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7/27/2014 8:31:47 AM
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To Bungie Employees, RE: Cross-Platform Play
Dear Bungie, I understand your decision to decide to not allow cross platform play, especially when it comes to competitive multiplayer, and I realize it may be too late to change course this late in the release cycle. It seems the disadvantage is inherent in a very specific scenario, as far as has been explained, and that a player's TV/display might have just as big or more an impact on swaying the outcome. Given that, is there any reason you couldn't have let the community comment on the idea?
Personally, if a few deaths in competitive multiplayer was due to someone else having slightly higher resolution than I did and it bothered me that much, I would gladly upgrade. But more important to the spirit of the game, I would be more than happy to tolerate that freak anomaly of a possibly imagined disadvantage to get to play with all of my friends. That would be the greatest gift of all!
How about you community? Is a possible chance of a very specific slight disadvantage too big a price to pay to get to play with all of your friends, regardless of console?
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Better hardware between generations offering a theoretical slight advantage is a ridiculous reason not to include cross platform. I play on PS4 but frequently return to PS3 when my friends are on because none of them have made the switch yet, and I haven't noticed a difference in my performance. Television size and resolution are much bigger balance shifters. I play on a 32" SD, but my boss plays on a 72" ultra HD. This is where the sniping discrepancy in his example will really come into play. Creating a truly equal playing field is impossible, and I'm sure most of us would be happy to accept a (mostly imagined) small disadvantage if it meant we could play with our friends. At the very least, the cooperative portions of the game should be cross platform. Hardware advantage isn't going to bother many people when they're all fighting the same enemies together.
