Poll: Cross Platform Multiplayer?

[rockera]

I want it, but it won't happen.

Why? Because the more people ***** and bicker about how great their preferred console is, the more money companies like Microsoft, Sony and Nintendo get. They want fan loyalty and to give the illusion of being superior in most aspects so that people will buy their products and use them exclusively when, in reality...

THEY'RE ALL THE SAME GODDAMN THING!

*Ahem* So you see, we'll never have cross-platform gaming for mainstream games until we all stop blowing the companies which give us our consoles.

welp this except the annoyingly subtly differences that makes people think another console is worth buying then another.

 

[EllEzDee]

I imagine it'll be exactly like when TF2 became available for Macs.

Easy.

 

[gmaverick019_v1legacy]

i think it could really help the longevity of certain games lives, as it would bring players together, however i dont think companies would see eye to eye on that...so yea it probably wont happen as a medium for multiplatform games.

 

[Caspertjuhh]

want it really hard. it would be great, because even games with few multiplayer players, like cod4 currently, would still manage to have enough opponents.

 

[Lem0nade Inlay]

It shouldn't be done. If the Xbox Live players were in contact with Nintendo WFC's users, there'd be a lot of crying children and a lot of Wiimotes hurled across rooms.

But...Xbox players don't use a wii controller!
heh....


OP: Shadowrun on the PS2/PC did it. But it was a pretty big failure as the PC users dominated the PS2 players. (That's not meant to sound elitist!) Eventually the game stopped because there was almost no PS2 players.

 

[MrGalactus]

Sweet idea, but they'd have to make sure no one console had an advantage.

 

[Cronq]

^^Then they'd have to disable the use of the mouse on PC's and only let us use 5 keys on the keyboard.

I really don't like the idea. I rather like the console players staying exactly where they are.

 

[General_Potatoes]

Its not a bad idea but was Shadowrun a Cross platform?

 

[LoganN]

When you play online multiplayer in games, its always against people with the same console, but what about those jerks with other consoles who say that their games are better? Wouldnt you want to hold a victory against them instead of your console sharing buddies? So would I. But thats just me saying that. Would you want cross platform multiplayer for your favorite games?

This failed already, PC XBox was mixed before, PC gamers mopped the floor with console gamers. SO much so that in the Vista launch title Shadowrun Microsoft had to gimp the PC controls to keep it even.

http://www.techspot.com/news/39738-microsoft-killed-crossplatform-project-because-pc-gamers-wrecked-console-gamers.html
http://spong.com/article/21938/Rumour-Console-Gamers-Killed-360-vs-PC-Cross-Platform-Play

That was a RUMOR. It even says it in the link. No one from Microsoft has commented on that, ever. Plus, if I recall, they used Unreal Tournament and Gears of War as examples, which Unreal Tournament 3 isn't even a GFWL title.

Its not a bad idea but was Shadowrun a Cross platform?

Yes, Shadowrun is a PC/360 cross-platform title using both Games for Windows LIVE and Xbox LIVE. It, along with Universe at War, Lost Planet: Extreme Condition - Colonies, GameRoom, and BlazBlu Calamity Trigger are the only games that cross-platform with the PC and the 360.

The launch of Windows Phone 7 bodes well for cross-platform gameplay. There are already games, albeit not real time ones(turn based), that have cross-platform with the 360. There is no reason why the games can't be PC/360/WP7.

 

[Korten12]

Well just yesterday I faced somone on Lost Planet: Colonies who was on the 360 and I was on PC, it worked really well.

 

[Kevonovitch]

Ever played Shadowrun?

/me grabs a box of 400D6 yeah XD

anyways, back on topic, cross platform would be ALOT better than stuck on "so if i buy a game, for xbox, i can't play w/ my pc friends, but if i buy a game for PC i can't play w/ my ps3 friends....wtf is this shit?"

ok, racing games? seriously? WHY NOT ALREADY THERE? *ahem* anyways....fps games? yeah....pc and console...lol, yeah, i doubt that'll ever happen unfortunately, although, yeah, consoles would be handicaped, but they might do better in a cross platform than we expect due to auto-aim.

 

[Spencer Petersen]

As long as the console developers are competitors, which they will always be, its much more lucrative to pit us against one another with exclusives and segregated multiplayer.

Also, from a technical standpoint because different console use different control schemes and other perks like aim assist or extra buttons, multiplayer can become imbalanced just because of hardware. For example if a game utilized both Xbox and PC players in the same server, Xbox might have aim assist to compensate for a slower turn and aim speed, which the PC gamers would hate, and the PC gamers have the advantage of a mouse and keyboard interface, which would anger Xbox players.

I think someone tried this before, and it failed badly.

 

[scyrin]

didn't they try something like this for modern warfare between the xbox 360 and the pc?

 

[LoganN]

That was a RUMOR. It even says it in the link. No one from Microsoft has commented on that, ever. Plus, if I recall, they used Unreal Tournament and Gears of War as examples, which Unreal Tournament 3 isn't even a GFWL title.

So why was it Microsoft killed the project? They just didn't feel like doing it anymore?

They didn't? Cross-platform is still fully supported. A game came out two months ago, BlazBlu, fully supports cross-platform with the Xbox and PC.

If you are wondering why there isn't a large ammount of cross-platform games, you'd have to ask the developers that. They are the ones who make the final decision on what is in the game, not Microsoft.

 

[Cody Karr]

I'm pretty sure it has been mentioned in this thread somewhere but I am not going to bother to read it all right now but games like Lost Planet were able to cross platform with the 360 and the PC. I really don't see why Sony and Microsoft can't suck it up and make some kind of deal with certain popular franchises like Call of Duty (that are available for all systems) One of the issues that I can see is that Sony allows for free online multiplayer while microsoft still charges for Live. This would create a very one sided option for some people who really can't afford to pay for live and the map packs and add-ons that come with it.

 

[Dragonforce525]

I wouldn't really see the point, I mean in some aspects it could be good like for example bringing a dead game back to life, merging the consoles would mean more players so finding a lobby in an old game won't become such a chore, but that's the only reason I can think of, I wouldn't really care about beating someone who owned another console, at the end of the day you're still shooting the same thing in the same way, having them be on another console wouldn't make beating them any more enjoyable.

 

[TOGSolid]

That was a RUMOR. It even says it in the link. No one from Microsoft has commented on that, ever. Plus, if I recall, they used Unreal Tournament and Gears of War as examples, which Unreal Tournament 3 isn't even a GFWL title.

Wouldn't even matter.
UT3
Team Deathmatch
Team A uses regular mouse/keyboard
Team B uses a gamepad on their PCs.

I don't see the logistical problem here.

 

[dibblywibbles]

why wouldn't you want to see it? it would be awesome.