I'm glad you've come around to the right way of thinking here.

Q:Do you know how you can make a Swede's brain look like a pea?
A:First you paint it green, and then you blow it up to the right size.

Good one. You should tweet him that. :P

So solitaire is a gimmick?

Are pinball machines a gimmick?

This is a great point, and I'd take it one further and venture that the glut of MP-focused titles has decreased that "shelf life" considerably. Some multiplayer components of games are dead out of the box, even though they are fleshed out and make up considerable additions. Bulletstorm immediately comes to mind, as it requires a level of teamwork that would be quite a long-term reward to a dedicated, small group of players. Fear 3 is another, as the multiplayer modes of that game are very daring and different from the usual FPS crop, but finding players can sometimes be pretty tough. It isn't easy out there for games that try to do something different, which is a shame but perhaps another thread altogether...

Never heard of the guy or his company.

Seems a bit out of touch.

All this "social" gaming and stuff does not make us more social as people - in fact, it seems to be the opposite, in my humble opinion.

Yes, a long time ago, before technology, etc., people tended to be more social. Duh. They had to rely on each other more to accomplish things. So yeah, "games" used to require participation, and many still do, but I don't think computer game developers said "Let's make a single-player game because it's the only thing we can do."

Technology, if anything, is pushing us to be further apart whilst trying to present the illusion that we're "more connected." I find it quite amusing that the very tools that are "connecting" us are what's actually pushing us further away from each other.

I liked it back in the day fine, I acquired a copy much later as an adult and played it, sadly it did not hold up (had aged very poorly).
That game sucks, though, my version is tons more fun, even if she's far uglier when you wake up in the morning (lol, yeah right, like I ever stay til morning!).

Never heard of the guy before but I think he is exaggerating. Sure we are humans and we like to talk and play with each other, but not all the time. A healthy mix of single and multi player experiences is fine. I can listen music by myself, read books, watch television, cook, eat, ... do many things single and so playing as a single person should be kind of okay too. You can't really say games can only be played good in multi player mode although multi player is probably more important than single player.

Let me translate. -> "We benefit more by making a multi player only game so we want to convince stupid people, single player is a gimmick."

That may be true for the masses who cares?

You play what you want. I prefer single player games but I don't lock myself to them and play multi player from time to time.

Super Awesome Dude says "Whatever BIIIITCH."

(Super Awesome Dude is me)

Another possibility.

Lol, good catch. :D
But... I like butts. :(
Also I cannot lie.

You other GOGers can't deny.