I play Call of duty for both single and multiplayer

I am kind of torn on this particular aspect. COD and BF4 have basically turned their backs on the SP aspect which is kind of sad as I love to have a good story told through the single player. That being said after the campaign is over it is the multiplayer that gives the game legs.

That is really what I loved about Halo. The campaign got me wrapped up in the game just like reading a good book but once it was over the multiplayer is what kept me coming back again and again.

I think that COD and BF4 being published by EA and Activision kind of ruined that strategy for the FPS games. Being huge corporations they were more concerned about the money knowing that the multiplayer was the component that kept people coming back again and again they decided like any large corporation to start cutting costs to improve the profit margin. By focusing less on the campaign likely saved a ton of money and they still sold a boatload of games. From a business perspective it just made sense to them but sucked for a lot of gamers that wanted both.

In Respawn's case I think that they are probably correct in that they did not have the resources to develop a complete single player campaign and were probably wise to focus on the multiplayer but I do hope that the storyline they have developed plays into the multiplayer well.

The other thing that plays into this IMO is that they were upfront and said that there was no SP campaign. That to me is better than the slapped on by the B team campaigns that COD and BF continually come out with.

I still can't wait for this game to get here.

If you're buying an FPS game primarily for it's plot, you're gonna have a bad time...

Let's be honest here, the industry ran out of ideas. There are only so many times that games can feature the evil Russians invading the U.S. or aliens or whatever, so let's just stop pretending that the single player is going to be anything decent and skip straight to the multiplayer.

Of course, there are exceptions like Bioshock and Half-Life, but those are just that, exceptions...

It's gonna be a sad day when all games are composed of are FPS, F2P, P2W, and just online multiplayer. That day will be sad indeed.

Not no, but HFIL NO.

It's fine if a few games here and there dedicate themselves entirely to multiplayer. Hell, that's what MMOs are, generally speaking. But if devs stop making a genuine effort to put in a campaign, I'll stop putting in genuine effort to buy their games.

thats ok with me