For Bioware's next SP RPG..

There is no reason to believe Anthem is not going be a SP campaign in coop, with sidequests provided for variety of experience. Seeing how BioWare repeatedly tried to introduce MP/playing with friends in game play as much as the technology of the day permitted in BG1, BG2 and NWN1. What I am saying, is MP is a time-honoured tradition with them and their roots.

I really do not like it when the statements are made based on partial familiarity with BioWare's body of work, ignoring the actual BioWare's experience, particularly when they are quite ironic.

Bio never did MP, there are always romances and companions in Bio games; Bio does not do OW; Bio has power-stories of older power characters; Bio does not do light/funny/silly writing...

...while Baldur's Gate 1 was an OW wander around kindda game with tons of wilderness and one city, a smattering of backgrounds, 25 undeveloped NPCs with barely a soundset each that you could coop with a friend, silliest dialogues with low-brow jokes and cultural references, for an 18 yo or so kid protagonist aided by a little sis uber juvenile type of char, whose one and only one option was to avenge the death of his foster father... And, yeah, Minsc was a fav. character, a comic relief who traveled from not-Siberia to protect his witch (based on a dozen lines of soundset) and believed his hamster was a Giant Space Hamster, which literally described the entire character concept & half his dialogues.

None of it rings true to me, because I spent many more years playing Baldur's Gates, Jade Empire and SWTOR than I did with ME/DA. Less, way less with NWN1, but many people experienced that one too. And, heh, I am old enough to remember how BioWare actually "died" just before ME/DA.

And how the dialogue wheel/voiced protagonist ushered the end of all things the "real fans" loved about BioWare, changing the games oh so significantly, the very nature of them, and it will never be the same from the point when Shepard spoke words that were not typed out in the responce we clicked.

It is so very weird to be old and seeing the actual return to the roots while the new generation calls it a departure from the roots, because they have not been around long enough. I mean how many here even played Baldur's Gate 1 or Jade Empire?

Single Player RPG?
From Bioware?

Sierra Juliet Whiskey as an acronym sounds like November Juliet.

...you don't want to know what that means, either.

*raises hand*

I still have all six disks for Baldur's Gate (5 + TotSC)

Should go back and play it again.

I will try one more time, just one more time in a more concise format.

What a lot of people here consider classic true BioWARE game, the MET, back in my time, in my Baldur's Gate fandom group (which included a few hundred of players) was considered an anathema when it was revealed (and yes, driven by EA's evil influence to print money an the tastes of the day). We have not been any more close-minded than you are right now reacting to the idea of a mixed MP element or BioWARE producing a MMO. Shepard was not Bhaalspawn. It seemed in my time that after NWN1 fiasco, BioWARE tried to go back to what worked making KOTOR, but Shepard and ME was so very different.

Right now, in 2017, anyone can argue that the games in essence are similar and wear BioWARE's trademark touch. Back then, the difference, the novelty was obvious.

MP might not have been successful - and I have actually played almost a full game of BG1 in MP mode with my husband - but I think it is demonstrable that from the very start BioWARE wanted it there and tried to make it work.

As someone who almost have not played MET and SWTOR because of shooter/dialogue wheel with MET and MMO structure with SWTOR, and ended loving both franchises, I am not going to assume anything & say that BioWARE will not do this or that or should not or abandoned its fans, etc, etc, etc.

My experience taught me that it is not wise.

Well, perhaps we should talk about a time-honoured tradition of Bio adding MP, without getting into the question of whether said MP worked well or was worth adding.

To say a dev doesn't do MP just because you don't like the results when they do MP is either crazy or a lie.

Did it? Wouldn't know, didn't try. Did you?

You're just confused. It didn't need split-screen.

Here's the manual. See page 21.

it reminds me of that time in high school when the popular kids asked me to sit with them at lunch and it was super awkward because we had nothing to talk about. and then I transfered schools to be with my old friends and was much happier. 
Come back to us, BioWare. 

I love metaphors! If you repair a ship too often because the incompetent captains steer it too close to the cliffs all the time the groundwork eventually suffers and the ship becomes an unstable patchwork.
Said ship is easily outclassed by ships that stayed on course and have not taken much damage at all, because of a mindful crew. Not to mention having to repair the ship all the time and having many sailors die in those accidents is very bad for the morale of the crew and the investors. 

You have completely missed the point of Theseus' ship by interjecting qualities that have nothing to do with the overarching conundrum of identity it poses.  The quality of leadership or navigation has no relevance here, and I think you know that.  I'm not sure if you're trying to troll me or if you're trying to be slick, but I'm not interested in either.  Have a nice day.