Article: Mass Effect fans feel abandoned by BIoWare after Anthem reveal

It just feels to me like BioWare is copying everyone else. It's kind'a like when a kid comes to second grade with a new phrase, and everyone else jumps on board. I just feel like a geek who's friend has suddenly become popular by saying a phrase which then vaulted him to the cool table.

You feel glad for him that he got invited, but then you have nobody to talk to.

The multiplayer hate here is real!
I've got a group of friends i play with so i got no problem with multiplayer. As for Anthem it looks promising so i'm looking forward to it!
I don't feel abandoned because of MEA since i didn't buy it nor do i intend to. Mass Effect ended for me with ME3.

Yeah, you like MP. Good for you. But don't expect the usual Bioware fan to share your sentiment. I don't like MP at all. I don't like preteens screaming abuse into their mics as I experiencd with GTAV and all my friends aren't into MP either.

What many of us expect from Bioware games is story and character interaction. If I were into shooters or so called online experiences I would go looking for companies who are doing these kinds of games for decades. Not for a company tacking on multiplayer on all their recent games to change an additional dime on the microtransaction train, while all the while only presenting simple horde modes and call it a day.

EA is like a fast food restaurant. RPG's are the opposite. I am more astound it took EA this long to dissuade Bioware in making RPG's.
Churning out "the same" like anybody else = EA to a T. Frankly that is what most people want "sameness" under the banner of diversity, well they achieved it.

Mute them all you like. They and their playing preferences and style are still there, even if you don't hear them.

I'm not interested to go online and meet people I wouldn't want to meet in real life. That's why I confine my online experiences to games that don't attract this kind of audience.

Yeah, well, I'm not interested in shooters in the first place. That's just not my kind of game. It's not to take away from anyone else's enjoyment of certain games, it's just that it should come to noone's surprise that fans of a RPG producing company usually aren't on their knees when they announce something like a competitive online shooter. They already said it wouldn't be an RPG.

They go where they feel the money is these days. I don't blame them for that and I'm certainly not constructing a melodrama over it. If a game doesn't interest me, I don't buy it. Simple as that. They produced quite a lot of games that didn't interest me at all in the past. It's quite simple really, if they come up with something I feel positive about, I will buy it again. No need to go all doom and gloom over it. Even more so since I'm not in love with them. They're just developers of entertainment products. There are other companies to go in the meantime.

I totally understand why people are bummed.I do and I agree for the most part.I just feel the negativity is a bit too much for a game that isn't even out there yet. It 's like some eho used to say "Don't criticize Andromeda too much!Support Bioware !blah blah etc." are the first to abandon the company they staunchly defended 2 months ago.Anyway.

I may play some MP but believe me I am not a MP person,certainly not a very social one either.But MP is not bad as some make it out to be.If u choose the right game and right people to play with, the experience can be amazing. Sometimes the sense of accomplishment coming from coordinated teamwork is great. I mean, it is so ironic that the negative comments against MP are expressed on a social platform that is visited everyday by the same people who spend time engaging with others. Yet playing with them online is somehow hybris.

Both statements are incredible stupid. I for one can't remember having a beer and a friendly chat with any Bioware developer or EA suit. They are companies producing entertainment software. They're not our friends, lovers or deserving of any other emotional connotation. They're producers and the customer likes what they're producing or they don't.

It's the positive and negative fanboyism that really irks me. It drowns out many otherwise constructive criticism.

I'm just trying to point out to that the analogy is more apt than you would originally think.

That's EA's way of showing love. See Maxis, Pandemic, etc.

Bioware made games that I enjoyed a great deal and now they focusing more on trying to appeal the Destiny group.  I get that thier is more money to be made making that kind of game and that we are nothing more than money to them. But this isn't about thinking Bioware is a friend or lover but as a fan of their products.  When they give the product I like the shafted for something I have no interest in it's going to annoy me.