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WoodenPints on 03 July 2016
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Bandorr said:
WoodenPints said:

I posted about the whole crossplay of Mouse and keyboard vs gamepad in the RoX thread a bit back, but i'm certain there was a an article somewhere and I think it was Phil actually who said we wouldn't force Xbox owners to play vs mouse and keyboard users in competative multiplayer but I can't seem to find it, I was searching for it myself as I was trying to find out if I could grab Gears 4 on PC and play with a Xbox One controller in a party with my friends on Xbox One.

Anyone else remember this article or am I dreaming it up?

http://www.gamepur.com/news/22648-spencer-discusses-mouse-keyboard-vs-controller-dispute-windows-10xbox-one.html

Ah thanks!  I tried searching and couldn't find it :L)

This was the quote I was looking for:

"I want to be clear on this one – I will never force someone in our games, who is playing with controller or mouse and keyboard, to play against somebody with a different control scheme. Mouse and keyboard rotation speed is faster than controller. We know that. You will lose. I shipped Shadowrun. I was part of that. But, as a platform, I want to enable players to make the choices they want to make. If you and I are playing a co-op game together […] there's no reason you and I can't go through a [Destiny] Strike, for example, you on mouse and keyboard, me on controller playing together, and we should be able to talk to each other. I want to completely enable that scenario. But for people who think, I don't want to get destroyed because some guy drops in with mouse and keyboard and he's just running a rampage over every match because he's moving faster – we don't want to do that. This is about putting tools in the hands of smart creators to make decisions on when it makes sense and when it doesn't make sense."