- A new poll with nearly a million votes shows that most prefer single-player games.
- They prefer story elements over anything.
- The multiplayer genre has also become increasingly fatiguing and stagnated recently.
The gaming industry has been pushing multiplayer games really hard in the last few years to the point that this genre has become incredibly saturated and fatigued. In the search for nailing the perfect live-service title, publishers have poured hundreds of millions of dollars down the drain.
Gamers themselves don’t like this push and have continued to retaliate. In fact, there are several studies and cases of gamers voicing their disinterest in this genre, including this poll with nearly a million votes, in which more than half of the respondents say they don’t care about multiplayer games.
Why it matters: Multiplayer games themselves aren’t bad, but it’s the publisher forcing elements gamers dislike, including live-service elements and, more importantly, microtransactions, which are a huge issue in the industry.
FaulesGaming posted this poll on YouTube, which has amassed 834,000 votes in just 20 hours. The poll asking “What do you care about less over time?” gave 4 options: Graphics, Story, Difficulty, and Multiplayer.
Unsurprisingly, the Multiplayer option received the most votes, followed by Graphics, then Difficulty, and lastly Story. It has been made pretty clear that a good story is what hooks most people to games in the first place.
One notable comment under the poll also had the following to say:
I’d play a game that looks like a PS1 game if it was fun to play and had a good story and characters.
It does make sense, since single-player games are here to stay, whereas multiplayer titles will cease to exist in just a few years from launch. Graphics are also an aspect gamers seem to care a little about, and in the past few years, we’ve hit a bit of a roadblock.
Games can’t get any better looking than what we have now. The only things developers can improve are art style and attention to detail. Difficulty is also an element that really depends on the player, but we’ve seen that gamers have become open to extremely challenging titles in the past few years, since the rise of the Souls genre.
For the story, there really isn’t a compromise, and any game lacking that element is considered a flop. In fact, a near-perfect release with a lacking narrative can ruin the entire experience, i.e., Duke Nukem Forever.
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