Granted you can't always be in the same room as your friends and without online play we would not have MMOs, but many residents of the internet, including me, believe that gaming is worse off because of MMOs. In online multiplayer you either need a microphone to talk to the other players or stop playing and risk dieing to type something. Many people, mostly 14 year old boys, abuse online play by shouting vulgar insults and other things that only they find funny, and by dropping out of the game when they are losing. Unless you already have friends to play with it is virtually impossible to find a group of equivalently skilled players, by which I mean I die allot when I play online. The worst part is many developers use online play as an excuse to omit local multiplayer,for example GTA4, or release poorly constructed singleplayer campaigns, for example the Halo series and most FPSs that came out since 2001.
That is true for action games, but for TBS games the quickest matches last for hours, so that point doesn't apply to them.Radeonx said:
