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Pemalite on 19 June 2017
Azzanation said:
Sony want to sell an Xbox own IP and dont want to use there services to play it?
Maybe MS should just pull the plug on the PS versions.
Sony had no issues signing into Steam for Portal 2 for cross play.
Seems they just want to take and never give.
Arrogant at its best.

Good point. I had completely forgotten about Steam and Portal on Playstation 3.




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LudicrousSpeed on 19 June 2017
twintail said:
LudicrousSpeed said:
If that's the reason Sony said no, then they'd have said yes to Rocket League.

Not really. It could just be a standard practise. Instead of making it a case by case situation

If it's standard practice then you're still agreeing with me.



vivster on 19 June 2017

It's the easiest solution to enable cross play. There are other ways though if you have dedicated servers.



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ironmanDX on 19 June 2017
Azzanation said:
Sony want to sell an Xbox own IP and dont want to use there services to play it?
Maybe MS should just pull the plug on the PS versions.
Sony had no issues signing into Steam for Portal 2 for cross play.
Seems they just want to take and never give.
Arrogant at its best.

Not to mention rocket league... People need to realise Sony isn't your friend. Sony isn't a good guy. It's a business.

 

I have no real problem with no Minecraft crossplay though. It does promote the main competitor.

 



S.T.A.G.E. on 19 June 2017
Azzanation said:
Sony want to sell an Xbox own IP and dont want to use there services to play it?
Maybe MS should just pull the plug on the PS versions.
Sony had no issues signing into Steam for Portal 2 for cross play.
Seems they just want to take and never give.
Arrogant at its best.

Im guessing thats because Microsoft has a loose idea of what exclusivity is. They dont really value it.  That, and the profit they would be missing out on would be quite crazy. 



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LudicrousSpeed on 19 June 2017
twintail said:
LudicrousSpeed said:

If it's standard practice then you're still agreeing with me.

They didn't say yes to rocket league so I'm not agreeing with you

And saying no to Rocket League means an XBL sign in isn't their reason for denying cross platform play here, because Rocket League doesn't require one. So yeah, you're agreeing with me. Thanks!



Dr.Vita on 19 June 2017

I can completely understand why Sony is against this. Don't know why people reacted so negative about their decision.




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VGPolyglot on 19 June 2017
Azzanation said:
Sony want to sell an Xbox own IP and dont want to use there services to play it?
Maybe MS should just pull the plug on the PS versions.
Sony had no issues signing into Steam for Portal 2 for cross play.
Seems they just want to take and never give.
Arrogant at its best.

But MS is obviously not going to pull the plug, because it's too lucrative for them.



think-man on 19 June 2017
Azzanation said:
Sony want to sell an Xbox own IP and dont want to use there services to play it?
Maybe MS should just pull the plug on the PS versions.
Sony had no issues signing into Steam for Portal 2 for cross play.
Seems they just want to take and never give.
Arrogant at its best.

I don't think it's possible for MS to pull the plug, Sony published them on their consoles, they obviously have an agreement. 



 

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IamAwsome on 19 June 2017

It's on MS servers so what was Sony expecting?? I could understand not wanting to inflate XBL activity numbers, but not expecting something like this was unrealistic.