“I still passionately believe in single player games”: EA’s Frank Gibeau
By Tim Colwill on September 7, 2012 at 8:51 am
EA boss Frank Gibeau has been copping a bit of flack from various corners of the internet for his recent comments that he “has not green-lit one game to be developed as a single-player experience”.
Speaking to Kotaku in a follow-up interview, Gibeau explained that he’s not suggesting the company will never make a single-player game — just that there needs to be more to the game than what’s on the disc.
“I still passionately believe in single-player games and think we should build them,” he said. “What I was trying to suggest with my comments was that we move our company from being a packaged goods, fire-and-forget business to a digital business that has a service component to it.”
“That should not be misunderstood as the death of single-player games, or single-player experiences or telling stories. Narrative is what separates good games from bad games. Or great from good, even.”
“I’m not saying deathmatch must come to Mirror’s Edge.”
Source: Kotaku
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One word.
What?
keep digging, you ain’t getting out of that hole…
It could be as simple as online leaderboards, for something like mirrors ledge, perhaps how long people take to clear each level.
Honestly, people are being fools about what he said.
The way I read it I got the idea it was more like, “We don’t hate single player, but we need a way to sell piles of overpriced DLC afterward.”
He should stop talking before he digs this hole any deeper.
irritus,
More like online passes.
lolhaters .. you sound like your paraphasing John Howard ..
“But we will decide the context of his statements and the circumstances in which they are made.”
Sounds even worse after his explanation, at least before it just sounded like he likes to make multiplayer games, now, it makes it very clear that he doesn’t want to sell us a product at all, but sell us a “service”.
Conveniently, and totally by accident , this has a side effect of you not owning anything you can resell, not any wonder he wants it his way…..
Yup, he needs to shut his mouth. This isn’t going anywhere.
Lol this guy is hopeless.
Does this service he mentioned include his “current comedy routines”?
How about including a story into the new Mirror’s Edge for me to actually care about?
Single player is a lot more than just playing by yourself…
I hate it when publishers force devs to just tack on Multiplayer for the sake of it. Some games benefit from MP as well but most just have the MP fall flat and then put people off the game entirely because they often have to shorten the SP game to add MP.