Since the logical move if crossplay happened would be to remove PC's ability to use addons, I'm not now nor will I ever be in favor of crossplay with consoles.
Alphawolf01A wrote: »Twohothardware wrote: »Holycannoli wrote: »Twohothardware wrote: »They’re just hurting themselves and the game by not making a free to play push on all platforms to increase player counts.
Aren't bots already a problem on consoles? Do you want to know how much worse it will be if this went free to play?
You can’t play ESO on console without a PSN or Xbox live subscription.
And the only bots on console are farming resource nodes in starter zones.
Bot farming on console is far worse than just farming resources in starter zones. They are rampant in every base game zone. From clusters of sorcs with pets killing mudcrabs, bears, wolves, senches 24/7 to bot trains running programmed paths around the zones, killing and harvesting everything in their path. I've seen bots in public dungeons like Lion's den in The Rift, running around the dungeon, avoiding the mobs and harvesting everything. To my knowledge, these kind of programmed bot activities can only be done on a PC running a console emulator in order to set paths and move the bot trains in coordination.
As for crossplay, it would ruin the console economy, especially guild traders, since there are only 5-6 traders per town. There is already competition for the trader spots. How would that work out if the number of guilds competing for a trader just doubled (if NA and EU servers crossed) or tripled (if all 3 NA systems merged. The same for EU.) Or 6X increase if ALL 6 servers crossed) There aren't enough traders to go around and since gold is far more readily available on PC, console guilds wouldn't stand a chance at getting a trader, ever again.
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Maddoghalo1 wrote: »SpacemanSpiff1 wrote: »
No because that’s not the point of this post at all. Free to play defined for Xbox and PlayStation for example is you’re not required to pay a subscription to Microsoft or Sony to be able to play one of your games you own.
ESO has their own servers, thus they should at least talk to their new owners Microsoft and say hey, we want our game to be free to play so they can play our game without needing to pay your Xbox live service fee.
Like destiny does and several other popular games on console. Google Xbox games you can play without Xbox live and you will get more understanding on the purpose of this topic.