Just because the comunity wants to play it as a single player campaing,doesn't change the fact that Larian wanted to make a game that can be played with friends. Also competitive questing just reinforces the multiplayer aspect of the game and as far as I can tell Larian will continue to balance this game as a multiplayer one...normaly I would call this a co-op multiplayer but with competitive questing....I am ify with the co-op bit because I never had the option to screw over my friends in a survival game for personal gain,but I would definetly call this a multiplayer despite how the community plays it.
Bottom line - this game is a multiplayer one because you can play it with friends,Larian's goal in the kickstarter was to make a game which can be played with friends, competitive questing is an experimental thing meant to make the game more fun by having friends compete for quest completion.
this is literally just a point of semantics. the game is equally a single player and multiplayer game and it was optimized for both. everything you're saying is just anecdotal and opinion-based. there's no evidence anywhere that this is a primarily multiplayer game or that it was designed as such
calling this game "competitive", even in its multiplayer format, is just nonsense
