Enable crossplay between PC and console

Togal

It would be nice to play with more people. Smaller que times for dungeons and BGs, more people in cyrodiil. Better trade and item accessibility. I don't see any harm besides more guilds competing for space. ESO feels empty, maybe time to enable crossplay.

xHotguy6pack

Enable Crossplay

Or account transfer. Games dying and needs more people.

kargen27

Don't enable Crossplay

PC has add-ons. Those are not going away. Each platform has its own unique economy. Being able to farm items on one platform then sell them on another could be an unfair advantage.

And chances are since the game wasn't set up with this in mind they would be unable to do it. There has to be tons of duplicate names across all the platforms and I don't see that as something easy to solve.

People have been saying the game is dying for years now. The game is doing fine. Just two days ago (maybe one day) someone was complaining that public dungeons were to crowded.

Indigogo

Don't enable Crossplay

Nope, absolutely do not want to play with or against PC players with add ons. The difference is too huge.

JKorr

xHotguy6pack wrote: »

Or account transfer. Games dying and needs more people.

:snicker: Yep. Game's been dying since 2015. Gazillions of players threatened to leave ESO because Wildstar was going to be just billions of times better for everything. Repeat the same scenario for every game that's come out since.

No to the cross play. PC has addons and other advantages that would cause issues with console players who can't use them.

Also they've said no transfers, for many reasons. The ONLY time you could transfer from pc to console was when the console servers were brand new and empty. They haven't done it since, and stated they won't do it again.

Blinx

Don't enable Crossplay

No Thanks

honglatongla

Don't enable Crossplay

Just, no.

Oznog666

Don't enable Crossplay

In addition to the already mentioned "add-on" problem there's another, really big issue: the servers. Currently there are megaservers for PC, XBox and Playstation and all of those servers are having very often problems. With only one server it will be most probably unplayable.

starkerealm

Enable Crossplay

xHotguy6pack wrote: »

Or account transfer. Games dying and needs more people.

Game's dying its way up to a million active users every month... clearly.

Crossplay would be cool. Probably isn't possible, and ZOS isn't about to allow transfers, but crossplay would be very cool.

jacktalkthai

I wonder how that would affect the economy. Vastly different prices between both platforms.

colossalvoids

Don't enable Crossplay

I'm from pceu where we have overpopulation in prime time. Also "unfair" advantages like add-ons and mouse/board
etc would be here still so zero chance really. Patch distribution also would be a problem, obviously.

phaneub17_ESO

Don't enable Crossplay

Even Cross-Save would be an issue, they want you to pay for each content over again on each platform, Cross-Save would bypass that allowing you to buy once and have it available everywhere would not be in their best interest... your money.

fizl101

Don't enable Crossplay

Couldyou imagine Craglorn - LF for magcro/magblade for <insert trial of choice> must be on PC and have <insert addin of choice>

My poor stamplar main on PS will be even lower in the list of characters wanted for a trial

Casul

Depends

Consoles yes, pc no. It would destroy consoles economy. And addons influence the PC economy to much. Not to mention the influence of better hardware etc.

But console to console crossplay would be nice.

colossalvoids

Don't enable Crossplay

fizl101 wrote: »

Couldyou imagine Craglorn - LF for magcro/magblade for <insert trial of choice> must be on PC and have <insert addin of choice>

My poor stamplar main on PS will be even lower in the list of characters wanted for a trial

Is this a normal console practice to ask for a specific class for crag pugs?

JTD

Enable Crossplay

Sure why not.
Give accounts a different icon for console or pc and good to go. I'll choose who to play with, its not that difficult seeing the ***-ton of trial discords I already have to browse through.

preevious

Don't enable Crossplay

Is it an hidden "ban all add-ons" thread?

So, no cross play because of add-ons, of course. That would be unfair.

svendf

It can be done FF14 have crossplay. The only requirement is adapting Sonys - no addons policy. This is the reason Im on PS, I like Sonys way handling this.

Another MMO title I can mention is War Thunder by Gaijin, who have crossplay on PS, PC and Xbox one.

fizl101

Don't enable Crossplay

colossalvoids wrote: »

fizl101 wrote: »

Couldyou imagine Craglorn - LF for magcro/magblade for <insert trial of choice> must be on PC and have <insert addin of choice>

My poor stamplar main on PS will be even lower in the list of characters wanted for a trial

Is this a normal console practice to ask for a specific class for crag pugs?

Yes, especially for vet, or sometimes generic for mag DD

preevious

Don't enable Crossplay

colossalvoids wrote: »

fizl101 wrote: »

Couldyou imagine Craglorn - LF for magcro/magblade for <insert trial of choice> must be on PC and have <insert addin of choice>

My poor stamplar main on PS will be even lower in the list of characters wanted for a trial

Is this a normal console practice to ask for a specific class for crag pugs?

It would depend where, I suppose.

On PC EU, they don't ask for specific classes for vet-pug. Only for the achievement.

redlink1979

Don't enable Crossplay

Togal wrote: »

(...) ESO feels empty (...)

Maybe it's due to the platform/server/day time you usually play.
Tbh I never seen the game empty despite of all the death claims/prophecies I read in here .

muonlinei2

Depends

It's really difficult to enable a full crossplay on a game like ESO, specially when PC has addons, PTS, and it's first to receive updates and fixes.

It would be a very good thing to enable crossplay between consoles tho (PS4/5 + XB1/XSeries), as they are always "the same game" with "the same stuff".

And of course, make it an in game option.

Asardes

Don't enable Crossplay

Databases have issues as they are and performance is quite bad already, so a clear no.

Spurius_Lucilius

Depends

There are lots of issues that need to be solved before cross-play is possible:
Would Sony allow it on PS4 and 5?
Is is technically possible for them to merge 6 servers into 2 servers?
Also PC and console often don’t get patches and maintenance on the same day, so they will need to change the way they do these.
These are some examples. They can’t just “enable” it. It can’t be that easy.

ralphylauren

Enable Crossplay

I agree with the folks that are saying console cross is the best middle ground. Something like this would literally breathe new life into eso, the rivalry and competitions that can be had, more people to form pve endgame guilds etc.

Yes please ZOS this would be so epic 🙏

Dark_Lord_Kuro

Enable Crossplay

Yes to cross play but no with pc
Ps/xbox crossplay will most likely work due toto them both having no addon
Due to having addon pc gain an advantage wich cant exist if we are to play together and i beleive pc player would prefer keeping their addon than joining the crossplay party

As for the duplicate name this is how i would do it
1. 1-2 months before the crossplay goes live. Warn every player trough every socialmedia avaiable: email attatch to their account, twitter, facebook,etc that every character that did not loggin for a year will see its name changed to
(insert charactername)_(insert current server) that way no one loose name to inactive player and can be solve by simply logging in within the 1,-2 month

2. Character created first will keep the name over character created recently

3. Distribute free name change token equal to the number of name changed a player as


Also for those who will eventually say that sony doesnt allow crossplay heres a list of a few ges where there is crossplay

Active crossplay
Final fantasy 14 pc/ps4-5
Dc universe online pc/ps4-5 are together xbox and switch are on there own for some reason
Tera as playstation/xbox crossplay
Black desert online as console crossplay

Unconfirmed crossplay
Destiny 2 linched cross progression a year or so ago wich enable you to switch from a platform to another at will and not loose progress and rummors says that there is plan for crossplay
Cant confirm but a friend told fortnite does crossplay too

So yes sony does allow crossplay somethime

Tandor

Don't enable Crossplay

Absolutely not, nor will it ever happen.

svendf

In the long term ZOS have to enable crossplay just to survive no way around it. It can be between PS ans Xbox or all three platforms, the step have to be taken.

Eventhough we play the same title on different platforms (PS/Xbox and PC), we don´t play the same game.

A good question would be. Why is crossplay so important for some titles/devteams ?

bbrown0770

Don't enable Crossplay

No just no addon would be a advantage to pc player

JanTanhide

Don't enable Crossplay

It would be terrible. Most consoles are so inferior to PC's they are "slide show" machines in many places. Especially in Cyrodil during combat. 10 FPS on a console VS 150 FPS on a PC. Yeah, that would work well.

AlnilamE

Don't enable Crossplay

Not until you explain in excruciating detail what you mean by "cross-play".

Are we merging servers?