Black Ops II Designer Thinks Gamers "Should All Play Multiplayer"

[Royas]

There would have been a better way to phrase this. Instead of telling me that my gameplay habits bug the shit out of you, better to tell me that you feel that I might be missing out on a lot of the Black Ops 2 experience by not playing MP. Then tell me that you've set up a system to help ease people like me, who don't play MP, into it just to try it out, and maybe give us a leg up so that we can feel some confidence in going online like that. Telling me I bug the shit out of you makes me just want to smack you around for a while.

Why are some of these people allowed to talk to the press at all? They are walking PR nightmares.

 

[Oneah]

I wonder why they don't like people playing singleplayer... OH WAIT! THEY WON'T HAVE TO SPEND ANY DEVELOPMENT TIME ACTUALLY DOING SOMETHING BEFORE JUST RELEASING ANOTHER ITERATION OF THE SAME [Insert your most foul word here] THEY KEEP DOING OVER AND OVER. ITS GENIUS!!

 

[thenumberthirteen]

I understand that they're really proud of multiplayer, and have worked bloody hard on it, but it's not my bag. The focus towards multiplayer rather than the solo campaign is why I stopped buying CoD games. It's just not the game type for me. Too haphazard and schizophrenic.

 

[antipunt]

"play multiplayer"

"haha..it's OK. i'm doing fi.."

"PLAY IT. PLAY IT PLAY IT PLAY IT"

D:

 

[Poster1234]

Oh, look, it's one of those "I'm butthurt because people don't enjoy the same things as me, and if they do they don't do it MY way !" kind of whiny gamers. Anyway, why is this guy getting an interview ?
*Reads article*
Wait, this guy is a DEV ?!
Well, I'm sure there is a perfectly rationnal approach to all of this. They obviously want to sound pretentious to drive away the COD-kiddies from their elitist game so they feel special and...
*Finishes reading*
Oh. This is a COD dev. Well, it's obvious that when designing a game, one needs to market it by pushing people AWAY, right ?
Wait, I think I'm confused...

 

[sinsfire]

Ummm I think the title here is a bit misleading. Unless I missed something, the designer isn't saying all gamers should play multiplayer games, just the ones who play his game.

I have a problem with people telling me what to play, I'm not really and FPS kind of guy but I get the appeal. In this particular instance he doesn't seem to be saying everyone should be playing multiplayer games all the time.

Instead it seems to me that he would like people who buy his game to take in the full experience. If you buy COD or BF and don't play multiplayer you are essentially missing half of the content that the creators of the game built. I can see how that would bug the creators. I am sure he could have said it a bit differently, but it seems to me that he just wants people to make sure they experience the entire game and not just one aspect or the other.

Again, I am sure there was a better way to say this, but still, that doesn't necessarily make him wrong. I mean you spent $60 on this game, why only play half of it.

 

[wrightguy0]

i'll play your multiplayer, when it stops being shit. hell i may play the games too, if only they weren't michael bay wankfests with more explosions and less substance.

Fuck off.

 

[Artemicion]

Recycled and uninteresting multiplayer modes bug the shit out of me.

Work on it, Vonderhaar.

 

[Covarr]

If I want multiplayer, I'll play Counter-Strike. It's better. I really enjoyed the single player campaign in Modern Warfare, but I just can't see myself playing it in multiplayer regularly.

P.S. Thanks

 

[Chrono212]

But I don't want to play multiplayer! No matter how much 'easing in' a developer gives me.

I want to be told a story, explore places I've never been.

Not run around, worried about when I'm gonna get slaughtered by some guy 50 levels above me.

One of the most fun things I like to do is explore multiplayer maps alone; look at the layout, the design and the stories the environment is trying to tell.

Sure, I'll get glimpses of that between hailstorms of lead, but that's not as fun. Especially if you're playing for fun, not to win every time.

 

[getoffmycloud]

I can see his point with COD if you are buying the game for the single player then you clearly have too much money and you have played every other game in the world although if it annoys them so much they should just get rid of the single player.

 

[The Rogue Wolf]

Man, after a long and stressful day at work, you know what I like to do? Kick my feet up, put on my headphones and listen to a bunch of prepubescent boys with high-pitched nasal voices call my mother's sexual proclivity into question.

...sorry, my sarcasm gland spasmed there; seems it got all over the screen. I'll get a mop.

 

[thethird0611]

Man, that title is misleading. Cus of the article theres going to be alot of people throwing insults at him because they think he wants single player gone.

I agree with him 100% honestly. I dont know why there is still a single player for COD (MW was a good story, although short), but COD is made for multi-player, the campaign is just the icing on the cake. They are putting most of their hard time into the online experience, and they really want people to experience it, because they arent experiencing what COD was made for.

 

[PunkRex]

Lets keep calm now peeps, he just wants more peeps to experience his work. Personally I don't give a flying fudge about COD or most multiplayer modes (outside of Timesplitters anyway) but you can't blame the guy... he is being abit of a Moody Maudy though.

 

[Saulkar]

Fuck you too buddy. I preordered Borderlands 2 and have invested quite some time into it and guess how much multiplayer I played?

2 minutes!

Does that sound like someone who wants to play multiplayer?!

CAPTCHA: I think so - Fuck you.

 

[CrazyBlaze]

I've been ninja's by this I just want to say: " GO FUCK YOURSELF VONDERHARR I say this with disrespect and no kindness at all. I am only a fan of a few multiplayer modes. I would rather play a game with a great story than a game with a mediocre or horrible story and any level of multiplayer. So if I ever decide to play CoD again I will be playing the story campaign. I prefer the story more than anything else and I have not had a good record with amazing killer stories in the CoD series (MW2 and BP1). I also can't fanthom why it matters to you as long as you get the 20 million plus sales you are bound to get. I understand that you put a lot of work into the MP but thats only part of the game. A large part for sure but only a part. So until you make an Online only CoD game than please, just let players enjoy the game as long as they legally purchased it and are not breaking the servers or anything like that.


The above refers to if he means all gamers need to play MP.

If anyone has a link to the transcript of this interview or close to it, that would be appreciated. I think he is referring to the CoD base only and if he is well than he should just let people play the game how they bought it. I just can't help but think this article is really taking this out of context.

 

[funnydude6556]

If Activision employ a PR department, shouldn't they sort of put a lid on these kind of quotes?

Don't be crazy the whole reason Activision had for hiring a PR Department was to find the worst possible statements to say to gamers!

 

[Macemaster]

You know what...fine. The game is multiplayer-centric, and it is VERY easy to see the, "We offer so much content in the multiplayer and I think people who just play single player are missing out" quote that is hideing just beneath the surface here. Yeah, the quotes not good, but thats because he doesn't sound like a PR type, and forcing multiplayer is a sore subject these days, between Spec Ops calling there multiplayer mode a Cancerous growth, to EA talking about the death of single player games, which would be disastrous for the medium. But give this guy some slack: He is not saying that his SP is bad, or that other gam,es should move away from SP. He is just saying that not playing the MP portion is missing out on a lot of content. And you know what? Hes not wrong. Don't burn him at the stake for not wording his idea perfectly.

So much this, thank you for wording what I wanted to in a much more eloquent fashion, I really don't get why he's getting told to go fuck himself.

EDIT: Wow, fucking really guys. I've been here a while and I have never seen this amount of venom aimed at anyone before. You do realise he's talking about people that are playing CoD? Which sounds like none of you and yet you still seem to be so vile and hateful towards a guy who wants the people who his game is aimed at to play the whole game. You make me sick.

 

[AnarchistFish]

Why do people get CoD for the single player anyway?