of things that were left out intentionally to make room for this, blaming coop for a game you don't like makes no sense.  A lot of people have the OPINION that the coop is fun and enjoyable.  At the end of the day, Bioware did a lot of things right with this mode.

CAMAROBOY69:

It really should be called co-op, not multiplayer but no sense in going on about it.  That is good news they have some content coming for both.  Its EA so I am sure the DLC is already on the disk.  Oh well thats just how it is and we all know it.  I was really hoping it would release with at least 10 co-op maps. 

I'm tired of post like this, like your entitled to DLC because its on the disk. You aren't entitled to nothing, acting like EA owes you something.

Ruthless Tenjin:

They might patch it to where it requires less galactic readiness for all the things.

It has spoken.....

Drater77:

Ruthless Tenjin:

They might patch it to where it requires less galactic readiness for all the things.

It has spoken.....

What has? Did they state something about that?

I agree that multiplayer should have been left out of the game completely, but there's nothing we can do about that now. I would've preferred more dialogue trees with my squad on the Normandy. An ending that was executed articulately rather than something that felt slapped together with 5 second cut scenes of various things. Actually being able to have conversations with NPCs on the Citadel instead of just overhearing them. Things we could have gotten if time wasn't wasted on a multiplayer that has a short expiration date anyway.