User blog comment:MEffect Fan/Multiplayer/@comment-730941-20100606054111

It depends on the context, for me. In the main trilogy, certainly, multiplayer would be a terrible idea - especially if they tried to make it a third person shooter with the clunky weapons and sometimes strange cover system.

But if we're talking about a separate game/series of games using the Mass Effect IP but built as a multiplayer title, I can't really see an issue.

Remember that the job title posted by Bioware for a multiplayer programmer did not specifically mention the work as being for ME2/3 - it was more of "this is who we are - we're working on ME2" kind of general description. They are, indeed, working on an MMORPG, which by definition has an MP component. Perhaps this was what the job was for?