As a gamer who has been playing video games since elementary school, I have the impression that for a long time, everyone basically only played online games, and single-player gamers were very rare, and there were even few places to discuss single-player games. However, in recent years, the situation has begun to change, and there are more and more single-player gamers around and online, while the familiar online games that used to be familiar are one after another, and more and more people are playing them.
In fact, I am personally more happy to see this phenomenon, because I am a single-player gamer, and it is naturally a good thing that there are more and more single-player players, whether it is to discuss game content or strategy, it can be much more convenient than in the past. So why are there more and more players who like single-player games, and online games are becoming more and more unplayed, except for the most popular ones, there are three main reasons.
The first is that the popularity of the steam platform in the player group has a huge credit,Before the popularity of the steam platform,Players have almost no centralized and unified channel to pay attention to the latest information of stand-alone games,Even if a new stand-alone game is released, I don't know where to buy,Only a small number of old players of stand-alone games know where to download the cracked version。 And because it is a cracked version, it is certain that the version update cannot keep up with the genuine game, not to mention that there are many games that are not particularly popular and do not even have a cracked version and Chinese patches, and it takes a lot of effort and time to play the latest stand-alone game, so this has also led to many players choosing to download and register an account to play online games.
The popularity of the steam platform makes it very convenient for players to learn about the latest game dynamics, coupled with various discount activities throughout the year, many triple-A masterpieces that have not been released for a few years can be won at a relatively cheap price, such as "GTA5", "The Witcher 3", "The Elder Scrolls 5" These classic masterpieces, the price of the discount is not as expensive as a movie ticket, but you can enjoy hundreds of hours of high-quality game experience. And in many online games, you charge a lot of money and don't even have a good game experience, such a comparison and the convenient experience of the Steam platform have made many players start to fall into the pit of stand-alone games, and gradually give up online games.
The second reason is that single-player games are more free in terms of timing, unlike most online games, which need to be online every day to clear daily tasks. With the update of one version after another, players need to do more and more daily tasks online every day, and may even spend hours a day cleaning up daily tasks, this game experience is more tiring than going to work, and it also makes most players miserable, because if you don't do it, you will fall behind other players.
Single-player games, on the other hand, don't have this kind of content that you want to play, and you can choose to play for 1 or 2 hours whenever you have time. For example, the game "The Witcher 3" I spent two months slowly getting through, I played for an afternoon when I was free, and I might not play for 2 or 3 days when I was not free, so I didn't have to worry about the impact of not playing for a day, and it didn't affect my game experience at all, and every time I opened the game, my heart was full of anticipation.
The last and most important reason is that the quality of single-player games represents the highest level of video games as a whole, and it is improving every year, breaking new heights every year. And most of the online games for so many years both the gameplay and the plot are in the same place, this strong contrast also makes more players choose stand-alone games, after all, players are willing to try better games, only good game quality can eventually attract more players, otherwise, you can only continue to lose the players you already have.
Last year, for example, Resident Evil 4 Remake gave players a new level of remastering the game, using the latest technology and classic gameplay to give the old game a second life. "The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom" perfectly integrates construction elements into the open world gameplay, and also allows players to see the infinite creativity and playability of the stand-alone game, and "Baldur's Gate 3" uses a series of interlocking missions to let players see the peak of the plot and world view of RPG games. These stand-alone games have made players feel continuous progress every year, and on the other hand, many online games not only have no innovation in gameplay, but can even only attract old players to return through the so-called nostalgic clothes, which can be imagined that there is really no new blood to join.
summary
As a gamer, the quality of the game is always in the first place, and the game quality of the stand-alone game itself is at the highest level in terms of plot, picture, gameplay, etc. At the same time, the advantage of the buyout system also allows players to enjoy a complete high-quality game through a one-time payment, compared to the online game that requires continuous investment of money and energy but only repetitively played, and the boring plot of boiled water, more and more players will naturally choose the stand-alone game.