Crossplay
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That's got my vote.
You need Sony and Microsoft to allow it, petition them...
Yep, FD's got nuthin' to do with it.
controllers are only a minor concern. I have a full hotas setup with voice attack and vr on PC and I still have a hard time taking down AI pilots ranked at dangerous or above.
As others have said, I'm pretty sure that if MS and Sony allowed it all players on all platforms would play in the same virtual galaxy.
And I can handily wreck Elite Anacondas with an XBox controller on my PC...
They need to prioritize the negotiations.
Sony is particularly stubborn in this regard...
"convince sony", mostly
having nintendo and microsoft get together and rub it in sony's face didn't hurt either
Make billions for MS and Sony?
Short version is probably money... Epic probably paid (and pay) all involved (Console Platform Controlling) parties for the privilege of cross-play.
Removing platform segmentation though is unlikely to solve anything of consequence - though if FD can pull it off and in doing so silence the Open Only/Bias Mob once and for all then I am all for it. However, I suspect it will just further encourage the Open Only/Bias Mob thus I think it should not be done.
Depends on how they are implemented... they are most likely not going to be universally persistent.
They are going to be persistant in that they stay while the owner is logged off, but, the owner has to give permission to players to dock there, and since we can't communicate across platform in any way and can't even see cross platform players there would be no point in having them existing across all platforms. So I doubt it myself, but we will have to wait for more information.
What did they do differently? The made the most popular game of the last 5 years, if not of all history: Fortnite. A game so popular that many people declare it to be a cultural phenomenon and who has an estimate of more than 125 millions of players. To put that in perspective, after 5 years we, the Elite players, have not mapped that many star systems and we have people exploring 24/7 and going out in massive explorations that last months with about 10,000 players.
The result is that it is estimated that in 2018 Epic made about 2.4 billion USD in revenue in 2018 from Fortnie alone. Again, to put it on perspective, FD made £34.2 million in revenue in 2018 according to their financial report from all their games.
Epic is several orders of magnitude ahead of Frontier in bargain power. There can't be a comparison between a company that organizes a Game World Cup of their prime product giving awards of $30 million USD to the winners, and a company that makes somewhat more than that prize money in total revenues.
Thus, I have no evidence but due to that success, I suspect that Epic didn't ask MS, Sony, Nintendo, iOS and Android to make cross-platform possible, but actually they begged them to enable it on their platforms.
The fact that we can share the same BGS without having different servers for each platform is quite a feat in my opinion.
Gotta remember that once you get crossplay they'll start a campaign to ban your fancy hotas / big rigs - after all that's a pure P2W play right there
