If Infogrames president, Phil Harrison is to be believed, gamers don’t want to be entertained with a good single-player game. All we want is something with an online, community component like Halo 3 or World of Warcraft.
“Alone in the Dark is a beautifully crafted single-player adventure game. I don’t think the industry is going to make many more of those,” said Harrison.
“I just don’t think consumers want to be playing games that don’t have some kind of network connectivity to them, or some kind of community embedded in them, or some kind of extension available through downloadable content.”
As a gamer I feel deeply offended by this statement, I guess Mr. Harrison hasn’t heard about BioShock or Grand Theft Auto 4, two games which sold solely based on their awesome single-player experience. And while such a strategy might seem grand for the West, broadband penetration in India isn’t exactly the highest in the world, it is a good thing then that we’ve some local developers coming out with single-player content, no matter how crappy the effort.
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