@TheMalWareTM the only pointless thing is defending this decision while:
a) EA did not communicate this being the limitation before the release. One might argue they did not communicate it at all, unless we count a forum reply as an official statement
b) this is diving the PC scene completely, since the origin price is way better and will surely lure those, especially from countries where the game costs a lot.
I'm tired of "it's not that easy" approach, we are talking about a triple A game of one of the most popular sports in the world. This ain't a damn life is strange saga or other indie title.
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?
@TheMalWareTM wrote:
@Ultrasonic_77The customer base is too big to notice any visible repercussions whatsoever for a mainstream game like this, especially for an annual release title like F1 in this case where the crossplay feature will be present at launch next year anyway. Regional pricing isn't an issue either, other EA Sports titles clearly prove that. People who go on forums to whine are in the minority, like it or not.
Do you WANT to be treated badly by games developers? Posts like yours will only encourage this, so even if you truly believe what you say, it's still a bad idea to say so.
I don't agree with you though. The microtransaction price changes in GT7 are a very recent example of how player response can influence what happens in a game.
Also, people legitimately complaining about what has happened are not 'whining'.
Good news everyone! After hours and hours of failed support via chat, I managed to get phone support. The person on the phone told me this issue is known. And that it will be fixed within A FEW DAYS!
@TheMalWareTM By the way, whats going on with your fake accounts liking your posts? Seems quite inappropiate to me, especially since you're trying to defend EAs behaviour.
Really hope it's true but I'm sceptical too. If they're confident this is going to be resolved quickly it would surely have made sense for EA/Codemasters to put out a statement to this effect?
@MisterJohnny420 wrote:@TheMalWareTM By the way, whats going on with your fake accounts liking your posts? Seems quite inappropiate to me, especially since you're trying to defend EAs behaviour.
LOL! Wow that's desperate!
@MisterJohnny420Noticed that myself... It's something else... and sad. :D
when is crossplay coming??
Like the 6 months waiting with BF 2042 ............
