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- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -6/+39Playing online doesn't make you social. It just makes you an *****.
- motang, on 10/10/2007, -1/+31Makes sense as it prolongs the game's life.
- xerus, on 10/10/2007, -2/+29Makes sense as people can now call someone a ***** from across the country.
- Junkyarddawg, on 10/10/2007, -4/+29Makes sense as it makes pirating hard or impossible.
- batmang, on 10/10/2007, -1/+18I played the Red Faction Multiplayer Demo for 4 years.
- SgtQuackers, on 10/10/2007, -0/+16Not really a surprise. Games you can play longer sell better.
- h4mx0r, on 10/10/2007, -0/+12I just really really hope developers do not neglect single player campaigns/games. If video games are an art form, then the single player experience is usually a powerful way of becoming that art form, complete with a solid storyline and well design. Multiplayer is fun, but single player must not be neglected.
I was about to go support and buy Bioshock for that sole reason of keeping single player in the loop, but that DRM stuff really turned me off. - whatthefu, on 10/10/2007, -1/+11I don't know how Bioshock's selling, but that is an example of a game that's really hyped for its one player. But yes, games like Halo 3 and Gears of War at this point are focused almost entirely on multiplayer in the eyes of the public.
- amrush4th, on 10/10/2007, -0/+6And as more and more people take that first leap online (go in knowing you will get your rear handed to you at first and it will be ok) it's only going to become more and more important.
- TheTaoOfBill, on 10/10/2007, -2/+7And it's exactly this reason that people get so pissed at Nintendo when they disappoint us with their online features.
- consonance, on 10/10/2007, -1/+6Somehow, I don't think social activity isn't defined as acting like a douchebag and calling dozens of people "dickface" in less than twenty keystrokes.
- Murdats, on 10/10/2007, -0/+5damn your dual excalmation marks.
I misread that as Diablo III and got excited. - eaasness, on 10/10/2007, -0/+5What about Diablo II!! The game is almost 8 years old and people are still playing online. The game is still $30 at Best Buy.
- Kelmon, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4Honestly, I don't care about online content at all. I'm very much a fan of the single player games where you advance a story of some sort and I really hope that developers concentrate on that aspect more than the multi-player side. However, when it comes to multi-player I'm only interested in games that I can play side-by-side with my opponents. Online gaming is not interesting to me when compared to entertainment gained from playing console games with friends when we're all in the same place.
Online gaming tends to be single-player but without the plot and opponents that just talk nonsense. - dadioflex, on 10/10/2007, -1/+5They won't. Multiplayer gaming is a minority interest. The Unreal geezer said as much when he was justifying the improved single player content for Unreal 3. This "study" is just another of those correlation = causation smoke and mirrors handjobs. Gears of War would have been huge without online play and you only have to look at the numbers playing online to realise that a fraction of the millions of people who bought the game have ever gone online. Not that I've anything against online play but people act like it's the be all and end all when in fact the vast majority of gaming is offline. 9 million WOW players? 2 Billion Freecell players.
- Urusai, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4Plus, you can skimp on content design and make fans do the design work and beta testing for you.
- DukeMojo, on 10/10/2007, -2/+6Well, DUH!
- Promantarius, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3Was that a double negative causing your sentence to make no sense, or am I slowly going insane?
- s1mph0ny, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3Odd, as a Battlefield 2142 noob, the only thing that killed me was the stupid jets.
- tehpwnrate, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3I love those people. They're the ones who get killed 6 at a time in Battlefield 2142. Skills + Clark shotgun > Squad of noobs
- rowlodge, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3i try to avoid online games that you can get "kicked out" of by little brats that hate you because your better at it than they are.
- Renton, on 10/10/2007, -1/+4Both Bioshock and Metroid Prime 3 are exclusively one player games, and they both sold over 400,000 copies in their first week. Although these are more like exceptions than the rule.
- tehpwnrate, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3Oblivion also comes to mind. But it is head and shoulders above anything else out there (in the genre), so it's in a video game class of its own.
- happytedium, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3Well, I for one (and I know a lot of my mates are the same), haven't really touched my Wii since I finished Twilight Princess, and I'm just waiting for Brawl for it's multiplayer. I would say a LOT of Wii owners are the same, but who knows.
- wild, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3Faulty research really. When you look at the scoring for games, a lot of them lose points on review scores when they don't include a multi-player option. That would exclude most single player games from the "above 9.0" threshold.
Also, it doesn't account for sales of games like Grand Theft Auto, which has yet to have an online component yet is one of the biggest franchises in the industry.
I am not arguing online play doesn't add value to games, but the single player is still overall more important to a games success at this point. - Murdats, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2its not about MMO's
think counterstrike, thats a one time payment. - Odjn, on 10/10/2007, -2/+4I'd like to agree with article, but if it was true, the Wii wouldn't be selling ***** until Pokemon and Mario Strikers came out. The article brings up the Wii and then just ignores its point and goes off on Gears of War.
- Lixie, on 10/10/2007, -1/+3Most people I know go immediately online when first getting a game. They don't care about the offline game, or even bother to learn the controls before jumping online.
- Murdats, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2and you fail you realise you are in the minority.
I also like a nice solid story line tied into some awesome gameplay, but most of the time, I just want to fight people, whether it be with guns, arrows and fireballs or armies, competition is fun. - bilgates, on 10/10/2007, -1/+3Great Example the command and conquer series.
- Shaflugi, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2He's talking about piracy..
- h4mx0r, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2Well Freecell is kinda free.
If WoW was free and came preinstalled on Windows, it would also have 2 billion :p - fani, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2Although I used to not be a big multiplayer fan, recently thanks to Xbox live, I've been opened to whole new world of co-op games. I now buy games that have Co-op multiplayer. A big eg. is - VT3. I love the multiplayer in that.
And it sucks that VT3 for PS3 doesn't have online. What a foolish decision there.
I'm sure VT3 sold ton more copies for Xbox360 than PS3. ( even though it had its quirks in multiplayer, it was still fun ) - TheDragon, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2I really hate that there's so much focus on social gaming these days. Social gaming to me is getting together with a bunch of friends and having a LAN party. I even still host a big LAN party every month. Playing multiplayer games on the PC doesn't really bother me, because I'm not in it for the social experience, I'm in it to enjoy the gameplay and get a bigger challenge than playing AI. That all said, I hate dealing with little kids and their microphones on the next-gen systems. Not only that, I hate dealing with big kids and their microphones. Even compared to the asshats in the PC gaming world, there seem to be worse ones in the console gaming world. This, to me, really drops the multiplayer experience. The few well-worded gamers I've encountered online have immediately been added to my friends list, and I prefer playing with them, but they are the heavy minority unfortunately. Does anyone else feel this way when gaming online with a console?
- Nobi-Wan, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Focusing on multiplayer is also a double-edged sword. I felt cheated when I bought Halo 2 because I really, really loved the campaign from Halo 1 but I felt like they put twice the effort in the online portion than they did in developing the single player story. I'm not complaining about the game because the online was a LOT of fun, but if I want to buy a multiplayer-only game I'll buy Battlefield or Unreal Tournament or something. Even an online co-op experience was *almost* there but they left it out.
- Myztry, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1I love online play for the simple fact of challenge. Humans are so much more challenging, unique, unpredictable and realistic than the best of AI's can even touch on. AI has a LONG way to go.
Considering the killing focus of online gaming, isn't the social aspect an oxymoron. I thought killing was meant to be anti-social behavior :) Even if it's just virtual. - dandonia, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1i love co-op
- Odjn, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1I agree with you, ever since I got tired of single player Streets of Rage 2, I don't really touch my Wii (I got it at launch), but Nintendo is still ahead of the pack. So the hypothesis is murky there.
- supaklaw, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1#1 Their isn't an AI created yet that is better than good multiplayer opponents
#2 You can't taunt, humiliate, piss off an AI. There's no sense of competition. - Cyber_Akuma, on 10/10/2007, -2/+3You hear that Nintendo?
Hint: Everybody hates Friend Codes. - consonance, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1It was an accidental double negative. That should say "activity IS defined."
- h4mx0r, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1or Chocolate rain...
- dandonia, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1does oblivion really need online to give players something extra to do - i dont know many people that have seen every story in the massive game.
- ainmosni, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Oops, I digged this up by accident, is there any way to undigg it?
- dandonia, on 10/10/2007, -1/+2your defo in the minority man. Im not saying single player games arnt cool, bio is amazing largly because of the story but once you get online with a game you get to see so much more. AI is not an issue if your playing a deathmatch with 16 people. If you manage to get in a team where you have the chance to lead by giving instructions and the team actually following, if you win that match you just feel so much better. G.R.A.W ftw!
- happytedium, on 10/10/2007, -1/+2Glaringly obvious observation.
- LiquidAardvark, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1He got me too. Want D3!
- Shaflugi, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1So, instead of fixing a buggy game, they should just throw in a kick/ban command? That argument is flawless.
- stack3r, on 10/10/2007, -1/+2Buried, cause anyone who has looked into gaming online for more than 30seconds knows this has happened since 33.6 modems and doom2.
- Murdats, on 10/10/2007, -2/+3I would say Dark Messiah was much better then oblivion, and its mutli and single.
the single is much more linear, but has a better story, its not trying to get a low (age) rating and combat is incredibly fun. -
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