Cross save any time soon ?

[Riverside]

I'd say that was a bad call given the fact that is quite easy for a veteran to make credits when starting over.

But the fact is: it is possible to have the same account, at least for xbox/pc. There was a case here on the forums (quite recently) when someone could start on pc using the xbox account and, for a brief period of time, could play on pc using the commander on xbox.
It happened during an account transfer XB -> PC and FD "corrected" this and claimed it to be a bug. It ended up with the cmdr on xbox being deleted.

Didn't see that one. Presumably broke the terms of some contract rather than being technically un-feasible.

 

[Northpin]

Didn't see that one. Presumably broke the terms of some contract rather than being technically un-feasible.

This thread

 

[Drelthar]

Cross save... Sure!

Cross PLAY!!!! YEAHHH!

 

[Factabulous]

Didn't see that one. Presumably broke the terms of some contract rather than being technically un-feasible.

Will also talked about it today

Hi @MercutioLeonhart,

Although both your console and PC access can be assigned to the same email address, they are still in fact two separate accounts.

It's not possible for a single account to house licences for two different platforms, so instead, the PC account becomes the 'parent' account and your console license gets split onto a 'child' account, with a unique console identifier.

Where ARX are concerned, because they are two separate accounts (one on PC and one on PlayStation), you won’t be able to buy ARX on one and use them on another.

 

[Druskq]

In my opinion it's not as easy as it initially seems on paper.

The F2P model is an easier prospect, like Rocket League, Fortnite and now Destiny 2. When it comes to paid content there are a lot more discussions that need to be had with the various platform owners as to how it works when content was bought on another service and hence the cut going elsewhere.

Obviously player numbers factor in to the conversation.

Even with the F2P model, the place where the premium currency is purchased matters when it comes to the isolated ecosystems of Sony and Microsoft - I think you need some real weight when it comes to user base to be able to coax the likes of Sony to be happy with ARX purchased on an Xbox to be used in transactions on their platform.

I'm probably wrong, but it's how I see it - and given that FDev are also elbow deep working on a new premium addition to the game for the next year+ I would say it's unlikely. (I've played on PC since the single station alpha, but more recently have moved to the PS4 due to convenience and friends etc, so I would love it for what it's worth)

Destiny 2 isn't fully free to play, you still need to buy the latest expansion on both platforms in order to have access to all the content. And they've implemented it very well if you play on a platform with the cross-savefile while not having all the DLC's on all platforms.

Divinity Original sins 2 has cross-save too. Between Switch and PC.

I can imaging the hardest part is getting all the parties to agree with the terms of implementing crosssave.
Larian Studios, didn't even make a big deal out of it. They were like, "Hey our game is on the Switch now too. Oh and by the way, it supports cross-save."

 

[[VR] Goooost]

Given that some of the popular games like Destiny2 and (dare I mention the insidious) Fortnite have cross save features, as someone who plays Elite Dangeous on 3 platforms, (XBox,PS4 and PC) is there any possibility of Elite Dangerous getting a cross save feature any time soon? Have Elite and my Conda on XBox, and Conda on PS4, and now working up from my Type 7 on PC. Would be nice to sync to one, and use that Cmdr profile. Surely it cannot be that difficult if a game like Destiny 2 is offering it, which would also have the same online challenges.. (imho of course)

They would sell more copies of the game if they offered it. I'd buy a PC version and a PS4 version (most likely)