I've played some crap games in my time but this is truly among the worst. It's like someone decided to mix all the worst aspects of Devil's Third and Battleborn into one horrible cocktail of terrible F2P dreck.
No, they're not modders! Wink wink nudge nudge say no more! They're developers! It's not paid mods! Wink wink cough elbow elbow know what I mean?! They're DLC!
@spartanx169x: I quit over raids. I don't want to have to go to the computer and set up more bloody accounts on some random forum just to play a game that's clearly capable of matchmaking. The game's complete dearth of ingame communication was the other major factor. Now it's gone one step further and bred the most elitist community I think I've ever seen, so suffice it to say I have no interest in Destiny 2.
For some reason people seem to think this is mostly an argument about platform holders but have any of you thought to ask why this is only really coming up in a big way now? With Minecraft? A game that literally everyone on the planet owns sixteen copies of on twelve platforms? The simple fact is that the game has basically made all the sales it's going to make and the game's owners, i.e., Microsoft now, aren't going to really lose out on many sales relative to what they could make. But they can make a lot of brownie points with this gesture.
When a game is NOT crossplatform, it always runs the plausibility of people buying more copies to play with different groups of friends. I'd hate to admit how many games I own on 3+ platforms at this point because I wanted to play with different friend groups. Crossplatform means I would've only ever purchased one copy, not a bunch.
There's all this dissembling and dodging around the question of crossplatform but it's really just down to money. Maybe people are a little upset at you for not allowing it but that's not going to lose you as much money as allowing it would.
I'm not saying Sony's reasoning isn't BS, just that the ACTUAL reason isn't common knowledge for some reason. That and every generation whoever's in the lead gets blamed for not enacting crossplatform play and it just so happens to be Sony this time around.
@spartanx169x: That's what I just said. They're cheap AND lazy. I bet they can't believe their luck that they found a userbase willing to buy the same game with pared back features who will also defend the practice.
@rofluffugus: Check the author, if it's a "one weird trick!" tier clickbait headline you can almost guarantee it's Eddie and the article itself will be full of conjecture and presumption without any research.
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