Will MP eventually kill of SP DLC?

This is pointless and doesn't belong here.

It's certainly a possibility... times change and companies must change with them to stay profitable. I just hope that some ME:A SP DLC sneaks it's way into being before everything goes this route. For me, playing any game online, even if I was on PC, is simply not an option with the sort of limited and often flaky internet service that is available in our area.

I think this is possible. I think that, however, there will still be SP DLC for the more story-driven games of Bioware for the foreseeable future. However, when you look at something like GTA V, they aren't doing any SP DLC, only focusing on the cash cow of GTA Online. This makes sense for them, but for fairly non-competitive non-esports games like Mass Effect, I think SP DLC's will still be a thing.

MP is only going to get enough revenue from MP Transactions if the MP is huge (like GTA Online) or if it's an esport type of game (COD, Battlefield, etc). I don't see that happening for Mass Effect anytime soon, but we'll see.

Well that's the goal with Anthem and the Andromeda's free trial. I could see a future mass effect game being solely multiplayer.

MEA and ME3 for that matter already have microtransactions. Plus, ME3 had sp dlc to boot as well. BioWare will have to add competitive mp at some point with their games to make that viable. As co-op only takes a game so far when the only person your competing against is yourself.

There are a lot of journalists thinking that MP will ultimately kill SP expansions. MP is easy to do in comparison to SP content and it nets tidy sums every year. For the UK alone, last year microtransactions netted abour 900 million pounds last year. It's save to say that billions can be earned on a global level. With little effort involved in comparison to SP.

So the best case scenario is them milking MP to the ultimate level. That's what we currently observe with all the promotionals they're running. They strive to hook as many as possible to MEAs MP. DragonRacer said yesterday that people are starting to move back to ME3s MP because they are disappointed with MEAs.

And may I just add that I hate this board and it's constant connection problems. I'd like to slap that Boyface hard cropping up whenever one of my posts fails to register with an oops downtime.

To be honest, I would interpret that situation more as "Microtransactions messing with every aspect of gaming."

The extent to which they negatively impact the game's various elements is largely on the integrity of the developers and publishers.


(I admit when I clicked the title I assumed this would be a pitchfork-gathering, blaming lack of Quarian DLC on MP. Not that a few over-enthusiastic responses couldn't read the title alone and skew things accordingly, there's time. )

Potentially! IIRC ME3MP was supposed to be it's own game, but they weren't sure how well it would do so they sold it with ME3 SP. It turned out to be very profitable, but I'm not sure MEA MP was as profitable. We'll see, I guess. I feel like horse-like mode MP is hard to sell by itself. Otherwise Gears might have tried that first.

I wouldn't mind Left 4 Dead type Mass Effect game. God I miss Left 4 Dead.

Ha, that's precisely why I like it.

There are already lots of competitive PvP MP titles out there.

I don't doubt that most players don't spend money on them - but the ones that do, spend their life savings.

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Same here. If MEMP became a competitive PvP I wouldn't play it. I'm not a big fan of PvP based games.

Considering how much of Ultimate Team is mobile based that's not surprising. Besides, how much of FIFA 17 is multiplayer?