Quote Originally Posted by The 1 2 P View Post
Yeah.....six years later.
This is the Classic Games board.

Here's the place to go to talk about all things "classic". Today, classic means "before PlayStation 2"
Six years isn't even classic yet.

I can't complain about getting 6 years worth of solid gameplay from an online capable game that had a very strong active community for four straight years and continued to keep a dedicated community of online gamers for it's last two years.
That's kind of beside the point. My point is, a large part of that game's appeal was the online multiplayer, and that is now gone. Other games from that time that didn't rely on online multiplayer still have the same appeal that they did back then (for the most part). Therefore, online multiplayer is detrimental to a game retaining its appeal.

They were two different experiences that I enjoyed for different reasons. But like I already said, I'm much more likely to go back to an online multiplayer game than a purely single player one.
You're only playing relatively new games, then. These are games that will lose their appeal over time. They're just not that old yet.