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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Anonymous
4 years ago
@pandareno1999

Oh, no. In this topic I'm solely focusing if PC's should have the ability to choose if they can choose for themselves. Like a full on debate about what others think. I'm not at all trying to push for separated input lobbies in this discussion.
Anonymous
4 years ago
@hayhor

Thanks for taking the time to reply, but I don't agree with the notion "no one" would have it enabled. I'm not trying to sound sarcastic by any means. I see quite a bit of console players in PC lobbies right now, so it seems a lot of PC players must enjoy this feature.
Anonymous
4 years ago
@Cheese9Man

If you don't have anything to add directly about the topic I kindly ask you to move on.
BaldWraithSimp
4 years ago
@hayhor you wouldn't get games aka crossplay removed, just like how it was forced on PC(somehow the solution is forced crossplay on PC AGAIN according to you)

Or make AA 0.4, remove controller icon. Problem solved
hayhor
Hero
4 years ago
@Popa2caps You see "quite a bit" but have no actual idea if you have 10% or 20% or more console in your lobby. I'd bet the number is very low. And the reason I'm confident in that is because they have data on this and took away the option for a reason.
hayhor
Hero
4 years ago
@BaldWraithSimp If they just remove the icons people would whine less I agree.
iPyromix
4 years ago
@Popa2caps I don't wanna play with console players. Thats it.
Anonymous
4 years ago
@iPyromix

Thanks for taking the time to reply.

I don't mind the console players directly, but I still dislike cross-play because of the added issues that it brings to the Apex Legends PC network. The worst issue by far in my opinion is "Network Latency Compensation". Here is a good read about the term.

https://www.reddit.com/r/apexlegends/comments/atvvvj/a_primer_on_lag_compensation/

So I basically only dislike consoles connecting to PC lobbies because I truly think they get favoritism over PCs because of their old hardware.
Anonymous
4 years ago
@hayhor

I play solo a lot and most times I'm working on my website, I just spectate after my team gets eliminated. So I have a good general idea of the amount of console people in PC lobbies. It's quite common now for consoles to be in PC lobbies. Common being on average 6 (up to 10) teams out of 20. This is from central and eastern United States data centers in public games.

Also in my experience I've noticed far more console players in ranked lobbies than public games (Diamond up) with 9 or more on average.

I'm totally assuming by saying this, but I honestly think Respawn forced cross-play on PC players because they knew the majority of players would in fact disable the feature altogether. Now though, with cross-play being forced for this amount of time, I'm sure if PC players were given a choice, not everyone would disable it outright because they have used it and/ or enjoy using it.
hayhor
Hero
4 years ago
@Popa2caps Ok so let's say half your lobbies are console players. Would you be willing to live with longer queues or even no queues because what you are saying would split your lobbies in half.

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