Why haven't microsoft solved cross play yet?

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fireburn95 said:

Windows 10 was supposed to fix everything!

Rocket league is coming to xbox one (YAY!) with no cross play (Boo!)

Paragon is coming to PS4 with cross play. Epic have always floated their boat closer to xbox than ps, so it is quite a surprise that paragon will not release for what is basically an established 'Epic' fanbase. 

http://ps4daily.com/2015/12/epics-new-shooter-paragon-is-console-exclusive-on-ps4/

Microsoft were meant to make it seamless for third parties. But outside of ms first party & a couple sidescroller indies (which i love btw) there aren't any xbox one<->pc cross play games, phil made a huge deal out of this for the launch of windows 10 and all the events he went to. 

Sony even has street fighter cross play. Are microsoft being restrictive once again with third parties because it doesn't make any sense :@

Paragon is PS4 because Xb one has Smite, while PS4 doesn't have a MOBA yet. MOBAs are a very new thing to consoles and for the time being I'm not sure if one console can successfully support 2 MOBAs. Crossplay for Paragon seems like a significant disadvantage to PS4 given controllers are considerably inferiour to KB+M MOBAs of all varieties, so if you're going to play Paragon reasonably seriously on PS4 I would think it best to get a KB+M for your PS4. Also vital important for crossplay is 60fps, solid. If PC has a significant base fps advantage over console then that puts console players at a further significant disadvantage. It could possibly be that Epic was unable to hit 60fps as a benchmark with the quality of visuals it's trying to achieve.

Rocket league is best played with a controller, so it's more of an even playing field. Fighters are also controller based games so crossplay makes sense there too.

My guess is MS does not want PS and Xb gamers to play on the same playing field, so it's only willing to consider crossplay support for console exclusives. What I wonder is how much of a pain it would be to set up walled off crossplay where Xb one gamers can only crossplay with PC gamers and PS4 gamers can only crossplay with PC gamers. I imagine with ranked competitions you actually want a single playing environment for PC players so segregated crossplay would not be good for online games with ranked competition.