Let's have a debate about this.I think PC players should have the ability to choose for themselves if they want cross-play. If someone disables cross-play on PC, they should only connect to others the same.Someone that connects to other platforms should automatically be entered into a cross-play lobby with no way to disable it.https://www.reddit.com/r/apexlegends/comments/atvvvj/a_primer_on_lag_compensation/I basically only dislike consoles connecting to PC lobbies because I truly think they get favoritism over PCs because of their old hardware.

@Popa2caps Server fragmentation or playerbase splitting is not just about increased queue waiting times, but also about a much smaller pool for the matchmaker and higher average ping for many players.The removal of the crossplay toggle was made for the mid/long term good of the game. Players only care about their personal & immediate benefit, when things go South they never admit having a role in the failure and fly away to other titles.If I were a trillionaire, I'd make an experiment: create a game and then give the players access to everything possible, including things like setting servers tick rate or modifying the matchmaking formula. I'd be really curious to see how quickly the players.would destroy it .

@Popa2caps I feel like I saw basically this same post, yesterday. While I agree, and don't even play on PC, you could have just bumped your post from yesterday

Sadly its unavoidable, Console gamers are grouping up with PC players to get into the lobbies for the aim assist help otherwise we wouldnt see console players at all.

I don't know that any of us here knows why the devs have made this particular choice, except that they have made clear on a number of occasions that inclusiveness is important to them.

@pandareno1999 I'm assuming but I honestly think cross-play is forced on PC because the majority of PC players would disable it, if given the option. I wish you could make polls on this forum. Would like to ask how many people would disable cross-play on PC if given the ability.

PC Cross-play Debate, Should PC's Have The Ability To Choose Enabled or Not.

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BaldWraithSimp
4 years ago
@Popa2caps It was done deliberately, they turned it on by default so a lot of people won't even bother or are aware of the settings. Increased queue times obv so force it on everyone eventually to appease the console playerbase.

I see console players sometimes here and there(Singapore), like maybe 5 out of 100 games in Arena(my team/enemy team). Obv just going off my memory, have to do a proper survey otherwise. In BR, it's the same but obv I don't come in contact with all 19 teams.
Kaira-UK-
4 years ago
@BaldWraithSimp It always feels like there's a few console players in all my lobbies and lately they seem to dominate, I would definitely switch off crossplay given the choice.
Anonymous
4 years ago
@hayhor

To simply answer your reply. Yes, without a doubt I would take or wait an extra amount of time with the ability to disable cross-play (myself).
Also, I don't think queue times would be that drastically altered being Apex Legends worked fine without cross-play anyways. Basically I'm saying I don't think much would change in que times.

@BaldWraithSimp

Yeah, It's quite common in US servers to get console players in PC lobbies at the moment. I don't even blame them. If I play ranked, why wouldn't I just start up my console for the extra aim assist lol
DoYaSeeMe
4 years ago
@Popa2caps Server fragmentation or playerbase splitting is not just about increased queue waiting times, but also about a much smaller pool for the matchmaker and higher average ping for many players.

The removal of the crossplay toggle was made for the mid/long term good of the game. Players only care about their personal & immediate benefit, when things go South they never admit having a role in the failure and fly away to other titles.

If I were a trillionaire, I'd make an experiment: create a game and then give the players access to everything possible, including things like setting servers tick rate or modifying the matchmaking formula. I'd be really curious to see how quickly the players.would destroy it .
hayhor
Hero
4 years ago
@Popa2caps That is fair. I'm all for options. It would be nice if they released an official statement with statistics and reasoning why they took away the option.
Anonymous
4 years ago
@DoYaSeeMe

Why would Respawn and/ or EA care about server issues? It's all handled by Unity for Apex Legends directly.

https://www.reddit.com/r/apexlegends/comments/lrh8y1/this_is_why_apex_legends_has_a_lot_of_issues/

"It is not a myth, it is a Fact, all EA games are known to have very bad network quality and unfortunately Apex Legends is no exception, but here are some facts that you need to know:

EA Servers are not currently hosting games for Apex Legends.
EA has no control over Apex regarding networking.
The company in charge of Servers is called: Multiplay.

https://unity.com/products/multiplay

If Respawn had a long term goal, it would be to invest into a new netcode. Apex Legends worked fine before (even better in my opinion) before cross-play was added. There should be an option for each player to decide if they want it or not.
Anonymous
4 years ago
@hayhor

True that. Also found a good read on Apex Legends networking.

https://www.reddit.com/r/apexlegends/comments/lrh8y1/this_is_why_apex_legends_has_a_lot_of_issues/
DoYaSeeMe
4 years ago
@Popa2caps I've been mentioning Multiplay around this forum since 2019. If you do a search, you'll find a ton of posts coming from me about them and other server / network related stuff. Content creators and streamers only discovered this a few months ago, which says a lot about how superficial their research is.
Anonymous
4 years ago
bump, Add the ability to disable cross-play on PC.
AcidicSoda44031
Seasoned Ace
4 years ago
Yes, you should have this option, but not sure about how useful it can be. I tried to disable it on my Xbox a few times, but I only ended up getting awfully long que times. So long that I never managed to even start a match. And there was only 1 player in the que for like forever. I simply cannot be the only one playing on Xbox, can I? Basically the option does not even work for me.

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