Mass Effect 4 Confirmed to Have Online, Bioware Seeking Producer

Although BioWare games remain a decidedly single player focused experience, BioWare has proved they can deliver diverting online content in both Mass Effect 3 and Dragon Age: Inquisition. Now the studio looks to be continuing that trend.

[-Foxtrot]

Urgh

People don't buy Mass Effect for the online, the third games become boring and repetitive after a while. Would of rather saw them use that delay and resources at the time to finish other things.

[zeal0us]

True it did indeed become boring and repetitive. However it was not terrible as DA:I MP

[cleft5]

I loved the mp in Me3 and I am really looking forward to what they do with Me4 mp.

[HaydenJameSmith]

I disagree, I actually found it really fun and I believe the community did to, that's why it is still played to this day. I don't think it should be discontinued because some people didn't like it and a lot of people actually did...

If you don't like it that's fine but a lot of the community did, it wasn't a huge part of mass effect 3 so I really doubt it took a lot of time or resources to make and a large amount of the content was originally made after the release of the game to keep it fresh anyway. There is no reason they can't keep both the single player and multiplayer fans happy rather than just picking one over the other. I think that would be unfair, it would be like removing Horde Mode from Gears...

As long as they keep the Single Player and Multiplayer separate, they can both co exist.

[Gazondaily]

Yeah the Mass Effect 3 mp was actually a lot of fun. The way the classes and unlocks worked was really cool. Had a blast with my mates on that.

[qwerty676]

well most people will disagree with you foxtrot, so clearly you didnt play the game much

multiplayer was popular and successful for me3

and you're saying bioware should tell those players to f off because people like you dont like online?

[Magicite]

Just give me solid single player experience.

[_-EDMIX-_]

"rather saw them use that delay and resources at the time to finish other things."

annnnnnd noob comment of the day goes to!!!! ^

The same people doing the online will be doing nothing more then just that, soooo its not a either or situation. Its a they are contracted to do the online......thats it.

So ME4 having online doesn't mean the story will be impacted in any way shape or form as those doing the online were NEVER going to be some how contributing to something to the single player.

As if one of the writers just ups and leaves his desk and starts making online playlist and ideas LMFAO!

No...it doesn't work that way bud.

[gangsta_red]

@Fox

I don't know why you continue to believe that production working on multiplayer will somehow take away from the story (or gameplay). I have repeatedly seen you leave that comment in almost all articles that announce a multiplayer feature. And it continues to baffle me since it makes no sense at all.

I mean, what are you basing this on that you think multiplayer modes takes away from other areas of the main story line or features?

And what "other" things did you want them to finish?

There are just as many people who want a single player experience as well as a multiplayer. I mean seriously, you should want developers to put as much effort and make a game feature rich as possible.

[LAWSON72]

ME3 MP was epic and IMO made Gears horde look boring.

[DarthJay]

Throw me on that disagree train. I absolutely loved the MP in Mass Effect 3. I played it constantly. It was as repetitive as any other MP. If they refined that, I would be all over it.

[TheXgamerLive]

Mass Effect t is NOT a mp game and having it does take away from the SP experience in my opinion.
Don't waste resources, put them into the SP story/experience.

[WellyUK]

Or you could have both. A great SP with a great MP.

[3-4-5]

Online continues the game experience after the single player campaign is done.

As long as it doesn't effect the main campaign I doubt it will be a bad thing.

[Dravidian]

That's the thing, though. It BECAME boring and repetitive to some (I enjoyed it, but I didn't play it every day). It started out very enjoyable which at the very least means they have something good to build on. I'd rather them build upon a decent idea that was overused than completely scrap it......so long as the single player is solid, of course.

[ValKilmer]

I didn't even know Mass Effect 3 had online...

[Godmars290]

It has multiplayer, which Bioware talked about to no end, so how do you not know?

[Double_O_Revan]

@ AdmiralSnake
To be fair, I haven't seen Val Kilmer in any movies in a good while. At least anything noteworthy. Maybe Val IS living under a rock.

[Antifan]

It's really fun, too. It actually was integrated to influence the story of the singleplayer. You play as soldiers in Shepard's alliance against the Reapers. It's a very smart move by Bioware.

By the way, Are you really Val Kilmer?

[GarrusVakarian]

I actually enjoyed ME3's MP, surprisingly enough. So I'm OK with this.

[Hellsvacancy]

Yeah me too, at first I didn't like it but once I found a few other players who knew what they were doing I found it rather enjoyable

[GarrusVakarian]

Yeah, it was great when you played with people who knew what they were doing.

[CorndogBurglar]

I loved it. So much so that i never even finished the campaign. I was about halfway through, tried Multiplayer and never went back to the campaign lol.

[HaydenJameSmith]

Agreed, it was surprisingly fun and especially playing with friends on the harder difficulties (i.e. Platinum).

[Elit3Nick]

It's IMO the best wave based multiplayer I've ever played, because of the choices you're presented with, character, builds, weapons and enemy faction, there was a ton of replayability to it. And the free expansions were the cherry on top, it more than tripled the amount of characters

[SaveFerris]

I don't mind this so long as it doesn't affect the single-player development.

[Summons75]

Ugh more forced multiplayer that we don't want. ME3s multiplayer was junk and DAIs mulitplayer is meh, they should probably take a hint.

[Kane22]

oh boy, cant wait to play the single player part and be greeted by social crap. cause apparently a lot of games need it for some stupid reason...

[WESKER2015]

we can take selfies while playing teh game #masseffectselfie
#SWAG

[Number-Nine]

not every game needs online functionality. why can't it just be single player only?

[gamerfan0909]

Don't like multiplayer, don't play it. Stop the bitching.

[ginsunuva]

Don't like bitching, don't bitch about it. Stop the bitching.

[Antifan]

I agree, but ME3 multiplayer was very well done. It felt like the "background" fighting that you don't see in the singleplayer story. It immersed me into the story ever more. The more playing you do in the MP, the better your ending will be in singleplayer.

[gangsta_red]

Then play the single player only...problem solved.

[jv1991]

Cause we live in a world where everything is online nowa days. Personaly i dont mind. I love both single and multiplayer aspects

[WESKER2015]

to be expected, given the current hard on for online gaming, if bioware dilute the game to make way for multiplayer i wont buy the game, simples :D

[Klamba92]

Can we please stop calling Mass Effect 4? Bioware have stated several times its not going be called that most likely it will be have a sub heading like Inquisition or Origins is for Dragon Age! I hope that online will have some story/narrative element other than co-op horde mode which is still fun but would like to see a SWTOR flashpoint style missions, though I can see many people skipping the cut-scenes after the first few goes!

[Menkyo]

The problem will come just like all other single player games with "online" they will start short changing the single player for lame over done PvP.

[Roccetarius]

This was pretty much a gurantee, considering they're forced to add a online function by EA. It worked oh so well with shoehorned MP in ME3, because you had to play it in order to get the ''best'' ending.

Oh well, it's just another reason to skip the game.

[ThunderPulse]

I want a Co-op story mode so you and 2 friends can play it together with custom characters.