Waited 5 years for this.. ready to quit after 2 weeks

Can I have your stuff?

As I said often people look at the end of ME3 with all the expansions the couple of years of balancing, all the opponents, maps, guns and combos and instantly compare it to a new game after two weeks.

To be truthful, I don't feel the magic either, but I am also don't feel the magic for a lot of games I play. It's like a vast numbness to video games at the moment for me. The game could be actually fun; but I just can't feel it atm.

Me3 at launch was more fun that this. Around the first dlc it was miles ahead of this.

I didn't play long after the hazard maps came out but played enough to have a max manifest before that so my glasses aren't that tinted.

And anyway they should have learnt from and built on me3, not taken a bunch of shit out and reverted a bunch of balance changes. 

look at guns like the crusader and valkyrie, those guns got buffed during me3's lifecycle because they were bad. What did they do before putting them into this game? Nerfing them back to or to even lower numbers than they even were in me3. Meanwhile they buffed snipers, even the black widow. The balancing is SO BAD. It's like they took all the changes and tweaks they did over the year they did patches for 3 and just tossed it out of the window and went back to basics. just absolutely mindblowingly bad stuff.

And as has been noted several times already, a sequel doesn't need to reinvent the game, it should build upon the successes of its predecessor.

APEX missions are a miss in their current form. The lack of community events/rewards is just bad (this alone kept the community active between DLCs). Bloating the weapon pool to match where ME3MP ended should have been an obvious indicator of being difficult to balance considering how long ME3MP took to fix with weekly changes. The favorite/best classes had unique powers, not the same ones copy and pasted on everything (this one is really bad in MEAMP). And that's not even including all the bugs and the lack of a live beta test because it was too close to release (which is really just a bad excuse).

Bioware used to be a AAA developer with a fantastic reputation. Now they can't even seem to copy what made them successful. The MP alone should have been entirely straightforward with new movement, new factions, and a slow but steady (weekly?) influx of new weapons and classes. Instead they flooded the item pool and pushed character cards to X all for the sake of selling Andromeda points. I still enjoy the game but there is no excuse for them to have not learned from ME3MP and all of its excellent DLCs.

Impossible to do. simply impossible.  Where do we start for MeAmp?  all the maps that the 1st game ended up with, all of the opponents, all of the guns, all of the classes.

People forget that to be viable mp must make money and real dollars have to be spent on it.  That means you start out shitty and have to either grind to get good stuff or you pay for it.

I'd say it is a very naive stance to actually think a new game was going to just pick right up off of the old game, especially when we saw a lot off flaws in DAIMP.

They have actually kept a lot of things from me3mp.  They need to figure out what works and what doesn't. 

This game, as I expected has some things that are good and a number of things that are not good or that I will have to get used to.

I don't disagree about the apex thing.  Hell I don't even understand why I should ever actually play them in person as opposed to just sending a team. 

Anyone that did not expect them to push for more cash buys was a tad naive imo.  People seem to be in a rush to get to their ending me3mp characters 2 weeks into the new game.  I will wait for a while longer to judge some of these thing such as gun viability.

Could've fooled me.

well you see, it's not necessarily the new content that currently is broken (well there's plenty of that but i don't have much gripe about that) or what frsutrates most at least me it's what they brought over that and how they did it, by effectively dismissing a lot from what made ME3MP what it was. And i have no problem with keeping the stuff for later DLCs, proftiabilty, job security yada yada and that's totally fine, just say so. but don't go fucking fixing what hasn't been broken! the Powers/Combo mechanics and balance, weapon damage and stats, gameplay mechanics are you saying that was impossible to cater for in the new ME?MP game. What has worked over the 5 years and what hasn't, could not derive it from the data that ME3MP has collected? that could not be used as the starting point? i somehow doubt it. are you saying that a glorified jump and the new engien made sure that none of these could have been worked through in 5 years of development? nah, not buying it

EDIT: just to clarify, not jumping you there or expecting to address that point by point. the poing was that imo the comparisons between the ME3MP as it is now and the MEAMP are in fact valid. MEAMP is the successor, and that succession should have extended beyond keeping the guns names. And  of course there's recongnition for the new content and lieu way to give for the new engine and new dynamcis. pologies if it comes out vent-ie i stil did not have my morning coffee and its already 1030

Shrugs.

People's threshold for outrage is so narrow.

The game is far from perfect, but I am having a blast with it. New multiplayer, new game engine, new movement mechanics... its a new beast with new issues. So, although I do wish this game had more polish on it, I am very happy to see it being supported.