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A new survey has found that over half of gamers prefer to play single-player titles.

According to Midia Research, this game mode is most popular across all platforms – particularly on mobile, with 58% of respondents saying they preferred single-player games.

The data from the survey was collected from Midia Research's Q1 2024 and Q1 2023 consumer surveys across the US, UK, Australia, Canada, Germany, France, Poland, Turkey, and South Africa.

Research found that older gamers were more drawn to single-player titles, with 74% of gamers aged over 55 choosing to play games solo.

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[–] MudMan@fedia.io 37 points 2 months ago (7 children)

I recommend taking a look at the full original article, the summary linked here may be a bit misleading. https://www.midiaresearch.com/blog/most-gamers-prefer-single-player-games

This breakdown chart, in particular is very interesting. https://www.midiaresearch.com/storage/uploads/paragraphs/dbdbaba91de72cd615d8be1a0119cfca

Turns out that yes, slightly more than 50% of the people they surveyed prefer solo, but that's distorted by older people going HARD towards that option. Every segment below 45 years old skews slightly towards multiplayer, although the split between what type of multiplayer is pretty even.

Gotta say, I HATE that PvP is the preference across all age groups among multiplayer fans. Outside of asynchronous competition, leaderboards and fighting games I profoundly dislike realtime PvP.

[–] SkyeStarfall@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I feel like the reason people like pvp is because, well, humans are like the most advanced AI opponents and teammates you can have in a game. Most games struggle creating fun, realistic, and challenging AI opponents because it's generally really difficult to do so.

[–] MudMan@fedia.io 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Is that good, though? I don't want realistic and challenging AI opponents, at least not most of the time. It works for a 1v1 fighting game, but you don't want every enemy in Diablo being a smart, human-like entity capable of min/maxing their build and acting with real self preservation. You want them to act as a pincushion so you can test if your build is doing good damage and to watch them pop like so much bubble wrap.

So yeah, for 1v1 fighting games I want a human, but that's not an intrinsically better solution than a "dumb" AI. It's the opposite of that in most games, I'd say.

[–] SkyeStarfall@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 2 months ago

Not in Diablo, but in strategy games or stuff like MOBAs or shooters? Yeah, I do

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