Bandai Namco has now explained why there is no multiplayer mode in Soulcalibur: Lost Swords.
Soulcalibur: Lost Swords is a free to play fighting game for the PS3. It’s weird to note that this fighting game is only a single player affair.
The game’s producer Masaaki Hoshino explained why it’s single player only to Siliconera:
The reason that we went singleplayer…well, originally, we were thinking about having a multiplayer option, but because we’re going with a pay-to-win model, we were worried that by having online multiplayer, for all the new users that would be coming in experiencing the game for the first time, they might be immediately deterred by fighting against opponents who had superior equipment and gear—and we didn’t want to have that kind of negative impact on new players.
In the singleplayer experience, having a pay-to-win structure won’t impede the player’s experience with the game.
I guess this makes sense. Still, it’s odd for a fighting game to have no muliplayer whatsoever.
