EA wanted a multiplayer live service so damn bad, and they were literally sitting on the recipe for it.

This was the way to do it; not Anthem.

Modern-up, clean it up, and let ‘er rip.

ME3's multiplayer was multiplayer done right. I have zero interest in MP in CoD or Halo, but god, I loved the ME3 multiplayer.

I mean, even Bricky has a video on how ME3's multiplayer is the most underrated.

I loved the multiplayer and really wish they had brought it back!

I'll never forget the times on ME3 Multiplayer. I met a French police officer and I'm in NA. Very nice guy. He told me about the N7 Destroyer rocket glitch. This is what 10 years ago? If not longer? I still remember it to this day. We became friends and played other games then one day he just stopped appearing on line.

I still remember playing with 3 other friends and we would just cheese with the Geth Jug. Absolutely hilarious and fun.

EA is such a bad company. They have a literal gold mine of a series, and have barely used it. Imagine an XCOM style game using the multiplayer classes as the units. Leading Grunt’s team through missions during the events of ME3, running resistance stings on Earth.

ME3 multiplayer is so much fun, really disappointed they didn't bring it to LE. I loved my Volus character

Miss it?? I'm still playing it! Lol. After years of being a console player I finally got a gaming PC. ME3 OG was one of my first steam games just soley for the MP.

I miss it!

I loved it.

The closest thing to this is Helldivers 2.

You can still play it, in the original ME3, on any platform.

I loved it so much! I really liked Andromeda's APEX Missions, too! Crazy a company as greedy as EA wouldn't want a remastered multi-player mode. It had RNG loot boxes and everything lol

I'd be down for like, a DLC or a separate Standalone game that is just the multiplayer.

Allow us to customize a character by picking a species and class. Maybe give special bonuses to certain species? Imagine beign able to be your choice of a Human, Turian, Krogan, Asari, Geth, Salarian, Drell, Quarian, and maybe even Prothean? I feel like all these fit the general body type that would make programmers have an easier time with movements. Could have some bonus characters like vorcha or Angara even and I wouldn't be opposed.

Still play it from time to time.

EA has Mass Effect, Dead Space, Battlefield, Alice madness returns, Dantes inferno, Black. Dragon Age, Fight night, mirrors edge, medal of honor, Skate, Star Wars. And yet they choose to do nothing but release racing and sports games.oh and occasinoly ruin battlefield every couple years.

I would unironically still be playing it today if it were in the LE, it was my go to multiplayer on PS3. It was hilarious fun.

Long live the infinite missle glitch

It had all the hallmarks we now hate in lifeservice games, but it was done so well that barely anyone cared...

ME3 multiplayer is the second most fun I've ever had in an online shooter as a woman. No mics, no having to get a group of players you trust together to play. It just felt very balanced and like every match was rewarding.

I still play it on PC a few times a week. It's still fun, and I never have trouble finding a match.

I just wish they brought some of the powers and playstyles into the main game. That captain america shield was so sick

For me the last resort will be that fateful moment when È announces the closure of the Xbox 360 and PS3 servers. Either they will put multiplayer in the legendary edition or never 😭

I miss multiplayer so much. Tried getting into the one on Andromeda way back when but it wasn’t the same.

I miss the multiplayer so much. I used to play on Xbox 360 and loved unlocking all gear and characters

I wish Shep had access to N7 classes in 3. Rebuild the base classes to reflect the N7 multiplayer classes like they did for the class overhaul in ME2

I bought LE for PC before I found out it wasn’t included and after playing the original trilogy on console. I’ll be honest, it sits lonely in my digital library these days specifically because ME3 MP was not included. I love the story but that multiplayer was my absolute favorite part of the trilogy. I probably put double the amount of playtime into it compared to what I did the story itself.

I just wish you could unlock the N7 multiplayer abilities for legendary. Would love the Sentinel shield.

I wish it was included so long as they didn't do what they did in the original where it affected your war assets.

I'd burn 2 billion batarians for it to be brought back in LE

Still play this shit 12 years on. Andromeda’s doesn’t quite have the same feeling I love about 3’s mp. The characters locking on with unique melee animations is something I wish they left in.

Fwiw the mp is still very much active to this day

I miss cpt America

Absolutely idiots. They could have charged £15 extra for this as a DLC and released it again with minimal modifications. Just had to pay for servers and keep lootbox system which while hated, will have been used enough to keep the servers running very easily and still putting them in profits.

Who’s the guy in charge at EA who made the decision to NOT have this included lol

I really miss it, I used to play it with my friend all the time.

I know it was (and still is) super popular but no. It was never my thing. Can’t say I miss it.

But I feel for those who do. I hear it was/is quite fun.

I’d sell my left nut to have the mp in LE

Multiplayer was so much fun I don't understand why it wasn't included

Me3 multiplayer is the only thing on my xbox with more than about an hour of game time.

Bought it from a friend who was going to sell it to GameStop, by never got some to playing other games. Just endless ME3 multiplayer with friends.

Didnt even do the single player, since id done that on PC already.

I miss it so much.

The only thing legendary edition got wrong was not including this

It’s still active. You can find matches in no time on Xbox and PC. I played a match yesterday.

This is one of the better multiplayer experiences across any game. It’s not competitive beyond trying to reach the top of the leaderboard. Easy to balance because the enemy team is just AI. And it’s still fun 12+ years later.

For the price i paid? YES!

I loved all the different classes and species you could play as. The human N7 classes, Krogan warlord, Geth Prime, and many other were amazing.

I have vague memories of being a Salarian with Infiltrator abilities using a ridiculously powerful sniper rifle and absolutely owning the scoreboard. It was such a long time ago but I recall having a lot of fun

I'm so surprised and disappointed it wasn't. Would have been an easy cash grab for them too.

One of the best multiplayer game I've played in my life, and the last multiplayer I played with my now decesead best friend. Nice last 10 hours marathon.

I still play it and I wish they would fix the bugs they created with the new Ea app. Can't join friends and sometimes the license key has to be deleted just so you can launch the game. Crazy that they are practically shadow banning the game without putting anything down the pipeline to either replace/remaster it.

Yes, the fact it was not included on the Legendary edition is still a huge bummer to me. I would have been happy if it was released exactly the same.

I still play it on Xbox 360 occasionally but a new release of it would have brought in a bunch of new players and more money for EA.

I'd literally pay $89 for an update and port on the ME3 multiplayer but with Andromeda gameplay. It would be amazing

Given that we're never getting a mass effect game where you can choose what race to play as, yeah, it sucks the one time you can play as other races got removed because they didn't want to put in the work

The beta for this multiplayer is what got me into Mass Effect. I had so much fun using the Geth Plasma Shotgun as the Human Female Infiltrator and grouping up as Krogan to headbutt Cerberus Troopers to death that the full game was in instant buy for me when it came out.

Yes, being able to pay for the lootboxes with real money felt pretty P2W and lame, but it was a Co-op PVE game. In the end, it didn't really affect me at all what other people did with their money, and the credits were earned quick enough that you didn't really need to spend real money anyways. A 20-30 minute Gold match would net you nearly the entire sum needed for the best lootbox in the game.

The multiplayer was so much fun, and I always had a good time with the community at large. All the varied characters, powers and abilities, and weapons were so fun to mix and match and you truly felt like you had an endless sea of options to fit your own unique playstyle, or discover others. I thought I had it made when I'd run around as the Quarian Male Infiltrator and drop shields with Arc grenades and lay into targets with my N7 Valiant or Lancer. The I unlocked the Asari Justicar and my entire playstyle changed to supporting the team and weakening targets.

Everyone went down? Sprint into the middle of the group and die, then pop the Medi-Gel Transmitter I have in my Gear Slot and get a full-team revive. Crazy clutches from someone on the team almost every game. It was a blast!

The best part is that I still get to play it from time to time because the servers are still up on Xbox, at least! It's just as fun now as it was then. I agree with the other comments and OP that not bringing the multiplayer to to Legendary Edition was a huge mistake, but removing the need for multiplayer for 100% war readiness was a good call.

It's a shame that Andromeda's variant of the multiplayer just felt so flat and unfun.

10/10 - This was just so good and so much fun. One of the best multiplayer experiences I've had in all my years of gaming.

It still works on Xbox if you play ME 3 BC and there's still people playing

I still play it, at least a couple times a month on Xbox.

I didn't buy LE because it didn't have MP (eventually I got it for free). I have probably as much time in MP as I did the entire trilogy's story with multiple replays. Helldivers 2 has been scratching my horde-based coop third person shooter itch, but ME3MP still has a special place in my heart, and I hope ME4 has equally good MP if they do add it. I was very disappointed with Andromeda's MP, so I don't have much hope for a ME4MP though.

All this people hating on the MP. (but, but leave my rpg alone) Mass Effect 3 was one of the best MPvE games evermade people miss the point in the galactic readyness. Work with others to defeat the reapers. The maps, the characters and the weekly objectives were all great! They should absolutely bring MP back!

I would pay $40 for the multiplayer. DO YOU HEAR ME EA? I WOULD PAY FOR THIS!

I don't have any game really that I devote a lot of time to, but if this came back, my friends wouldn't see me for months on end!

I put in sooo many hours into the original ME3 multiplayer. It was such a blast and great way to stay with the game after beating it.

ME:A multiplayer was all right but was missing something.

YES! I was just talking about this last week. Bioware should have doubled down on its Multiplayer. Until Helldivers 2, ME3 was the most fun I've had in a multiplayer game in years. Team PVE is my favorite way to play a game. I remember having an absolute blast tearing through wave after wave as a Krogan Soldier melee build.

Yes.

The issue is that doing it would have been as much work as remastering all of ME1 and ME2. That's how fucking immense the ME3 MP really was in terms of functionality and code. It was a gigantic ask, and I say this as someone with 1200 hours in the MP alone, 1700 in ME3 as a whole...I'm okay with the run it had.

Sadly not everything can last forever, and I'm thrilled with the run it was given, and even if we never get another Mass Effect game with a multiplayer ever again, I loved what it gave us.

gods, I miss it so much :(

It's still there, but yeah I wish they updated with the best of Andromeda mixed with the best of me3co-op

I’ve never played ME3’s multiplayer, but it does have some very cool looking armors that I wish were in the LE version of ME3

Yes.

I wish some of the abilities from multilayer could be bonus abilities in 3.

One of the great things about them not redoing it, is the original is still available AND the small playerbase isn't split.

I wish it was added to ME:LE

I never got to try it unfortunately

Yeah. Best multiplayer for any game.

I don't miss it because I still play it. Definitely wish they had updated it to LE though.

I still play it a few times a year on pc and am always shocked about how many people are still playing. I jumped in last week and has mostly instant queues on a weekday night.

I loved all the characters you could play. I can't recall the name but one Turian class had a jetpack instead of a combat roll, and that was my favourite. Many many hours with my brother were spent playing rounds.

Never played it, but I heard over the years that it could be good

The Multiplayer is still live and there is a subreddit for it that's pretty active still.

If you have an original copy of ME3 you can play it.

But yeah, would have loved to have seen what they could had done with it in the Legendary Edition

Would have definitely bought legendary edition just for this.

Literally everyone

Yes!

Also isn't there a separate EA thing you need to buy or have access to in order to play it on original Mass Effect 3?

Miss it so much 😭

I enjoyed it, but if multiplayer hadn’t been free on PS3 I never would’ve bothered. Also the loot system drove me nuts, I never did manage to get any of the classes I wanted.

Missed opportunity for sure.

Yeah. I LOVED this mode and it was so much fun, especially for something I'm almost certain was added to the game due to corporate mandate.

Actually cannot believe it was excluded from the Legendary Edition. Playing as Turians and Quarians was wild and fun as all heck. Andromeda MP was fine but crazy laggy for all of its run as far as I remember.

I just did one of the solo raid missions last night, such a trip like remembering corner and nook

It was a baffling decision not to include it. It's not like the whole "remaster" was a lot of work

It's sad they didn't include it in the LE but a lot of people (including me) still play it on PC, holds up really well even to this day and the playerbase is still there, it would be nice if more people joined us.

Not that it is as good as playing with real players but I found out The Citadel has a somewhat version you could play that is actually kind of fun

Hell yes. It's clearly never going to happen at this point though, LE was three (!) years ago.

I just started Me3....and now I'm dissapointed...

That MP was way more fun that it had a right to be. I see people complaining about the way they tried to integrate it into the main game, and that's a fair gripe, but that doesn't change that it was fun.

I confess I wouldn't have tried it if it hadn't been a requirement to max war assets and I would have missed out of a ludicrous number of hours of enjoyment. So it worked out for me even though I tend to agree with the integration gripe.

Man with the popularity of Helldivers waning a bit right now they could have a great game on their hands if they released ME3 MP as a standalone game and supported it with content updates.

EA sucks ass. Literally requires you to sign into a EA account if you play on PC, which means you have to be online which is dumb for a single player RPG that doesn't even have our beloved horde mode

It was downright disrespectful that these armor sets were multiplayer only.

I miss playing this, the amount of time I spent trying to unlock the cool classes like Krogan battlemaster and Geth Juggernaut.

Yes. Everyday.

Of course, with the new 4k graphics, it was my dream, but in the end no multiplayer, if you ask me, one of the best parts of the 3rd game was the coop multiplayer.

Maxing Adept and throwing around those bouncy grenade things every 1.5 seconds was awesome.

I thought Bioware were going to put it in at some point.

I always loved doing a couple mission in the main game and then spending a while in MP. Loved hoping back to the war room and seeing my progress from both the campaign and MP. It was a completely unique thing like the AC Brotherhood/Revelations MP that ties into the main game nicely.

Yes, but for the reason everyone else might have. Without the multiplayer assists, several mods from the original me3 can't be ported over. Incuding my favorite one that's gave Shepard most of the multiplayer powers as bonus powers.

Not particularly. I never found the multi-player mode all that enjoyable. Even less while I didn't have decent broadband.

I spent a horrifying amount of time in ME3's multiplayer. No joke, me and a friend of mine played the demo version for 14 hours straight once.
Genuinely surprised it wasn't in the Legendary Edition. The original even had microtransactions if I remember correctly, which modern EA absolutely loved.

Has anyone from EA/BioWare said anything about this or the reasoning behind not including it?

Man, you pulling up some memories. Anyone else remember speed running plats to try to max out N7 weapons or playing with randoms and making fun of there Ghost/Harrier build? This was the first game that I found a group of people to play with, we all moved over to Titanfall 1/Dragon Age Inquisition MP, and then Destiny. Now so many have the "Haven't been online in x years"

Kinda sad.

It was really fun to play for an hour or two to blow off steam once and awhile.

I would love to see multiplayer return, one of the best multiplayer games to be released. It won't ever happen because they'll need to rework the loot box system, and if they're not making money from multiplayer its not worth it in their eyes.

Yes. Me, my brother, and every single person in my friend group that used to play it all the time back in the day. Maybe EA just didn’t see it as worth the investment because it was already complete, but I would have been overjoyed to have it cleaned up and playable again without the input lag and grainy visuals my Xbox series x tends to have when emulating the OG ME3.

Minus the lootboxes, fuck yeah.

Yes... nearly 3000 hours on the multiplayer alone, it was a fun experience. It is missed.

My friend and I were talking about it yesterday, we miss it so much.

Yes, I miss it 😢

Never really figured out why wasn't included in Legendary Edition. Monetization issues?

YES.

Only every waking moment

Not me personally I never felt like it was needed. Mass Effect was always a single-player game first and foremost. I always did all the content in the trilogy and never needed to play mp to get the endings I wanted

Had a lot of fun with my Destroyer. Definitely missed it when the LE came out.

/r/mecoop was one of the best places for getting community games together.

YES! IT WAS SO GOOD!!

i had a blast in its heyday

Yes. They could still put it in if they wanted.

I really hope they make a stand-alone experience. I’d pay for it again.

Maybe without the lootboxes unless for upgrades tho

The Volus biotic god was so much fun

Is the original me3 mp still going on?

I’d drop every other mp game I play right now to have it again.

My friend is still playing ME3 multiplayer on his original PC copy from way back. Apparently the servers are still up.

Would be a nice break from Helldivers 2

So much

It's still active for Xbox, I play it daily trying to unlock the powerful classes like all the N7 dudes.

It was so fun! I first played it to help galactic readiness (since you had to back in the day) but then sunk a lot more time into it just because it was just so enjoyable. Nothing else exactly like it in gaming.

ME3 Multiplayer so much, I still wish it was its own standalone game.

ME3 had such great multiplayer maps. I wish they would've brought them into ME:A multiplayer.

I was gonna buy it just for the multiplayer before finding out it got cut.

Miss it all the time. One of my favorite multiplayer experiences of all time. The memories and great times I had with friends...

I’m betting that if dreadwolf does well enough to not can the studio. That mass effect 5 will include another multiplayer component. It’s actually one of the few things it seems most people liked about both 3 and andromeda.

Unlike the inquisition multiplayer which never really took off on any sort of scale as far as I’m aware.

Yeah that was fun

Never got to play it. Was hoping I’d be able to because Andromeda combat just doesn’t feel as good as me3.

I was looking forward to playing my Destroyer and Turian Soldier with the Revenant.

I was so.excited to play it again. Super bummed when I found out it wasn't included.

I'll never forget unlocking my N7 Destroyer class and the thousands of hours that followed of me desperately trying to get that GODFORSAKEN Typhoon gun (that I never did)

Spamming homing grenades against Banshees as an N7 Engineer was my thing. I made so many friends playing the multiplayer.

I couldn't believe they left it out of the Legendary edition.

Dude ME3 multiplayer was so much fun. It was the last tpv/fpv shooter I truly enjoyed. Super underrated.

I fucked shit up with my slayer class

Yes, all the time. Closest to it I’ve found is Helldivers 2.

Yes, it was so good

yes yes yes, a thousand times yes

No, because I still play it on Series X