According to its Steam page there are over 10 million players in the game and that number is likely rising with the release of Elsweyr on PC and Mac plus consoles coming soon on June 4. MMOs require a vibrant and active community to keep on surviving and running a game on three entirely separate platforms without any overlap not only segregates the community, potentially preventing friends from playing together, but it fractures guilds and populations.Įlder Scrolls Online is presumably doing very well. I'm not a game developer and I fully expect that the logistics of cross-play are very complex, but the ends more than justify the means in this case. While platform makers will continue to publish exclusive titles when possible, the reality of the market is that the vast majority of video games are multi-platform and there are no defensible reasons why cross-play shouldn't be the standard. Gone are the days that platforms exist in closed atmospheres without making contact with the rest of the industry. Point being: cross-platform multiplayer, or cross-play, is the future of the games industry and Bethesda is letting Elder Scrolls Online fall way behind without it. Lots of VR games have cross-platform play between PSVR and PC, such as Star Trek: Bridge Crew, Rec Room, and Werewolves Within. And lots of other games have limited cross-platform support, such as Final Fantasy XIV between PS4, PC, and Mac, Hearthstone between PC, mobile, and Mac, or even Paladins between Switch, XB1, and PC. Yesterday, Activision announced Call of Duty: Modern Warfare will also support cross-platform play on the big three platforms at launch later this year.
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