Petition to the Devs to leave us in a blaze of glory: Release everything left to us at once.

At this stage we might as well get it over with, so I agree they should just release everything they currently have at once.

Just under half a year and looks like Bioware has officially given up on the game. Will probably get one more MP patch and then poof.

I'd get behind this if getting characters/weapons wasn't based on chance. But you either have to put a lot of effort into the mp or spend a lot money on mp. I have no desire to do either. 

They also should give free packs for those few that still play with unlocks of at least the characters and preferably weapons as well. I can't get batarian vanguard still. And I don't have about half of UR weapons even unlocked. They have a chance to go out in a puff of incense and leave good last impression instead of keeping blowing up piles of crap in our faces. But no, this is too expensive, EA will not authorize, we can't jeopardize our financial standing, so don't probably matter. I'd be happily proven wrong on that last statement.

The weapons are UR, the kits are just Rare.

I stand corrected. Ty for letting me know Still really not in favor of one over another, as honestly, what I do want is more maps. 

What they really need to implement before they're done is a way to unlock specific weapons and/or characters.

I think the best thing they can do is make some modding and map tools and then promise not to touch what gets created outside of policing certain content. I do hear about ME:A mods, but they cant be that easy to make and certainly not MP certified. I am talking about player created kits/maps/skills that can be used in a MP match.

Game really had potential, but the devs are either just really lazy or just that unimaginative when it comes to creating content. Look at all these reused skills. They didn't even bother renaming them or giving them different trees. Look at ME3. Biotic slash and Electric slash. Come on, we all knew it was pretty much shockwave, but they at least had different evolutions. Lets take backlash. Moving with a shield, we wanted that in ME3 and its here now. How about redoing the N7 Paladin with this new mechanic? Pressing 1-3 actives the omni shield as a toggle and puts away your weapon. Right mouse button brings the shield up to block with it, left mouse button does a shield slam reminiscent of the light/heavy melee system used in ME3. The shield absorbs X amount of damage before it breaks like in ME3 except since it is tech, and not biotics, it uses a power cell to reform a new one from omnigel or whatever (insert explanation). Maybe not for everyone, but surely cant be worse than putting the same skill on like 7 different characters?

Thats the real difference between ME:A and ME3. When ME3 dlc hit, a lot of it was generally unique, especially the earth DLC. Supply pylon didn't exist in mp before then, they created it from scratch(Ie not a recycled skill). And in the dlcs that followed, maybe they all werent super useful but they were definitely new creations
Geth juggernaut: Hex shield, pulse cannon. I guess the heavy melee too, but that was kinda lame and too crutch...
Warp bubble
Devastator's missile system
Supply pylon
Cain mercenary: Projectile melee system, arrow types, passive grenade charge regen
Lift grenades, cluster grenades, inferno grenades, arc grenades, homing grenades
Havoc shield boost consumeables that used grenade charges
other stuff I can't remember just now.

None of that stuff of reported development troubles matters to me. Why? Because ME3 mp was bland as hell in the beginning for me too. What matters is what they did from there. ME:A just flopped on the ground and lay there gasping for air before they could be bothered to eventually put it out of its misery. So rather than these people who seem to lack any creative thoughts, how about letting the players who actually care keep the game going. I mean its not like game has dedicated servers or anything Bioware has to constantly maintain right? The only reason you have to 'connect' is for the store anyway no?

If they really want to milk money from something they didn't actually invest any time into, lets just call it the Bioware Creation Club.

yes. pls.

asap

MEAMP on PC is already a shytstorm of dead. Releasing everything now wont make a difference, the playerbase (per region lock I guess) is crap. When you run into the same people over and over and OVER AND OVER again, you aren't in a large pool.

Bioware didn't do it right, instead of adding things on top of a fragile base, should have fixed the base immediately after release. No one was paying for single player facial expressions...but people sure as hell would have microed up for some good working guns and characters who's powers actually worked and weren't cloned.

Idk, I almost wish i knew what the real backstory was with this game because it literally had so much more potential. But there have been better that have fallen so.... just another corpse for the pile.

A few thoughts more:

If it is budgeted to 6 more months of content, and the rest is balance changes, there really isn't that much to balance out over time. Another 6 months at most to balance everything? 12 months in total. Then what? If Balance changes are to still continue, I'd imagine that there's some leaway with regards to content as well. Hopefully some reskins of existing models, kitbashes and the ability to create powers. That would certainly permit MP to continue far past it's current sell by date.

I'd still love to get an Asari Black Widow that is able to Tactical Cloak in danger and movement, Dominate enemies in battle, let rip with Turbo Charge, whilst popping in and out of danger with Biotic Blink dashes.

So I hope that there's some tools that are fairly extensible for the remaining team to do new content with rudimentary changes. Would certainly keep the game going a bit longer and somewhat fresh too.