"Mass Effect 3 Gets Massier With Multiplayer"
I was planning to go to the post office this morning, but it's closed due to Columbus Day. So, instead, I'll use this extra time to look at my Google Reader. Hey look, a story about totally unnecessary multiplayer in Mass Effect 3! *weary sigh*
Well, hopefully the multiplayer in ME3 will indeed be "something separate from the main game," since then I will be able to more easily ignore it completely as I have absolutely zero interest in it. But I guess it'll be there for those who do care, so hopefully at least for them it won't end up being the tacked on waste of time that I figure it will be. And, more importantly, hopefully the work on the main game won't have been hurt too much by the effort and resources wasted to work on the unneeded multiplayer.
Sadly, as Bioware themselves recently admitted. "they are EA" now ("And I always chuckle because we are EA"). Yeah, I know that the point of that article was for them to claim that they supposedly still have autonomy from EA and all that. But if that really is the case, then that just makes all the boneheaded decisions they're making lately even worse in my eyes. I'd honestly rather have the "well, it's obviously EA's fault" excuse than to believe that Bioware is just seriously losing their touch. If "think[ing] a lot more about the commercial elements than we used to" is what is causing them to suck so much lately, and if they really do have the autonomy that they claim they do, then maybe they should seriously consider going back to doing what they did best, rather than toeing the EA corporate line like that.
Well, hopefully the multiplayer in ME3 will indeed be "something separate from the main game," since then I will be able to more easily ignore it completely as I have absolutely zero interest in it. But I guess it'll be there for those who do care, so hopefully at least for them it won't end up being the tacked on waste of time that I figure it will be. And, more importantly, hopefully the work on the main game won't have been hurt too much by the effort and resources wasted to work on the unneeded multiplayer.
Sadly, as Bioware themselves recently admitted. "they are EA" now ("And I always chuckle because we are EA"). Yeah, I know that the point of that article was for them to claim that they supposedly still have autonomy from EA and all that. But if that really is the case, then that just makes all the boneheaded decisions they're making lately even worse in my eyes. I'd honestly rather have the "well, it's obviously EA's fault" excuse than to believe that Bioware is just seriously losing their touch. If "think[ing] a lot more about the commercial elements than we used to" is what is causing them to suck so much lately, and if they really do have the autonomy that they claim they do, then maybe they should seriously consider going back to doing what they did best, rather than toeing the EA corporate line like that.