If your only going to sell MP use the resources you would normally have allocated for SP and make the MP more robust and complete. If you give me a top notch quality product than I'am willing to pay fullprice. No need for any extra fluff.

I have 150 hours logged in Battlefield 4 multiplayer.

I have 0 hours logged in Battlefield 4 singleplayer.

Are they necessary? Not necessarily.

If you want my $$$ they do. Most of these games have started as SP games then were hijacked and ruined by MP components.

Perhaps not. But if you're game does not have a single player campaign, it should have the necessary multiplayer content to justify a $60 price, as TitanFall is almost certain to retail for. Otherwise, lower the price to be commensurate and reflective of the game's content.

I just don't think multi-player only games are all that great. Last year you had game of the year candidates The Last of Us, Bioshock Infinite, Tomb Raider, Grand Theft Auto 5, Zelda: A Link Between Worlds, Tearaway, Guacamelee... almost everything are all strong single player games that maybe have multi-player tacked on.
I have a feeling that Titanfall is going to be like Words With Friends, it will be popular for a moment in time and then will be quickly forgotten.

My favorite part is when games like COD and Battlefield get these campaign dev diaries that talk about the attention to detail they put into the characters, when the majority of the user base just ignores the single player all together. Maybe if they focused less on a really half baked single player campaign then the meat of the game:the multiplayer, would be much better, especially the massively disappointing levolution, which is just prebaked animations playing out instead of the dynamic physics that they advertised.

I don't mind one way or another, just if you are going to do both don't half ass one.

I prefer single player on 99% of the games I play that have mp components; online mp to me is a bonus, not a requirement anyways. Outside competition or practicing for competition I can live without online mp in the games I play.

What I really want is devs to concentrate on sp campaigns and stop relying on mp for that extra "incentive" to keep playing for another few hours a day; not all games need online to be good/fun.

i would rather see *more* of a focus on single player, so yes... they are necessary.

Battlefield never needed a campaign to make it what it is.

Well i can live without MP!SP experiencies is what makes me pay to play games for 40 years not: kill..frag..kill..frag...kill. .frag..over and over without anykind of meaning.I guess its more easy to make a Mp game for developers,and them slap the same $60!there will come the time again when all you Mp freaks will get full of shooting and slicing the same thing over and over again and then you will all beg for the good Sp to come back.Let the age speak!

Why is it okay for a SP game like Infamous to have no MP and only SP be and charged at full price but Titanfall with award winning and best of show winning MP with only MP and no SP is not okay?

Most of the MP games started as SP only so, your argument stinks.

Are Single Player Campaigns Really Necessary For Multiplayer-oriented Games? Yes, all games should have an SP element

Right now because Sony pulled the online for MAG, that game is now useless because it was a MP only... anyone who missed out will not be playing that in the future... I thought games were meant to last through generations and not become unplayable in few years... If we can play games from 25 years ago, why can't I play games that came out just recently?? something really wrong with that image.

No need for single player if MP is strong enough.

I play both Single player games and Multiplayer games, but I spend the majority of time playing Multiplayer. Take Battlefield and COD for instance, both have good campaigns, but I spend the majority of my time playing both games online so my money is well spend on the multiplayer part, but not the single player 'cause I only play it once, twice if it's really good.

I will be getting Titanfall when it's released and I honestly don't mind that it doesn't have a SP campaign 'cause my time will be spent playing multiplayer anyway.