@SgtChris_P_Bacon Crossplay has long been incorporated by the jargon of the industry. Media and players alike refer to crossplay as a feature enabling people with different hardware to play together. Hardware here being the other long established concept of platform: every console, PC (as in Windows computer), Mac, Android and iOS.
EA pulled the rug from under the consumers collective feet here. Origin and Steam (and Epic) are glorified storefronts. The platform of their games is only one, PC. It's all the same game, the same code.
No one's denying the need to work on validating software licenses acquired through different vendors, plus the necessary interoperability between the underlying services these store launches run like anti-cheat etc. But they are all on only one platform, PC.
As thus, it is ridiculous to just come out and say "oh you didn't know Steam and Origin would not be able to play together? You silly! Didn't we say that crossplay was delayed?"
EA should be have disclosed this beforehand, way before pre-orders started. They're going against the grain of the whole industry.
