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Snoregasm posted...

I think it's difficult to sell single player games as a live service or constant revenue stream so execs want to kill it

They want to, but at this point there are too many wildly successful single-player games (in terms of player interest, that is) for anyone to try claiming they aren't popular. That's never not been at least somewhat true, but at least when the market was more dominated by AAA publishers they had a bit more control over what was available for sale and therefore could restrict the number of exclusively single-player games coming out such that anyone not paying close attention might actually say "yeah, I guess there aren't many big SP games these days."

Now, though? A AAA exec says "nobody wants single-player games anymore" and everyone can look at the dozens of single-player games they've just played and enjoyed from the indie and AA markets (to say nothing of the AAA stuff coming out from publishers that aren't trying to push that narrative) and just laugh at them. The narrative is much harder to manipulate when there are so many more players in the market.