Mass Effect 3: Now with multiplayer

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Re: Mass Effect 3: Now with multiplayer

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DPDarkPrimus wrote: which just goes to show they didn't bother to read the part that multiplayer isn't even necessary to achieve the "optimal ending" for single-player.
Which'll be handy when the servers are dead 3 months after release ;)

Or for the first week of every new EA game, where EA's servers invariably can't cope and melt under the stress.

/expects to chew up a good deal of Battlefield 3's singleplayer because the MP servers will be gash to start with.
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Yes, I will be honest, the server issue is my biggest worry. Bioware hasn't done multiplayer in their console games before and with the direction EA is headed hosting on their Origin servers is pretty much a given.
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Well, on the plus side, I'll have a game to play with my cousin in FL and with my roommates. I am a bit worried about how it will go, but I'll wait and see.
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If anybody is interested in vids of the reason accidentally released beta-demo then pm me.
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The beta is definitely meant for internal use only. So unfinished.
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DPDarkPrimus wrote:The beta is definitely meant for internal use only. So unfinished.
Apparently it was an old build Microsoft just used to test something or other.. i wonder if anybody is gonna lose their jobs over this.
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DPDarkPrimus wrote:The beta is definitely meant for internal use only. So unfinished.
You mean a real beta and not a free marketing beta?
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Anacronian wrote:
DPDarkPrimus wrote:The beta is definitely meant for internal use only. So unfinished.
Apparently it was an old build Microsoft just used to test something or other.. i wonder if anybody is gonna lose their jobs over this.
They said it was human error, but these sorts of leaks are more common than you might think. I doubt anyone is losing their job over free publicity.
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DPDarkPrimus wrote:The beta is definitely meant for internal use only. So unfinished.
You mean a real beta and not a free marketing beta?
Yes Stark, I mean it's an actual internal beta, just like it is stated by the name of the download itself.
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Seems like EA has given up on trying to contain this (why do they always think that is possible?) So heres a Link On the first couple of minutes of the beta build for anybody who's interested.
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Stark wrote:I'm glad you highlighted that a pre-release version is unfinished, or people might have missed it. :lol:
I'm glad you're acting like an ass for no reason other than to try and start something for the sake of starting something.
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Some HD vids with the complete SP mission and a MP playthough.

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Anacronian wrote:Some HD vids with the complete SP mission and a MP playthough.

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And they're all gone. Damn. :(

Anyone who saw these, care to give a quick summary, please?
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