People asking about crossplay etc but what about cross-progression or cross buy?

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Arrowneous wrote:

I believe that GGG is deliberately not allowing your pc account to work on the console versions of PoE. It's a 100% marketing ploy to force players to repurchase all the stash tabs and bling. GGG is now under the thumb of Tencent and maximizing profits is the #1 goal.

I'm sure many see it that way in the sales marketing side of things. But it's doing quite the opposite for me. The hardcore players are already buying all this stuff. But people like me on the fence need to see the value. I would of already spend 60 bucks on one of the packs if i knew it was on PC as well.

Oh well. Thats lost revenue from us non hardo whales.

As for people saying its all on SONY. Not sure this is accurate. Because Before Fortnite had BR and became a MEGAHIT...it had crossplay with PC. And all the things you had unlocked was available for either platform. The only thing is that the vbucks you earned were only available on the platform you unlocked from.

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TwoCoins wrote:

As for people saying its all on SONY. Not sure this is accurate. Because Before Fortnite had BR and became a MEGAHIT...it had crossplay with PC. And all the things you had unlocked was available for either platform. The only thing is that the vbucks you earned were only available on the platform you unlocked from.

Fortnite was also subject to Sony's policies for a long time.

Remember the controversy when PS4 Fortnite was effectively console-bound, and how saves couldn't be used on other platforms once they'd been on a PS4 (regardless of origin). Sony did that to achieve two things: to keep it's community walled-off from the wider community, and to ensure that it's players had to buy MTX through the console store.

It took a massive amount of pressure by the games media and players at large to force Sony to change their policies and make an exception for Fortnite: the drama was a situation which Sony could plainly see quickly turning players against Playstation and basically ruining the brand's reputation, so they did the sensible thing and let Fortnite do as it pleased to make those problems go away.

Sony aren't under the same kind of pressure with PoE, so they're back to their old tricks and GGG are powerless to do anything about that by themselves. It would take a backlash from the wider community at large before they would consider treating PoE like Fortnite.

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UnclePobatti wrote:

Remember, the console versions exist mostly to tap an untapped source of new players, not to cause existing players to switch platforms.

I play on console to give my wrists some rest, i read more players switch to console because it's more relaxed to play.

That is a way that console PoE benefits you and others, but it's not a thing which benefits GGG. As they're a business, expensive ventures like console versions are done because there's a good opportunity to make a lot of money - and maybe even draw some of the new players towards the main pool of PC players; console PoE isn't guaranteed to exist beyond the lifecycle of the console you're playing it on, so it's best used as an introduction which eventually motivates players into playing the more-permanent core version.

Of course player traffic is bound to also go the other way, for reasons like you describe, but GGG can't reasonably prevent that: if they make a little extra MTX revenue from those players then it's at least mildly beneficial.

Now GGG *could* make console MTX transfer over to PC, and that would incentivise players to try the PC verson, or not fully quit the PC version in favor of console. The problem is it's not simple to do so.

PC players can't transfer MTX they own on one account to another PC account. That has nothing to do with "cross-platform" if both accounts are PC. One reason for this is it's very hard to confirm that any two accounts are owned by the same person. You'd start to see people share their MTX by claiming they own their friends accounts for example. Cross-platform just complicates things further.

Most of those type of problems could only be worked around through very careful and thorough investigation, which would take time. If you multiply that by the number of claims that would be made daily, as well as accusations of alleged misuse of the transfer mechanic which would need to be followed-up, it really is too big a task for GGG to realistically take on. That's before we even get to the inevitable slew of messups, people unable to prove ownership of the other account, MTX not transferring correctly and other things GGG would be swamped in if they tried.