Cevat Yerli: "Single player games need to go away."

[SpotEnemyBoats]

Sounds alot like what Gabe said in "The Final Hours of Portal 2" about Portal 2 being the last isolated singleplayer experience.

Crytek CEO Cevat Yerli says single-player experiences need to ‘go away’ in the light of new free-to-play models and online connectivity.

Yerli told IGN: “I think the notion of a single-player experience has to go away.

“However, I’m not saying that there will be no single-player experiences ... it could be it’s called Connected Single-Player or Online Single-Player instead.”

Sounding a little bit like Crytek’s plans for the future are for Crysis to align more closely with always-online shooters like Destiny, Yerli added: “Online and social can reignite single-player in a new type of context and provide benefits that will make you want to be a part of a connected story-mode rather than a disconnected story-mode.

“Sure, if the technology forces you to play a traditional single-player game online, that doesn’t make sense but if it’s offering actual benefits to be online then you want to be part of it.”

The supposed death of single player has long been mooted in the industry – could this be the first sign developers want to abandon non-online experiences altogether?

http://www.nowgamer.com/news/1830273/cryteks_cevat_yerli_says_singleplayer_needs_to_go_away.html

Yerli is a huge ****ing idiot, and didn't word it as good as Gabe did. But he says what the industry is going towards, at least in the PC gaming space. That said, Crytek sucks at game design but are good at making engines.

 

[Lobster]

I think that from the point of view of a lot of large companies, the biggest audience most likely to spend money is in social gaming right now (interconnected worlds, drop-in coop, MMO design, creating and sharing content, item-stores and player markets, etc, etc) so a lot of them are morphing into developers that provide platforms for those things.

It can seem daunting and depressing for those of us who are used to the big -event- games from these companies, but there may be an upside in the long run. If developers create engines that are more and more open to user created content, and it keeps getting easier and easier for smaller developers to create bigger and better games by themselves, then variety may eventually win through in the end.

The problem right now is that we are in a period of transition from an old way of doing things to a new and untested way. There are new consoles on the horizon, but it almost feels as though there are more hardware options being discussed than actual games to run on them. It feels as though there has never been a better time to innovate and experiment with games, yet everyone seems to be waiting for permission to do so.

Personally I am optimistic about the future. Although an old fuddy-duddy inside me wants them to bring back chunky cardboard PC boxes, containing 50 hour singleplayer stories that are too hard to finish. I sure do miss the nineties!

 

[ríomhaire]

****. That. Shit. I have nearly 250 games between digital and physical copies and I barely ever play anything multiplayer. My unreliable internet connection can make playing games online a pain but even after online gaming became more accessible to me I still prefer it in isolation. Getting good at competitive games just requires too much ****ing effort for me to bother most of the time and even when I get decent at a game my enjoyment of it relying on the random pubs being fun to play with means that less than half of the time spent playing is actually fun. Playing with friends instead of randomers is obviously much more enjoyable but it's rare I can get free time enough at the same time as my gaming friends to do so and all of us being able to play at the same time without connection issues (this being Ireland after all) is pretty much a miracle. Most of my MP gaming in the last year has been done in an internet café.

So seriously **** getting rid of SP. **** socialising SP games. When I read a book I want to read it in peace. When I play Portal 2 or Crysis I also want to play it in peace. I even disabled the Steam overlay while playing Portal 2 as not to get interrupted. **** Destiny too BTW. I was really looking forward to what sort of interesting SP campaign Bungie could make but apparently it's some sort of always on MMO crap. I even play RTSs and the CoD games for just the SP campaigns which are both apparently mortal sins for hardcore gamers and casual gamers respectively.


Lobster nice sig.

 

[MFL]

Everybody should buy Bioshock Infinite and show the industry how much moving away from single player experiences can suck a prodigious fat one.

 

[SpotEnemyBoats]

Unfortunately that probably won't be the case, with a game like Dota 2 that tops out 250,000 players each day (which is an incredible feat considering its in a closed beta) - more and more dev's are likely seeing what an online experience can do coupled with social features and user generated content. When Dota 2 finally releases and going F2P, I can see it topping out at 350k each day.

Not just Valve, but the entire industry.

 

[stemot]

Everybody should buy Bioshock Infinite and show the industry how much moving away from single player experiences can suck a prodigious fat one.

Already bought. I ****ing hate multiplayer. I gave BF3 a shot and enjoyed what I played with some of the guys from here (they were hand holding me the entire time) but in the end I just enjoy being immersed in a story on my own rather than just playing one big war orgy. Maybe only then talking to people about the story on the interwebz. I have facebook and I'm ****ed if I use it much at all. "You gotta be connected to Facebook to continue...." "...Do you want to connect with your Twitter account?" No I don't. I just want to enjoy a single player game on my own without other people or game devs trying to break my immersion by offering me a game to join. This is exactly why I'll never play Dead Space 3 in co-op, other people ruin the story immersion.

 

[Tollbooth Willie]

All aboard the Retard Express.

 

[MFL]

Choo, choo.

 

[Lubci50cal]

"Cevat Yerli needs to go away."

 

[Stigmata]

Stories and narratives are bullshit, videogames are all about not being able to escape from reality and the eldritch horrors of your fellow man

 

[MFL]

God DAMN that's an awesome post.

I want to play Anti-Journey.

 

[SpotEnemyBoats]

All aboard the Retard Express.

Patrick Bach is the conductor, while Riccitiello and Yerli are passengers.

 

[Shem]

Everybody should buy Bioshock Infinite and show the industry how much moving away from single player experiences can suck a prodigious fat one.

Yes! Go BioShock! Go Irrational Games! Ironically they are more rational than whoever this retard Cevat Yerli is.

 

[anomalosmaterial]

Oh he found a new excuse for his games not selling well, how wonderful.

First it was piracy now its "too much singleplayer." The industry really needs to flush some of these hacks. Its only going to get more "social" until we get some vast amounts of new blood.

 

[JonnyBoy0719]

I like Singleplayer games, they are fun and awesome. This Yerli dude sounds like a retard, that also rides the Retard Express