Chris Priestly wrote...
Happy Canadian Thanksgiving everyone. I am at my inlays having dinner, so ma typing this on an iPhone. Excuse the larger than usual amounts of spelling errors.
As loath as I am to give up an opportunity to pick on Dr. Evil...dude, this is above and beyond the call of duty. Enjoy the meal and relax with the folks, man.
As mentioned by Casey on Twitter, we are confirming that there will be 4 player Co-op multiplayer missions for Mass Effect 3. We will have more details on this feature on Wednesday when the announcement was supposed to be made.
I know the immediate reaction by some is to panic and think of how this will ruin the Mass Effect series or whatever. PLEASE do not over react or assume the worst until you actually hear details on this feature and how it will work. I will try to get approval to give you details so you can make up your minds with the correct details. Marketing's plan was to announce on Wednesday, but I'll see if I can speed this up.
So, until you learn the details, I urge people to have cautious optimism or wary negativity until you get the real details. Thanks everyone. Stay tuned.
Look, I know this is not your fault, but someone
completely screwed the pooch on the way this was handled. Months --
months -- of dancing delicately around multiplayer. Touting the SP campaign while carefully not denying the existence of MP. Talking up the "looking into all options" thing while trying to pretend it wasn't a done deal.
This. Was. Not. Cool.Look, I'm not happy with any MP, but co-op sure beats mindless deathmatch with a stick. Most of we SP diehards will suck it up, and the rest will simply not buy ME3. I have no doubt that this will ultimately improve sales in spite of the latter. Here's the thing: EA (and by extension Bioware) messed with us, ME's most loyal customers, for
months, for no good fracking reason. This is too soon to be a "big final-stretch marketing push" and too late to be "hey, we just added this". Am I buying ME3? Definitely. There's no way I'm blowing off Shepard's grand finale, not after years of personal investment. After DA 2 and this, though, I'm not going to pre-order another Bioware game (or, most likely, any game without Zelda in the title) for a long time.