Fortnite - warning DO NOT play on PS4, or you can't play on Switch (and quick start guide if you're sheltered like me, and didn't know about this game before)

[TheBlackNaruto]

irstupid said:

TheBlackNaruto said:
Is this the first time something like this has happened? Heck my slow self thought this was the norm for games lol. Not a big deal in my opinion nor am I defending this. I have never thought about taking my account on a game from my PS4, or XB and transferring it to another one. They were separate and I always used them as such. But I can see why this would upset people and understand why this would stir some people up.

When it is a third party log-in, you assume you have shared saves on whatever system you have the game.

It's like playing FF14 on the PS4, I would assume I can log into my account on my PC and play the same characters.

 

In the case of Fortnite, you can do that. You can log into the same account on PC, Mobile and PS4.

OR you can log into the same account on your Switch, Xbox One, Mobile and PC

 

Though as soon as you log into a console, its locked into that crossplay family forever, without warning. There are lots of PC players that logged into the PS4 once just to unlock a quick free skin. Many are calling it Sony's Trojan horse. They offer a free skin, and as soon as you grab it, you are now locked out of ever logging into an Xbox or Switch with that account now.

Ahhhh see I never even thought of doing that. I just always created new different accounts if I was logging into a new system. So I would have never had this issue. But being locked into that system the PS4 forever without warning is not cool at all.

Wyrdness said:

TheBlackNaruto said:
Is this the first time something like this has happened? Heck my slow self thought this was the norm for games lol. Not a big deal in my opinion nor am I defending this. I have never thought about taking my account on a game from my PS4, or XB and transferring it to another one. They were separate and I always used them as such. But I can see why this would upset people and understand why this would stir some people up.

People bought things like skins and such on their accounts with actual money which are now locked onto one console with out warning this could actually turn into a nasty legal issue for them looking at it now as it wasn't just cross play blocked it's the whole third party account, it's like if you logged into your email on your iphone and now can't access it in any windows or android based system.

Someone could have made most of their progress and purchases on PC and played only a few times on PS4 and now find all their progress locked to that platform.

Yeah that does indeed suck. Not a cool move at all for those who use the same account or want to use the same account on a different platform.