My same thoughts.
A lot of concerns with the MP-waste of resources were rejected by SSM, but at the end the same concerns are going to re-surface supported this time by the evidence.
You know, I actually rolled my eyes at a few of the usual "SP will suffer because of MP" comments over the past few days but if that stuff is true I just don't see anothe justification.
It's easy to say "b... bu... but uncharted 2" but this isn't ND and this isn't uncharted. These things have to be judged on a case by case basis. Where ND managed to make a tremendous leap in the SP campaign while at the same time incorporating a very competent MP, here we
apaprently have a shorter and less ambitious campaign. We're talking a 3 year dev cycle with pretty much the same grahics engine, where did that time go if they could develop something with GoW3's magnitude in parallel with the engine it's running on in the same timeframe?
Let's be clear though, if the MP is good and I end up putting 30 hours into it that's a lot more value than a couple of extra hours in the campaign.
Then there's the fact that there isn't anything like GoW's MP out there, they couldn't just rip it straight from another game like CD did with Tomb Raider's MP.
The thing is that I was ready to post something along the lines of "GoW lives and dies by it's SP and SSM knows it, no way they're dropping the ball" and it seems like this isn't the case.
If I'm really going to finish it in 7 years and only see a couple of the epic boss fights the series is renowned for then yeah, I'll be disappointed.
I'll share my thoughts on the game when I'm done with it but based on the demo and what I've seen I'll doubt the game will let me down. We'll see.