abaris wrote...
Sturmwulfe wrote...
Instead of blanket statement trashing it, why not find a game that sounds interesting and try the multiplayer?
Some people, me included, simply aren't interested in multiplayer, and before you ask, I tried it. It boils down to tastes and playing style. When I play a game I simply sit down and do it and if I get bored I hit the exit button. Bailing out usually doesn't sit well with the playing community. So I had to plan in advance and that's something I'm not doing when playing a game.
My problem with multiplayer is, simply adding it isn't an option. To get a multiplayer functionality worth its name, you have to invest a whole lot of time and money. So the basic concern is, that this effort has some kind of impact on the single player aspects.
And all of your points are very valid, I just think a lot of people who trash playing multiplayer just haven't found a game that agrees with them, or only see what's popular. I personally am more of a fan of cooperative gaming than hardcore competitive slugfests, but to each their own right? And it depends what you're doing, but you are right that generally it's frowned upon leaving a session until the match is over. Some games even record that. Fortunately, there's lots of drop in and out kinds of games out there, so there's ways around it.
We'll have to see when the game is released, but I suspect Bioware's probably been working on the multiplayer for quite a long time now, but only released the fact they're making it very recently as a way to bring some more hype to the game. I don't know what it's going to be like, but I do hope it's fairly substantial, and if it is pretty much a survival mode like has been suggested, then I'm fine with that. I just hope it feels like it's a part of the overaching story involving other characters and not just fighting random bad guys for the heck of it.
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