Prestige and the promotion farming apocalypse.

Ye, he got it all wrong. The bad part is the unwitty fools that watch it and now think it good idea, too.

I still lol @ some of those DAIMP players who used to brag about their "skill". What a joke.

We'll quickly reach a point where the number of active players dwindles significantly, and we'll be left with no choice but to play in whatever lobbies are available. That doesn't sound appealing to me.

First 2-3 months should be OK anyhow with or without permanent stat increase. Critical mass of promotion lords needs to accumulate for a while to become a real problem. The only issue I see here is that the game won't be normally patched yet as Bioware's history suggests that it takes about 6 months after the initial release to make it fully playable. Alas, little can be done about that. First couple of months of DAIMP were reasonable. Well, then they lost their keys and the things got out of control and spiraled downwards.

Now we wait.

Looooooool. You already know.

I hope not to miss that discussion. I'd love to hear about the MEA:MP!

I ran this through the Bullshit Translator, and this is what it returned:

"It will be pretty much the same, so we're not going to talk about it until we get more preorders."

We are DOOMED

"5. Prestige
One of the biggest challenges for any multiplayer mode is hanging onto players over time. Long-term rewards help to keep them invested beyond the simple enjoyment of playing a fun game. Mass Effect 3 saw continued support for a year after release, but even so, the progression plateaued. “If you really got into the ME 3 multiplayer, you could always collect more cards and get more items, but at a certain point, you’re playing because you like to play,” Frazier says. “There was no systemic benefit at a certain point.”

Andromeda addresses that with the concept of prestige XP. As you play, you accrue prestige XP alongside standard XP. Instead of being used to advance a single character, prestige XP accumulates across a particular character styles. For instance, characters that occupy a tank role in combat share prestige progress, so any time you play one of those kits, you earn XP building toward their next prestige level. When you hit that threshold, you earn a bonus – like a health boost – across all characters (not just the tanks). The more you play, and the more you vary your playstyle, the more of these prestige bonuses you will earn. This is a slower burn than standard progression; we didn't get enough hands-on time at BioWare Montreal to see the prestige mechanics in action, but the idea has us excited to sink time into Andromeda's multiplayer."

Source www.gameinformer.com/b/features/archive/2016/11/25/five-major-changes-to-mass-effects-multiplayer-and-one-big-question.aspx

So guys, what de we do ? Cancel pre-order ? A petition ? Get drunk and high with Nightman ? Cry on QMR's pillow ?

Still don't care. Buying it, playing it enough to get my monies worth. I expect I'll see most of y'all doing the same.