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Crytek – “Single-player experience has to go away”

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Most of you know that I seldom play multiplayer games online. It’s not because I don’t play well with others, hate human beings or suck at games (though all three of those could well be true). It’s just that I prefer my videogames to be solitary escapism. I like shutting myself off from the rest of the world and retreating to the realm of fantasy. Crytek wants that to go away.

“I think the notion of a single-player experience has to go away,” says Crytek CEO Cevat Yerli to IGN. “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.”

Essentially, he wants the single player game to evolve, to be connected – whether that be through social interaction or single player games with MMO tendencies. 

“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.”

If it means things more along the lines of Journey or Dark Souls, which used more subtle ways of including other players in your game, then I suppose that’s be ok – but if every single game starts telling me about how my friends have just beaten my score, jumped further or raced faster, I might just unplug my Ethernet cable.

Last Updated: March 1, 2013

48 Comments

  1. Sir Rants-a-Lot Llew

    March 1, 2013 at 13:34

    No no no! See! I knew this was going to happen. DiabloIII set the trend and now everyone wants to jump on the bandwagon because they think it’s what we want. No no no no no! It’s not what we want. It’s simply that we aren’t given a choice in the matter!

    I give up!

    /rant

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    • Sir Captain Rincethis

      March 1, 2013 at 13:46

      Looks Sir through bloodshot eyes, “I agree brother, only way to make the noises go is to drink” Hands half FULL bottle of Bells to thee.

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      • Sir Rants-a-Lot Llew

        March 1, 2013 at 13:50

        *downs the bells and hits Crytek over the head with empty bottle*

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        • Daniel Keevy

          March 1, 2013 at 14:24

          Sir Rants-Lot Llew used bottle. It was not every effective.

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    • Darth_Clericus_The_Ultimate

      March 1, 2013 at 13:51

      Ya saw it coming as well. Are these guys blind?? Didnt they not see the fan backlash???

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      • Sir Rants-a-Lot Llew

        March 1, 2013 at 14:00

        All they saw were the figures. They thought that because it sold well it was a success. The truth is much, much worse though. The truth is they did serious damage to their own image and have lost the trust of a lot of gamers.

        If Crytek wants to follow suit then they must. They will also realise their fault as Blizzard did (Yes Blizzard realised their mistake because the console version seems to be launching with an offline mode)

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    • Daniel Keevy

      March 1, 2013 at 14:23

      Don’t you see? They’re trying to help you realise the best way to play a game? Never mind you’ve been doing it alone for so long. You are blind, and they are your eyes.

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    • Johan Troffel Fourie

      March 1, 2013 at 14:49

      Actually, Apple secretly has stakes in all major game publishers and devs. Not only will they dictate how you use your PC (a MAC is a PC – get over it), phone and what emails you are allowed to receive via iCloud, they will now dictate how you play your games as well.

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  2. Sir Captain Rincethis

    March 1, 2013 at 13:42

    If I wanted a social life, I’d stop dressing in pink spandex and lose the wig with a monkey in. I HATE it when these fucks try and TELL use what we are supposed to WANT from games. I think I’ll find this cod-dicked-moron on twitter and say as much.

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    • Sir Rants-a-Lot Llew

      March 1, 2013 at 14:05

      Thanx for the image….

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      • Sir Captain Rincethis

        March 1, 2013 at 15:05

        The cod dick (get the reference?) or pink spandex? 🙂

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        • Sir Rants-a-Lot Llew

          March 1, 2013 at 15:11

          you in pink spandex

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  3. Folly

    March 1, 2013 at 13:42

    So basically because Crytek are incapable of writing a decent single player storyline in any of their games their proposed solution is to do away with Single-player altogether?

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    • Banana Jim

      March 1, 2013 at 13:46

      Essentially yes!

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    • Sir Rants-a-Lot Llew

      March 1, 2013 at 13:50

      Wow. Pretty accurate summary

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    • JHN

      March 1, 2013 at 14:19

      Bingo.

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  4. matthurstrsa

    March 1, 2013 at 13:42

    What’s that in the corner? Skyrim, laughing its head off.

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  5. matthurstrsa

    March 1, 2013 at 13:43

    Anyway, just split the two. If single player does awfully sales wise, then do away with it. But don’t mess with my single player!

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  6. Johan Troffel Fourie

    March 1, 2013 at 13:46

    It’s called “SINGLE” player for a reason. Otherwise it’d just be co-op. I want what Yerli’s smoking. Seems like legit shit.

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  7. Banana Jim

    March 1, 2013 at 13:46

    I think Crytek operates on the idea that regardless of running foul with gamers, just so long as the unwashed masses have the words Crytek on their lips, it’s all good. Good or bad publicity, it really doesn’t matter.

    Next week, they’ll add to the inane comments with some yarn about how the keyboard and mouse needs to be redesigned for their games, or how kinect is perfect for Crysis 3, or how next gen consoles could never run Crysis 4, or how cats love Crytek, or how when chimpanzees are exposed to Crysis 3, they immediately start crafting stone tools.

    It doesn’t matter what is said, just long as we’re talking about Crytek.

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  8. undercoverMunky

    March 1, 2013 at 13:50

    “Online Single-Player”

    They already tried that with DRM. 😛

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  9. Darth_Clericus_The_Ultimate

    March 1, 2013 at 13:50

    OH YOU MEAN LIKE DIABLO 3!!?!?!?!?!? THAT WORKED OUT SO WELL DIDNT IT CERVAT!?!?!?!
    Ass.

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  10. ElNicko

    March 1, 2013 at 13:53

    I personally think mr cevat yerli deserves a high five. In the Face . With a Flaming Chair !!

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  11. David Muller

    March 1, 2013 at 13:53

    How else are they meant to incorporate micro transactions in single player.

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  12. Gideon Carstens

    March 1, 2013 at 13:57

    Argument analogy: watching a movie with my friends who can talk with and interrupt me any time is superior to watching the movie alone. Right…

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    • Sir Rants-a-Lot Llew

      March 1, 2013 at 14:19

      Have a bells!

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  13. Anon A Mouse

    March 1, 2013 at 13:57

    Really these people are surely trying their utmost to have me hang up my joystick and abandon games all together. What on earth have I ever done to them?

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    • Sir Rants-a-Lot Llew

      March 1, 2013 at 14:06

      You made them rich by supporting them when they started out back in the day.

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      • Johan Troffel Fourie

        March 1, 2013 at 14:22

        Yea, but when they started out back in the day, they all were promising devs/publishers. Greed has befallen the game industry. It’s like election days filled with lies and deceit – just that every day is election day in the AAA game industry. Sad story.

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        • Sir Rants-a-Lot Llew

          March 1, 2013 at 14:23

          Yep.

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  14. Rudi van der Walt

    March 1, 2013 at 14:00

    Wtf?? that will be such a dumbass move. I play games for my own entertainment, and 99/100 times I do so alone because that’s how I prefer it damnit.

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  15. Daniel Keevy

    March 1, 2013 at 14:25

    Well, considering the market they specialise in, I guess it makes sense. If the CEO of Bethesda or Gabe said this, then I’d be rolling around on the floor trying not to cry.

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  16. Weanerdog

    March 1, 2013 at 14:32

    Crytek boardroom CEO: ” Hey guys how can we make more money on games?
    Guy at the back:” Cut back on Staff costs”
    CEO:” Like who?”
    Guy:”Story guys, you know the writers”
    CEO:”Thats crazy who plays a game without a story”
    Guy:”C…O..D”
    CEO:”Right, fire them all”

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    • Sir Captain Rincethis

      March 1, 2013 at 15:05

      LIKE A WINNER!

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  17. Red Worked

    March 1, 2013 at 14:32

    Down with these MMO tendencies, down!

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  18. Brady miaau

    March 1, 2013 at 14:37

    Certain activities are just more fun together, right?

    if good for some, must be good for all!

    I, like Sir Geoff Tim, do not want MY fun time, MY escapism, changed or ruined by some idiot somewhere. Even if multi-player is more fun, better challenge and so forth, I still do not care. MY TIME, MY RULES. Well, my wife rules, but I can play game.

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  19. Purple_Dragon

    March 1, 2013 at 14:51

    The minute that happens is the minute I stop play games. Stupid fucks, I want to play games on my own. That is the whole point of gaming, escape to another world, I don’t want to even know real people exist when I’m off visiting a different place.

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  20. Theo Steenekamp

    March 1, 2013 at 15:08

    but but… I like being forever alone:( …. Guess I will just have to tease and be an ass to everyone to isolate myself (the way MP games are already)… A self made singleplayer experience like no other.

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  21. crack2483

    March 1, 2013 at 15:43

    Maximum bullshit

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  22. Johan du Preez

    March 1, 2013 at 18:02

    ROFL this is rich because they cant make a proper single player game they say it must fall away

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  23. Jason Johnson

    March 1, 2013 at 19:05

    Its simple really. I’m a busy guy. I play games to escape. Some people watch TV. I play at irregular times for irregular periods. Mostly less than an hour and late at night. I don’t have the time, strength or inclination to consider other online players. Selfish perhaps, but fact. So… if Crytek stops making single-player games, I stop buying them. Simple. And if all single-player games go away, I’ll start watching more TV and use my mouse for browsing.

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  24. iPrimal

    March 2, 2013 at 06:46

    I’ll burn my motherf****** router! I swear to god! I want single player games! At least they only make games that I don’t care about.

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  25. Ocelotty1

    March 5, 2013 at 03:36

    No single player; no sale – simple.

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