I'm pretty sure we've known this for quite a while.

Kind of completely goes against what Bioware said just a month ago.  Mass Effect 3 details - no multiplayer  [Eurogamer April 8, 2011]

I'm pretty sure we've known this for quite a while.

No no no no no goddammit fuck no. I knew this was going to happen when they bumped the release date back to 2012. I didn't want to believe it, but there it is. Fuck everything about this news. Everything.

I still can't believe Dragon Age II didn't have multiplayer 
 
such an unc00l game

After reading those articles and the comments, I'm not sure I'm convinced... But that may just be wishful thinking. I hope there's not! Save that crap for a spin-off or something! I want to be able to S-rank ME3 and I have ZERO interest in multiplayer stuff (that isn't Rock Band).

Kind of completely goes against what Bioware said just a month ago.  Mass Effect 3 details - no multiplayer  [Eurogamer April 8, 2011]

No way they're going to include multiplayer. They're not that stupid.

now you can awkwardly spacefuck your xbl buddies with mass effect 3. 
 
kinect exclusive.

Yeah, will you be able to have sex with other players?

Won't believe it until it's on the main menu when I boot up the game come 2012.

It wouldn't surprise me if there wasn't a separate game based in ME3 world.

If they do, I won't really care. It'll be like Dead Space, and nobody will play it.

Mutliplayer - The new line of Pre-order DLC, son!

@Ghostin: Friendly reminder, this is the same site that said ME3 was coming out June 3rd. Couldn't even pay enough attention to the press conference to get the right release date.

I highly doubt this news. Despite BioWare making Mass Effect more and more like a shooter, I don't think they're gonna put multiplayer in the game. It'd be a complete waste of development time imo. No one would want to play ME3 multiplayer and that time is better spend on meaningful things.

No way they're going to include multiplayer. They're not that stupid.

This has been a thing since EA announced all it's games in 2011 would have both Multiplayer and DLC, and then again in Jan/Feb when Bioware threw up a job listing for someone with MP experience on PS3/360.  It's not a thing for ME3, it's for the one that comes after.

Multiplayer in ME3 is a non-existent thing, for sure <3

I don't think EA quite get it, and I think Bioware need to man up and stop letting EA push them around and tell them no.

Multi-player is precisely what Mass Effect doesn't need.

It already has a garuanteed wide-scale purchase appeal so why ruin the formula by adding the anti-formula into the mix.

I am so confused!

People need to stop freaking out when they said they wouldn't do it.
If it is true then just play the single player like you were going to and forget it exists.
Plenty of games said "exploring multi-player options" to see if it works like what they said for God of War 2 but ultimately that game was single player only.  If this is true then we'd have heard more about it seeing as how this article was published a week ago.

I have to trust what they said in April and that there would be no multiplayer in Mass Effect 3, however that does not stop them from producing a game set in the Mass Effect universe that has multiplayer.  Setting an RTS in the Halo universe is one such example of producing a game in a new and different genre than the original.  I still wish Epic had made that Gears of Golf game.  Outside of the rampant rumors, this list of confirmed features in Mass Effect 3 has "no multiplayer" listed.  This could all change, but the out right lie to the fanbase would be something they would have to explain. 

Didn't they recently say that ME3 would be single player only.

I hope not I'm working on a pitch for a large scale class and species based first person shooter set throughout the history of the Mass Effect universe. Let me just say the Geth Uprising campaign is un-fucking-believable.

More weight being added to there being multiplayer of sorts. This says it'll be co-op based.
 
http://www.computerandvideogames.com/307597/news/mass-effect-3-multiplayer-is-real-based-on-original-online-missions/

EA Agenda, too many preowned copies out there. They think slapping MP makes people not sell the game

Competitive = Not interested.
 
Coop = could be very cool to have a squad of friends playing. 
 
i don't get why people freak out about this kind of thing. oh yeah i do... its the internet 

NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO

Kind of completely goes against what Bioware said just a month ago.  Mass Effect 3 details - no multiplayer  [Eurogamer April 8, 2011]

Im fine with this, could be neat, Or it could just be Mass Effect: Gears of War.

This has been a thing since EA announced all it's games in 2011 would have both Multiplayer and DLC, and then again in Jan/Feb when Bioware threw up a job listing for someone with MP experience on PS3/360.  It's not a thing for ME3, it's for the one that comes after.

Oh well, they might as well just do it, turn it into that Gears Effect game they seem to want it to become.

Competitive = Not interested. Coop = could be very cool to have a squad of friends playing.  i don't get why people freak out about this kind of thing. oh yeah i do... its the internet 

People are really over-reacting to this, its pretty silly. If it is true than it'll probably be like dead space, there will be a mostly decent multiplayer experience that most people won't really bother with much because of the excellent single player experience. 

Sure, why not? I wouldn't mind.

@Beforet said:

Sure, why not? I wouldn't mind.

Same, Horde mode or just co-op would be a blast!

Wondering what Dragon Age multiplayer would look like...  

I'd like to see a co-op mode with pre generated characters... not sure it would work in a campaign mode, but something like Resident Evil's Mercenary mode (but purely co-op) would be interesting... They could add in all the past squad mates as playable characters and you could play horde mode or some other co-operative focused modes, maybe add in a co-op leveling scheme letting you unlock better skills and weapons for the various characters.