Why I loathe co-op and multi-player...
First, I know multiplayer has a huge following, and I'm not here to argue you shouldn't be able to have your sole human interaction done via a computer game whilst sitting in mum's basement. I understand the clans, it can be a lot of fun using every waking moment (when the rest of us are out working) to practice so your clan can smash others to bits, something you'd never be able to do in real life. I get it.
But multiplayer has screwed up gaming forever. Now devs have to concentrate on providing a social outlet for misfits, instead of making single player gaming as interesting and immersive as they possibly can.
But the largest market is what drives game design, and the hurricane force whining from those not getting enough social attention leads the developers to believe the multiplayer market is bigger than it really is.
Couple that with the ever increasing need to upgrade PCs (especially video cards of course), and you end up poisoning the PC segment to the point where it makes little sense trying to keep up.
I'm supposed to spend $500 or more for a video card for adequate performance, only to play a game that is a straight port from kiddie consoles, and gameplay restricted for single users because the devs feel the whining multiplayers represent the real market share?
Far Cry was an exceptional game for its time. Far Cry 2 was phenomenal, the best yet. Far Cry 3 was quite good considering all of the console port junk allowed to ruin as much immersion as possible, but at least it turned off the multiplayer crowd, leaving me to hope more time will be spent on a fully immersive Far Cry 4.
My litmus test for Far Cry 4 is simple. If the game includes the wall hacks "tagging" that the kiddie console crowd loved, I'll take that as Ubi's admission that PC gaming is a simple by product, and no, I won't be falling for "PC only graphics enhancements" if its still nothing more than a kiddie console port.
Flame suit on, but the flamers ought to know, I understand you multiplayer types very, very well.