I'm too lazy to watch your video.

Now let me be alone in peace.

Implying multiplayer is social.

I thought multiplayer was where little kids yelled and raged at each other?

Example: ME3 at the beginning pretty much forced everybody to play the multiplayer to get a "perfect ending". So what?! I played it but it was just some kind of generic reaper killing in order to make pogress in the singleplayer. I didn't have any kind of interaction there. Also I wonder if it will be still up much longer, knowing EA likes to shut down servers. Btw. it's just another argument, looking the the unplayable copy of Nexuiz in my libary.
On the other hand I'm playing the good old Dota 2 "multiplayer" which is social from time to time but most likely it end up like this. Wouldn't call the last one social.

No. Like it doesn't equal social reject if you read a book alone or listen to music alone. Also, as Aboow said, multiplayer isn't necessarily social. The problem with multiplayer tends to be that if most people playing there are different from yourself, you can't form any kind of gaming groups with those people. Overall I think it's just about different interests. Single-player people are more interested in stories while multiplayer people are more interested in repetitive fast-paced games and don't care about the story. Personally I'm into both but I have no interest in communicating (especially never ever through mic) with people who are much younger than I am.

Ever sat down to read a good book for an afternoon before going out with friends later for dinner and drinks? Oooh yeah, you're real anti-social for getting into a well-written story every once in a while haha. I tend to feel like people who would insinuate that are people who would like to think that interacting with others virtually, while alone behind your computer, is the penultimate social experience.

Context: I play plenty of both multi-player and single-player, big fan of both for different reasons.

Never was an issue for me. All forms of entertainment that don't necessarily include interaction with others, like singleplayer games, movies, books and music, still play an important role in my social life as many social networks I built around me began with shared interests.

Multiplayer made me lose my faith in humanity.

even when i played WoW i played it by myself and never ever with others cause way way way way way way to many people take games way way way to seriously. i play for entertainment and couldnt give a flying crap what gear my guy has or how good i am or what i've accomplished and people just dont get it. its like they think you need to treat your game like your a professional at a job :/

like sure great you got a guy with legendaries and all the top gear. woop dee i got 40 guys on 5 servers. i liked to 2 box power level toons soloing dungeons and raids for my entertainment. sure you done it now but ill solo it later in a xpac or 2 so eventually ill see it to :)

you might think i am a social reject but its actually quite the opposite. i have rejected society because of its piss poor attitude. lord help you if you didnt show up to a dungeon or raid in full epics like what was the point of even being there then? and thats just using WoW as a example cause the people seem to be completely toxic in most games if you dont play it like its a job.

and no i didnt watch the video cause i couldnt be bothered to attempt to trust the link or even watch it anywayz.

No it does not. Sometimes people want to experience a good story and not just the often stressing online game play.

But hey seriously, don't be a social reject.

It is a fact that individuals have a tendency to expect others to think like they do. If you like peanutbutter and jelly sandwiches, you expect others to like them. If you lie in order to avoid punishment, you think that other people do so as well. This is because we like to think that our way of doing things is both rational and well-intentioned. (See "Cognitive Dissonance.")

Gamers, being human (for the most part), have this tendency as well. Some players focus on the social aspect of gaming (i.e. multiplayer) because gaming is their main focus of socializing. Instead of going out to dinner with friends, or playing cards with friends, or going bowling with friends, or playing football in the park with friends, these players play games with friends. This happens predominantly with younger players, and hence younger generations. Adults who are busy working, raising families, and socializing outside the home have less time to be gaming, ergo multiplayer is not the focus of their social life.

So, the next time some child tells you that single-player games are anti-social because he is young, inexperienced, socially isolated, more likely to shoot his mouth off about what he doesn't know, and prone to assuming his view of the world is the only one, just remind him that it's more social to interact with live people with whom you are face-to-face.

In one word...

NOPE.

This has got to be the silliest thing I've heard today.
Gaming is entertainment and gives you a challenge. Multiplayer or not, it stays a "game". It's created to have fun, and you can't judge people by what they play.

I'm a big fan of shooters, but I'm all against violence and weapons.
I also enjoy playing single player games, it doesn't mean I'm anti-sociable.

No, social games like WoW equals social reject. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IiE2czrG0MI video is from 2011, now we are in 2014, and this are numbers only from official servers.

I personally don't think so. You can play single player games and talk about it with friends who are playing the same game, or maybe be on voice chat with friends who playing a completely different game.
While trying to play multiplayer often means you'll have to deal with raging kids (of any age).
I don't think you can lay out a general rule. It all depends on how YOU play, not WHAT you play.

No, it doesn't mean one is a social reject. Single player gaming can still be social. We can share our gameplay with others, we can have others watch while we play, etc. I've actually known people who prefer to watch others play than to play themselves and watching someone else and being able to enjoy the game together is quite social. There's also reaching out to other players via forums and chats and talking about the game by sharing what we enjoy about it or tips and tricks to play better. Truly, gaming is as social or anti-social as you want it to be and you don't have to play even a single match of multiplayer to enjoy making friends and getting closer to friends through gaming.

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"Video games equals social reject" would be closer but even that is a dumb and completely false statement.

Man, every kid on multiplayer is dumb. If there's a reject, it's the one i do.

Those who only play multiplayer and say that there shouldn't even be single player games, are the reason why games have gone downhill.

Though when talking about Titanfall, I'd say it's a good thing there isn't single player. How many times you have wondered why there is a single player in a game that everyone plays for the multiplayer? All those resources that are spent on making sub par SP experience is waste when the main focus of the game is clearly on the MP side, and yet they divide valuable time, money and effort for something that no one will seriously care about. It goes both ways, if a game was obviously made for single player, then please keep the filthy multiplayer the fuck away from it. Most of the time it doesn't work properly and the work that was put into that shit could've been spent better elsewhere.

I reject it even so, i call multiplayer games are those where nowadays so much antisocial idiots gather. It was much peacefull and cooperative in like 5-10 years ago, now its a psychopatic hell with callers, flamers, ragequiters, powerabusers, kiddos and infantile big kiddos. PK and KS is just normal nowadays. If you wanna stay sane avoid them at all cost!
If you want social life check your living mates and relatives!

BTW multiplayer only games are a cheap way to make something appealing to these psychos. No need for story and enemies means these games have no athmosphere, only a new enviroment to kill each other, bleh...!

No, multiplayer is for people that use it as a social interaction. Any actual core gamers, that I know, prefer single player, myself included. Not saying that multiplayer isn't fun, and even addicting, but when it comes to sitting down, and playing for 3 days straight, pissing in a bottle, and living off of soda pop, and candy bars, 9 times out of 10, it's a single player game. (Or an MMO, but those are played solo a lot of times, too.)

Single player doesn't make you a social reject. I've spent most of my life playing single players games and I turned out...fine.

I pretty much only do single player, so I polled my friends to see if they think of me as a social reject or not. Results are in:

SOCIAL REJECT: 0 votes
PARTY ANIMAL: 0 votes

So, 50/50, data leads to no conclusion.