Why is there a bias against MP only games?

[Johnw1104]

Chazore said:

Johnw1104 said:
As Teeqoz said, it's just a disappointing trend that is making more and more developers comfortable with not putting in the effort to provide a single player experience.

Really, it never bothers me when some new franchise is exclusively multiplayer... the only time I'm bothered is when it's a new installment in a franchise that I used to love to play single player. Easily the most obvious recent example for me is Battlefront, which was just terribly disappointing and, unsurprisingly, grew old within a couple days.

Otherwise, the trend goes hand in hand with the decline in quality coop campaigns. It seems like developers are realizing features that were once a given in games can today be skipped while still selling just fine.

I could say the same for those that put loads if not tons of effort into their SP experiences and then decide to just shove it all off the table when it coems to MP, especially when I look at games like DOOM with it's MP being geared towards console players and not PC gamers as well, that also happens to include snapmap which had potential but was very limited in what it could do due to being tied to what current gen could do and in the end it becomes a waste due to their focus shift.

Not every game needs SP injected into their games as much though let alone MP, they work both ways and when you try to craft two then you better be good at crafting those two aspects of your game, if not then just foxcus on one side and don't bother with the other, I'd rather have a great DOOM campaign with no bad MP and no limtied snap map and instead get SP mod support than what we have now. I'd rather have a fully functional and well polished Titanfall MP than it being hacked to pieces to appeal to  crowd that never bothered with the first one unless it came with a bigger SP aspect.

I wish arena shooters would come back in a massive way but they certainly do not need to have SP forced into them in order to become popular again or sell well.

Yeah I agree it depends on the game. For instance, my buddy and I were crazy disappointed that the most recent Far Cry was not going to be coop, local or online. We had a ton of fun playing Far Cry 4 together and were trying to find some game akin to that which features multiplayer and, as I said, while it's a separate issue coop campaigns seem to be dealing with the same decline that single player campaigns themselves are lol

It just seems like the things I like most are the things that are less common, but I have a very, very strong suspicion that's just my biases shining through. Really though, for the life of us we can't find a quality coop campaign on the PS4 to play together right now and it's very frustrating. The only other one we had hope for (No Man's Sky) is not only rumored to be delayed again, but looks increasingly boring and stated there's no way to actually meet up with friends in the game right now.

Soooo the search goes on.