Not all gamers want “stress” of multiplayer.
There’s still a huge market for single player-only games, developer Valve has insisted.
Answering an assertion from Gamasutra that single player games were doomed as they’re harder for publishers to monetise and easier to pirate, Portal 2 project manager Erik Johnson said, “I still think the analysis that every product needs to be a competitor in multiplayer, or an MMO, is incorrect; there are a lot of people who want an experience without the stress, so I don’t see that changing.”
“You brought up piracy being a reason to not do single player, which I think is a pretty crazy analysis on an issue like that,” he continued.