For me online gaming died when all the greedy companies started to remove dedicated servers.
I loved playing online back then but now I ignore this aspect because I know I should not invest to much time because the devs will take this feature away anyways.
Its just because devs/publishers think: LETS REMOVE THE SERVERS SO THEY FEEL FORCED TO BUY OUR NEW GAME........
For me the multiplayer aspect is actually weighing to much in the reviews. I dont care about MP anymore but an okayish single player game with a great MP part distorts the rating alot! Reviewers should have seperate scores for SP and MP and then come up with a third combined rating.
I also love local multiplayer because its just 100000x more fun than online. Seeing your friends reactions is priceless.
