Cross-play on PlayStation 4 is now available for all developers to use in their games

[DonFerrari]

Cerebralbore101 said:

KLAMarine said:

"The majority of people asking for it aren't Playstation users though. Even in an online poll, where even Xbox/PC users could respond only 29% of people polled actually cared. http://www.pushsquare.com/news/2018/09/poll_do_you_care_about_cross-play_now_that_its_available_on_ps4 A poll limited to PS users would come back with 15% or less giving a damn about it. 

Edit: Here's another poll taken about crossplay. The results are similar. https://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2018-04-12-do-gamers-really-care-about-cross-platform-play"

>That's nice and all but who cares what indifferent people think? They're indifferent. Baddman below on the other hand seems to have enough reason to care about this.

"Third parties asked Sony for Xbox One style DRM back in 2013. Should Sony have caved to that too?"

>No but DRM and cross-play are different. Clearly.

"Third parties only want crossplay so that they can keep their shitty GaaS MTX infested games alive a little longer, to milk even more money out of them."

>If someone wants to spend on these games, that's completely up to them.

"Bad games die faster if the userbase is split between three or four platforms. "

>Good games die faster too so that's neither here nor there.

"Xbox only boasts about it because its' damned near the only thing they can boast about. They manufactured the entire controversy. Of course they allowed crossplay on Xbox and PC. They are invested in both platforms. And yes Nintendo did allow crossplay on a handful of games, but let's not kid ourselves. MS was looking to drive the narrative to benefit themselves."

>To benefit themselves and benefit consumers as well. Baddman's kids below look to benefit from cross-play. Good on Microsoft, they deserve every bit of praise. Sony on the other hand was hijacking Fortnite accounts at their worst.

That's nice and all but who cares what indifferent people think? They're indifferent. Baddman below on the other hand seems to have enough reason to care about this.

You are missing the point. Most people don't care about crossplay. So it was never worth going about making mountains out of molehills over it anyway. 

No but DRM and cross-play are different. Clearly.

It doesn't matter if they are different. If the argument is invalid for one thing it is invalid for all things. 

"No true man owns a dog."

No true Scotsman eats porridge. 

"Oh, but dogs and eating porridge are different. Clearly!"

Good games die faster too so that's neither here nor there.

A game with 500,000 players is not going to die anywhere near as fast as a game with 100,000 players. I don't care if a game that came out in 2010 dies out in 2015 instead of 2025. Publishers do care if their crappy MTX infested game dies out in six months though. If crossplay means they can keep that game on life support for another six months of course they are all for it. 

To benefit themselves and benefit consumers as well. Baddman's kids below look to benefit from cross-play. Good on Microsoft, they deserve every bit of praise. Sony on the other hand was hijacking Fortnite accounts at their worst.

Well, I agree that Sony should not have hijacked Fortnite accounts. If somebody wants to log into another system and play their profile they should be able to. That's a bit different than having separate servers for online matches though, and not the same as crossplay. 

But it was not to benefit consumers. If MS was out to benefit consumers they would never have standardized paid online. They would never have pushed for DRM on Xbox in 2013. They would never have started pumping MTX into their flagship titles. They are out for themselves, simple as that. 

From what I remember if the person had they account tied to the Xbox, Switch, etc they also wouldn't be able to log into PS. Not that the guys that were playing on those systems when logging on PS4 suddenly couldn't take their account out of it.

We can certainly complain about blocking access for the account between platforms (which between Android and iOS can happen depending on how you decide to log in the game). But that isn't really highjacking.