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animegaming on 26 September 2018
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forevercloud3000 said:
animegaming said:

Difference is that last gen cross play felt like a nice pipe dream then everything change E3 2017 when it was reveal that Minecraft and Rocket League was getting cross play between Xbox and Switch. Then things only got worse when Fortnite AKA the biggest thing in gaming at the moment not only had crossplay between Switch and Xbox, but also Sony locking accounts on PS4 even if they made it on Switch or Xbox. 

Also Microsoft did get flack for it last gen since it killed FFXIV chances of coming to the 360 and while I do love FFXIV, its far from Minecraft, Rocket League, and Fortnite in popularity. 

It only felt like a pipe dream to some because it was MS in the lead. Thats what bothers me about this whole situation. Sony absolutely just got bullied into this by a market tricked into assisting MS in hurting their competitor.  

You do bring up a good point, that there is a difference in the games themselves that are incorporating crossplay like features. Fortnite has ascended to ridiculous proportions. Notoriously FFXIV asked for it on Xbox but were swiftly denied. I attribute MS's denial of it even tho they had once allowed it with FFXI was they only allowed that to sway Square Enix as a company more in their favor at a time where SE was royally peeved at Sony(Slim PS2 incapable of playing FFXI). They already got FFXIII to break it's exclusivity agreement and saw no profitable or advantageous reason to break their Xbox live rule again for Square Enix.

There is every reason in the world now for MS to want crossplay, because it is something that benefits those not in the lead. Userbase is a selling point that is now being derailed. When your friends had a 360 you got a 360 because you wanted to be able to play with them. If you didn't get the same system you would be left out. On a business note this was positive for the market leader, but negative for those who aren't.

Corporations aren't your friend and mostly importantly they are not people, you seriously can't bully a corporation especially when they do something stupid. Which was what Sony was doing. Holding people's Fortnite account hostage and denying users on other platformers that they can with their friends on PS4 while those other platforms would let their players play with each other is anti-consumer.

Microsoft also had a major change in leadership both within and outside the Xbox brand, Phil took over the Xbox brand in either 2013 or 2014 and he manage to change into the most pro-consumer console manufacture to the point that the only two things I say MS with the Xbox brand does that are anti-consumer is needing Xbox Live Gold for free to play and just needing to pay money for multiplayer games in general.