Todd Howard blames Sony for no cross play in Fallout 76

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Started by the-pi-guy, Jun 30, 2018, 03:15 PM

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Good. Hopefully more big developers pressure them, and hopefully people buy software elsewhere. I won't buy any more Ubisoft or EA titles on my PS4 because who knows what kind of account lock bullsh we might see.

None of the games people have made a big deal about so far really NEED crossplay because they're all huge titles with big player pools. Sony shills like to say "well, Sony shouldn't share their user base advantage with the others!" But were talking about games like Rocket League, Minecraft, and Fortnite. And now Fallout. These games have big playerbases already.

Where crossplay would be great is all those smaller less played MP titles with dedicated players who have trouble consistently getting matches. Awesomenauts, Evolve, Battleborn, virtually every racing game with online play, fighters, etc. Games like these, we would see big benefit for gamers.

Also, his name is Godd Howard.
Locking the account like with Fortnite is crazy and should get all the backlash possible.

I don't like backlash for the lack of crossplay though. No informed gamer has ever bought a system/game and expected it'd be possible to play against people on a different console. It'd be just as random as buying a game for one system and expecting it to play on another. Crossplay between PS4 and XB1 could be cool in a lot of ways just like crossbuy between PS4 and XB1 could be cool in a lot of ways, but it's not a problem for a company to not want to support them. Eh it's great for people to express their desire for features they want. I'm just frustrated with people demanding these features as if it's anti-consumer to not have them.

I do wonder if some group/forum has been pushing these things. Crossplay has been a thing for generations and some big games talked about it so I understand why it has become popular to discuss, but other things seemingly came out of nowhere. Like calling first party games anti-consumer. How has something so obviously false become such a popular narrative online? Maybe I'm just an old man afraid of change. I don't remember last gen having such a push to rewrite the rules on how the industry works.