From March of 2008 until Daybreak, SOE was directly controlled by SCEA. So yes, Smed would know what was going on regarding PlayStation and crossplay. SOE did DCUO on both consoles (Xbox came after SCEA sold them, of course).
Mod Edit: This thread title has been updated. SOE = Sony Online Entertainment.
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This is just getting worse and worse for them.
It's starting to remind of a recent Hollywood scandal at this point.
Ex employees coming out and outing their greed. Probably not the greatest environment to work.
Edit because I notice a lot of apologists using this post to deflect: No I'm not comparing it to sexual assault. I'm comparing it to the nature of how ex employees are coming out to put them on blast as we are seeing in many Hollywood scandals today.
Well, you must see that PlayStation owners are upset. They want to play with Switch owners, PC owners and Xbox One owners for these two big and important games, and they don't have an explanation why. That's what I'm getting at, really.
Jim Ryan: Yeah. We've got to be mindful of our responsibility to our install base. Minecraft - the demographic playing that, you know as well as I do, it's all ages but it's also very young. We have a contract with the people who go online with us, that we look after them and they are within the PlayStation curated universe. Exposing what in many cases are children to external influences we have no ability to manage or look after, it's something we have to think about very carefully.
It doesn't seem to be a problem for Nintendo, perhaps the most mindful video game company of the protection of children.
Jim Ryan: Yeah, that's true. Everybody has to take their own decisions. We'll do that. Like I say, we have no philosophical stance against cross-play at all.
To he honest, I had heard so many times that this business decision benefits no one that I started to believe it. I believe those that said "it benefits no one" had no idea.
Well I wont blame sony of course, after all sony is a business company not charity house. At the end of the day, it is all about money. If i were sony, i might do the same or maybe even worse
Money is the root of every decision a company has ever made ever, those that are publicly praised and reviled. This just seems like stating the obvious.
