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Mistershine on 26 May 2008

Lost Planet: Extreme Condition Colonies Edition hits the shelves this week in the US and next week in the UK and I noticed on the website that it is cross platform(PC/360) multiplayer. As far as I know that is a whole 3 titles that offer this now. Will it ever take off and become the norm? If ms offer free cross platform play to PC owners will that help?

EDIT: Is there a list anywhere of titles that do/will offer cross platform play?



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halogamer1989 on 26 May 2008

If you have XB Live gold subscription u can use that for the Windows games as well. So in order for cross-platform to be free, XBL would have to be free as well--MSFT will not do that.



Mistershine on 26 May 2008

MS know if you're on an Xbox or a PC. Surely it wouldn't be that hard?



ToastyJaguar on 26 May 2008

On PC you need to have an Xbox live gold account to go cross-platform like that, just like with the 360.

It kinda already is the norm for games for windows which are also on the 360.




EaglesEye379 on 26 May 2008

Unfortunately we all think its not that hard but programmers are saying its that hard.

Anyway the list is very short: Shadowrun, UNO, Halo 2 and now Lost Planet Colonies. Its a laughable list really and clearly shows this is not one of MS' priorities.



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Everstar on 27 May 2008

that would be cool if it became the norm



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Strategyking92 on 27 May 2008

It would not be cool, PC gamers have to pay money for something every other single PC game gets for free: online multiplayer. and also they get a better control set-up, mouse and keyboard.



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Mistershine on 27 May 2008

That's what I'm getting at. Make it free for PC gamers to play cross platform games. That way it will encourage devs and games to take advantage of the system.

Keyboard and mouse isn't the best control scheme for all game types.



IllegalPaladin on 27 May 2008

Yea, it would be cool if we could get these things, but not at a price seeing as many of the same features are available without charge.

Not to mention that I hear that Silver Windows Live users get shafted a bit when it comes to available features.



selnor on 28 May 2008
Strategyking92 said:
It would not be cool, PC gamers have to pay money for something every other single PC game gets for free: online multiplayer. and also they get a better control set-up, mouse and keyboard.

Thats why my mate absolutely kicks the crap out of PC Halo 2 players with his Xbox controller. He went 3 hours against a PC clan with his xbox clan and died twice in those 3 hours. They trounced the PC clan.