TheMightyEthan

Plus, as I mentioned, a tacked on MP would get the game to more people than offering a shooter that didn't have MP. Which would result in more gamers getting the message they wanted to impart.

So, going back to the original point of Ethan's status post: No, the MP for Spec Ops does not in any way affect the single player campaign. As an art form, sure, it may even be a little hypocritic of them.

The original worry is that tacking on an unnecessary MP takes away development resources from the main campaign. I actually made the point earlier that there is absolutely no way of ever being sure whether or not that's actually the case.

As for Spec Ops, I disagree with pretty much everything you've said. When the entire point of a game is to say something very specific, especially when it's making a serious commentary on its own genre, then you really want the package...

...package as a whole to be as tight and cohesive as possible. The entire "only buying if it has MP" demographic is not really what they were going for with the game. Like I said, makes business sense. But the impact of the product is diminished as a result.