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

it can be fixed though. It's the balance. The game is mindnumbingly boring and it's because they put you in this little box of things you can do. There so much available that is so bad you can't use it.

Whoever is in charge of balancing should be FORCED to play the highest difficulties and nothing else. This is god awful and its why people are stopping playing the game. No one who plays all the kits on gold would say "perfectly balanced"

The team needs to actually play the game. They don't. If they do they have different equipment than we do.

We've been patient for five long years! You can't blame people for being impatient when a company decides to release a very poor quality, unbalanced and unfinished beta version of their game! No quality control has gone into it. The people who made it had no clue about the very things that made me3mp so much fun. They had already cracked the formula, yet strangely they decided to abandon said formula and instead give us something so appalling that we have no option but to express disappointment and frustration.

I will not accept the excuse of "wait a few months for the balance changes to come in". This should have happened before the game was even released. Balance changes are meant to fine tune the game and introduce subtle improvements, not completely transform it from trash to gold! The sort of complete overhaul that fans are desperately hoping for shouldn't come from balance changes.

This needs to be pinned.

They made the game boring for you, but made it fun for me. People want different things out of the game. You dislike strong weapons, and I like strong weapons. Even with those, the game was still challenging for me as I'm quite bad. So, while good players are perfectly capable of playing the highest difficulty with weak equipment, I and many others are not.

I admire your sincerity for admitting to be a bad player (which I don't believe, noone plays worse than me   ).

Those weapons will probably come eventually, as the Reegar can already be crafted in Singleplayer.

I can absolutely understand you and all others who say that the game in its current state doesn't appeal to them - there's a shitload of reasons for being upset and I sympathize with all of you. But it's not always about getting maxed manifest and the best weapon/character combo, at least not for everyone. I believe there is a silent majority that quite enjoys the game at a slower pace (in fact, I absolutely do), that's why we're not seeing that drastic balance changes. 

Also, I do believe that fixing the horrendous stability/performance/crashing issues probably kept most of Bioware's devs assigned to MP busy for the past two weeks, so they didn't have as much time to really look at weapon or power balancing. We might have to be a little patient for that.

The game doesn't essentially cost you any more money at this time, so if you don't enjoy it just take a relaxing break from it and maybe return later when it hopefully has much improved. It's not the end of the world, really 

I can understand that to an extent. I do all the forma grinds, but I don't farm for parts. I would rather pay plat then farm/grind anything other then forma. Yes, SR aren't as welcome in Warframe, but I have learned to use them well. They are moving away from one button builds now as well. I also am  a Loki P main, so I was always about the weapon instead of the aoe.

I did try ME3 MP recently, and I can't stand it. I move slow, and I hate the omnibutton with a passion. Not to mention mistakes kill you a lot more.

Thats totally it, mass effect will build the game up like they did with ME3, the start of ME3 was almost the same, just take it easy and it will get better.

Two Biowar dudes are on twitch right now, and they said this patch was more focused on SP and they're "monitoring the data" about power combos and guns to make changes as necessary.

This mentality is exactly why developers get away with providing substandard quality. It isn't Bioware or EAs fault if the game is a grindfest or frustrating. In fact, it is the consumers fault (such as you and I) that games end up in states like this. The reason why pay to win models are so prevalent in games is because people foolishly vote with their wallets by not only purchasing games that encourage microtransaction payments, but also spending their money on said microtransactions. The reason why this game has gotten so grindy with most item cards reaching level 10 is because Bioware and EA knows that people will be more influenced to actually spend money to get ahead in the game.

With that said, the situation becomes even worse when you realize that the large majority of characters, weapons, and powers are either weak or downright useless even when you level them up all the way to their highest levels. You say that you have to either spend real money or grind for long periods of time to get good equipment, but the reward system fails to recompense us for our time, effort, or money spent. So you spend maybe $20 on packs to advance in the game? Well congratulations, because the system will give you an ultra rare weapon (maybe) that fails to even outperform the damned Charger submachine gun. "You see all those items and characters that look promising? Well get prepared to spend dozens or even hundreds of hours playing because the only way these will be even half way decent is if you either pay of with your time or money (both would be appreciated plz)". The way this reward system is structured really annoys me because even when you invest an ample amount of time into it (I have spent over 50 hours in multiplayer by the way), you still feel cheated.

I think one of the worst parts about this issue is that people believe Bioware simply "messed up" when configuring the stats for items, although that could not be farther from reality. If anything, the developers intentionally made the game grindier and less rewarding overall. Their comment during one of the streams regarding the Black Widow said it all. I have to get the Black Widow up to level X in order for it to perform well? That is just swell, except for the fact that the sniper is an ULTRA RARE weapon and that the majority of players will most likely never max out a single ultra rare item in their entire game career. Adding in a large variety of weak weapons while making only a few worthwhile was no mistake at all. They know that people would feel unsatisfied with the weak weapons they can get in packs and would likely spend real money in hopes of getting closer to obtaining one of the only few useful guns.

I played multiplayer earlier today and suddenly developed feeling downheartedness when scrolling through the collectibles page. As I gazed at the selection of rare weapons, I shook my head as I realized that I am essentially spending time (and unfortunately a few dollars) to obtain equipment that I know will only make me feel even less satisfied. Even now I'm pondering if this game is actually worth playing anymore as the time commitment that is required to unlock all the items is not worth the frustration I feel when realizing how so many items that will take a long time to unlock due to their rarity are not even worthy of rare and ultra rare status. Why should I play a game that actively pushes against me with rewards that aren't even worth the time spent on them? Considering that Mass Effect is hardly popular for its multiplayer, its design is questionable when you realize that more popular multiplayer games offer better rewards and overall more satisfying gameplay. If you like the game, that is perfectly fine. However, I am tired of these games that developers keep attempting to pull on the playerbase.

So you are saying that giving the players options and making several weapons viable will cause them to stop playing and/or spending money on the game?

I'm sorry but having the Mattock not suck doesn't make it any easier to get an UR to X. What making the Mattock not suck does is make the player feel like they are being rewarded for playing the game and progressing towards an UR or an even better weapon. Having them all suck except for a few just frustrates players as using a Vanquisher I is better than a X in most other weapons.

I mean the goal is to keep players active so that they might spend money, right?