Hey everyone,
Origin and Steam will not be able to play online together. When crossplay is introduced later in development, then all platforms can play together in supported crossplay modes (Social Play and Two-Player Career modes)
-rephii
There are repercussions for games developers treating customers badly, particularly for annual release titles like the F1 games, in that it will negatively affect future pre-orders and sales. Suggesting otherwise is both wrong and monumentally defeatist/counter-productive.
If a publisher elects to go against the grain of the videogame industry and treat a PC game acquired through different storefronts as needing the crossplay feature to be playable together online then yeah, that needs to be clearly communicated to the consumers.
Crossplay has always being defined as players of different hardware being able to play together.
No one's denying there needing work to make players able to share features when they can get their licenses from different vendors with different validation systems and all, but it's a stretch to call it "crossplay" when these are mainly glorified storefronts.
It's the same software running on equivalent hardware on the same OS.
Again, if you are going to break those common sense assumptions, you need to communicate it loud and clear.
@TheMalWareTMReferring to the inability of a PC game bought on Origin to share features with the very same PC game bought on Steam as being an issue that needs crossplay feature to be fixed is going against the grain.
Those in the know are full aware of the delay on crossplay, it was not only on Lee Mather interviews but also reported all over the news. But there's some fancy acrobatics going on to a) expect people to know that this would split the PC community like this (because it shouldn't!) and b) to clear EA for their absolute inability to communicate that to the consumers.
They're using the term "crossplay" wrongly as PC and PC are the same hardware, full stop. And doing that as an excuse for their messing up.
Edit: Quick quiz. What is better for EA's pockets: be transparent about Origin and the Steam consumers not being able to play together on release before the preorder commenced, or be radio silent about the issue until the players force it to go public?
