You have to be kidding me. Are you telling me that they're going to rest on the laurels of the game's story to draw people in? This is ridiculous. Honestly, I have 0 desire to play Doom 3 now. Who cares?! 99% of the fun of most FPS games out right now is the multiplayer aspect. In fact, 99% of the fun of most PC games period is multiplayer. BF 1942, WC III, AOM, Starcraft, Empire Earth, and many more have little or no value to me other than their multiplayer options. This is ridiculous. John Carmack, I'm going to make a prediction here: sales of that game will be half of what they could be with multiplayer.
Almost forgot... Linkified!
EDIT: PLEASE READ BEFORE COMMENTING
OK, apparently (judging from the first few posts already) there is going to be some issues with the fact that this report came from The Inqwell. READ THE ARTICLE! This isn't something they heard in a back alley, they detail what John Carmack said about not including multiplayer. They didn't read chicken bones to come up with this, Carmack said it specifically. Once again, this is not a rumor, this is fact.
Almost forgot... Linkified!
EDIT: PLEASE READ BEFORE COMMENTING
OK, apparently (judging from the first few posts already) there is going to be some issues with the fact that this report came from The Inqwell. READ THE ARTICLE! This isn't something they heard in a back alley, they detail what John Carmack said about not including multiplayer. They didn't read chicken bones to come up with this, Carmack said it specifically. Once again, this is not a rumor, this is fact.