Raph Koster

Koster is the founder/president of Metaplace and the former chief creative officer at Sony Online Entertainment.

"The single-player game is a strange mutant monster which has only existed for 21 years and is about to go away because it is unnatural and abnormal," he said at the DICE Summit in 2006.

This one is a doozy. We understand the importance of multiplayer, and it's gotten to be an even larger component of games, and in some cases the only component, but c'mon single-player isn't going anywhere.