Why is there a bias against MP only games?

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LudicrousSpeed said:

You're using gouged wrong. Gouged would be a SP game you complete once or twice and are too bored to go back to. So cool, you spent $60 on a 10 hour game and got maybe 25 hours of play time out of it. Meanwhile I can spend $60 on a MP title and get 300 hours of play time out of it. Gouged, lol.

As you can see, the argument can go either way. In the end when these discussions happen it basically boils down to people who play MP and people who don't. People who don't care for MP won't understand that you can get hundreds of hours of quality play time out of these titles.

Regarding online communities, if the game is good, there will be a community. Even Titanfall, which is always spoken here and on GAF as if it's a ghost town and a dead online community, has thousands of players online all the time and you're never in trouble trying to find a game. There might be some instances like MAG where it wasn't a good game and the servers get shut down, but then again you can also have situations like The Order or Murdered: Soul Suspect where you pay $60 for a terrible and short SP experience and once it's done the game is, as you put it, a piece of trash.

At least you get the option to get back to it. Better clock those 300 hours fast though, because the quality of the service will be in freefall.

Also... not really fair to be comparing a MP with a crap game. A crap game is a crap game, regardless of SP or MP. This is about the fact that MP only games are short lived. I might also add, that very few will play them for 300h. You need alot of free time and tolerance to repetitiveness to do that.

Try to think on the pov of a casual gamer.

By fast, do you mean over the span of a decade, or what? Because any good dev is gonna keep the servers up for a long ass time. Who cares if the servers are shut down after 10 years? You're entire life has changed at that point, there's been a decade of great game releases, and you've probably long forgotten this game by now. So go ahead, if you wanna be bitter about it, no one is stopping you. But just because you're all bitter and THINK that we're getting gouged doesn't mean that there aren't millions of gamers out there that are pouring hundreds of fun hours into these multiplayer games. Worth way more than your average singleplayer game.