"The rumor had been going around for the last few days that Bioware was going to add in some sort of multi-player component to their recently announced Mass Effect 3. Today, however, that rumor was debunked on their official forums. There, people had been talking about the possibility for a long time. Other single-player experiences had been diverted into multi-player games recently, as well, including highly popular franchises like Uncharted, Bioshock and Assassin’s Creed. While some of these worked well, many were left feeling lackluster. Was the addition of multi-player to blame? I’m not going to answer that here. What I am going to talk about is why I think it’s a good thing that Mass Effect 3 will not be including a multi-player component."
EA is laying off an unknown number of individuals from across its Battlefield teams, including workers at Criterion, Dice, Ripple Effect, and Motive Studios, IGN understands.
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When logic meets EA it generates anti-matter ..... so try not to apply it in any meaningful way. Entropy is what matters in there !!
cue the apologist saying that these are mostly just contractors hired for this specific project bla bla bla
The free-to-play reboot topped 15 million players in under three weeks, but EA now claims it needs to reshape the development team.
The community warned them this would happen but nope they knew better they continued with the live service push the made the art style cartoonish and this is the result
It's always so bizarre when studios announce something super early in development under the suggestion of forming the game to player feedback, and then they push against all feedback heading straight for the cliff while everyone is warning them along the way
The Congressional Labor Caucus sent a letter to the FTC warning the debt-financed, largely PIF-owned deal could be bad news for workers
lol ya think? they're sending all that work to the cheaper labor market as soon as possible. and FYI, that labor market has exploded in the last 5-10 years. They have enough people to replace every single job. But honestly, EA is over filled with useless upper management as it is. You could probably trim 25% of their staff with no real loss in production. They aren't gamers, they're business execs. Just look at how many AI related jobs they're already starting to post. Its also hilarious that PIF owns Battle field 6
Wait,
The same congress that attacked Lina Khan when she fought the Microsoft Activision purchase.
The same congress that allowed Disney to buy 90% of Fox
The same congress that allowed Liv Golf to buy the PGA
The same congress that sits back while Paramount tries a hostile takeover despite losing the bid for Warner Bros.
NOW, the suddenly cares about doing what's "right" for works? Yeah, right.
EA now owned by The Saudis and Ubisoft to inevitably be owned by China. In hindsight, once EA and Ubisoft started having their financial woes, they should have pulled a Koei Tecmo/Bandai Namco by merging their operations into one.
Looking forward to it!
Games like Mass Effect, Fallout, and Elder Scrolls are all about strong narratives and characters you can actually believe and care about. The same connections cannot be made with a buddy on the other end. Rather than tacking on an unnecessary multiplayer component, those genius' at bioware are better off focusing on bringing the best ME3 that they can deliver.
I personally think there should be more split screen coop games, but I do like when games do not tack on mutliplayer as an after thought.
story based rpgs should be kept sp only
I think if they put the neccessary thought and time into, just about any single player game can have multiplayer, which is healthy for longevity in the title. I for one am a little disappointed by Bioware's decision. I feel like they're rushing game out and thus is why there will be no multiplayer. Mass Effect could EASILY integrate multiplayer, but oh well.