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Mr Puggsly on 26 September 2018
gemini_d@rk said:
Now the community need press microsoft for play fortnite without need pay live gold.

That would be nice, but I fail to see why a free game should have access to online free.

If anything, paid games should have free online.

Crossplay is different, it simply doesent isloate platforms. You cant buy your way around that.



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Intrinsic on 26 September 2018
Angelv577 said:
I am really surprised sony is considering it.

They have got the gen in the bag already. There reallly is no reason for them not to. 

Just watch when PS5 is released it take sony 4yrs to implement it cause they "wanted to get it right".



Neodegenerate on 26 September 2018
Mr Puggsly said:
gemini_d@rk said:
Now the community need press microsoft for play fortnite without need pay live gold.

That would be nice, but I fail to see why a free game should have access to online free.

If anything, paid games should have free online.

Crossplay is different, it simply doesent isloate platforms. You cant buy your way around that.

At this point Xbox is the only platform that requires a subscription to play Fortnite.  You don't need PS Plus, you don't need Nintendo Online, but you do need Xbox Live.  Odd man out on it atm.



forevercloud3000 on 26 September 2018
Neodegenerate said:
Mr Puggsly said:

That would be nice, but I fail to see why a free game should have access to online free.

If anything, paid games should have free online.

Crossplay is different, it simply doesent isloate platforms. You cant buy your way around that.

At this point Xbox is the only platform that requires a subscription to play Fortnite.  You don't need PS Plus, you don't need Nintendo Online, but you do need Xbox Live.  Odd man out on it atm.

True but the fact that pretty much any other title online is going to require Xbox Live regardless makes taking Fortnite out of the pay circle a moot point. Even on PS4 where vast of Free To Play titles do not require PS Plus, odds are you are playing something else that does so you will have it.



      

      

      

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Neodegenerate on 26 September 2018
forevercloud3000 said:
Neodegenerate said:

At this point Xbox is the only platform that requires a subscription to play Fortnite.  You don't need PS Plus, you don't need Nintendo Online, but you do need Xbox Live.  Odd man out on it atm.

True but the fact that pretty much any other title online is going to require Xbox Live regardless makes taking Fortnite out of the pay circle a moot point. Even on PS4 where vast of Free To Play titles do not require PS Plus, odds are you are playing something else that does so you will have it.

Oh I agree, and the fact that Xbox used to hide Netflix behind the gold wall indicates they will never change for Fortnite.  Nevertheless, they are the odd man out and could stand to change their position.



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Dr.Vita on 26 September 2018

What are the chances to see games like Call of Duty or even Dark Souls to follow this path?




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VAMatt on 26 September 2018
Angelv577 said:
I am really surprised sony is considering it.

They received so much bad press around the fortnite stuff, I'm not surprised at all. They just couldn't fool anybody with their ridiculous reasoning anymore.

 

And, really, that's exactly how this is supposed to work. Company does something stupid, consumers pointed out, company improves. To take it a step further, it drives the whole industry forward. So, good on the consumers for speaking up, good on Nintendo and Microsoft for applying pressure as well, and good on Sony for caving and doing the right thing.



Sunstrider on 26 September 2018

Great news, haven't been using my PS4 for almost a week now, been playing Fortnite on PC with my daughter on Switch, now that season 6 is arriving tomorrow, I'll try playing on PS4 for a bit and have a feel on using controllers again like the old Modern Warfare and Black Ops days.



             

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animegaming on 26 September 2018
forevercloud3000 said:
animegaming said:

Difference is that last gen cross play felt like a nice pipe dream then everything change E3 2017 when it was reveal that Minecraft and Rocket League was getting cross play between Xbox and Switch. Then things only got worse when Fortnite AKA the biggest thing in gaming at the moment not only had crossplay between Switch and Xbox, but also Sony locking accounts on PS4 even if they made it on Switch or Xbox. 

Also Microsoft did get flack for it last gen since it killed FFXIV chances of coming to the 360 and while I do love FFXIV, its far from Minecraft, Rocket League, and Fortnite in popularity. 

It only felt like a pipe dream to some because it was MS in the lead. Thats what bothers me about this whole situation. Sony absolutely just got bullied into this by a market tricked into assisting MS in hurting their competitor.  

You do bring up a good point, that there is a difference in the games themselves that are incorporating crossplay like features. Fortnite has ascended to ridiculous proportions. Notoriously FFXIV asked for it on Xbox but were swiftly denied. I attribute MS's denial of it even tho they had once allowed it with FFXI was they only allowed that to sway Square Enix as a company more in their favor at a time where SE was royally peeved at Sony(Slim PS2 incapable of playing FFXI). They already got FFXIII to break it's exclusivity agreement and saw no profitable or advantageous reason to break their Xbox live rule again for Square Enix.

There is every reason in the world now for MS to want crossplay, because it is something that benefits those not in the lead. Userbase is a selling point that is now being derailed. When your friends had a 360 you got a 360 because you wanted to be able to play with them. If you didn't get the same system you would be left out. On a business note this was positive for the market leader, but negative for those who aren't.

Corporations aren't your friend and mostly importantly they are not people, you seriously can't bully a corporation especially when they do something stupid. Which was what Sony was doing. Holding people's Fortnite account hostage and denying users on other platformers that they can with their friends on PS4 while those other platforms would let their players play with each other is anti-consumer.

Microsoft also had a major change in leadership both within and outside the Xbox brand, Phil took over the Xbox brand in either 2013 or 2014 and he manage to change into the most pro-consumer console manufacture to the point that the only two things I say MS with the Xbox brand does that are anti-consumer is needing Xbox Live Gold for free to play and just needing to pay money for multiplayer games in general. 



Spade on 26 September 2018
BraLoD said:
Ka-pi96 said:
Boo!

@Sony you're a bunch of spineless cowards! You never should have caved!

Bunch of casuals and people that won't actually even care about it because they can't bitch anymore: they listen.

Crazy hardcore fans claiming for a single thing for almost 20 years: they don't.

Way to go Sony!

You sir, are alone. 



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