I agree with some of points here, multiplayer is clearly the priority in many games and gamers seem to flock to these games. However I don't think using metacritic user reviews is a good measure to judge public perception of a game, many of those who bought the games don't even know metacritic exists. Also I think Battlefield 3 is a bad example because battlefield has come from being a multiplayer only experience to including singleplayer, so clearly singleplayer is not the main priority.
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