Am I the only one that hates MMO/Multiplayer games?

[StinkyPinky]

They seem to be super popular but I have no interest in playing with other people. Period. In fact, I game to have a break from people and just play at my own pace. I'm totally single player. For example, when I get Diablo 3 I'll just be chilling out doing my own thing.

Am I alone here?

 

[Gibsons]

I don't do any multiplayer either. I get too competitive, too wrapped up in it and get mad and stuff. Single player I can stop at any time, don't have to wait for anyone else, etc.

 

[MTDEW]

I do single player only also.
Simply because i can play in my own free time and can start/quit when i want, no waiting for the match start etc...

And no way i'm gonna even risk an MMO with monthly fees, cuz if i do get addicted, that adds to my monthly bills.

Also, as i get older i'm finding that a good story really matters and is in fact needed to hold my interest than some senseless death-match / re-spawn / die / repeat gaming.

So i guess you could say i'm the type of gamer who likes to sit back and get immersed in my games to relax and forget the rest of the world exists for a few hours a week.

 

[dennilfloss]

I played Dungeons & Dragons online and totally ignored the dozens of fools running other quests alongside me. I'm a loner when I role-play. haven't tried playing against other is flight-sims either. I'm quite content to have computer-generated adversaries. I not only prefer single player but I also vastly prefer first-person. Despise third-person perspective in my RPGs. Really detracts from the immersion for me and it's so narcissistic. I want to be looking at the world and the enemies & friends, not myself.

 

[Qbah]

I don't do MMOs anymore, for many years now. Too addictive for me.

I enjoy single player a lot, can play at my own pace and do things the way I want it. Can run fast through things or focus on reading or looking at stuff. Play for 20 minutes or 2 hours and I decide. I don't depend on anyone else and nobody else depends on me.

That said, I also really enjoy small-scale coop (with a friend or two). Dawn Of War 2 coop was a LOT of fun (the campaign), I also tried Two World 2 and it's working great. Magicka is also plenty of fun, so was Borderlands.

 

[GullyFoyle]

Overall, it seems Single Player is more popular than multiplayer.
You just don't realize it because, you know, you are all alone while doing it.

 

[shortylickens]

I hate MMO's. And multiplayer Diablo & Starcraft dont particularly impress me, even though those are the two most popular games by far.

I'd like to do some MP Dawn Of War, but their server/matchmaker sucks donkey nads.
Thats the problem, Blizzard made a service so good it seems like other companies dont even wanna try. Plenty of other games I'd like to do online but their service is crap as well.

The only game with a good online component is the one I really dont want to play with other people, the MMO of cars.

 

[CurseTheSky]

I prefer multi-player. I do like a decent single player game from time to time, but the challenge seems to fade after you've figured everything out. Even a great game like HL2 has very limited replayability.

With multi-player, the challenge is always different. Some days you wipe the floor with everyone, and other days they wipe the floor with you. Most of all, your opponents think (mostly) like you. If you've played enough games, you know how easy it is to trick the AI into making dumb mistakes, or how a real player would be able to predict your next move with some certainty, while the computer is just left doing what it was programmed to do anyway.

 

[Zenoth]

I prefer single-player games, but I like multi-player as well, although I've always preferred co-operation in multi-player, even against A.I opponents, rather than playing against other players, that is unless the game in question is rather "casual", where I can play with and/or against others without being too frustrated about losing, such as Unreal Tournament or Team Fortress 2, but give me co-operation with others on-line and I should almost immediately like it.

I'll have a hard time giving my time to both Skyrim and Diablo III in the future, that's for sure.

 

[DeathReborn]

I prefer single player but I am not averse to multiplayer in hotseat/split screen modes. It's fine when the people are right there to banter with but disembodied voices can be irritating. Co-op is definitely more fun that PvP in my book, it's just a shame so many games eschew co-op in favor of PvP.

 

[pontifex]

I don't mind playing with other people if they're not retarded jackasses, but that seems kind of rare. I quit playing WoW years ago because I hit max level and all that was left to do was raids and I would end up standing around doing nothing for like an hour or 2 waiting for people to join or get ready for a raid.

I think what was even worse was that we would spend the 4 hours on just the raid alone and I would come away from it with NOTHING useful. All that time spent and I got nothing that helped my character.

Even the smaller group instances I would end up with nothing 9 times out of 10 and it was just boring and useless. Just got tired of running the same instances over and over and over again and getting squat.

Not to mention that I played a healing class and ended up watching health bars more than I got to see what was happening.

 

[maniacalpha1-1]

There are a lot of people that play MMOs as if they were single player. Soloing 100% of the time in MMORPGs for example. The only interaction they might get with others is selling their loot at the end of the day.

 

[zebano]

I like multiplayer but not MMOs, they are not just a money-sink but way too time-intensive to keep up. I can't count the number of times I started a new char with a friend then due to real life I played 2-3 hours per day and was soon 10-20 levels behind them. Plus the grind almost always keeps me from reaching max level.

In other multiplayer games (TF2, LoL, D2) I can mostly play for whatever time period I want and get the competitive juices flowing. That said, some days I'm just too tired for that and would rather kick back and play a single player game. Hell I spent 2 hours yesterday playing simple games like puzzle-quest and Plants vrs Zombies =)

 

[you2]

I used to like playing on line; the problem is that to be competitive today you have to play fairly often so it is hard to find a casual fun game. Mind you I used to dabble in starcraft ocassionally and had good luck there back in the late 1990's (98-99). I also used to play wolfensten on line (was really fun for a free game) in the early 2000's. Only thing I've tried since then has been guild wars and couldn't really get into it. Oh occasionally farcry but wolfenstein had better maps/mechanics for on line play.
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tried TF2 briefly; found it stupid. Also palyed a bit of nwn on line for a while; it was ok i guess but hte server i played became anal rp'ish and it lost a lot of the appeal (one of the dms was pretty nice and made things a lot of fun; not sure what happened to him).
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These days it is mostly single players; but I'd give a nwn like game a try again if it had good implementation (nwn on line was not that great due to issues with scripting and delays between actions and updates). Never did like diablo on line; infact was never much of a fan of diablo at all (diablo ii; diablo 1 was doa for me).
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Hum. Oh well the best time to play on line (for me) is when the game first launches before it becomes too competitive.

 

[Modular]

I oscillate between the SP and MP all the time. I've never played an MMO, but won't say that I never will, they just don't appeal to me as I don't have the time to put into them. The issues surrounding MP are the same for me as they are for many who've posted here. I just don't have the time to put in to be really "good" at a MP game it seems.

That's the trend in MP games I think. You have to play them all the time to keep up with the newest strategy/learn the maps/get your twitch reactions high enough to compete. So right now I'm playing more SP games and really enjoying the fact that I can play for a few hours one night then not at all for a few days and still pick it up and have fun/get immersed in a good story.

 

[Zargon]

campaign coop is my fav.

 

[Barfo]

I'm almost single player exclusive too, with a few multiplayer stints. Last one was SC2 and it was fun but it's been like 2 months since I last played it already.

Multiplayer FPSs are the worst, mostly populated by jerk kids with high pitched voices or people with no lives. Not fun at all for casual players.

I also played Wow for sometime and really liked it. Then I left my RL friend's guild because they were'nt progressing fast enough, joined my server's #1 guild and became tired fast of tight raiding schedules, having to farm daily in order to afford the consumables for raiding so I quit and have never looked back.

 

[AstroManLuca]

Yeah, I've never seen the appeal of MMOs. I played WoW on a friend's account for a couple hours once and I hated it. Overall I can only do multiplayer games for a little while and then I go back to single player.

Like some others said I do like small co-op games. Borderlands and other games like it. But I always played Diablo 2 single player. And actually I've played more single player than multiplayer Borderlands.

 

[JoshGuru7]

My first assumption is that the "hate multiplayer" crowd generally lacks good gamer friends with time to play together online. I play plenty of singleplayer games too, but if you would rather play Borderlands or Dawn of War II solo then I think you might just not have the right group of people to play them with. You don't have to be super competitive when everybody is playing on the same team, and it's a lot more fun to play a game like L4D when you know everybody well then it is with random strangers.

As far as MMO's go, I do agree that they aren't for everybody. In order to balance them with life you need to be able to treat them casually and some people honestly know that they have difficulties with that. One of my best friends isn't going to play Rift because he knows that he would end up spending way more than 20 hours per week on it. But if you're not worried about that, then MMO's are a pretty good way of playing online with fun people since all you usually have to do is find one person you like and then join their guild.

 

[Mide]

I'm also a single-player junkie. MMOs take way too much time to invest in and/or wait for others. 1v1 like Starcraft or any shooter sucks because you know there is some 10 year old kid that has a lot more time than you to invest playing who will whip your ass.

 

[Arsinek]

I only play multiplayer. Single player just too boring.

 

[Vdubchaos]

I only play Multilayer FPS. Hardly ever play any Racing/Sports or Strategy games online.

NEver got into RPGs...not my cup of tea.

 

[SlitheryDee]

I got into Guild Wars for a while, but once I burned out on that it seems that I did a complete 180. I'll never touch anything MMOish again because I can't see myself starting out and looking at the hundreds of hours of playtime ahead of me (that's IF I even like it) as anything but work. I just want immersive games that tell me a good story while letting me do stuff that I enjoy the whole way through now. That could be multiplayer or anything else, but I refuse to spend even so much as a single afternoon "grinding" now. That's no fun. In fact, it was never fun even when I actually did it. No one thinks it's fun or else it wouldn't be called grinding. Yet you pretty much have to do it in most MMOs.

 

[ViviTheMage]

multiplayer adds the social aspect, and the fact you can show off gear, stats, kills, etc to other people/friends.

I prefer multiplayer by a longshot. I am really bored of most single player RPG's.

 

[coloumb]

They seem to be super popular but I have no interest in playing with other people. Period. In fact, I game to have a break from people and just play at my own pace. I'm totally single player. For example, when I get Diablo 3 I'll just be chilling out doing my own thing.

Am I alone here?

Nope - but single game players are of the minority.

To enjoy multiplayer games you need to find a group of people who enjoy the same playstyle as you do.