To all people interested: STOP WHINING
There are some bugs present in game right now, but I'm sure Bioware is working on it right now. These bugs are frustrating, but game is still playable.
If you are that sickened with multiplayer, play single player or some other game.
From my perspective, being demanded to 'fix' something is just rude and unjustifiably demanding something that the forum moderators cannot do. People on the forums are the vocal MINORITY, it's the case for every, ******, game out there.
If they reveal the prestige and stat cap, then people will have less incentive to play the game once they are getting closer and closer, surely? Demanding fixes, being rude and spamming threads isn't going to hurt when you can easily just send them an inbox with a subject of 'What is the ...' or 'Can you tell me about ...'. It shows that you are a mature person rather than being a demanding little child.
If Bioware DO intend for DAMP to be a long term supported project as they have said, the case for a community manager is strong.
DE went that way with Warframe and have gathered a strong long term player base. Issues get reported quickly and in the case of serious game breaking bugs get patched in days or even minutes sometimes.
I know from that side that a big problem with patches is Microsoft/Sony Certification times. However if you use the PC community as your test bed you can roll them up and not try to do every platform at once. Rather than as was the case with ME3MP last DLC do a release that was not only bugged but broke things that were previously fine and just walk away.
Job well done.
I want to love this game and I can see the potential it has but at the moment it has problems. And we get only vague responses about "we are looking into" and Soon™
DAI mp be like:
demons
demons
demons
bug
demons
ohk demon
bug
d/c
crappy RNG
demons
Deal With It
I'm honestly interested in this. It seems like I see this same post come up every few days, and its always a collection of the same members in the thread. Some of the members who have commented here only post negative comments throughout the board, every day. It seems like a number of you are very unsatisfied with the mode, my natural inclination would be to believe that you would post your feedback and either continue on with another game and stop playing or wait patiently to see things resolved. Its really strange behavior to continue to play and post about a game, daily, that you absolutely dislike. I've been thinking about it and my best guesses are:
A.) Some feel they're not being heard.
B.) Some have noticed that they're getting attention when they're behaving poorly.
I've been told repeatedly that the answer is probably B.) but I want to see if I can get some level headed answers and maybe uncover some good dialogue between us. Hopefully that is the case, otherwise I think moderation of certain users will be necessary to clean up the community and keep it healthy. If the answer is A.) then we're doing our best to let the community know they're heard, and I personally have had a strong presence in the MP boards. If there is something we're missing on that front please let me know. Maybe its neither!
What do you think?
Or perhaps you could just acknowledge that the game has a multitude of issues and that the people who complain about constant crashes and disconnects have valid concerns. Subtly threatening to ban users to keep the community "clean" and "healthy" is absolutely uncalled for, especially considering that the tone in this thread was actually quite civil.
You're asking us to patiently wait for you to fix the problems, but maybe our patience is starting to wear thin when we experience bugs and crashes every day and the game even seems to find new ways to screw us over as time goes on. So people come here to vent their frustration. Considering that right now the MP plays like a beta, maybe we have a point.
To all people interested: STOP WHINING
There are some bugs present in game right now, but I'm sure Bioware is working on it right now. These bugs are frustrating, but game is still playable.
If you are that sickened with multiplayer, play single player or some other game.
I wasn't aware crashes, disconnects and bugs such as texture glitches, movement being locked, inability to use powers weren't game breaking.
When I pay full price for a product, I expect it to work at the point of purchase. If it doesnt, then I am perfectly entitled to request fixes for it.
You can't please everyone all the time.
But you can be pretty sure by not saying anything you won't please anyone.
I haven't played much of the MP, but I have noticed some of the issues that people are complaining about. I don't think anyone is asking for an exact breakdown of what is being worked on and when it will be released, but is it too much to ask that the concerns that have been raised at least be acknowledged?
A detailed plan of updates and bug fixes with dates and timelines would be ideal. But just acknowledging the bugs and letting us know which ones are being fixed or how the game hopes to look like in the future would be fine. I just want to know that the game will improve and that it won't be forgotten. What are the plans for DAMP?
^ This. People don't feel like they're being heard because there is very little in the way of official responses to game-breaking issues.
Not to be rude, but the multi-player genuinely feels like an Alpha right now. There's so many issues/problems:
And then there's the actual bugs
I honestly would love some kind of ETA or official thread on what they intend to patch and fix, and when they intend to do so. As of right now, the experience is very poor, something needs to be done. This is my first bioware game, but I'd heard alot of good things. The multiplayer was a big let down for me, especially considering how much potential it has. If anything the missed potential just makes it more frustrating.
To all people interested: STOP WHINING
There are some bugs present in game right now, but I'm sure Bioware is working on it right now. These bugs are frustrating, but game is still playable.
If you are that sickened with multiplayer, play single player or some other game.
Well, what made the ME3MP community good was because the Community was actively helping each other, coming up with ideas, fostering a fantastic community with ideas, tactics, amusing challenges to have fun with and a lot of other details. A part of what made me happy about the ME3 MP forums was a good dialogue between players and BioWare.
Let us be honest here.. who did not appreciate what people such as Eric Fagnan, Bryan Johnson, Jos Hendriks (he even ate a god damn hat for us when we proved him wrong! 
), Derek Hollan and several others? They were accomodating and supportive of the community, and I think a lot of us really appreciated that, which made us very willing to do our best to improve the game and come up with great suggestions.
I just feel that the dialogue between BioWare and us is gone, and that disheartens me. 
Well, what made the ME3MP community good was because the Community was actively helping each other, coming up with ideas, fostering a fantastic community with ideas, tactics, amusing challenges to have fun with and a lot of other details. A part of what made me happy about the ME3 MP forums was a good dialogue between players and BioWare.
Let us be honest here.. who did not appreciate what people such as Eric Fagnan, Bryan Johnson, Jos Hendriks (he even ate a god damn hat for us when we proved him wrong!
I just feel that the dialogue between BioWare and us is gone, and that disheartens me.
It's so true and that's the saddest part... I hope they make a return for the next ME title because the community interaction in DAMP has been so poor in comparison. We all have to remember that isn't the same Bioware that we knew from ME3MP so we should try to be patient although it may be extremely frustrating at times (and I'm sure that they feel the same way).
I'm honestly interested in this. It seems like I see this same post come up every few days, and its always a collection of the same members in the thread. Some of the members who have commented here only post negative comments throughout the board, every day. It seems like a number of you are very unsatisfied with the mode, my natural inclination would be to believe that you would post your feedback and either continue on with another game and stop playing or wait patiently to see things resolved. Its really strange behavior to continue to play and post about a game, daily, that you absolutely dislike. I've been thinking about it and my best guesses are:
A.) Some feel they're not being heard.
B.) Some have noticed that they're getting attention when they're behaving poorly.
I've been told repeatedly that the answer is probably B.) but I want to see if I can get some level headed answers and maybe uncover some good dialogue between us. Hopefully that is the case, otherwise I think moderation of certain users will be necessary to clean up the community and keep it healthy. If the answer is A.) then we're doing our best to let the community know they're heard, and I personally have had a strong presence in the MP boards. If there is something we're missing on that front please let me know. Maybe its neither!
What do you think?
I think it's pretty natural for people to check back to see if problems are fixed, or to complain about them when they encounter them - it probably means that they like the game enough to keep playing despite the problems and haven't given up (I'm on the waiting for patches and *not* playing side myself - constant alt-f4ing is not my idea of fun. Hopefully the patch cadence is faster than ME3MP - by my count it took about 7 months to fix most of the major issues; it was still mostly fun, just sometimes very, very frustrating).
I'd suggest at least making a pinned Feedback/Patch thread where people could report issues/get responses and also see what's on the slate (working on, looking into, wontfix). Right now, responses are haphazard and threads float and die so of course new ones will pop up. If there's something stuck to the top, then there'll be somewhere for people to go to. These threads simply reflect the priorities/concerns of the community. If they weren't, then the threads would simply die. Overall, I think it's probably healthier for devs to not be in a state of denial about their community/product.
I know gaming dev has its own peculiar subculture, but I can't understand why things like UserVoice aren't more popular. It gives the community more directed/actionable/constructive avenues for feedback, and devs/mods more efficient ways to respond. It also lets them see what the actual concerns of the community are in a way that isn't so haphazard/anecdotal. I like to point to FB's public tracker as an exemplar: https://developers.facebook.com/bugs/, but Unity does a good job as well: http://issuetracker.unity3d.com/ (it's nice to see the green things)
Hold on...is there a bug reporting system for DAMP?
Was playing earlier (pc)... First match, disconnected, second, disconnected, third, locked up on loading into match. After the fifth try, i finally got some matches completed.
3 top issues with DAMP:
1) connection problems
2) horrible RNG loot system
3) only 3 maps even though the SP game has many more environments available
If you have that bug where you can not load into a match, but rather get stuck where there's no UI and you can not load in, there is a fix for that which works a lot:
Play in fullscreen and do not alt+tab. Playing in Windowed mode, or occasionally Alt+Tabbing, tends to mess up it and make you freeze. Hopefully, that removes some of the frustration. 
Hold on...is there a bug reporting system for DAMP?
Was playing earlier (pc)... First match, disconnected, second, disconnected, third, locked up on loading into match. After the fifth try, i finally got some matches completed.
3 top issues with DAMP:
1) connection problems
2) horrible RNG loot system
3) only 3 maps even though the SP game has many more environments available
4) 3 maps and tend to fight the same enemies (demons) over and over and over no option to pick enemies like ME3MP, despite that demon commander is clearly broken.
seen that Bioware have a excellent algorithms to drop lvl 1 item so well.
If Bioware DO intend for DAMP to be a long term supported project as they have said, the case for a community manager is strong.
DE went that way with Warframe and have gathered a strong long term player base. Issues get reported quickly and in the case of serious game breaking bugs get patched in days or even minutes sometimes.
I know from that side that a big problem with patches is Microsoft/Sony Certification times. However if you use the PC community as your test bed you can roll them up and not try to do every platform at once. Rather than as was the case with ME3MP last DLC do a release that was not only bugged but broke things that were previously fine and just walk away.
Job well done.
I want to love this game and I can see the potential it has but at the moment it has problems. And we get only vague responses about "we are looking into" and Soon™
I am writing this, directly coming from a match where I got no experience AGAIN
Anyway, no worries - I won't complain again or even be insulting.
What Amelia wrote was inappropriate but probably she was aiming at those posts that said something like
"Bioware only wants our money and they don't care for quality, nor for their customers"
This is highly inappropriate, too and Amelia justifiably feels offended.
But this is pretty much it - all the other posts don't justify "being moderated" and I really hope that she
will put her post straight.
Back to topic:
C:) I keep playing because
But as someone said earlier: With every big chest opened, the fun gets less and less and the frustration grows more and more
I enjoy the game, but I don't have to deal with a lot of bugs. I play on the x-box one which mostly runs smoothly, but even there we have the odd hickup or two.
Sometimes an enemy will "disconnect". The enemy wont die or take damage even though you can hit it and push it around. The enemy itself just stands there, but as long as you can't kill it you can't get the key for the next room. The other thing that has happened is that we've had a player die, but even though he had the dead icon he was still able to move around like nothing. This ended up being a boon for us because I died (and we were playing only two players) and the game luckily didn't end. The reason that was a boon is because of the workaround that fixes both issues mentioned above.
By having the host leave and re-join the new host the current zone resets and you can go again, without loosing progress or anything. So the few issues we are having on the xbox one are actually easily bypassed. As for what I've heard about the other platforms, if it's all true, I don't imagine myself being quite so calm about the matter. Nothing more frustrating then loving a game, but being bogged down by techincal issues.
I wish Bioware good luck with fixing these issues for everyone and for the sake of the players hampered by these issues I hope they are fixed soon 
Thank you for at least listening to what the community posted. I still believe that having more devs comment more clearly on the status of the game would be a great step forward, but I understand why you and those on your team may chose to avoid these forums. However, forum users are very rarely the kind of people who are understanding and forgiving. I wish it were otherwise, but that remains true. If you want this community to be better, you need to build it such. While I feel you are personally doing a good job Amelia, I really feel like there needs top be others who take the time to communicate on these forums. It's discouraging to those of us who want this part of DA to succeed to see only a single face with some level of information, as friendly and accommodating as that face may be.
What you guys have developed has fans. We like this game mode. A lot. We just want to make it the best it can be, and we want assurance that someone with the power to make a difference wants the same things we do.
(P.S. I would not look to Riot Games as an example for a good community. Their community is one of the most toxic I have ever seen, bar none. While they certainly try to improve, you know there is an issue when they give free IP (in-game currency) to players who were NOT toxic. That can't be a good sign.)
^ This. People don't feel like they're being heard because there is very little in the way of official responses to game-breaking issues.
Not to be rude, but the multi-player genuinely feels like an Alpha right now. There's so many issues/problems:
- Some very ugly character models [keeper especially]
- Awful character dialogue, it gets old very quickly.
- Poor loot system [just gold from urns? No enemy loot drops? Most item drops are awful.]
- Loot not scaling with level - making it impossible to tackle perilous difficulty. Also forces players into playing whichever class has the best gear
- I've sunk 20 hours into MP and unlocked 3 characters. It gets stale far quicker than it takes to unlock new characters, many of which have cross-over skills anyway
- Some really OP enemies, especially in perilous [archers] and a certain Demon Commander boss that just OHKO's pretty much anyone regardless of difficulty.
- Only 3 maps, with minor variances in the map path itself. The maps also are generic, they have no complexity to them at all.
- Very little enemy diversity
- Some UP and some seriously OP classes [Arcane Warrior, here's looking at you.]
- The store chest system is effectively an RNG pay-wall, quite similar to games like Hearthstone, except you actually have to pay for DAI yet still have the same system in place.
- I cannot for the life of me find any mapping of multiplayer controls beyond the loading screen cards.
- No push-to-talk.
And then there's the actual bugs
- Vast plethora of Connection issues, most of which require leaving the game and/or closing the game
- Crashing issues [especially on loading screens]
- Reaver class Rampage ability randomly breaks. Once it breaks, it doesn't fix itself until you leave the game session.
- When you break urns and they simply re-appear, with no target icon. This pretty much makes it impossible for mages to break urns consistently
- Latency issues making the game quite literally un-playable.
I honestly would love some kind of ETA or official thread on what they intend to patch and fix, and when they intend to do so. As of right now, the experience is very poor, something needs to be done. This is my first bioware game, but I'd heard alot of good things. The multiplayer was a big let down for me, especially considering how much potential it has. If anything the missed potential just makes it more frustrating.
This is a great post because it sums up all of the problems I have seen in MP. I second all of this.
I am not a high maintenance user, but I expected some kind of patch for the biggest issues within a week or two of launch. (For the main game, as well.) Last weekend - especially Sunday - was simply awful and probably turned many people off MP forever. Aside from some features like equally-shared XP and gold, so far this seems like a major step backward from ME3's MP, which wowed me from the first weeks.
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I'm sorry, but this is just wrong. We get a passive aggressive wall of text every time people talk about their concerns and dare to question the quality of the product the paid for. But when people ask a genuine question about game information or mechanics we get one liners that look like tweets from a teenager. Apologies if it hurts your feelings, but seriously...
In a thread asking about being able to view the stats of MP characters all we get is a question - "what stats?" And someone needs to put screenshots of SP attributes page.
In another thread someone asked for the ability to select random map when creating lobby/hosting. All we got is - "it's there already...oh wait, it's not, it's just quick match option... lolz"
Thread about demon commander - "Ya'll gotta run! As soon as he goes under just start sprinting, he won't hit you" - too bad people keep reporting this is not the case. So much for pr0 tips from someone playing the game for 2 years as you claim.
Just to name a few.
I still don't get it why games are treated completely different from any other product we buy. No one would accept a phone, TV or any other appliance with some functions not working. You would not accept uncooked food in restaurant. For some reason you should accept bugged games with no promise anything will be fixed.
Aside from some features like equally-shared XP and gold, so far this seems like a major step backward from ME3's MP, which wowed me from the first weeks.
This was a feature of ME3MP. XP and Credits were team shared, which is why ME3MP even worked as a Co-Op mode. Party members shouldn't be fighting each other over "drops" in a co-op mode. It's great that DAMP got this party right.
The only improvement over ME3MP in DAMP is the inclusion of the Speech commands for Retreat, Over Here, and Good Job. Also if you can tolerate the janky KB&M controls you can get Attack My Target Markers (why isn't this on D-Pad Up?). That's about it.
The lack of Push-to-talk on the PC side is a major step back. As is randomized faction instead of having it as a select-able. You also can't pick "Random" for the map type when creating a Lobby.
The Party screen UI needs a ground up overhaul. It provides no useful party information beyond a players class and level.
ME3MP could show another player's:
* Class
* Class Level
* Promotes for that Class
* Prestige/N7
* Challenge Score
* Weapons (but not Mods)
* Consumables (a.k.a DAMP potions)
These could give other players a very quick overview of what any one player is bringing to the party. It very quickly separate N00bs from Newbs, from veteran players who could get away with bringing a level 1 Adept to Sliver or even Gold match.
DAMPs party UI screen already has:
* Class
* Class Level
It needs:
* Promotes for that Class
* Prestige
* Challenge score/completed
* DPS of Weapons, Armor of Shields
* Potions Equipped
That would bring it to par with what ME3MP had.
Why just weapon DPS/Armor and not the weapon itself? Simple, DPS is a driving factor in how much damage character abilities do. It doesn't really matter what the exact weapon is, having the DPS at a glance would give most of the information about the "Gear" level of a player. Separates a brand new Level 1 Assassin from multi-promote long term Assassin player who has RNGesus on their side. This is the equivalent of seeing a Javelin I and a Javelin X from ME3MP.
To improve beyond ME3MP, It would actually be nice to see the 4 Active Abilities as well. Right now there is tone of wasted space on the party screen UI. Even for someone sitting back on a couch the customization area Potions/Abilities/Inventory/Crafting could be cut in half horizontally. Each button only really needs about half the space it current takes up. Even if they were cut down by 75% for other languages with longer words for each that'd still free up space.
The Store and Prestige areas could brought to the same vertical size as the other 4. Again freeing up screen space.
The Player Slots could then be expanded to contain the above information. ME3MP used a rotating sub-banner for Promotes/ Prestige/Challenge. The same could be employed again. With the extra space gained from cleaning up the Customization buttons you can get space for a Weapon/Shield DPS/Armor. With the expanded player slot zones that should give space to include icons for Potions and Active powers, in the way they are currently show on the Potions and Abilities buttons, maybe a bit scaled down.
---> Those Active and Potions icons are a very powerful addition, and very informative at a glance with no text at all. My complements on those. They are good iconography.
All combined this would be give DAMP players all the party info they need up front to create good pickup groups. Further showing Active Powers would give savvy players the ability to setup parties that synergy better on the fly. It would go along way to making DAMP PuGing as generally friendly as ME3MP PuGing was, where knowledgeable players could very quickly tell if another player knew what they were about.
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