This trend, however, can be attributed to a number of reasons, ranging from the ready availability of several games to choose from, the presence of players to play against, and the improvement in the online user experience.
However, while offline games can be quite interesting and equally competitive, it is mostly argued that playing games online takes the competitiveness to a whole new level entirely. At best one can only go head-to-head against willing friends and family members in offline games but the internet opens up a world of opportunities allowing access to a playing field where you compete against millions of random gamers without restrictions of time or location.
Games of Gamers 