14 DAY TRIAL // Titanfall developer Respawn Entertainment is adamant that game developers should play to their strengths and not tack a multiplayer mode onto an experience that works well in terms of single-player.
Titanfall is one of the most anticipated games of 2014, with Respawn Entertainment delivering a multiplayer-only first-person shooter that blends not just agile infantry but also hulking mechs that can be controlled by players in certain periods.
Even if the studio is making an always-online multiplayer experience, its Community Manager, Abbie Heppe, believes that developers shouldn't try to add such a mode to all of their games, especially if they're not that skilled.
"We have the easy bullet dodge, 'we're an online only game.' But I do think there is room for the single player experience, and for stuff that isn't necessarily online. I think you're going to see more of [multiplayer]," she told XB1.
"Even when they're a single player game, [developers] want to have a multiplayer component, which is sort of silly because I think developers should do what they are best at, and I hate the idea of somebody being forced into adding something into their game that they don't want to do."
What's more, Heppe also believes that the next-gen consoles, the PS4 and Xbox One, will make turning a single-player experience into an online social one much easier.
"I think there is a lot the future generation is going to be able to do in terms of matchmaking, in terms of connecting gamers that's going to make that social experience not feel forced," she added.
"It's such a weird one, I think about the way I play games now, even when I'm playing single players game I'm 'always online'. I'm always seeing that this person popped up on my friends list, it's this very social and online even when I'm playing by myself. Unless you turn off all notifications and ignore the world."
Titanfall is set to debut on PC, Xbox One, and Xbox 360 next year, in March.