One Year Anniversary is March 21st

It drives me crazy when those folks won’t recive themselves to get a full extraction, or to help with a really tight wave 6 objective. I mean, they stand to make way more credits on success than they spend on a consumable. So why not use one?

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Thanks for your input.  Out of curiosity (since this is the multiplayer forum), which multiplayer games did you put 100+ hours into in 2017?  (Nioh has MP, but the others have no MP at all...)  

Does anyone know how much longer BioWare will run the Strike Team servers? I am afraid they’ll stop at the 1 year anniversary...

I think they’re automated too, but automated isn’t free. Anyway, I hope they’re up for a long time too...

They did release a beta for full price but the final game is great.

The writing is fully in-line for the game category. Writing dialog for a game this big is hard. Games with good writing tend to be short and linear, which is fine, but I like bigger games too.

As for bugs, etc., again, there are a few that are irritating, but any game that gets hundreds of hours of play is always going to have a harder time than a short, linear title.

In other words, you have to keep difficulty of execution in mind when judging a game. Compared to its peers, MEA is pretty darn good, at least now. The multiplayer was pretty bad out of the box and I feel people still penalize it for that today, even though today’s game is very different from the launch title.

Well, you can swear a lot, but that isn’t analysis. Nobody will mistake any of the Mass Effect games as being written by David Mamet. I loved ME2 and 3, but they were only marginally better written than MEA, and it is hard to pick apart the effects of nostalgia.

Now, you’re right I give the game some slack because I like the Mass Effect universe so much and love is a funny thing. When you really like something, you can overlook faults that might drive another person crazy. Welcome to marriage, LOL.

The fundamental point I want to get across to anyone who might be reading this who maybe worked on the game or maybe will work on another game is this - MEA launched as a beta, and that was a serious mistake, but it grew into a really fun game and I appreciate the efforts. For anyone thinking about picking it up for the first time, if for some odd reason you’re reading this, I really encourage you to give it a shot. It is a bit too grindy, but the core game really is a lot of fun and some of the best Mass Effect combat ever.

Let me put it in terms you might understand since you seem to want to ignore the information for choice of language. Lets start with something easy that any MP player can tell you happens frequently. Sound bug, BioWare whines "It's a Frostbite issue, we can't fix it." In what other Frostbite game does this happen? I personally have 6 Frostbite games, on two seperate platforms, with more hours than ME:A, not even once has ANY of them had that, and same story from every other person I've spoken to who plays Frostbite games. So no, it's not a Frostbite issue, it's a bad code by BioWare issue.

As for the Writing I mentioned, in what Universe would a habitual failure like Liam have been in a supposedly elite Crisis Response squad? Guy couldn't even react to a smoke alarm telling him it needed a new battery without setting fire to the house to see if it was working. No, this is writters treating their audience like morons because they're willing to overlook everything because they slapped a "Mass Effect by BioWare" logo on it. This is not marriage, if my wife treating my like a moron like that, we wouldn't be married, we respect each other. Welcome to an abusive relationship where you're so mentally beaten by your partner that you don't believe that you deserve any better.

The fundamental point that I want to get across is not "can I have fun with this now-discount-bin-inhabitting title that I can get on sale?" (if you can get a game that you're even vaguely interested in for less than a movie ticket, it's worth the risk, because if you play it for more than 2hrs, you're better off), it's that the state of the games market has become just like that abusive relationship I mentioned, because of people who should know better, throwing their money at games before they're even released and defending unfinished, often buggy products, just because they have their favourite brand logo on it. It's Nike vs Adidas all over again, except now it's not braindead teenagers, it's nerds, a group who prides themselves on their intellect.


Was this any clearer for you?

Arkhne, the issues you raise are generally either not that bad or not that unusual. I’ve logged hundreds of hours with MEA by now and while yes, I’ve seen some bugs, they’re not really a big deal. Things were bad at launch, but in MP, that was mostly balance. All the facial animations are not problematic, and they’re fixed now anyway for when I do get around to the campaign.

If they really bother you so much, what are you doing here? I don’t think posting incessant streams of negative commentary is going to improve anything. At this point, the bugs are documented and we live with them. Or not. Whichever you prefer. All I know is that the game as it stands today, while not perfect, is a ton of fun and way better in the experience of playing it than it’s reputation suggests.

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