Sony's Fortnite crossplay account block is now covered by mainstream press [Sony Responds]
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Funny how MS didn't say shit about it and this got huge BECAUSE PLAYERS ARE FUCKED BY IT and have been raising their voices over it.
It's been going on since last year with Minecraft.
It's not going away.
THIS IS NOT ABOUT CROSSPLAY.
IT's about your Epic account. Even if it was made on PC being locked forever even if you unlink it to PS4. You can't carry over progression anywhere. It's legit locked to PS4 even if the account wasn't made on a PS4.
Gamers remain the absolute worst
You do not understand what is happening. Read up and get back to us.
Epic can offer the game for them and what they purchase for other system of their choice and players should be angry of Sony for this and not Epic. And yes it's their game. They have the right if the platform policy suck.
I'm going to write this very clear so you can understand it, OK?
YOU CAN TRANSFER YOUR FORTNITE PROGRESS BETWEEN PC, MAC, MOBILE, XBOX, OR NINTENDO.
IF YOU EVER LOG INTO FORNITE ON PLAYSTATION 4, YOU ARE FOREVER LOCKED OUT FROM XBOX OR NINTENDO.
YOU CAN NOT UNLINK YOUR ACCOUNT FROM PSN TO ALLOW YOU TO PLAY ON THOSE CONSOLES.
SONY IS STEALING PEOPLE'S PURCHASES AND LOCKING THEM ONTO THEIR SYSTEM WITHOUT WARNING.
THERE IS ABSOLUTELY ZERO STUPID FANBOY DEFENSE FOR THAT PRACTICE.
That Sony response reminds me of "For those without an internet connection we have an offline console, it's called the Xbox 360"
Pretty fucking lame.
Pretty fucking lame.
Neat fact: the iPhone came out the same year as Modern Warfare. Basically, 2018 looks a little different than 2007, so expectations have changed a tiny bit.
this is incredibly shortsighted. playerbase/units sold aren't forever and this is a good way for sony to lose a big chunk back to MS/Nintendo. next-gen when I go look for a console cross-play will be a feature I could totally be looking for.
I honestly can't tell if posts like this are serious or not. Like you really think EA or Activision is going to refuse to put a game on a system because theres no crossplay? Sony already told EA no once this gen when it came to EA Access and EA responded... by not doing anything.
Conflating the issues here sucks. Crossplay is a business decision, this holding account hostage shit should be illegal.
What the fuck dude?!?! SONY IS STEALING PEOPLE'S PURCHASES!!! Epic Accounts created on platforms that are NOT a Sony platform that has Fortnite purchases associated with the account and the account is linked to PSN, that account then for all intents and purposes is a Sony locked account, it CANNOT be used on XBox/Switch.
I didn't know that my COD copy on PC was being prevented from fucntioning normally on 360 because of my PS3.
Here's a truth bomb: You can say 'no other game works this way' all you want until you're blue in the face: FORTNITE works this fucking way. SONY is stealing players accounts that they may not have spent a fucking dime on on PS4.
But you CAN carry your progress over in Fortnite on every other platform.
That's the problem.
This an account where Sony allows you to sync from other platforms you created it on, but won't allow the reverse. Your example doesn't make sense.
Lol.
Yes cause everyone playing it on PS4 has another platform sitting right there to play it on.
They aren't removing the game from PS4.
It's just the developer/publisher blocking it in that case, even though they could totally allow it. Even just cross platform progression, but nah, that's okay.
Bruh. I mean bruh. You're glad because Sony is flexing their muscles, to what end? I mean I like my PS4 but Sony has basically locked me out of handheld Fortnite with my Epic account.
Except it isn't. Just because you bought a console doesn't mean you need to suit up and storm the beach for them. They're just a company.
This is pathetic and you're the reason why I don't want to be labeled as a Sony fanboy.
There are fanboy posts like this all over this forum for every system. Maybe you should not brush a whole community in such a broad stroke. I don't understand why your post needs to be even brought up in this thread.
no, there's too much money to be made. I do how ever think devs/pubs should grow more of a backbone when dealing with the manufacturers.
Yea, that's actually exactly what this reminds me of. Tone deaf and feelings of invincibility.
So you're okay with someone putting 100 hours into Fortnite on PC and playing just once on a PS4 can now no longer use that account on an Xbox or Switch? The fuck?
no matter how big the font, shills will still ignore it and make up bs excuses to justify stuff that aren't even the main issue.
That would be a ridiculous thing for them to do though. PS4 is the biggest platform for Fortnite, what would they have to gain from removing it? Some goodwill?
THIS IS NOT ABOUT FUCKING CROSSPLAY.
Precisely, everyone knows the real reasons Sony's stocks are down.
No Knack 3 reveal.
I have seen more than one person make this argument and it doesn't make sense to me.
I mean, did the fact that PUGB is a PC/Xbox exclusive make it so that there was a gap on the PS4 platform that someone could fill with a Battle Royale game? Yes.
But Fortnite isn't where it is because it was in the right place at the right time. Epic used their talents to completely transform what was not a super popular game into the hot game mode right now because they beat the big players to the market and they kept pumping out updates and porting to new platforms to keep that momentum going (aka what PUBG didn't do).
If Fortnite never got a BR mode then some other game would have filled the gap on the PS4. The fact that it was Fortnite is more a credit to Epic than the PS4.
Crossplay aside, the issue that you can't use your Fortnite purchases on another system seems more like an issue with how Epic does their account system, no? Couldn't they theoretically have an account id that tracks all purchases you've made, but let you link that id to whatever alias you want?
Oh really? How isn't the developer/publisher blocking it in every other case?
Just because I don't have tunnel vision doesn't mean I need to pretend that I do.
Yeah, this thread is getting wild, the over-sized texts, insane gifs. It's quite the watch.