Cross platform play?

Shaminar

I would really love it if you could adjust the servers so everyone from PC, MAC, PS4 and XboxOne can play together. It would increase the population in the areas making grouping for world bosses or group/public dungeons easier to access.

Please see if you can do this as I'd love to play with people who own the MAC, PS4 and XboxOne versions, and as an extra bonus (that can be turned off), add a little icon next to the characters names that tell what system they're playing it on.

AzraelKrieg

It's been asked a few times, I believe @ZOS_RichLambert has addressed it a couple of times.

Grao

Please NO! Seriously... No. This game already has so many bugs, so.... So many bugs. I can't even imagine how much ZOS would screw cross platform play, have any of you been following the XBox debacle? Can you picture if by merging game play PC got the horrifying bugs Xbox and PS4 experience with every expansion?

No... Just No. Zenimax is not competent enough, they can't even even make the game work properly for consoles.

wookikiller95

i dont like the idea of cross platforms, but i can imagine NA+EU Server for each platform

just imagine the lag from a crossplattform server

Grao

wookikiller95 wrote: »

i dont like the idea of cross platforms, but i can imagine NA+EU Server for each platform

just imagine the lag from a crossplattform server

Oh gods...

I can picture Zenimax's PR add about it too.
"If you thought it was bad before, experience new heights of lag in Cyrodiil with the new cross-platform server, EU + NA. Try out this wonderful feature that will leave you wondering if your enemy was using a hack or if you just lagged all through combat all the way to death screen!"

Tandor

They have said it isn't on the agenda.

RebornV3x

It would be cool to play with PS4 players but console and PC cross play is a bad idea unless your a PC player than it would be like shooting pigs in a barrel in PVP and console players would always be at a disadvantage to PC players

LiquidSchwartz

Itd be horrible facing pc as console

AmberLaTerra

No to the cross faction play, but cross faction guilds/chat would be nice, even if we could not play with our friends on other servers we could at least chat with them and be in guilds with them, and it would benefit the economies of all the servers balancing out supplies and prices for everyone.

Neirymn

Cross-platform doesn't mean having more people in the game, it only means every players from every platforms can play together on one shared server.

If you take FFXIV for example, it is cross-platform but the whole population of players is divided in data centers (3 JP, 2 NA and 1 EU) and those data centers are also divided in "worlds" (servers), so basically even if you can play on PC, PS3 and PS4 on the same server, you don't play with everyone nor with more people, there is a limited number of players a server can handle.

I don't know how exactly a mega-server work, if you can "add" more servers indefinitely, but in my opinion more players from other platforms is cool in theory but it surely will bring more lag to the game... And I don't want NA and EU mega-servers to be merged as it means that we'll have just one mega-server in one place in the world, so if you're far from it, welcome latency.

But I am ok for a cross-platform account, meaning you can choose to play with all your characters and items bought in the crown store on every servers and every platform as long as you purchased the game on that said platform. Or at least they should add a server transfer service costing real money to the game, FFXI and FFXIV did it.

NeillMcAttack

I would like to see Xbox and PS4 cross platform play. But console and PC would ruin all levels of competition for consoles. From Cyrodiil to trials to VMA, even the markets... Would be ruined for the console player due to a lack of add-ons. Even if consoles gained the ability to install add-on's I would not like it. Add-ons should be optional, not necessary to compete. And I don't want that messy, unattractive, clogged up UI that PC players run with. That is not the game I bought.

Divinius

Consoles and PC would never want to play together.

You might think you do, but you don't. Trust me.

Whiphid

No thanks... You can keep the cheaters in the PC server.
There's no need to bother console players with those antics. And the obvious add-on imbalance.

theher0not

NO. I don't want the console players on the PC servers. They will always be at a disadvantage compared to PC. (And we will always have cheaters)

jello

No. We dont like cheaters and keyboardwarriors on ps4.

UltimaJoe777

Zenimax wants to do this, but it's not up to them. They must have the go ahead from both Sony AND Microsoft before this can be done.

idk

1. It's not a simple adjust the servers. They'd have to merge the servers
2. Zones cannot handle large populations. When the population in a specific area gets very high that area becomes unplayable. We have seen this twice in PvE during the last few months. We have seen it often in cyrodiil.
3. PC users have a competitive advantage to begin with and we also have the use of add-ons to further that advantage.

Basically, great thought that really cannot be implemented.

TheDarkoil

What about chat though? I don't want my headphones full of mic chat.

Justice31st

No, because then PS4 and Xbox One players will be fighting over which console lags less in ESO.

exeeter702

I don't give a rats ass about cross platform. Just let me migrate my *** over to pc from console for the love of god.

Justice31st

exeeter702 wrote: »

I don't give a rats ass about cross platform. Just let me migrate my *** over to pc from console for the love of god.

^ Oh god me too. Consoles still are one base DB patch behind PC and have the thaumaturge CP bug, and no addons (even though Bethesda has a whole creation kit out for their game titles on console.)