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Fewer Players Finished Mass Effect 3 Than Mass Effect 2

Posted on Monday, August 13 @ 19:00:00 Eastern by

At a GDC Europe panel, BioWare's online development director Fernando Melo shared some game data on completion rates for their past titles from Mass Effect and Dragon Age franchises. The data is fascinating, really.

Mass Effect 3: 42%
Mass Effect 2: 56%
Mass Effect 1: 40%
Dragon Age: Origins: 36%
Dragon Age 2: 41%

Also, the number of people who play the game doesn't seem to matter. Even though the numbers for Mass Effect 3 were incredible and despite the introduction of cooperative multiplayer, the length of time people have played the game hasn't changed.

This says a lot about single-player RPGs. Even if a game is critically successful, the completion rate is only about 40%. Which begs the question: If you have those games, did you finish them? (I did, several times in fact.)

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  • 213EDD
    213EDD

    Joined: Sep 2007
    Posted: Aug 13th, 2012 at 7:08 pm
    I personally know people who bought mass effect 3 "because it has multiplayer". They've literally never touched singleplayer.
  • Jonathan_Leack
    Jonathan_Leack

    Joined: Jan 2012
    Posted: Aug 13th, 2012 at 7:09 pm
    I didn't play it. Origin exclusive equals no buy.
  • 213EDD
    213EDD

    Joined: Sep 2007
    Posted: Aug 13th, 2012 at 7:33 pm
    As a PC Gamer, I agree with this guy.
  • 213EDD
    213EDD

    Joined: Sep 2007
    Posted: Aug 13th, 2012 at 7:33 pm
    In fact this was the only reason I bought for console...
  • Sourdeez
    Sourdeez

    Joined: Feb 2012
    Posted: Aug 13th, 2012 at 7:43 pm
    I have it on the pc but I make it a point that bioware is one of the only companies in the past 2 years to ship a "AAA" title without xbox controller support on the pc. Granted you can use emulation to mod your way around this but for real EA/Bioware quit droppin the balls.
  • warmaster670
    warmaster670

    Joined: Jun 2007
    Posted: Aug 13th, 2012 at 8:11 pm
    Yet Im sure youdf play a game that was steam exclusive, double standards ftl.
  • Chunibrow
    Chunibrow

    Joined: Mar 2010
    Posted: Aug 13th, 2012 at 8:46 pm
    Steam doesn't suck, what's your point?
  • sandineyes
    sandineyes

    Joined: May 2008
    Posted: Aug 13th, 2012 at 8:58 pm
    Ha, interesting choice of words, considering during Steam's first few years "Steam sucks!" was the rallying cry of the anti-Steam faction of HL mod players.
  • Chunibrow
    Chunibrow

    Joined: Mar 2010
    Posted: Aug 13th, 2012 at 9:26 pm
    It did suck. It doesn't suck now, and Origin does suck now, so maybe when Origin doesn't suck people won't have a problem playing its exclusives.
  • 213EDD
    213EDD

    Joined: Sep 2007
    Posted: Aug 13th, 2012 at 10:55 pm
    It'd be a double standard if the game on steam that i bought retail was just a unlock for the game that installs through Origin.

    I you buy Portal 2 retail they give you portal 2 retail seperate while when u install they give you the digital for free as well, in case you decide to lose the game. I still regret KOA:R to this god damn day.
  • Sourdeez
    Sourdeez

    Joined: Feb 2012
    Posted: Aug 13th, 2012 at 7:12 pm
    The idea of not completing a game is kinda foreign to me. I stuck it all the way through borderlands looking for some kind of good story and found none but I at least finished it all. I tend to try to do everything in a game as in every quest or see every location.(I however do not like achievements or trophies, the only system I like that is close to those is BF3s assignments which also give you ingame rewards)
  • LawnGnome
    LawnGnome

    Joined: Apr 2007
    Posted: Aug 13th, 2012 at 7:20 pm
    Played them all, beat them all (some of them a couple times). ME3 definitely ate up much more of my time thanks to the multiplayer though. I think a smaller percentage completed ME3 because they're waiting to finish it on the WiiU (lol!).
  • Ananymous
    Ananymous

    Joined: Apr 2011
    Posted: Aug 13th, 2012 at 7:25 pm
    I finished Mass Effect 2 and 3 but never beat 1 due to having it on PC and the other two on the PS3
  • Bretimus_v2
    Bretimus_v2

    Joined: Jan 2009
    Posted: Aug 13th, 2012 at 7:26 pm
    I'm not too surprised.

    I mean by the time you get to the third iteration, I bet people buy it without knowing what it is and then find out they don't like it at all (jumped on the wrong bandwagon).

    I, however, finished it and thoroughly enjoyed it. I may not have been enthralled by the ending, but neither was I enraged.
  • damo_rox619
    damo_rox619

    Joined: Jan 2007
    Posted: Aug 13th, 2012 at 7:41 pm
    I've beaten all 3. I beat ME1 twice and ME2 three times, but I only finished ME3 once. That's not to say i like the first two more, in fact ME3 is my favorite in the series, not to mention the best game on the Xbox 360. I just like to vary it up a bit by playing different games.
  • sandineyes
    sandineyes

    Joined: May 2008
    Posted: Aug 13th, 2012 at 8:51 pm
    I can sort of BS reason why the ME numbers are the way they are. ME1 was a little rough around the edges in gameplay if you look at it from a shooter perspective, and ME3 spent most of it's time on ending old plot threads rather than establishing its own. ME2 did have a pretty good "guys on a mission" thing going on, like The Dirty Dozen or Kelly's Heroes, only with more psychic powers and less Donald Sutherland.
  • Sourdeez
    Sourdeez

    Joined: Feb 2012
    Posted: Aug 13th, 2012 at 9:05 pm
    I will say 2 is my favorite. Not to say 3 didnt improve on some aspects of the game
  • Guernica
    Guernica

    Joined: Mar 2009
    Posted: Aug 13th, 2012 at 9:08 pm
    I beat all ME1,2 and 3 and started DA 1 and 2 but could never even get halfway through them.

    Maybe one reason why 3 was finished less is people got distracted by the multiplayer? Also I'm guessing the bad press around the ending didn't help people's desire to finish it.
  • StringerBell86
    StringerBell86

    Joined: Mar 2012
    Posted: Aug 13th, 2012 at 9:32 pm
    played all of them to the end (some of them 3 or 4 times through on harder difficulties)

    no other games leave me wanting more than the bioware series (minus currently SWTOR)
  • C_nate
    C_nate

    Joined: Apr 2009
    Posted: Aug 13th, 2012 at 10:13 pm
    I played and finished the first Dragon Age and loved it. Played and finished the expansion and was troubled by the dive in quality. Skipped the second one and lived happily ever after.
  • Chunibrow
    Chunibrow

    Joined: Mar 2010
    Posted: Aug 14th, 2012 at 12:00 am
    Finished all 5, all great games though DA 2 was disappointing. DA 1 is amazing. Funny, you'd think RPGs would have players that would be most likely to finish games, based on the generally strong stories.
  • Noritama
    Noritama

    Joined: Feb 2012
    Posted: Aug 14th, 2012 at 1:17 am
    Duh I beat it. Never played DA2 tho.
  • maca2kx
    maca2kx

    Joined: Jul 2002
    Posted: Aug 14th, 2012 at 2:48 am
    I've completed each Mass Effect many times. I'm tempted to start ME3 up again but the ending honestly makes it seem pointless.

    On another note, have you guys got access to completion rates of any other games? I'd be interested to see how many people even touch the single player of games like Call of Duty. Although now I'm wondering if Melo's stats are adjusted to take into account the few completely offline players there are.
  • friggest
    friggest

    Joined: Mar 2008
    Posted: Aug 14th, 2012 at 6:28 am
    I didnt finish it. I didnt buy it either.
  • sg4real
    sg4real

    Joined: Apr 2011
    Posted: Aug 14th, 2012 at 7:01 am
    I finished it and I didn't mind the ending...
  • drathbone
    drathbone

    Joined: May 2011
    Posted: Aug 14th, 2012 at 1:43 pm
    I finished 1. I convinced myself I'd finish 2. Haven't bought 3. I did not finish DA1. Never bothered with 2.
  • Jessica_Vazquez
    Jessica_Vazquez

    Joined: Sep 2010
    Posted: Aug 14th, 2012 at 2:07 pm
    I have finished all of them. Actually just got the Mark of the Assassin DLC for DA2 and started a new play-through. DA2 definitely wasn't as epic as DA1 but I can't help myself. I loves me some Felicia Day. I'm probably going to wait for the Leviathan DLC before I do my 3rd play-through of ME3.
  • Rougarou
    Rougarou

    Joined: Apr 2012
    Posted: Aug 14th, 2012 at 2:31 pm
    PS3 so I never played 1, but I have completed 2 about five times and haven't finished 3 yet. Got it last month and started playing, then played ME2 again to have a complete experience. Will finish this month!
  • Timfads
    Timfads

    Joined: Aug 2012
    Posted: Aug 16th, 2012 at 5:10 pm
    I finished ME1 eight times, ME2 eight times, Origins on XBox four times, Origins on PS3 six times, age 2 on xbox six times and will hit PS3 age 2 six times. I completed mass 3 once. The ending was that worthless and suckful. That ending killed the entire series

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