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[STG]

What I like about Mass Effect is story. What never works in MMOs is story.

[Nicodemus]

The trouble with MMO's is that you need to invest a lot of time making a lot of content. Where the current ME games succeed is that they focus on a single storyline that is coming to a climax. An MMO needs to have continual story updates to continue to attract the player. Also the ME universe isn't quite as geared up for an MMO as something like Star Wars. Where do you set it, who are the protaganists, what are the limits of the game maps, what do people do together, what age do you set it in, what races do you allow people to play.. etc etc etc.



Where they could make a multiplayer game is something like a PvP game akin to Planetside, that would have more scope as a game than an MMORPG.

[Christmas Ape]

MMOFPS, sure; MMOTPS, even (the FPS looks dead, hooked to the life support that is the Call of Duty franchise).



MMORPG? Ugh, lord no. Everything that makes an MMORPG work is alien to the sci-fi genre as I see playing it (EVE is a special case, that's more like multiplayer QuickBooks).



And I'll call it now: 80% of all krogan PC names will include a reference to having an unusual number of testicles.

[Snugglepus]

Hell no! There is only one thing that i hate in this world, and it is combination of 3 letters: MMO.

[Pepper4]

no. this isn't gonna happen anyway due to TOR's development.

[Fiery Phoenix]

[Aigyl]

If SW:TOR is a success, I won't be surprised if either Dragon Age or Mass Effect are given an MMO.

Gameplay-wise MMOs can be great - heck some of my favourite moments in video gaming have been taking down a tough boss or running around doing crazy things with other players in WoW (*equips flame-resist gear*); the synergy and community you can build with people as you progress through an MMO is really quite amazing at times, or so I find.


Story and roleplaying on the other hand... it inevitably suffers due to how a MMO works. For example, say there's a mission in the Mass Effect MMO where you can confront and kill the Shadow Broker. You and a group of other players can team up. start the mission, work together to get to the end and kill the Shadow Broker. As far as your character is concerned, he/she just killed the Shadow Broker.

However, it turns out that nearly every other character you meet also killed the Shadow Broker. Also you can go back and kill the Shadow Broker in the exact same way again. And again. And again. And the game will give you incentives to keep repeating the content, whether to get a new item you want or to help out friends who still want something from the Shadow Broker Mission*. There's a lot of stuff like this in MMOs which leads to the overall story and roleplay experiences suffering for the sake of gameplay.

So after my wall of text, I personally think a Mass Effect MMO could potentially be a lot of fun socially and in terms of gameplay. However the story would inevitably have to take a heavy blow for the game to keep people playing it for the length of time an MMO requires, and I don't think that's a price I'd be willing to pay.

Just my two coppers.


*MMOs often stretch out the lifespan of content until the next set of
content comes out - an MMO can never allow you to 'finish' the game,
there is always something for you to do to progress your character or
help someone else progress their character (which you mutually benefit
from when you next work together with that character).

[Khayness]

I won't support the downfall of cRPGs, even if the game is good.

[jelf rs]

no mmorpg.

thank you very much

[exxxed]

This crap again?



The story wouldn't work!



Mass Effect has a serious lack of items and it's a Third Person Shooter...



Everything that makes Mass Effect great (companions, story line, feeling - mostly in ME1 with it's sense of huge desolated universe - , the reapers) doesn't work in an MMO environment.



Plus I'll never support any MMO game and I'm still mad at BioWare for not giving us KotOR 3.

[LadyJaneGrey]

No.

[Boombox]

No I wouldn't.

[Lumikki]

NO.



Mass Effect serie isn't like some MMO game, it's cinematic story with feelings and impressions. MMO's are just crap keeping impressions, not because game it self, but because other players. Today most mmo's are full of people, who has no clue what community or impression or roleplaying is. For some of them, mmo's are real life virtual chat rooms where you can also powerplay the simple themepark game for fun.



I don't think my NO covers the situation stronger enough.

[Vena_86]

never

[Nollemaster]

Only if I can play as a Geth platform

[Athlonix]

If they managed to keep the dialogue, and missions as they are but in a much bigger game, i'd be sold on that. I mean I still want the live action effect, no turn based crap, cos i hate that, but I think investment like the latest star wars game then it could be the game to topple WoW.



Bioware have done well with there games, and i see no boundary in the MMO world, which they couldn't cover. I think if you looked at it as Mass Effect Universe, upposed to another instalment of the Mass Effect saga, then it could very well succeed

[spacehamsterZH]

I woulnd't mind if one existed, but I wouldn't play it. I'd also be worried that developing and maintaining a muhmorpuhguh eats up so many resources that there would never be any other ME games again, and I'd rather have some more story based stuff set in different time periods.

[biomag]

...new week, same BS...



Once more: NO SUCH CRAP!



MMORPG stay away from ME!

[RenownedRyan]

MMORPG again?

Well.  There's only one thing to say.

[Soapy86]

NO! I hate things that are different than the things I like! Hurr durr!



Joking. Yes, I would love a Mass Effect MMO.

[bjdbwea]

No.