{"id":51,"date":"2021-01-29T04:58:29","date_gmt":"2021-01-29T04:58:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gatecitygaming.com\/?p=51"},"modified":"2021-01-29T04:58:29","modified_gmt":"2021-01-29T04:58:29","slug":"the-end-is-nigh-because-sony-hates-crossplay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gatecitygaming.com\/index.php\/2021\/01\/29\/the-end-is-nigh-because-sony-hates-crossplay\/","title":{"rendered":"The End is Nigh…because Sony Hates Crossplay"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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This article originally ran under a different banner\/website in June of 2018 and is now being here re-uploaded for purposes of convenience and consolidation. Please enjoy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

LADIES AND GENTLEMEN!!! LIGHT YOUR TORCHES AND SHARPEN YOUR PITCHFORKS!!! WE ARE GOING AFTER SONY!\u00a0 After I praised them for quality over quantity presentation at E3, they go and pull a stunt like this.\u00a0 Sony you should ask EA how it feels to betray the Doomsayer.\u00a0 My praise is more easily lost than gained.\u00a0 This is something we should not take laying down.\u00a0 We cannot let Sony continue this injustice.\u00a0 I am referring to Sony\u2019s attempt to hold their players hostage from their friends on the Microsoft and Nintendo platforms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I am sure many of you heard of the E3 announcement of Epic Game\u2019s Fortnite<\/em> being immediately available to download to Switch owners.\u00a0 Many players raced to play the red-hot battle royale on their Switch, but were greeted with the now infamous error message: \u201cLOGIN FAILED!!!\u00a0 This Fortnite<\/em> account is associated with a platform that does not allow it to operate on Switch.\u00a0 Neither the Fortnite<\/em> website nor Epic Customer Service are able to change this.\u00a0 To play Fortnite<\/em> on Switch, please create a new account.\u201d \u00a0 Fortnite<\/em> players soon uncovered that their Fortnite accounts had been locked, without warning, to their PlayStation Network accounts.\u00a0 Decoupling their Epic Games and PlayStation account did not remedy the situation.\u00a0 The only creating a new Epic Games account will allow you to play Fortnite<\/em> on Switch.\u00a0 Cries of outrage flooded through Sony\u2019s social media.\u00a0 Now Sony\u2019s response?\u00a0 \u201cWe are listening to feedback.\u201d\u00a0 The same response Bungie gave Destiny 2 <\/em>players when they lied about the experience points players gained.\u00a0 The same response EA told Battlefront 2 <\/em>players when they called out the loot boxes.\u00a0 No Sony trots the same tired hallow excuse.\u00a0 A shocking move, but not a surprising one.\u00a0 May I remind everyone this isn\u2019t the first time Sony resisted cross-platform play at the cost of lessening their player\u2019s experience?\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Flashback to E3 2017, Microsoft announces Xbox would have cross-platform play with not only the PC version of their games but also some other consoles as well.\u00a0 Microsoft proudly boasted that Rocket League<\/em> would allow cross-platform play between the Xbox One, PC, and Nintendo Switch.\u00a0 Playstation 4 Rocket League<\/em> players patiently waited for the announcement for PS4 cross-platform play, but it never came.\u00a0 PS4 Rocket League<\/em> players were stuck playing with a significantly low player count due to Sony\u2019s desire to reject cross-platform play.\u00a0 To add more salt to the wound, Rocket League<\/em> developer Psyonix, went on record saying all they need for cross-platform play with Rocket League<\/em> was Sony\u2019s approval.\u00a0 One could say they threw Sony under the bus, but since Psyonix has done all the work and with a push of a button, the PS4 could have Rocket League<\/em> cross-platform play, I say fair play to Psyonix.\u00a0 Sony was still reluctant to oblige to the idea of Rocket League <\/em>crossplay.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So why is Sony so against cross-platform play? Nintendo is on board with letting its players play with other consoles when historically they have ignored Microsoft and Sony.\u00a0 One could think it is out of its bitter rivalry with Microsoft, but the truth is even sadder.\u00a0 John Smedley, the former president of Sony Online Entertainment, has pulled back to the curtain to reveal who is pulling the strings, the fearful greed driven men at Sony:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWhen I was at Sony, the stated reason internally for this was money,\u201d he said in a Twitter post, \u201cThey didn\u2019t like somebody buying something on Xbox and it being used on a Playstation.\u00a0 Simple as that.\u00a0 Dumb reason, but there it is.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

How utterly pathetic. It would seem Sony is not comfortable in their current position and would like to hold their player base and their Fortnite accounts hostage in hopes to forcibly keep Fortnite players on PS4.\u00a0 One can only assume, Sony thinks this will force non-PS4 player to buy a PS4 so they could play with their friends, but I believe this will have the opposite effect.\u00a0 I have seen many PS4 owners claiming they are done with PS4 and might pick up an Xbox One.\u00a0 Frankly, I can\u2019t blame them as this move portrays Sony as lacking any confidence in the house the PS4 and its strong library has built.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For a while, I was against console exclusives.\u00a0 I felt it was anti-consumer to chain games to these bloated consoles, but after seeing companies like EA and Activision use multi-platform games to milk players dry, I started to have a change of heart.\u00a0 I noticed that console exclusive games do not carry predatory microtransactions games like Battlefront<\/em> and Call of Duty<\/em> carry.\u00a0 Instead, we got solid games freed from the live service taint like God of War<\/em> or Super Mario Odyssey<\/em>.\u00a0 With the price of admission being the one-time cost of the console, I found this offer very tempting especially as someone who primarily plays on PC.\u00a0 However, the ransoming of Epic Game accounts in the hope to sell a few more PS4s, has completely unsold me the idea of getting one.\u00a0 Much like when Sony tried to sell the PS3 for five hundred dollars, this denial of cross-platform play says to me Sony wants you to play their way or not play at all.\u00a0 With multiplayer-focused titles like Fallout 76<\/em>, already reported not to have cross-platform play on the PS4, this is a move that, we as gamers, should not be standing for.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Many Sony activists have come out of the woodwork to defend the company\u2019s actions.\u00a0 They cry SONY IS A BIG BOY THEY CAN RUN THEIR COMPANY HOWEVER THEY WANT.\u00a0 While my initial reaction would be to ask this mad man why he cares for a company that does not care for its customers and openly said get a second job to afford the PS3, I would point out Sony is not giving anything in return for not having cross-platform play.\u00a0 They have only denied you a service that you could have on any other platform.\u00a0 Making the experience on Playstation significantly lesser than the experience on PC, Xbox, or Switch, and Microsoft and Nintendo can smell the blood in the water.\u00a0 They have been cheekily messaging each other over Twitter, asking each other to play dates on Fortnite<\/em>, Rocket League,<\/em> and Minecraft<\/em>.\u00a0 Moves that can only make an old doomsayer smile, because Sony wouldn\u2019t be the laughing stock if they didn\u2019t shoot themselves in the foot.\u00a0 Sony is forcing the old console war at a time Microsoft and Nintendo have already signed the peace treaty over a game of Minecraft<\/em>.\u00a0 They are clearly stagnating in old habits, while Microsoft and Nintendo work to improve their formula.\u00a0 Frankly, if Sony doesn\u2019t catch up with modern times, all I can say to them is the end is nigh.\u00a0 The end is certainly nigh Sony.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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