User blog comment:Lancer1289/BioWare gets on the Multiplayer bandwagon/@comment-3268946-20111012015937/@comment-1655340-20111012145319

RapShepp: "Why mess with a proven success formula?" - You said it yourself: "They have created an all-encompassing universe with countless opportunities to bring MP in many different ways"

Co-op missions where you're playing as ordinary soliders on the front lines of the battles that are taking place during the game - where neither Shepard nor any of the major ME characters are present - are the perfect thing for the setting of the game. You're fighting all all-out war. Do you really expect Shepard to fight every single battle in the entire galaxy during the timeframe of ME3?

This is why Co-op is, IMO, a good idea. Sure, I myself can't play it, because my internet isn't the greatest for Online Play, but I'm not missing anything, because ME is about Shepard, and Shepard isn't going to show up in Co-op, thereby causing you to lose maybe a convo he has with your MP characters.

But, as has been said many times, wait until it comes out and decide for yourself then whether it's the end of the series. And hey, if this was EA's fault, do you really think we'd be getting a 4-player Co-op? They would've forced a Versus MP on BioWare i it was truly their fault.

BioWare did this, because they know what they're doing. If we don't like it, then maybe we don't know what we're missing. I myself enjoyed DA2 despite all the negative critisism everybody else was quick and eager to heap onto the bandwaggon, so don't be so quick and eager to jump the bandwaggon on something you've only known officially for two days - something, I may add, that you also now very little about.