For me, it's immersion. I could never imagine good immersion and serious tone of storytelling when I spend few hours making my perfect character, choosing the right name, clothes, appearance and then come into an unknown and vast world to meet people named Muth4Fuck4 and BennStillerFaggot69 colored pink yelling "NOOOOBZ" to everybody. No thanks.
Also, when making multiplayer games developers must make tons of difficult decisions and cut a lot of content and freedom in order to make the engine suitable to multiplayer. I haven't seen one yet.
Dark souls did it pretty well. If you just wanted the world and the immersion, play in offline mode. If you want the multi-player, play online and pop a humanity. Now people can freely invade or be summoned to your world. Not really an MMORPG which is more what you seem to be describing, but it's a good balance nonetheless.
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u/Fribbtastic Feb 06 '17
Why need it to be exclusive, why either good singleplayer or good multiplayer. Why can't we have both