Yes that would be awesome.

It would be nice, because then I could switch between the PC and the PS5 based on which one is free at the time.

Radiate77 wrote: »

They’ve already stated Cross-Progression is coming with Crossplay.

I would assume this means console players then get access to the PTS when crossplay debuts?

Radiate77 wrote: »

They’ve already stated Cross-Progression is coming with Crossplay.

I did not know this. How is that going to work if you have different housing setups on different platforms, or different characters on each platform?

Is it going to let you log into the account with the progress of your choosing, such as having access to your Xbox and Playstation logins from the same place, or is it going to merge everything into one login for any of those platforms?

Soarora wrote: »

Wouldn't make sense to not have cross progression with crossplay. I feel like if anything, that's a major point of having crossplay.

The point is to have more people to play with, not necessarily to play with the same progress from any platform. I was under the impression that Crossplay was being added solely to boost player numbers for platforms with low population, anyway.

Knowing that Crossplay also comes with Crossprog complicates things a lot. Who is going to get ownership of character names or userIDs if they won't be separated by platform?

Erickson9610 wrote: »

Knowing that Crossplay also comes with Crossprog complicates things a lot. Who is going to get ownership of character names or userIDs if they won't be separated by platform?

This is the main thing that's scaring a lot of people.

Considering ESO's architecture, the easiest way for them to make Crossplay a thing is to just make a mega-megaserver and populate it with the existing accounts, essentially doing the "server merge" that people have wanted for a while. That'd mean that there would then only be two megaservers: NA and EU, and you could access your account from any platform.

Of course, that doesn't mean merging accounts. That does mean that if you have a PC and an XB account, they would be considered separate accounts.

But of course, name conflicts are the big question. Internal IDs are numeric, so as long as they are unique, then they could merge them without issue. So are they? Account names are specific to the account, and in console's case, specific to the hardware as well. If those are not unique, they may be able to do the standard "add an icon or append something to the end of the name," but people will understandably be confused if all of a sudden their friends have different names and mails go nowhere... and if it's a combined server in the first place, then the originating console is irrelevant, which means appending anything won't make sense. That'll be a bit to disentangle. And then of course, there are Character Names, which do need to be unique by server as well, so what happens in terms of conflicts there, especially considering ESO tends to very lore-focused players who are very attached to those names and would quit the game before having to rename them. If they got it all set up with Account names, then they may even be able to allow multiple character names be the same by server, but who knows.

Like what if there's a hardcore RPer who started 7 years ago and plays for 3h/day... but they took a name that some console player used on their current server who played three days at release and then uninstalled? Who gets the name? The older one? The one who plays more?

However they do it though, database conflicts will arise. And they have to figure that out before merging servers, because if they don't... well, that would make the PTS planemeld look like child's play.

Feels like that's more or less the point of crossplay.

Zodiarkslayer wrote: »

I do not own consoles. But I think that Cross Progression is a key feature of Cross Play.

My beaf is with crossplay as a whole, because of how much of the game it will affect negatively.

Kinda feel the same way. Wish they'd just scrap it and just try to do something to get more players to come and stay. I'm sure cross play will work but I feel like it's going to make a lot of ppl quit the game tbh. But I guess we should all wait and see how it plays out. Might work out wonderfully.

I want cross progression but not cross play I don't want to play on Xbox NA along side players from PC and vice versa but being able to play on PC NA with my Xbox NA account that Ive spent years on would be fine

I've been having problems with motion sickness playing on the playstation, which has meant my game time has massively reduced over the last few years.

My daughter started playing on PC last year so I dug out my copy (which I got just to check out PTS) and joined her. I found my laptop screen much better, so I've ended up playing much more than I expected. I've actually really enjoyed levelling again but it's just not the same.

I can't give up on my PS account, I just have too much time and money invested in it. I've got skins I couldn't get again now. I'm just way more invested in it.

My dream is to be able to play the account I love on a platform that doesn’t make me sick!

XxCaLxX wrote: »

Zodiarkslayer wrote: »

I do not own consoles. But I think that Cross Progression is a key feature of Cross Play.

My beaf is with crossplay as a whole, because of how much of the game it will affect negatively.

Kinda feel the same way. Wish they'd just scrap it and just try to do something to get more players to come and stay. I'm sure cross play will work but I feel like it's going to make a lot of ppl quit the game tbh. But I guess we should all wait and see how it plays out. Might work out wonderfully.

My thoughts exactly. If they merged all of the NA platforms together and all of the EU platforms together, that is only about three times the number of players that each has now. I am not sure that is a significant increase. Certainly not for the amount of effort involved.

Radiate77 wrote: »

@katanagirl1 I play almost exclusively Crossplay games as I’m part of a huge community that spans multiple platforms, there are many… and I mean a vast number of people who refuse to touch a product in 2026 unless they can play their game seamlessly with their friends.

That could be a factor but I don’t know if it is quantifiable.

katanagirl1 wrote: »

XxCaLxX wrote: »

Zodiarkslayer wrote: »

I do not own consoles. But I think that Cross Progression is a key feature of Cross Play.

My beaf is with crossplay as a whole, because of how much of the game it will affect negatively.

Kinda feel the same way. Wish they'd just scrap it and just try to do something to get more players to come and stay. I'm sure cross play will work but I feel like it's going to make a lot of ppl quit the game tbh. But I guess we should all wait and see how it plays out. Might work out wonderfully.

My thoughts exactly. If they merged all of the NA platforms together and all of the EU platforms together, that is only about three times the number of players that each has now. I am not sure that is a significant increase. Certainly not for the amount of effort involved.

It's not a significant increase for PC, but a really considerable one for console. Having started on PC recently the difference is startling. The thing that stood out most for me was when I was levelling antiquities on Artaem there were several others doing the same, that's something I haven't seen on Playstation for literally years. Then there's other things like DLC WB's and world events not being complete dead zones.

And I believe Playstation is thriving compared to Xbox. I've seen people leave PS for XB only to come back because it was so dead.

It's definitely a change that will bring in more console players because new players are much more likely to stay with a more healthy community in game.

lillybit wrote: »

katanagirl1 wrote: »

XxCaLxX wrote: »

Zodiarkslayer wrote: »

I do not own consoles. But I think that Cross Progression is a key feature of Cross Play.

My beaf is with crossplay as a whole, because of how much of the game it will affect negatively.

Kinda feel the same way. Wish they'd just scrap it and just try to do something to get more players to come and stay. I'm sure cross play will work but I feel like it's going to make a lot of ppl quit the game tbh. But I guess we should all wait and see how it plays out. Might work out wonderfully.

My thoughts exactly. If they merged all of the NA platforms together and all of the EU platforms together, that is only about three times the number of players that each has now. I am not sure that is a significant increase. Certainly not for the amount of effort involved.

It's not a significant increase for PC, but a really considerable one for console. Having started on PC recently the difference is startling. The thing that stood out most for me was when I was levelling antiquities on Artaem there were several others doing the same, that's something I haven't seen on Playstation for literally years. Then there's other things like DLC WB's and world events not being complete dead zones.

And I believe Playstation is thriving compared to Xbox. I've seen people leave PS for XB only to come back because it was so dead.

It's definitely a change that will bring in more console players because new players are much more likely to stay with a more healthy community in game.

Without making a judgement one way or the other, this highlights a major factor on why PC players in general aren’t super excited about it.

Console populations are struggling. It’s known that XB as a console never really had major uptake outside of the US, but even then the ESO console populations are not high. We also have had several admissions that “old hardware limitations” are bottlenecking the game and preventing the addition of new things (which definitely could also mean potato PCs, but everyone knows that last-gen consoles still have a large market share and even current-gen is not going down in price because all RAM needs to go to AI slop now).

But PC is still doing quite well. That means the main argument for crossplay (“population”) doesn’t really hold for the PC community. Instead, PC is looking at what crossplay would cost them, and we’re already starting to see it: PTS went from a 5-week cycle with a week downtime before the patch to a 4-week cycle with four weeks of downtime because now all patches need extra time to go through console certification. We could say that queue times would improve with crossplay, but Grey Host is already at capacity and they aren’t going to increase it, so more players would only make it harder to get into the non-Vengeance campaign. And again, a lot of “dev team needs to do [thing]” fundamentally means that they’re not doing [other thing].

Now crossplay is necessary, full stop. There really should not be a multiplayer game in 2026 that does not allow it. That would be something that would be acceptable to say “I can take a light content year for that to happen.” But… 2025 was already a light content year. 2026 is cutting a number of features already (i.e. dungeons and large zones) for experimental stuff like the Night Market, which does not seem to be as enticing to those populations. We are on year three with no new Classes, and the animation reworks to save space for old hardware were a lot more noticeable than they said it would be (and we still have people in a stupidly wide stance for holding resto staves or the complete broken arm for the Malacath memento).
My point is that each year “we’re giving you less because we’re doing something else” is a harder and harder sell. And if the thing you’re giving less for is something that really only benefits a fraction of the population, eventually you’ll run off the ones who have been ignored too long.

Again, they have to do crossplay. It is no longer a “nice to have,” it’s a necessity. But they will have to carefully thread the needle to prevent driving off the PC players due to continual lack of new content.