Nem said:
Yeah i mean the sharing of accounts. It's the same thing in the end. It means players can't cross over with their account. Actually, this isn't even new or restricted to Nintendo/Microsoft. FFXIV on PS4 is a shared but different account from PC. You can't buy an expansion on one and play on the other. You have to buy it on both. This revenue is what i think the sony execs are being adamant about. |
You can have $100 worth of shit purchased on PC in Fortnite, created your Epic account on PC, and played for 350 hours on PC. But because you logged into a friends PS4 to show him/her your cosmetics for five minutes, your account is now held hostage on PS4 and you cannot use it on Switch or Xbone. There is no defending that. There’s no “revenue” Sony is missing out on, there’s no relevance to past games like FFXIV or other games that don’t allow you to transfer your account and purchases across platforms, because Epic allows you to do that with Fortnite. Unless of course, you’ve ever played on PS4.
The uproar about this will make them change. It’s a good thing. And then maybe they’ll loosen up about cross play.
