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Sony Faces Growing 'Fortnite' Backlash At E3

posted by janrinok on Thursday June 14 2018, @07:01PM   Printer-friendly
from the just-like-last-time dept.

Arthur T Knackerbracket has found the following story:

Sony chiefs are under pressure to respond to complaints about "cross-play" restrictions imposed on Fortnite. Gamers have discovered that if they had first played the title on a PlayStation console, they are unable to use the same Fortnite account with the newly released Nintendo Switch edition. This prevents them from being able to make use of outfits and other in-game purchases and rewards they had accrued.

There is no such limitation when moving between the Xbox One and Switch. Gamers were already unable to share a Fortnite account between Microsoft and Sony's platforms. But the appeal of the Switch is that its portable nature allows owners to play when away from home, and so many have bought it as a second games machine.

Sony has yet to confirm it is responsible for the constraint, but it issued the following statement to the BBC.

"We're always open to hearing what the PlayStation community is interested in to enhance their gaming experience," it said.

"With... more than 80 million monthly active users on PlayStation Network, we've built a huge community of gamers who can play together on Fortnite and all online titles.

"We also offer Fortnite cross-play support with PC, Mac, iOS, and Android devices, expanding the opportunity for Fortnite fans on PS4 to play with even more gamers on other platforms."

[...] Sony has faced criticism for blocking cross-play in other titles in the past, including Minecraft and Rocket League. But the sheer scale of Fortnite's success means the backlash has the potential to be more damaging this time round.

Epic said this week that the title has amassed 125 million players worldwide.

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  • (Score: 4, Informative) by Sourcery42 on Friday June 15 2018, @02:00PM (1 child)

    by Sourcery42 (6400) on Friday June 15 2018, @02:00PM (#693481)

    Not quite in this case. It goes a little more like this.

    My kids play this POS. It's free on consoles. I think it is free everywhere. Epic's whole business model seems to be tied to getting a large community with the free base game, and then profiting on some gullible idiots players with in-game purchases. The online battle royale is free, but you'll have to pay real world $ if you want special skins, items, emotes, etc. I could be wrong, but the purchased stuff all appears to be cosmetic with no impact to actual gameplay.

    Therein lies the rub here. The aforementioned gullible idiots players have already spent real world currency on bullshit skins and whatnot, and they'd like to take their in-game purchases to the same (free) game on another platform. Rootkits 'R Us Sony being the profiteering dickheads they are can't help but shitting on their customers, and trying to lock them in to their platform.

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  • (Score: 2) by nobu_the_bard on Friday June 15 2018, @02:35PM

    by nobu_the_bard (6373) on Friday June 15 2018, @02:35PM (#693503)

    It's essentially precisely as Sourcery says.

    Players of F2P games (Free-to-play) are strangely more entitled and personally invested whenever they do drop money on the game, in my experience.