Next Mass Effect to get Multi-Player??

According to this story on Gamespy BioWare Montreal is looking for a Lead Multiplayer Programmer “working on BioWare's top franchises”. Many people have interpreted the posting to indicate that Mass Effect 3 will have a multi-player component.

Reading it it could be any one of BioWare’s franchises and not necessarily Mass Effect.  It could be a game in the Mass Effect universe or one of BioWare’s other franchises.

I personally would not want ME3 to have a hacked-on multi-player mode.  Possibly a Co-Op mode that is tangential to the story like in Splinter Cell Conviction would be OK, though I would be hard pressed to find good on the idea of a full Co-Op ME3, it could be good, it could be horrible (most likely the latter).  I was not impressed with Co-Op in Borderlands, it was OK, but really depended on who you played with. Here is hoping that they spend time on making ME3 a really great single player experience and don't try to tack on some half-baked multiplayer and don’t spend time polishing the single player.

Battlefield Bad Company 2, had promise failed on server browser and Content #BFBC2PC

I was playing alot of BFBC2 on my PC, but between the constant server updates resetting servers to defaults, lack of content for Squad Death Match and the browser never quite seeming to work right on Windows 7 64bit I’ve mostly given up playing it.

The game had much promise, but it gets boring playing the same handful of SDM maps over and over and over.   I would be happy to play non-ranked if they would allow user content non-ranked servers, but they have not released any mapmaking tools mod tools of any kind.

The other problem is the sheer number of server updates, and when the partners update the server software all the hardcore servers get reset back to normal.  The final issue is the server browser while it has improved never worked quite right, you could search for hardcore servers, but you were as likely to get a normal server.  In Windows 7 64 bit ping times have never worked, and that is the OS a hardcore PC gamer is likely to have.

I’ll check back and play it now and then, possibly DICE will resolve the issues and make it the game it should be.