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pokoko on 23 August 2013
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Lafiel said:
pokoko said:
The people running the Xbox division really need to be held accountable for how far behind they've fallen. Games like this really should be on both platforms at launch. How did Xbox management wait until a couple of months before the launch of their new console to even START trying to address issues like this? There is no excuse.

Not sure they'll ever allow cross-platform play, though. They've been very firmly against that for a long time. It's the reason the 360 isn't getting FF14.

I'm pretty sure they allowed cross platform play in Shadowrun, but well.. that turned out to be a terrible idea in a FPS game. And FF11 afaik was cross platform in the 360 version and I didn't hear any complaints about that.

Dunno about that, but we have two developers recently say in interviews that a lack of cross-platform play kept them off Xbox.  I'm going to take their word for it.

"Final Fantasy 14: A Realm Reborn director Naoki Yoshida confirmed that the reason the MMO isn't coming to a Microsoft console is due to the hardware manufacturer's restrictive online policies that prevent cross-platform play.

This isn't the case with Sony, hence why the PS3, PS4, and PC versions of the rebooted MMO will all be able to play with each other.

"The main reason from our side is that I don't want the community to be divided; to be split into two or more," said Yoshida in an interview with RPGsite. "For example, one player might be on the PC version, another might be on the PS4 version, and I'm playing the Xbox version - but we're not able to join the same game servers. That is just... I just don't like the idea. I disagree with it."  http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2013-07-09-final-fantasy-14-a-realm-reborn-isnt-coming-to-xbox-due-to-microsoft-not-allowing-cross-platform-play