With DA4 shifting to Singleplayer only, should we expect the same for Mass Effect?

My prediction is that it will be a multiplayer-only looter-shooter, based loosely on Anthem. There will be no squad mates, no story, and no single player. Instead players will join some kind of match-making queue system, and be teamed up with two random strangers, to be teleported into a horde mode battle against swarms of enemies. There will also be a prominent cash shop with the opportunity to buy loot boxes, weapons, upgrades and cosmetics for real money.

(Note: I don't necessarily believe this - but I said the same thing about DA:4, and they redacted on all the live service crap and announced it will be a single player game. I'm hoping that if I say the same about ME:5 the evil spirits will be similarly distracted and they won't do any of the stuff I listed above).

((Evil spirits cannot read text within brackets, this has been proven in several empirical studies based upon evil spirit literacy))

Honestly i'm a conflicted about Mass Effect MP because while i loved ME3's MP alot I didn't really care for MEA's MP at all it was disappointing to me.So if EAware can deliver a MP in ME5 that supasses ME3's then i'm down.

For me it was other way around, love MEAMP and didnt care at all for me3mp, it was a complete disappointment for me.
But still, I'd like to have MP in ME5... I understand if its not there though.

Yeah I know. Its laughable how some people here still think its the same game they tried the day one or on 1.07...  I joined MEAMP on May back then, reading a lot of it from here. There were more balancings later on, which are now the final ones. I started alt account from APEX 0 some time ago and its even then a totally different game than when I started (of course I can play it now much better but still). I enjoy it immensely even with the low level stuff I have on the alt account, and no need to glitch/use console commands to get full gear etc. Just the gameplay is so good for me and because of the pity timer the RNG aint so bad. Cant remember when it was introduced. There are still some known bugs but generally its much less buggy than the previous ones in my opinion. Anthem is the king at the moment anyway if all comes together how it plays.

Support was much longer for MEAMP than for SP. We had the bigger missions with crazy enemy groups like many Hydras coming as a group on Silver which made the game level feel more like Platinum, had the gradually opening multipart Remnant Dungeon etc. DiscoBabaloo was doing it I think.  He has left the building and the missions needed to be triggered by hand if I remember right, so I dont think anyone left to do it other care than rebooting the servers once in a while..

Anyway, the point stands. I'd like to have MP in ME5 They've now won me to their side with the three latest MP's.

Ah was that on the consoles? I dont remember having the game crash on PC - but then again, I dont trust my memory much

The Silver Hydra's were on Sandstorm - I think they were paired with Blaze Hydras and Saboteurs - or Krogan Berserkers, can remember for sure but that was CRAZY mission. So crazy we did it many many times over the time it was on, really fun and challenging.

Still can't believe the production time they were given was only like 2 years.

I’m ok with there being a MP component but I don’t want it to touch the SP in any way none.

Two years was how long it took between ME2 and ME3. Maybe less if you consider dlc.

I'm fine with a MP component. ME3MP was great and MEAMP was decent...the latter simply didn't evolve to account for all the mobility...they shouldn't have sandboxed us like they did in ME3MP...should've have been more linear in design with various checkpoints and objectives. I did like be able to earn rewards in the SP for completing MP missions...that was nice.

If the teams are largely kept separate there's no reason both cannot be done well...but I do think SP needs to be done well. If the SP is good I think people will naturally migrate to the MP. I also think MP in a ME universe is much easier to accomplish than in a DA world. My 2-cents for what it's worth.

At the end of the day, many are still playing the hell outta ME3MP.

Blower is probably still getting some revenue from people buying stuff, whilst the SP is basically free.

That should put to right a MP component for the next ME.

Of course, if done correctly....

There are several games that have/had MP mode of some degree that no one remembers and/or liked and in some (if not most or all) cases they would've been better off not having a MP mode at all and instead just focusing on SP mode since that was getting all the praise and/or attention to begin with, the reboot of Tomb Raider, Rise of the Tomb Raider, Saints Row 2, Saints Row 3, Uncharted: The Lost Legacy, and the original and remastered versions of The Last of Us Part 1 just to name a few. In those cases the MP mode (doesn't matter if PVP, co-op, or whatever) especially with the reboot of Tomb Raider felt like a tacked on POS MP mode that I've heard very little good about.