CROSS PLATFORM PLAY EU AND NA SERVERS

Tzirzhalir

Would it be possible to play on your fully levelled high CP characters from the NA server on the EU server or vice versa? I think it would be great if you could do this instead of making a brand new character on the EU server and have to re do all the achievements etc and grind for CP. Please share your thoughts on the matter. I am interested in your feedback on this subject.

Amottica

Sure it could be done but it is highly unlikely to happen.

The main reason is that our in-game crown purchases are server specific which means those players that already play on both servers likely have purchased many of the same items such as mounts and houses on both servers. That would mean Zenimax would have to refund crowns to provide a server that will not generate revenue. That is the main reason this will not happen.

TaSheen

No thanks. I'm happy to swap servers to play on all my characters (lots, on both PC NA and PC EU).

tomofhyrule

From another thread on this same topic:

tomofhyrule wrote: »

They've mentioned why the transfers work and have worked as they do and why it wouldn't work in the way others envision several times. In short, they're doing a copy/replace. The PTS doesn't have NA and EU characters - it's NA or EU, and it gets wiped every time there's a change.

If the target database is empty (so the console databases before they released, or the PTS after the data is wiped), then it's not a problem to copy things into that database. What they can't do is copy things into a database that already has things in it, at least not without MAJOR work trying to change things. As it stands, the only way they could copy the PS server to PC would be to delete everyone currently on PC in the process.

Imagine it this way. Player 1 on PC makes three characters names A, B, and C. Player 2 then makes D and E, Player 3 makes F, G, and H, and Player 4 makes I. So the database has nine characters in in across four players. Imagine also that the console Player 1 has A and B, and then Player 2 makes C, D, E, and F; and then Player 3 (who is an alt account of PC player 2) makes G and H.

Now, let's say console player 2 wants to move to PC. That means that:

• A blank account (Player 5) on PC needs to be created
• PC already has a "player 2," so a temp file needs to be created so all references to Player 2 (console) can be set to point to Player 5 (PC)
• Characters C, D, E, F need to have names and references changed
• All references to old Player 2 (console) need to be removed
• etc.

This is not a trivial process. A lot of people think it's just copy/paste a folder, but there are references all over the game to all of the housing, storage, bank space, etc, and every one of those elements would need to be changed over manually. That would essentially be someone's full-time job, to move a player into a different server. And let's not even pretend that that won't end up with fragmented data and the high potential for bugs and glitches.

Besides, there is definitely some legal-ese in allowing one system to poach from another server. I can't imagine that things like Crown or DLC sales will not give some revenue to the consoles as well, and I can't imagine a company like Sony being very happy about losing more profit potential to Microsoft by letting players jump around.

kargen27

Amottica wrote: »

Sure it could be done but it is highly unlikely to happen.

The main reason is that our in-game crown purchases are server specific which means those players that already play on both servers likely have purchased many of the same items such as mounts and houses on both servers. That would mean Zenimax would have to refund crowns to provide a server that will not generate revenue. That is the main reason this will not happen.

Well in the sense that anything can be done then sure. Is is feasible or plausible? No it isn't and the explanation for that has been provided multiple times.
Why would Zenimax have to refund crowns? They don't refund people who paid full price when the game goes on sale. Would be the same thing with the crown store. And they could charge a hefty amount to move characters across platforms to make up any loss in revenue from future sales.
Basically it isn't going to happen because it can't happen without major risk to both data bases, added costs beyond projected returns and possible performance impact.

blktauna

I simply don't trust them to do it without affecting the DB adversely. So no thanks.

phaneub17_ESO

What if... Ultimate Cyrodiil PCNA vs PCEU. Devs, Mods, and GMs are the third faction.

FeedbackOnly

Cross Platform zone

kargen27

phaneub17_ESO wrote: »

What if... Ultimate Cyrodiil PCNA vs PCEU. Devs, Mods, and GMs are the third faction.

would require a separate server that would need to be reset any time someone wanted to bring in a character that hadn't been there before.

Dr_Con

No thanks.