Shelookdlvl18
Banned
The population of multiplayer games decreases over time in most cases. Crossplay can significantly extend the life of many games, which benefits everyone that plays it.
The benefits aren't always immediately noticeable either. For instance, you may not have had a problem finding a match or whatever, but a game that's matchmaking on only one platform might take 2-3 mins, where with crossplay it could be less than 30 seconds.
There's tangible benefits to having crossplay between consoles at least. The Xbox has always been a more multiplayer focused console, resulting in more of its users playing those games. This whole narrative that PSNs userbase is/was propping up XBLs userbase is just those fanboys wetdream.
Now crossplaying consoles with pc is a whole different ballgame. That crossplay confirmed a couple of narratives that pc players have been peddling for years.
• For 20 years console players were told that any game that allowed both controllers with M/KB would expose just how far superior M/KB players really were. It wasn't even up for debate that no matter what, that it would be like shooting fish in a barrel for pc players. Probably the most often cited complaint on Warzone from pc players is that the controllers are too OP.
M/KB is better overall, but the gap between the two isn't anywhere near what they said it was.• Along with controls, the other narrative that's been continuously mentioned were the number of hackers/cheaters on pc... Or the lack thereof. If I had a dollar for everytime I saw a pc player downplay the number of cheaters they came across, I'd be set. Some claimed they at most encountered one perhaps once a year. Others would say that in all their time playing on pc that they had come across 3 or 4 at most. Some even went so far as to claim they had never even seen one, and called them unicorns. Anyone who has played Warzone knows different now.
