Keyrlis wrote...
Too bad it falls on one of their MP mission weekends. That might bring the number of participants down some, but if it makes a large enough drop in the MP aspect, that should give them even MORE proof of our resolve.
I shall support this, mission rewards or not:
My reward awaits me in a better ending for the galaxy.
Yes, it is too bad, but I'm not really bothered. Most of the really enthusiastic MP players won't take part anyway. It's the people who ONLY play SP and who have been unable to face playing SP since they finished who we really need to recruit because they're the ones who are currently being overlooked.
It's interesting EA's going down to every other week for MP. I wonder if it is because MP players are falling off as well, or because EA feels complacent that the fanbase is pacified and doesn't require more "olive branches."
When I look at global MP rankings, I'm surprised at how few MP players there really are. If ME3 sold 3 million copies, why are there only 350k MP players who are level 2 or higher
in the world? It's pretty much a given that if you play
one round of MP you'll get to level 4 or higher. So, many people have made a character or two but then never really played at all. If we look at the number of people at an N7 rank of 20 or greater, which is achievable by playing maybe 10 rounds with one character or 5 rounds with 5 characters (one round each for 5 different classes), the number falls to 250K. That's 1/12th or 8% of the overall number of players. I don't play MP that much, but I'm in the top 20% of players above level 2, which means the other 80% are either playing less than I am (which means not much at all) or sticking with 3 classes or fewer. This is actually pretty troublesome for EA, because I'm not buying any MP packs, and people who play less than me probably aren't buying many. That leaves the "harder core" MP players, (60K people above me), which is 2% of the overall people buying ME3. If MP packs are $2-5, and ALL of those 60K people are buying (which they're not), that's only $120-300K per pack. Not the windfall EA expected, I'm sure.
Now let's look at SP DLC. ME3 sold 3 million copies. Apparently only 50% of people buying a game actually finish it and I assume that if you can't be bothered to finish you're not buying DLC. All right, if 20% of the 1.5million finishers buy one SP DLC for $5, that's $1.5 million dollars. At the current # of MP players, they'd have to offer 5-10X as many packs to make that amount.
Single player gamers have power because we have numbers on our side! You have the power to make a difference! Don't give up! Stand up and be heard!
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