Ready for the good news? Borderlands 3 is officially about to get crossplay between all Xbox consoles, PC and (presumably) Google Stadia. The bad news? Both the PlayStation 4 and PlayStation 5 won't be part of it.
This is according to Gearbox Software CEO Randy Pitchford, who took to Twitter earlier today to explain that the studio has "been required by the publisher to remove crossplay support for PlayStation consoles."
Pitchford hasn't provided any further details at the time of writing as to what's happened here, but ultimately it sounds like Borderlands 3's publisher (2K Games) hasn't been able to strike a deal with PlayStation for crossplay.
Nevertheless, it's nice to know that Borderlands 3 will be opening up its servers to even more players across multiple platforms in the near future. As it's been "prepared for release", we're assuming it won't be long until the rollout.
What are your thoughts on this Borderlands 3 crossplay news? Let us know down in the comments.
[source twitter.com]
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Sony are so good aren't they?
I guess they don’t want to go through all that extra crossplay tax fiasco.
PlayStation. The best place to play... on your own.
Honestly it's a great move by 2K to tell Sony to go to hell with their crossplay fee. Every publisher should alienat Sony until the take this Sony tax off of any crossplay games. The thing about greedy corporations is....they don't like other greedy corpos taking anything from them.
I think this is a case of 2K not wanting to pay Sony the cross play tax when no one else charges such a thing.
Only hurts the PlayStation userbase in the end. Hopefully other developers do the same and Sony might listen.
If this game was still alive I'd understand the fuss, but.....
@UltimateOtaku91
maybe thats why cross play is even more needed
@UltimateOtaku91
"If this game was still alive I'd understand the fuss, but....."
No, I don't think you can understand the fuss.
To do that, you would be required to use objectivity in regards to Sony’s position and frankly, I very much doubt you can actually do that while wearing Sony tinted glasses...
@Sol4ris seems like owning all three consoles doesn't help him hide his own bias which are .... clear as day. Lmao
@Sol4ris lol no clearly pointing out this this game has been out two years and numbers are dwindling, now if this was call of duty then playstation players would kick off a huge fuss and Sony would maybe re consider their stance
@Sol4ris perceived bias aside his point is a valid one.
Sony are being obnoxiously stubborn over it and its gonna take a big hitter ie GTA, Battlefield, CoD etc to get them to change their position. This one wont do it sadly.
@UltimateOtaku91
"now if this was call of duty then playstation players would kick off a huge fuss and Sony would maybe re consider their stance"
Yeah, not sure about that bud. PlayStation players would likely defend Sony even if they would waterboard their employees. 🙄
@UltimateOtaku91 Season Pass 2 just came out and it's going to the end of 2021 with Director's Cut content. Player Counter has it at 200k playing it right now.
@Sol4ris I wouldn't be so sure, remember a few months ago when they tried to close the ps vita and ps3 stores? They recieved massive backlash from players and changed their decision
I find this game an odd one. That tax clause with Sony relates to in game purchases I thought and Borderlands 3 has none.
This is likely 2k games taking a general stance against Sonys policy and if it is and they do it across their 2k sports series for example. Maybe just maybe it might provoke a change.
Sad it would take that to do it though.
@Halucigens is that on playstation? When I go to find a game there's maybe 3-4 groups if I'm lucky
@UltimateOtaku91 I think it tracks it across all platforms.
Sony's dealing with cross play has burned me on their consoles and business practices. Can't transfer over my SMITE account. Couldn't transfer my Rocket League account till recently. I jumped ship to Xbox but plenty of my friends/family didn't and it sucks and leaves us with limited options when we have time to game together.
At least the children will be protected. Only on PlayStation™ 👶🏻
@Halucigens yeah I understand aswell, wanted to transfer my smite account from ps4 to my switch but I couldn't so had to buy the characters again
Sony PlayStation - For the Playe.... oh, wait...
Sony still not playing nice, huh? Probably more of their "we want to offer our players the best and safest possible environment" excuses crap. Bunch of losers. They're just WAY too suspicious and/or cautious about things like these, always in an almost fearful state of losing customers, would they completely open up the crossplay flood gates.
It actually accomplishes the exact opposite: less freedom for gamers with a PlayStation that would like to play with their friends on other systems/platforms, and the irony of it is that this would actually far sooner be a reason for gamers to jump ship than allowing crossplay...
@UltimateOtaku91 Yeah I just had a buddy ask me to play smite with him and I have the deluxe bundle on my (packed up) ps4. I spent quite some money on some skins and time on progression that I don't want to redo.
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