Comments on: Developer: The Bosses Mandated Our Unnecessary Multiplayer Mode http://www.kotaku.com.au/2009/11/developer-the-bosses-mandated-our-unnecessary-multiplayer-mode/ the Gamer's Guide | Computer and video game news and reviews Fri, 19 Mar 2010 16:12:39 +1100 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: plmko http://www.kotaku.com.au/2009/11/developer-the-bosses-mandated-our-unnecessary-multiplayer-mode/comment-page-1/#comment-58472 plmko Wed, 04 Nov 2009 03:53:49 +0000 http://www.kotaku.com.au/?p=364726#comment-58472 Why wasn't Stranglehold in Cantonese is beyond me. Why wasn’t Stranglehold in Cantonese is beyond me.

]]> By: Stinky http://www.kotaku.com.au/2009/11/developer-the-bosses-mandated-our-unnecessary-multiplayer-mode/comment-page-1/#comment-58390 Stinky Wed, 04 Nov 2009 00:43:58 +0000 http://www.kotaku.com.au/?p=364726#comment-58390 You need to get some people on your friends list. You need to get some people on your friends list.

]]> By: James Fitzell http://www.kotaku.com.au/2009/11/developer-the-bosses-mandated-our-unnecessary-multiplayer-mode/comment-page-1/#comment-58348 James Fitzell Tue, 03 Nov 2009 22:49:43 +0000 http://www.kotaku.com.au/?p=364726#comment-58348 Unfortunately, people seem to think that throwing on multiplayer will instantly mean a big community that keeps people playing their game. This has several downsides, but the for me biggest is it means that developers (perhaps at their studio's behest) stop investing as much time and effort in making the game fun and instead hope that the community will make the game successful. I barely play online mostly due to Xbox Live's lack of dedicated servers. In the PC world with dedicated servers you, mostly, have a consistent community you enjoy playing with... on Xbox Live you have morons who are on the other side of the country with dodgy latency issues. That's not fun. The games I play are still your standard "FPS" and I'm a big fan of the genre, but I play to enjoy immersing myself in the story, not to talk to randoms. I've completed GRAW2 at the hardest difficulty and yet I've got 270 of 1250 gamerscore for it because almost every achievement is for multiplayer. All that being said, I think the prevalence of online coop within a standard campaign is a hugely good thing because I can choose who I play with and have both social interaction AND a great story. Unfortunately, people seem to think that throwing on multiplayer will instantly mean a big community that keeps people playing their game.

This has several downsides, but the for me biggest is it means that developers (perhaps at their studio’s behest) stop investing as much time and effort in making the game fun and instead hope that the community will make the game successful.

I barely play online mostly due to Xbox Live’s lack of dedicated servers. In the PC world with dedicated servers you, mostly, have a consistent community you enjoy playing with… on Xbox Live you have morons who are on the other side of the country with dodgy latency issues. That’s not fun.

The games I play are still your standard “FPS” and I’m a big fan of the genre, but I play to enjoy immersing myself in the story, not to talk to randoms. I’ve completed GRAW2 at the hardest difficulty and yet I’ve got 270 of 1250 gamerscore for it because almost every achievement is for multiplayer.

All that being said, I think the prevalence of online coop within a standard campaign is a hugely good thing because I can choose who I play with and have both social interaction AND a great story.

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