How do you feel about Bioware quadruple dipping without new animation?

I would have been happy if they actually made some new enemy variants for Platinum as well. Instead we mainly got Purple-named version of existing enemies, which more shield and HP. The Progenitor is the closest to something actually new, but come on.

You've never really been ripped off, have you? I mean really ripped off, like having a car stolen, or your house burglarized, or been robbed at gun point.

I have, to all those things. So no, I don't feel ripped off by Bioware adding in recolored guns. I find it annoying and somewhat pitiful that what was once a great game company would lower themselves to that.

If anyone is being ripped off, it's Bioware's reputation...at least what little is left of it at this point.

I've given up the quest of double full manifest. I only play with friends anyway, and as long as other friends play, I'll play.

God-fucking-damn, Bioware .... is this cheap stuff everything you're able to do? All the more so, that there are lots of guns, which were already made in ME3 and not included to ME:A weapon pool (along with powers and characters, BTW).

Mere porting of all that to ME:A would be way more appreciated, than this, really.

All I know is I'll never be able to play the duelist and kineticist to their full potential because lol character card unlocks for points and diluted RNG pool made it even more unlikely.

While I'm unhappy about the diluted pool and the fact that I'll never get the Black Widow or Soned since 1.09, I would have to agree with this. If certain rumor is to be believed, the team that's supporting the MP is very small compared to the ME3MP team, and it probably doesn't have the resources to produce new graphics, animation, plugins to the engine, etc., etc. But under the pressure of the gamers and mostly importantly probably the company's higher-ups that they have to keep the game going for x number of months until Anthem, so the team did what they could with what they had. I'm not mad at them anymore, I'm really sad. Like 3rdpig said, Bioware was once known as an innovative game developer and we fell in love with their games since Baldur's Gate or SWKOTOR or Mass Effect series. I think our collective frustration with the MEAMP stems from our love for its predecessor, MP3MP, and from our hope that this game would get better. It's indeed sad for both Bioware and its fans.

this makes so much sense. The one time they actually get the credit payout right is the same time they decide inflate the number of cards.

None of those options applies to how I feel..

I dont want a maxed manifest, im not a completionist and accepted a long time ago with the hours I play that I can never own everything I want. So my priority is an abundant supply of fun stuff to unlock. This is also why I played silver for a long time, despite being comfortable on gold - some classes are just more fun when their powers actually affect the enemies - its only the recent patches that have made Gold "fun viable" in my eyes.

For this reason im wary of platinum - im sure I could do it, but I would bore quickly.

I like the new variants, and I suppose the fact they dont dilute the pool till you already have a weapon at X is pretty good too. The character cards for skill points is annoying though - for someone like me who may never get all the character cards it sucks that my characters cannot use powers as effectively. If they stuck to aesthetics and passive bonuses I wouldnt mind.

I would have preferred new weapons entirely, or mods which affected weapons similarly, but this said I prefer more content to none at all, which was a possibility.

I look forward to anthem, and an optimistic because its from a better studio - we have been screwed for a decade by companies and DLC/pre-order/microtransaction bullshit, so while im not complacent I also expect it regardless of it being EA or not.

I have more positives than negatives for this update personally, but understand others frustrations.