[mehlmao]

The "User attempting to steal online gameplay" bit came from Cliff Blezinski et al saying that splitscreen multiplayer and co-op was a mistake, because half the people who played didn't pay for the game. In the past ten years we have seen local multiplayer evaporate.

EDIT: The Kinnect had a microphone in it too

[doctorpangloss]

> In the past ten years we have seen local multiplayer evaporate.

Split screen multiplayer evaporated for many reasons. Besides business it's also technology.

I'm not sure you'll find a single indie split screen multiplayer game that uses a modern, queued graphics pipeline (Unity HDRP or Unreal 4+). Even among big commercial games, Fortnite notably supports 2 player split screen, but Rocket League, Borderlands and Gears of War are all Unreal 3 I think.

[bobthepanda]

It takes two was GOTY.

I think it’s more that split screen is almost exclusively the domain of ‘party’ games these days.

[EdwardDiego]

Me and my son love couch co-op games, but yeah, doing split-screen can be hard to get right, especially around text and UI elements.

[feedsmgmt]

Local multiplayer is back thanks to Steam and their "Remote Play Together" feature. Remote players connect to the hosts screen share. It is excellent. No extra licenses required.

[philipwhiuk]

And then they got burned by Sony at E3 and the whole sharing policies got rewritten.