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Biggerboat1 on 18 June 2018
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CrazyGamer2017 said:
KLAMarine said:

"Epic AGREED to it, they must have or the game would not be blocked"

And Sony would deny Fortnite's release on PS4 had EG disagreed costing EG access to 80 million users.

1) Perhaps my previous post was too long and you did not see that I answered this. Sony would have the biggest backlash in history if they suddenly blocked Fortnite from the Playstation so Sony has a lot to lose if they can't agree with Epic Games on this. Because both companies have a lot to lose if not agreeing both AGREED to this current situation, therefore the blame belongs to both. In the end it's just business.

Right now Sony is in a much smaller backlash compared to a backlash of Sony totally removing Fortnite from the PS. It will be interesting to see what happens with this smaller but still important backlash. Will they give in and allow cross-platform or will they stand their ground?

2) People should not worry so much, just sit back, grab the pop-corn bag and enjoy the show, the Sony versus the other game companies show.

3) EDIT: And where is the backlash against Microsoft for TOTALLY blocking PUBG on the Playstation, they obviously paid Bluehole to keep PUBG from releasing on Playstation. At least Sony did not completely block Fortnite from releasing on other platforms and from a purely business point of view, they should have. It's what is known as an exclusive.

1) You make it sound like Sony's only 2 options were either allowing complete, unrestricted cross-play & account flexibility or not allowing Fortnite on PS4 at all, which of course, is not the case.

They could have still restricted cross-play, but still allowed the flexible account movement. This would still have been a more restricted approach than the other platforms but would have avoided this back-lash altogether. 

Incidentally, EG would undoubtedly wanted full cross-play & unrestricted account access, so you can't blame them for accepting conditions Sony was forcing on them rather than waving goodbye to access to an 80 million userbase.

 

2) People are worrying because, without any warning they have been stopped from accessing their account on Switch - the ideal companion device to play the game whilst away from the sofa. You telling them not to worry doesn't really alleviate the issue...

 

3) You are doing the same thing as your Sony-apologist counterparts - conflating 2 different things. Paying for exclusivity is not the same thing as locking down a 3rd party account without any warning.

 

Look, I'm a Nintendo fan but it doesn't stop me from criticising them when they do something that disappoints me. For instance, I though they had a pretty underwhelming E3. This blind loyalty to a corporation is purely one-way - they don't deserve your mental gymnastics in order to somehow make their behaviour on this issue acceptable.