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.

Source?  Because again, only source I could find was the dev (SquareEnix) saying that Sony was still giving them a problem with allowing cross platform play.  

Final Fantasy XIV's Director Talks Housing Shortage, PS4 Cross-Play, And Much More

On whether FFXIV is ever coming to Switch or Xbox

“Unfortunately there has not been any sort of change in our situation, because our stance has not changed,” Yoshida said.  "We’ve also run into an issue with Sony - being able to play cross-platform. That’s another issue that we’d have to take care of as well." 

https://kotaku.com/final-fantasy-xivs-director-talks-housing-shortage-ps4-1827024591

1.  The only reason I posted that was because that user was actually looking for previous articles about MS not wanting to participate in cross platform last gen so I gave it to him. That is all, so chill because I was just helping the person out.

2. You're saying that Sony cross play issue is an equivalent comparison to Concentration camp with Jews??......No offence but that example is the absolute worst comparison ever!!!! In what way does cross platform actually hurt people!?!?!?!  Seriously?!?! This isn't war or something crazy close to it.  Companies make decisions like these all the time deal with it!!!

3. "Any other reasons/defending/ecct is purely because you are a fanboy and Sony is your team."  ...speaking of that, anybody that tries to compare Sony's cross play with Jews must have a serious hate against Sony and must be a huge fanboy of the competitor(s) that's for certain, with that I cant take you seriously on future posts.

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. 

Not trying to compare concentration camps to crossplay for equivalency, just used that as an example cause I know that everyone would understand it, cause everyone knows about that. I could have used something as small as you doing something like stealing gum and when you get called out on it, you tell your mom "but mom, brother stole from them a few weeks ago" Him stealing from them in the past doesn't make your stealing no longer bad.

Doesn't matter the example used, the point is that one should NEVER use someone else did that bad thing in the past as an excuse for doing it now.

At this point the best Sony could do is just shut up about it. If they aren't going to budge on the crossplay issue then just ignore those talking about it until it cools down or people get bored. Answering questions and speaking more about it is only going to make it worse.

If I was in Sony's marketing and they asked me about it I would just say: "We made our stance on the subject clear before. Next question please."

As long as Sony continue to lock Fortnight accounts if someone signs in with another console, this will continue to be an issue. Sony can deny cross play all they want but trying to force players to only use their console now that is crossing another line. How many more such cases would Sony locking accounts and content for 3rd party games to just their console. Epic is also at fault here for even agreeing to garbage like this and they should be accused just as hard as Sony.

It use to be said that the best combo was a switch and PS4 but with practices like this, that is no longer the case,. At the end of the day, no gamer should be defending Sony or Epic for this nonsense.

People have to understand that there is a different boss running SNY and the PS division now compared to when they were offering cross play. Different bosses run their departments differently and we can say that John and Ken are running SNY and PS somewhat differently then Andrew and Kaz. In the end, the real issue is MS and their lack of XB1 sales due to screwing up their launch, and following the same decision PS made with PS3, to offer cross play as a way to potentially gain more customers, and at the very least, win some over due to positive PR. MS has the right to offer cross play and complain all they want that PS won't join, but trying to influence other companies to purposely make decisions against their best interests is about as desperate as it comes and any person defending this should just live with their platform of choice, or add/change platforms.

Who cares? So many better games to play than Fortnite.

Sales were cut nearly in half and you don't see any punishment at all? Sure buddy. Keep licking those boots. It changes nothing for anyone.