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Green098 on 02 August 2017
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The Fury said:
Green098 said:

I don't get the big deal about XBL sign in and that's not what Sony said it was about. If was about that then why not allow cross-play with games which don't use Xbox Live? Why won't they not allow game's like rocket league with cross-play with Switch and Xbox One?

I know it's their decision and they have the right to do what they want, but this isn't for the best interests of consumers and there are a lot of people upset about this, as they won't be able to experience this new version of Minecraft on PS4.

They've never said (have they?) why Rocket League isn't cross play between Xbox and PS4, the reason might be because MS want PS4 users to sign in to Xbox Live. Yet it and many other games are cross play between PC and PS4 and no one cared. Even more cross play between PS4 and PC are coming soon.

Wait... new version of Minecraft? Would MS be so petty and to hold a new version of Minecraft to ransom over cross play?

Like XBL is Microsoft's, Rocket League have their own servers for online play - they'd have nothing to do with XBL, the people at Rocket League have even stated it's as simple as flipping a switch they could allow cross-play with all platforms right now if Sony would let them. When Rocket League arrives on Switch, Switch player aren't going to have to sign into XBL and Xbox players aren't going to have to sign into a Nintendo account.

Also, If you knew more about it you'd know why it would be work or what they are trying to do with it. But to give a quick reasoning - the whole point of it is that no matter what platform you are on it's the same and you can connect to anyone on it, that's why it's simply called 'Minecraft' with no editions in the name. This version is just bulit up with every version connected together and the same, they'd have to completey re-work that, and give it a name with the edition in it. Plus we don't know if they're not going to that eventually, but they're just not going to go through that now and focus on the version that is coming.