ciaweth wrote...
Babe Mause wrote...
DiebytheSword wrote...
You assume the entire MP team could have produced more, what exactly? The MP team would be working on combat, which already has a deadicated team at the other location. How about story! Because adding more writers never overcomplicates the plot and produces plot holes. I know, we will hurl money at it! Because in its done state, we can spend more on . . . N7 Collectors edition dogtags . . . or something. At some point you cannot put more resources in without becoming inefficient.
I think the problem is not multiplayer, but your entirely unrealistic expectations.
How about we get the voice actors from multiplayer to make more . . . random battlefield sounds?
No, there is no real impact on SP when implementing MP. People who claim this have no idea about compartmentalized manufacturing, or what it means to have enough to do the job..
Or they could use people from the MP team to do a better job on the squad instead of making smaller squad, leaving half the characters behind.
I know that squad is is pretty complicated issue because there are too many variations of who is dead and who is not(except of Liara who is unkillable). MP tream could be used to address this issue.
They could let the main team to concentrate on the story and let this new studio do the animation, rendering, sound editing etc.
so they could have dialogs, party banter and cutscenes for 16+ characters and then add variables depending on who lives and who doesn't.
So, there is real impact on SP, and fyi I have an idea how games are made. There are always things to improve. If you cannot think of something besides combat and dogtags, it's your problem.
Of course, we will never know if they would actually do things they could have done, but the thought that sp could been better/bigger/more immersive and all we got was just a coop will be eating me forever.
This. This is armchair project managering. It is clear from this post that you have no everloving clue about budgets, skillsets, personnel allocation, or anything else mentioned here. You are literally flailing about to make up reasons to justify your extreme emotional reaction, and it's evident to anyone with even the littlest bit of an idea about how a software house, let alone a game company, runs.
Seriously, knock it off. You're embarrassing yourself. If you want to come up with reasons why MP is bad, do it with facts.
I know that addition of any new feature to the game is evaluated by how much money and people company has to allocate to implement it.
So, something as big as decent mp-mode requires a lot of money and people. even a separate new studio. I'm pretty aware that this studio was created with MP-task in mind and they hired specific people for this exact task, and I'm not saying that MP studio should drop doing MP stuff right now and start doing other stuff.
But BW
could use those money to form differentr team that would concentrate on roleplay stuff instead of MP, to hire different people with appropriate skills for this task, etc.
I'm not saying that they
would do it. Maybe, if it was not for multyplayer, they would never hired additional people. And this I would like to know. If it was EA's idea and they gave additional money for this purpose without subtracting a single penny from SP budget, then fine, I have no problems with MP at all.
Also, please point when and where I showed signs of extreme emotional reaction. Did I used a lot of f-words and threatened to kill myself? Did I threatened to blow up BW-building or kill people responsible for MP decision? Did i cried 'ruined forever' etc? I don't remember doing any of those. I expressed my concerns with MP in civil fashion, and somehow I ended up 'embarrasing myself'?
If you bothered to read my previous posts in this thread, you could see my post where I said that while I'm not happy with existance of MP-mode, I'm willing to give it a try myself. And in reply to your post I said why I'm unhappy with it, and what things I would rather have instead of MP.
If that is extreme for you, then I humbly apoligize for hurting your feelings.