I think the “better with someone else” applies to a lot of things … I like going to the cinema but rarely go on my own – it’s just not as good when you don’t have someone to compare the instant after-film reaction with …
Carmi – aye, things have changed a lot over the last 10 years or so … There was a multiplayer aspect built into Moo2, which is a game I love, but it wasn’t developed to nearly the same degree as multiplayer games are now.
Warcraft is pretty tame at 40 people per side in a battleground, Eve has had fleets of 500+ Per Side! throwing all sorts of nasty at each other. Eve’s a little ahead of its time there though, it’s let down by servers that can’t cope.