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Aeolus451 on 04 September 2018
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irstupid said:
Aeolus451 said:

 It's easy to be for something that very likely won't happen with the majority of 3rd party multiplatform games because the devs don't want it. Even if Nintendo does support it 100%, it doesn't mean its consoles or network could handle the higher end games like FF XIV ARR (which is fully crossplay, sony already agreed to crossplay with MS and Nintendo with game) without a ton of issues that degrade the experience for everyone. Nintendo and MS still haven't ported that game.

What good does defending Sony on crossplay get you?

What benefit is there for you that Sony does not allow crossplay?

Why do you not want Sony to allow crossplay?

I am just trying to understand why anyone would defend a company for doing something that does not benefit anyone but the company and/or shareholders themselves.

That was a quick reply.

Nothing. It's just my opinion on this.

In the case of fortnite, sony would lose money over the dlc because dlc transfers between platforms. Mainly, it hurts the other two. If Sony doesn't allow it, people will just buy it on the PS4 where their friends are already on or on pc versus just buying on whatever.

Crossplay is only being allowed on a handful of games. It's not standard practice. If the majority of devs opted for crossplay, Sony would change its policy but the majority of devs wouldn't do that because consoles aren't standardized nor are their networks equal. It creates more technical headaches with multiplayer games. Easier to do separate servers. If Nintendo obtained parity with their hardware (each gen) and network to the others, it might be easier.

If devs did what was done with Fortnite, they would lose money.  For example, if you wanted to play cod with all dlc on all three consoles, you would have to buy everything 3 times. Sony is just adhering to the normal industry practice in regards to consoles and dlc but not with pc. It's why I think that all of the boohooing over fortnite is silly. It started over the dlc/game progress not transferring over between platforms. The people who want crossplay and to be able to transfer dlc/game progress between platforms to be standard  industry practice aren't be realistic.