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I like SP. I don't know where they get this stuf from. But I like the stories.

I do single-player almost exclusively. Only once in a (long) while I'll do two-player with a friend over my network; never online.

I do single-player almost exclusively. Only once in a (long) while I'll do two-player with a friend over my network; never online.

The day I cannot find sigle player games, will be the day i stop buying games at all.. as simple as that.

I agree, I hate multiplayer online gaming basically because I dont have enough time to dedicate to being ridiculously good - I have a full time job, three kids and countless other things to look after - I'd rather the hour or so a week i get on my xbox wasnt spent respawning every 30 seconds after being annihilated by american teenagers who spend 6 hours a day practising.

Single!!!... boy, we need a "edit post" feature!!

just when you thought EA were starting to do good things again, they decide that single player doesn't make enough money :S

what about dragon age EA? surely you're seeing awesome sales figures for that?

You need SP to build up your skills before joining the online crowd otherwise you'll have your butt kicked. It's a savage world out there.

I do like having a co-op campaign mode option for console games, but if single player PC games go away then I'm done.

the SP of a game is the mainreason why i buy it its not always about the muiltiplayer!


ive played thro KOTOR and masseffect so many times that i can't remember but i still love it i like L4D but its not the same as the love for kotor

Great timing to talk about that 6 days after the release of Dragon Age: Origins. lol

The only multiplayer game i do is TF2..

What he means is EA believes it is easier to profit from multiplayer games as they can verify keys serverside to prevent piracy.

I'm loving Torchlight.

No SP = No More Games for me
just a matter of principle.not everyone out there wants to do MP Games.

EA is crazy for even suggesting something like this! And I agree with MoUse-Wiz that this is all about the bottom line, not the real trend. Single-player campaigns are like books, they take the player into a solitary place where they forget about reality. I am sure plenty of EA staff are very nervous... won't exactly need a creative team to come up with a basic MP game.

Just the view of an EA spokesperson. Single player is still strong. This isn't even the "EA" view of things otherwise why bother putting out Dragons Age, Dead Space, The Simpsons, Orange Box(Only 1 of those games is multi). Some of the biggest games are single still, Oblivion, Fallout 3, Bioware in general, hell Beth went out of their way to get the Fallout license.

Sales of these games counter what he says anyways, people love single player games still. Not about single or multi really, it's about how good the game is.

EA continues to be a bunch of dumbasses. The only reason it worries me is because they're starting to consolidate to a serious degree and now own a large chunk of the industry. (Which is funny, because five or so years ago it looked like it was Activision that was going to go that route; they did merge with Blizzard, but they haven't been busily buying up every studio they can like EA has.)

Every single one of my favorite games is a favorite because of the single player campaign. Homeworld. Civilization IV. Pretty much any Bioware RPG. I do not play these games for multiplayer (although multiplayer in Homeworld was pretty damn fun). Games like CoD4 skimp on the single-player campaign in favor of multiplayer. That's fine with me - CoD4 has a very dedicated multiplayer community. But it means I won't be buying CoD4, or 5 or 6 or any future CoD games.

Fans of a type of game, genre, style, etc. will never die if you keep making good games of that kind.....no?(sorry for double post)

No Single Player,ha.Can you imagine a game like Mass Effect being a Online only Multiplayer experience?Then again lets see how well the Old Republic does.

They want to do like WOW and charge $15/month just to play a game you purchase.

REally though, aren't most "Multi-Player" games just single player games with lag? Think any MMORPG... most of the time, you are running around doing quests for NPC's and fighting monsters by yourself. Sometimes you team up to take down something big, or to play with friends you know in RL, but the basic concept is still a story driven, NPC/event-based game. A MP game without a SP groundwork is just a bunch of people attacking each other or things with no reasons. Granted, there are games like that, and they can be fun, but I don't think SP campaigns and games could ever really go away; there'd be nothing left.

Why not a mixture of both? Look at Demon's souls , it combined the two flawlessly. (well mostly flawless)

Apparently, I AM the only PC gamer that hates Multiplayer! You just can't compare the experience of a good, deep single player game in a dark room with headphones on. I got out of multiplayer so long ago, too many dumb ass 11 year olds ruining multiplayer gaming.

My favorite PC games of all time are:

The Splinter Cell series
Thief Series (flawless)
Oblivion
Bioshock and System Shock series
Original Unreal
All of Half-Life Series

Go ahead and bail on single player games EA, others will take avantage of the hole and pick up your slack. I prefer single player over multi player and games like Fallout 3 and Dragon Age will always be around. If not from you EA or the lame Activision franchise who is now as lame as you are EA, then from someone else. So go ahead EA, and drop any support for single player games, no sweat off my balls.

You still need single player for most games. otherwise it will be all just story less nonsense. Take a game like dragon age: origins great single player.

I'm not much into SP for most games (the only single player fps that I actually finished was CoD). I am however, not in the majority. Not sure where EA got their info, but plenty of people play SP. Only perhaps 30-40% of the people play multi player compared to SP (imo).

This is wrong.

What is really going to happen is two types of game will be sold in the shops. A full single player game and a full online player game.

Might not be both for the same game.
I will say this, racing games have become so so boring playing AI.
So maybe racing games be the first to ditch "single player mode".