Why is there a bias against MP only games?

[JOKA_]

Aquamarine said:

JOKA_ said:
MP only gets get so much undue hate. We've had SP only games for a very long time, whats so wrong with an MP only game? Not every game needs to be for everyone.

We've had countless SP or SP/MP Star Wars games, but the minutes one comes out thats MP only people lose their freaking minds

Because you can't own a multiplayer-only game.

You just subscribe to essentially a service for like 3 years or 4 years....and it's only good for like 1 year before the community dies out.

Services are great, sure, but it feels like there's something missing. I don't get the same sort of satisfaction buying a MP-only game as I do a SP or SP+MP game.

Honestly Im totally fine with the bolded. I know that in 1 - 2 years that Battlefront isn't going to be viable to play anymore because the player population will be very low, or the servers will be offline. 

In terms of SP games, I pretty much finish them and then never play it again.  On PS3 I would beat an SP game and then sell it back to gamestop so I could buy more SP games to play once. My most favorite game is MGS3, and Ive played it a grand total of 2 times.

I don't have any facts to back this up, but I would be willing to bet that people playing SP games years after release are in a tiny minority.  I think that people who post on forums are way more into amassing collections and playing older games.  I highly doubt that mass market consumers are hanging onto and playing Oblivion on their 360s ten years after it released.