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Forums - Nintendo Discussion - Fortnite - warning DO NOT play on PS4, or you can't play on Switch (and quick start guide if you're sheltered like me, and didn't know about this game before)

irstupid on 14 June 2018
Maxosaurus-rex said:
irstupid said:

It has been like this for the Xbox One. People just didn't notice it, cause who woudl play fortnite on both systems? You woudl play it on one or the other. Most poeople don't have both of those, and even if they did, they are likely plugged into the same TV, so why woudl you play on PS4 one day and next day XBox. You wouldn't. It was a problem that no one noticed, cause the situation only happend to a few people.

Now though, you have 2+ Million switch owners all trying this day 1. Likely a couple hundred thousand of that 2 million own a PS4, and thus ran into this problem. That is a a lot of poeple. And it's not so easily burshed aside as it was before. Before its easy to say "just play on PS4 then, ignore the xbox" That works for that, because they are both the same system essentially. The Switch though works as a handheld, and that is something peopel want.  

Yea, that sums it up better. Apple locks you into playing on its computer, cause somehow anything you buy in WoW, or part of the subscription costs they get. That is essentially what Sony is doing. They want all fortniters to purchase the micros on their system so they get a cut. 

It doesn't help your case to actually skew the facts. PCs have always been open source. Consoles have always been closed 

I guess hypothetical situations fly over your head huh.



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Maxosaurus-rex on 14 June 2018
irstupid said:
Maxosaurus-rex said:

It doesn't help your case to actually skew the facts. PCs have always been open source. Consoles have always been closed 

I guess hypothetical situations fly over your head huh.

False equivalencies are just that. 



irstupid on 14 June 2018
Maxosaurus-rex said:
irstupid said:

I guess hypothetical situations fly over your head huh.

False equivalencies are just that. 

E3 is over. I'm fine with being banned. 



Maxosaurus-rex on 14 June 2018

This WoW analogy is beyond ridiculous. You're signing on through Blizzard servers. Money is going to blizzard. Computers are not consoles. It's a false equivalency. Nothing else.

Fortnite is a game. Game discs are games. You're going through different servers. Consoles 



LudicrousSpeed on 14 June 2018
Maxosaurus-rex said:
I mean, complaining about this is the equivalent of buying a xbox-one game and complaining the PS4 does not play the game even though you have the PS4 disc as well

Uh, what? You’re either extremely confused as to what is going on, or are being deliberately ignorant about it in order to dismiss it.

Epic has an account system where your content can carry over to other platforms. If you’ve ever logged onto a PS4, you cant carry that content to Xbone or Switch. You can have purchased 100% of your content on PC, only logged onto PS4 once to show off cosmetics to a friend, and now you’re locked out if you want to use your account on Fortnite for the other consoles. Sony holding accounts hostage like that doesn’t really have any precedence or comparable situation that I know of.



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Maxosaurus-rex on 14 June 2018
LudicrousSpeed said:
Maxosaurus-rex said:
I mean, complaining about this is the equivalent of buying a xbox-one game and complaining the PS4 does not play the game even though you have the PS4 disc as well

Uh, what? You’re either extremely confused as to what is going on, or are being deliberately ignorant about it in order to dismiss it.

Epic has an account system where your content can carry over to other platforms. If you’ve ever logged onto a PS4, you cant carry that content to Xbone or Switch. You can have purchased 100% of your content on PC, only logged onto PS4 once to show off cosmetics to a friend, and now you’re locked out if you want to use your account on Fortnite for the other consoles. Sony holding accounts hostage like that doesn’t really have any precedence or comparable situation that I know of.

Again, the closest thing to it is the game discs t. Like you said, there's no precedent so I'm not sure why people would expect to be able to seamlessly transfer cross platform. The closest thing to it would all point not being able to 



RedKingXIII on 14 June 2018
Maxosaurus-rex said:
LudicrousSpeed said:

Uh, what? You’re either extremely confused as to what is going on, or are being deliberately ignorant about it in order to dismiss it.

Epic has an account system where your content can carry over to other platforms. If you’ve ever logged onto a PS4, you cant carry that content to Xbone or Switch. You can have purchased 100% of your content on PC, only logged onto PS4 once to show off cosmetics to a friend, and now you’re locked out if you want to use your account on Fortnite for the other consoles. Sony holding accounts hostage like that doesn’t really have any precedence or comparable situation that I know of.

Again, the closest thing to it is the game discs t. Like you said, there's no precedent so I'm not sure why people would expect to be able to seamlessly transfer cross platform. The closest thing to it would all point not being able to 

You can seamlessly transfer your account between XONE and Switch. Even after linking your account to PSN, you can still use the same account on PC and iOS, and everything you unlocked or bought on PS4 will be there. 



irstupid on 14 June 2018
Maxosaurus-rex said:
LudicrousSpeed said:

Uh, what? You’re either extremely confused as to what is going on, or are being deliberately ignorant about it in order to dismiss it.

Epic has an account system where your content can carry over to other platforms. If you’ve ever logged onto a PS4, you cant carry that content to Xbone or Switch. You can have purchased 100% of your content on PC, only logged onto PS4 once to show off cosmetics to a friend, and now you’re locked out if you want to use your account on Fortnite for the other consoles. Sony holding accounts hostage like that doesn’t really have any precedence or comparable situation that I know of.

Again, the closest thing to it is the game discs t. Like you said, there's no precedent so I'm not sure why people would expect to be able to seamlessly transfer cross platform. The closest thing to it would all point not being able to 

How is this like discs? 

I'm downloading a game on my Switch. A game made by epic games. 

I'm signing into my epic account. 

No where in any of that is SONY involved at all.



Malt4zar on 14 June 2018
Maxosaurus-rex said:

This WoW analogy is beyond ridiculous. You're signing on through Blizzard servers. Money is going to blizzard. Computers are not consoles. It's a false equivalency. Nothing else.

Fortnite is a game. Game discs are games. You're going through different servers. Consoles 

Isn't that what companies are trying to change on the console space? With this whole Cross-play thingy? 

Yes, his analogy doesn't work as well as it should, but it still completely valid.

 

Sony clearly (right now) is the only major console manufacturer working against this gol among consoles. People have the right to complain.



Spade on 14 June 2018
OTBWY said:
Sony is 100% responsible for this and I can't believe people have the courage to defend this anti-consumer behaviour. Sony can do no wrong aye? Cause they are dominating right? Christ.

Don't play it on Switch, play it on PS4. Best shit I saw  

OT: Hopefully Sony can fix this, cause this is a dick move. 



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