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star wars: battlefront

PC Invasion poll finds most DO play single player shooter campaigns

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The other week, Peter Moore made some unusual statements regarding the popularity of single player campaigns in shooters like Call of Duty and EA’s own Battlefield series.

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Defending the decision to publish Star Wars: Battlefront without a single-player campaign, Moore said: “Very few people actually play the single-player on these kinds of games. That’s what the data points to.”

EA clearly have access to a great deal of player data, so it’s hard to take any issue with their sample size. But if their internal ‘metrics’ really do show very few people playing the single-player portion of EA-published shooters like Battlefield, that runs contrary to certain prevailing assumptions.

Whether Star Wars: Battlefront is better off with or without single-player is a pure hypothetical (because we don’t know what that campaign may or may not have been like), but when writing about Moore’s statement I was interested to see if his claim held up. A PC Invasion poll seemed like a reasonable way to get some external opinions from FPS players.

While by no means a perfect test (our sample size here was a few hundred), it produced a pretty interesting result. 90% of people replying to the statement “Do you agree with EA’s data about “very few” playing single player in competitive shooters?” said that, actually, they did tend to play the single-player campaign.

Only 10% said they tended not to bother with it.

Again, not a perfect test, but it may indicate that EA’s data shows few people playing EA’s single-player campaigns, rather than being indicative of a wider lack of interest solo shooter activities.

Here’s how the final poll, which ran for one week, wound up:

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