Does no one play Mass Effect 3 Multiplayer?

[TheInternal]

So, I've waited for 20+ minutes for a quick match a number of times. Nothing happened. I started a public game. No one joined after 5+ minutes.

I've set the windows 7 firewall to allow local and public for Mass Effect 3, enabled UPNP and port forwarding of the EA ports on my router, and everything I could think of... but apparently no one plays Mass Effect 3 multiplayer in public sessions.

I thought the original ending was disappointing... I didn't think the multiplayer would be so unpopular as well.

 

[PowerYoga]

It was very popular when it came out. After so many months of the same horde mode over and over with the same baseball card pack "reward" system? Nope.

 

[gorcorps]

That ship sailed months ago... sorry

 

[rumpleforeskin]

bad news for people trying to increase the galactic readiness on the single player game :/

 

[sandorski]

bad news for people trying to increase the galactic readiness on the single player game :/

They decreased or removed the Multiplayer requirement with the new Ending.

Had a lot of fun with the Multiplayer, but only started playing it because of Galactic Readiness. Still haven't finished ME3, I suppose I should do it one day soon.

 

[SithSolo1]

Multiplayer got old super fast for those of us that played the demo day in and day out waiting for the game to launch.

Could have really used a co-op mode....among many other things.

 

[Phokus]

So, I've waited for 20+ minutes for a quick match a number of times. Nothing happened. I started a public game. No one joined after 5+ minutes.

I've set the windows 7 firewall to allow local and public for Mass Effect 3, enabled UPNP and port forwarding of the EA ports on my router, and everything I could think of... but apparently no one plays Mass Effect 3 multiplayer in public sessions.

I thought the original ending was disappointing... I didn't think the multiplayer would be so unpopular as well.

I bought this game a month ago and i had this problem myself... then i found out it was because i didn't install the 2 free DLC and then matches were almost instant.

 

[DrunkenSano]

Multiplayer gets hella boring pretty fast.

 

[JTsyo]

There are still people on, especially on weekends when they run operations. OP, you haven't been able to join any games at all?

 

[TheInternal]

have all DLCs. been unable to join any games, yup.

 

[SithSolo1]

Do you have Peerblock on?

 

[TheInternal]

Pretty sure I don't have a peerblock on... that being said, I'm not entirely sure what that is. (blocking network peers, I presume). I am running windows firewall and a netgear hardware firewall.

 

[Zenoth]

I've played it a good amount for about two weeks or so, at least one or two session every day, for a few hours each time, I really liked it. Then eventually, you max out all characters, all genders and classes, you know the play styles, you know the maps by heart (and they are generally small anyway), you know how enemy waves will turn out, and it becomes extremely repetitive.

Sure, all multi-player (and single-player) games have repetitive aspects in them, but ME3's multi-player is very limited and really is an extra to take with a grain of salt. But with that said I wouldn't call it bad, really, it has some good to it, since of course ME3's true worthy and unique feature is its own combat system, and it works well in multi-player. I might play it again some time I'm pretty sure, but there's no incentive or interest to do so any time soon.

And, additionally, I must say that ME3's overall disappointment (the campaign, of course) took all that was left of interests I had left in the franchise and threw it into a bottom-less pit. I feel no interest to launch the game due to the campaign, which in turn (and indirectly so) leaves its multi-player aspect untouched and uncared for. Had that combat system and that specific multi-player been implemented in ME2... then I think it'd have been a different story altogether, since I happened to still care enough about the franchise when ME3 had yet to be released and some excitement and hype was still in the air.

 

[kyrax12]

They should have added in PVP.

Just killing Bots isn't fun.

 

[sandorski]

They should have added in PVP.

Just killing Bots isn't fun.

Or a Versus Mode like L4D.

 

[rumpleforeskin]

They decreased or removed the Multiplayer requirement with the new Ending.

Had a lot of fun with the Multiplayer, but only started playing it because of Galactic Readiness. Still haven't finished ME3, I suppose I should do it one day soon.

holy crap, I did not even realise the extended cut had been released.
some reason I thought it was due in august.

may have to dust off sheps armour for a few hours this weekend