If you follows games news and release cycles, you'll probably be aware that single player games having a multiplayer component is the vogue right now. Most people aren't very happy with this - the announcement of Bioshock 2's multiplayer seemed to annoy people in particular - but its purpose is to "extend play time" and "add value", so say the back of the boxes. People also seem to mention "replayability" a lot when talking about single player games, promoting it as "adding value" as well.

Read on to see why I think this is a real danger to the quality of single player games... Read more »