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Post by patrickbateman on Jul 14, 2017 20:49:52 GMT
I will admit that I don't play this game as much as I've used to due to time limitations, but after more than 4 years of playing and 2000+ hours spent I still enjoy every single second I get to play.
Sure, finding games now is a lot slower than it used to, but on PC it's still not that much of a wait to find Gold or Platinum games and I keep seeing new players coming into the game all the time.
This game have been predicted to die out over and over again each time something new is coming (can't even remember how many times I've seen "ME3 is dead lol" threads I've seen over the years) but still it keep going strong.
So what do you think guys, how much longer will our beloved ME3 MP keep going? (personally I'm hoping that the servers will keep going for at least 5 more years as I just can't get bored of it, I just come back for more all the time).
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Post by Sonashii on Jul 14, 2017 21:19:15 GMT
Same here. I hope ME 3 keeps going as long as it can. I think it would be a very bad move for BioWare (EA) to shut it down now. There's a lot of complaints about their latest ME game. However, with EA, I wouldn't be surprised if they decided to end ME 3 mp for good, just to "force" players to play their new s.. Because we all know Andromeda is nowhere near as good as its older brother, and to stay alive it will need something drastic to happen (it's only my prediction). Personally I've been playing for over a year, and I still enjoy it as much as the first time I met a lot of fantastic people, played hunderds matches, had ton of fun and collected beautiful memories (which some of them are stored on the Internetz ). I wish I had been more open minded back in 2012 (I tried it only a couple of times and left it for good after that). Currently I'm working on my N7 challenge series (learning how to enjoy soloing - which I admit, isn't that easy haha). Pretty much every day I play a couple of games with friends and I don't have plans to retire anytime soon. Hopefully you guys are going to play it whenever you can/want
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Post by Aragorn89 on Jul 14, 2017 21:24:06 GMT
Hopefully a long time to come. I can't even stay connected in MEA:MP long enough to even try to enjoy it. Different story with this one even though I lag a lot. It's still very fun to me so I keep coming back to it. As long as it's fun and I have friends to play a game or two with, I'll keep coming back to it I figure.
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Post by Clyde on Jul 14, 2017 21:43:20 GMT
Given the flop that is Andromeda, hopefully biower is smart enough to keep the servers going for at least the next 4-5 yrs. They're getting more players and the game is tons of fun, much more so than Andromeda, so they've no reason to kill them off.
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Post by Mission_Scrubbed on Jul 14, 2017 21:53:32 GMT
I don't know. I'm not even half-tired of Claymore yet. I have been playing the same kit and the same weapon for over half a decade and still it feels new and fresh for god's sake. All I have to do now-days, is to avoid what (or whom) might ruin the taste of this game for me.
If someone had said back then that Mass Effect 3 would still be on by the time Andromeda would hit the shelves, we would be calling them crazy, that's for sure.
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Post by videojims on Jul 14, 2017 23:01:57 GMT
I just started so hopefully a while, I've still got lots of dem space guns and aliens left to unlock.
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Post by DoomsdayDevice on Jul 14, 2017 23:14:51 GMT
Given the flop that is Andromeda, hopefully biower is smart enough to keep the servers going for at least the next 4-5 yrs. They're getting more players and the game is tons of fun, much more so than Andromeda, so they've no reason to kill them off. As much as I hope that what you're saying is true, I'm afraid it's (as always) simply a matter of whether it's making them enough money. I could see EA shutting it down in an attempt to force ME fans to play Andromeda which, let's face it, has a much more exploitative business model. That game has become such an insane grind, there's no hope for any casual player (read: anyone with something resembling a life of sorts) to max out an ultra rare. Characters now go up to rank XX, and weapons effectively go up to 40. Just imagine unlocking 40 upgrades of the Shuriken. And spending tens of millions of credits in doing so. The irony is also that dropping cash on packs is now such a dissatisfying experience that the whole marketing strategy is backfiring spectacularly and ending up to be a complete discouragement to spend any real money, or to play the game at all, for that matter.
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Post by MrsFlyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyingKebab on Jul 15, 2017 1:25:11 GMT
I think EA actually has a pretty good track record for keeping games going online longer than you might think. And as long as people are playing I think they are likely to keep the servers up. Its not as if they need to host matches... ME3 also has a special place in my heart; it was my first online gaming experience, and I still find it rewarding and fun, particularly with friends; and many of those are RL friends who I've known 5 yrs now. I hope it keeps going for as long as I am able to play tbh
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Post by DoomsdayDevice on Jul 15, 2017 11:23:08 GMT
Server maintenance costs money though. But I hope you're right, Mrs. FK.
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Post by MrsFlyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyingKebab on Jul 15, 2017 13:27:17 GMT
I also think that people who are new to the series who start with Andromeda, and then want to experience the rest of the series will help keep it going. If we're still seeing new players then that's good 😊
It may be that when the NEXT gen is out people will put away their old consoles, and the player base will plummet, even with backwards compatibility...
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Post by larsdt on Jul 15, 2017 14:57:50 GMT
Bioware shutting down their own forums was just a facepalm moment for me. I just couldn't see the logic behind letting go of their most dedicated players. If they had actually spend a little time looking at some the threads on the original forum and listened to their fan base, maybe MEA wouldn't be such a flop.
But enough about that - that subject is old hat now. My point is simply that some of Bioware's decisions make it impossible for me to guess how long the MP servers will remain active.
I still have have plenty to do; maps I have not soloed, characters i have not mastered and players i have not met. I might retire when - I get tired of Krogan melee - I have done 400 Plat solos - your posts/vids no longer put a smile on my face - at least 20 other reasons stop dragging me back for more
TL;DR The fun still vastly outnumber the boring so I'll be around for a long time yet.
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Post by muahmuah on Jul 15, 2017 20:24:34 GMT
According to origin i have 4605 hours in ME3(it's almost 7 months!) and i still want to play.That says it all.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 15, 2017 21:06:01 GMT
I don't play as much as I used too (generally one game at a time, every day or every two days) but I don't plan to retire, I think I will play here and there until I don't find time anymore or until the servers are close.
EA should logically keep ME3 MP running as long as the game is profitable. Now to tell how much time it represents... difficult to assess without inside data. An other factor on PS3 is the progressive abandoning of this old gen console (no backward compatibility from the PS4) but on PC you're protected from that.
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Post by Obsidian Gryphon on Jul 16, 2017 2:10:31 GMT
If UT'99 is still on-going, then ME3 MP should be the same. As long as there are players to keep it alive.
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Post by Terminator Force on Jul 16, 2017 3:45:14 GMT
Demon's Souls is a dedicated server game from 2009 and it's still online because players keep playing it.
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Post by DistigousForest on Jul 16, 2017 10:40:40 GMT
I don't know. I'm not even half-tired of Claymore yet. I have been playing the same kit and the same weapon for over half a decade and still it feels new and fresh for god's sake. All I have to do now-days, is to avoid what (or whom) might ruin the taste of this game for me. If someone had said back then that Mass Effect 3 would still be on by the time Andromeda would hit the shelves, we would be calling them crazy, that's for sure. If I ever get sick of that awesome "BOOM" of the High Lord followed by the popping of a skull, that's when this game will be over for me. Hasn't happened yet and I don't really see that happening any time soon either.
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Post by DoomsdayDevice on Jul 16, 2017 12:39:05 GMT
Even more awesome than the Claymore's boom itself is the ringing it does after. Like you've just hit a giant church bell with it.
My favourite sound in the game is the biotic detonation, though.
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Post by Tonymac on Jul 16, 2017 13:02:32 GMT
I don't plan on retiring - I still have a lot of fun in ME3 MP.
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Post by andy_3_913 on Jul 16, 2017 13:43:09 GMT
My favourite sound in the game is the biotic abomb detonation, though. FTFY
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Post by DoomsdayDevice on Jul 16, 2017 13:53:38 GMT
My favourite sound in the game is the biotic abomb detonation, though. FTFY Ah yes, that's glorious as well. Sorely missing from MP: the Reaper horn. You can hear them very faintly in London, when it's quiet. But I'm talking full volume, loud as fuck Reaper horn. I remember back when the Retaliation DLC came out, and it had this amazing trailer, where at the end you saw Harbinger landing on the Dagger Hazard map. When we saw that, my friends and I thought we were going to have that actually happening on that map in game. We thought that was going to be the hazard of that map. Upon extraction wave, a Reaper would descend with blaring horn, and we would have to survive evading the ray of death until we could extract. I still think it would have been brilliant.
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Post by MrsFlyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyingKebab on Jul 16, 2017 14:34:56 GMT
I always thought the horn noise on London was warning sirens, like it's a nod to the Blitz
But fighting a reaper would have been brilliant. Imagine where they could have gone with that if they'd remastered/tweaked ME3 for next gen instead of Andromebland.
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Post by DoomsdayDevice on Jul 16, 2017 14:37:13 GMT
London's actually one of my favourite maps, in terms of atmosphere. In terms of objectives, it can be a nightmare.
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Post by MrsFlyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyingKebab on Jul 16, 2017 14:51:14 GMT
London's actually one of my favourite maps, in terms of atmosphere. In terms of objectives, it can be a nightmare. Make sure you shoot my office, top right as you look from the LZ! 😀
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Post by Voluptuous Volus on Jul 16, 2017 15:21:55 GMT
Kssshk, I have left ME3MP a few times, because I got fed up with it. But after a few months I would reinstall the game again and get reminded why I left it by drawing London Geth and getting sniped by Rokkit Troopa's and Primes and Drones trough every gap imaginable while Hunters and Pyros gangbang me up close Kssssshk, damn Quarians!
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Post by WeAreBorg on Jul 16, 2017 16:35:27 GMT
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