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[Eelectrica]

Hope so. I wouldn't play it, but would find it hilarious, so I'd call that a win.

[Fade9wayz]

This is not the case. MP has always been free on all platforms.

Ah I see, I did find it odd, but never really bothered to look it up since I wasn't affected. Thank you for the clarification

[thepiebaker]

That sounds like a bit of an odd conclusion to reach after several people have already explained that online passes had to be purchase for used copies until EA removed that requirement.

Must have scrolled past them between the bickering of "its making me pay"/"it's ALWAYS been free"

[Killdren88]

No. They wouldn't. That is what Dice is for. EA didn't acquire Bioware to create Multiplayer games. They know there is a good market for SP RPGs.and they'd be stupid to just throw all the people who are here for the SP story out to the curb. They would loose more money than gain.

[Quarian Master Race]

Soooo.....

 

Anyone else concerned that they'll pull an EA's Battlefront on this series and ditch the singleplayer campaign, story, lore, and character building aspects and turn it into another multiplayer cashgrab? Like a sleugh of recent titles that have basically been cheap map packs with lackluster and average gameplay, and then 100s of bucks of DLC and season passes? 

 

Because that seems like something scummy that might come of the series, especially if corporate greed reigns supreme. 

Okay, opinions of the new game aside, since when has Battlefront been anything but a multiplayer focus title?

The "singleplayer campaign" in the first 2 was a glorified playlist where cut rate voice actor Yoda or Palpatine (sounded more like Cookie Monster and Scrooge) gave you a 20 second narration of the planet you were fighting on next in the loading screen before you proceeded to exactly the same battle with the same objectives (Conquest, pretty much the only mode) that you would play in online multiplayer or the offline bot mode (i.e. multiplayer for people with no internet).

That they chose to omit it isn't really all that surprising and in no way evidence of a "cash grab" (whatever that means considering that all video games in the real world are, in fact, made for profit and not out of altruism). Frankly, I don't know why they even bothered putting a "campaign" in those games in the first place seeing as the original Battlefronts were shameless Battlefield 2 ripoffs (which had no "campaign", and modern BFs should have stayed that way), reskinned into Star Wars, with less than half the player count and commander mode removed. They were fun games especially for a SW nerd, but they were in no way genre defining masterpieces, evidenced by them getting pretty much the same 7-8/10 or so critical review scores in their time that the modern one trends around.

Frankly though, I don't see how that has anything to do with a series like Mass Effect that literally started life without any sort of MP mode. Sounds like another butthurt SP extremist crying and making more hyperbolic claims about the sky falling because there's a horde mode they don't even have to play in one of the games.

I'm gonna laugh when the SP is boring garbage DAI or Fallout 4 in space and the morons on here blame the multiplayer (made by an entirely different studio) yet again. I absolutely cannot wait for the deluge of salty SP peasant tears, especially if it has a pretty good MP like ME3.

[Mysot_Stormrage]

Okay, opinions of the new game aside, since when has Battlefront been anything but a multiplayer focus title?

The "singleplayer campaign" in the first 2 was a glorified playlist where cut rate voice actor Yoda or Palpatine (sounded more like Cookie Monster and Scrooge) gave you a 20 second narration of the planet you were fighting on next in the loading screen before you proceeded to exactly the same battle with the same objectives (Conquest, pretty much the only mode) that you would play in online multiplayer or the offline bot mode (i.e. multiplayer for people with no internet).

That they chose to omit it isn't really all that surprising and in no way evidence of a "cash grab" (whatever that means considering that all video games in the real world are, in fact, made for profit and not out of altruism). Frankly, I don't know why they even bothered putting a "campaign" in those games in the first place seeing as the original Battlefronts were shameless Battlefield 2 ripoffs (which had no "campaign", and modern BFs should have stayed that way), reskinned into Star Wars, with less than half the player count and commander mode removed. They were fun games especially for a SW nerd, but they were in no way genre defining masterpieces, evidenced by them getting pretty much the same 7-8/10 or so critical review scores in their time that the modern one trends around.

Frankly though, I don't see how that has anything to do with a series like Mass Effect that literally started life without any sort of MP mode. Sounds like another butthurt SP extremist crying and making more hyperbolic claims about the sky falling because there's a horde mode they don't even have to play in one of the games.

I'm gonna laugh when the SP is boring garbage DAI or Fallout 4 in space and the morons on here blame the multiplayer (made by an entirely different studio) yet again. I absolutely cannot wait for the deluge of salty SP peasant tears, especially if it has a pretty good MP like ME3.

 

If it isn't because assets and resources are being allocated to multiplayer development, then why can't they write a halfways decent singleplayer story anymore? I need something to blame! And I certainly enjoyed RPGs more when they didn't have multiplayer options.

[Quarian Master Race]

If it isn't because assets and resources are being allocated to multiplayer development, then why can't they write a halfways decent singleplayer story anymore? I need something to blame! And I certainly enjoyed RPGs more when they didn't have multiplayer options.

I had you for another SP pleb for a second there. I ain't even mad tho, good work. This is a good thread compared to most of the garbage in this section.

carry on.

[Spectr61]

Well that explains a lot. Greedy SOBs.

Yup.

Show'em, get a PC.

Play at 60 fps, free.

[HSomCokeSniper]

If the MP grindfactor follows the trend from ME3 -> DAI -> DAI² (ME:A) I can see already how it might end up as a cash grab.

It was tedious enough in the ME3 and once checking the store first I decided not to even bother with DA:I MP.

 

But ditching the single player: Nah 

Chopping up the content: Likely

[Geth Supremacy]

If the MP grindfactor follows the trend from ME3 -> DAI -> DAI² (ME:A) I can see already how it might end up as a cash grab.

It was tedious enough in the ME3 and once checking the store first I decided not to even bother with DA:I MP.

 

But ditching the single player: Nah 

Chopping up the content: Likely

 

 

RNG is the worst part of Bioware MP.  As much as people complained about it, I would be surprised if ME: A doesn't offer a system in which you can buy exactly what item you want...even if it is for an insanely high price.  Even when you have a maxed manifest in ME3 there are so many guns that are useful there is always diversity....ME: A should be just expanding on what is already diverse.

 

They didn't go this route with DA: I, but those that played it do know the drop rates were GOD AWFUL in the beginning, but for the people that kept paddling up creek there were tweaks to the game that lead to really good drop rates....of course then you had everyone in the game using the same few weapons.  This was further magnified by the pitiful amount of content DAMP offered vs ME3.  4 maps (after dlc lol) and 12 characters? LOL!  One of the many reasons I will never again buy another Dragon Age game whatsoever.

[BaaBaaBlacksheep]

Yup.

Show'em, get a PC.

Play at 60 fps, free.

Why people who own consoles should pay? It should be free like PC.

[Obliviousmiss]

Day 1 DLC. Never forget.

 

 

 

No. They wouldn't. That is what Dice is for. EA didn't acquire Bioware to create Multiplayer games. They know there is a good market for SP RPGs.and they'd be stupid to just throw all the people who are here for the SP story out to the curb. They would loose more money than gain.

 

I agree. Bioware is first and foremost an RPG developer.