tomofhyrule wrote: »A lot of people keep arguing that ZOS isn't doing crossplay because of the economies or the addons or whatever. It's actually a lot simpler than that:
It's physically impossible with the current server architecture
ESO, unlike other MMOs, runs on a megaserver architecture. That means that any player on a megaserver will be able to play with any other character on a megaserver, but that also means that server transfers are not possible.
I'm sure if this was easy, ZOS would have done it by now. However, we know that they can only copy data from one server to a blank server like they did when the consoles first appeared. Even the PTS every cycle will wipe the data clear and copy a server over from scratch.
If ZOS were to add something like that, they'd need to essentially make a brand new "crossplay" megaserver and then copy and merge all of the data, which would require the creation of a new tool specifically to do so. That definitely would be rife with conflicts and bugs - see what happened with the PTS debacle from last year. It's not impossible to do so, but it would take a lot of work.
One of the first things they could do to help though would be to create a "server transfer" service where only one data set is transferred from one megaserver to another. That of course would require a heavy investment and likely result in the transferred account losing some or all character names due to conflicts. But if they could get that to work smoothly, then they could possibly start to consider making a way to merge megaservers in the future.
Of course, this is implying that there would be no legalese as well. We know that PC and XBox servers would play nice since they both are under Microsoft, but I'm sure Sony's lawyers would not be happy about a way for people to stop playing on a Sony console and start playing on a competitor's system...
Currently ZOS is structurally unable to balance PVE separately from PVP and you imagine they can just wave a wand and change the structure they have to allow for the structural changes and DB consolidation needed for crossplay?
Not to be mean, but the ROI on that is way too small.
Then there's the whole dealing with SONY contractually and as we have no idea on the agreements already in place, that's another hurdle.
Since all platforms received new servers, are there any intentions to implement any kind of crossplay/crosssave feature in the game? I know this has been brought alot and mainly the reason why it was not possible was "that is not how the servers are structured". Well, now that we have new servers across all platforms, will it be possible to implement any type of crossplay? Did they have that in mind when they added the new servers?
Eso EU Xbox PVP is dead for example and it would benefit from such a change, even if it would be done to PVP only since they are instanced based and i suppose it would be easier to be done.
SilverBride wrote: »
I'm afraid I don't understand. What exactly is a seasonal server? Would it be a separate server from a combined crossplay server? If so then that would defeat the reason for having crossplay.
Hey. Been a year or 2 since i posted this. Any news? Honestly i sank so much cash in other pc games that could ve easly been in ESO s pocket. Had a random thought of checking if it s worth coming back but if still no crossplay then see you next year.
Edit : Paid/free acc transfer would work aswell.
sans-culottes wrote: »
Right? Even a paid server transfer option would be an improvement. This would be me to ZOS:
Icy_Waffles wrote: »For me… I play on PS4. I am not getting a ps5 and do not want to restart on a pc.. I’ve been playing since launch on ps4.