Cross-play can be a really big deal for fighting games. With more platforms, you've got a better chance of finding opponents. And if you can find opponents quickly, and without much hassle, then you encourage players to come back, which creates a much more active online community.
For months, players have been campaigning for Guilty Gear Strive cross-play between PlayStation consoles and PC, but developer Arc System Works has never been able to promise anything. Unfortunately, that's still the case, but a recent interview has renewed people's hope.
At the very least, it sounds like Arc System Works is still taking cross-play seriously. Speaking to Comunidad Arc System Works, the studio confirms that it's "going through the verification processes" for cross-play support. "But there are still many practical issues like schedules and the running costs of matching servers. It will take a little more time before we can make a concrete announcement," the developer concludes.
We don't quite know what these "verification processes" are. It could be that Arc System Works is having to negotiate with platform holders like Sony, or maybe it's busy working on the technical side of things with server providers — or both. In any case, it'll be interesting to see what happens. Hopefully the developer will have good news to share in the not too distant future.
[source comunidadarcsystemworks.tumblr.com]
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Console cross-play, fine. I have zero desire to play with PC players.
Good news in general but I hear someone measured input delay on each version of the game and for some reason it’s worst on PS5. Not that it ruins it on PS5 (the game’s great) but in a game that has 3-frame windows for some defensive options, this could give PC (where the delay is lowest) players a bit of an edge in cross play. Probably not a big deal on most levels other than the absolute top but I’m just saying
That would be pretty cool. I always try to make time for some online matches when I can and for the most part I’ve had solid connection.
@Royalblues Yeah cos it's all Sony's fault right?
I've never understood the desire for cross-play. Cheating is usually rampant on the PC, for all online games (not this one in particular, which I have no opinion of) - why do you want to join the worst community and bring all those players in to match against? I just don't get it.
Is it really that you can't find anyone to play against otherwise? Is it that your friends are playing elsewhere and you can't convince them to pick up a PS4 (since "picking up" a PS5 isn't trivial, yet)? What's the logic, here? I don't do much online gaming, but when I do I like to stay with people playing on the same platform, where I know it's somewhat unlikely they're running cheats or mods to give them an unfair advantage (just more experience with the game and map than I usually have).
@RobN I suppose it depends what you're looking for. If you're just playing against random strangers and there's enough of them (and there's definitely a lot of people playing Strive on both PS and PC right now) you're fine without it.
But if you wanna play with friends and they're not all on the same platform, you'll want cross-play. Especially in a 1-on-1 game like this. It's usually possible to disable it if you wanna stay away from PC players.
@Royalblues If it exceeds a percentage of the overall player base. People act like it's a mandatory charge, besides the majority of GGs players will be on Playstation anyway. So that wouldn't be the issue.
@Royalblues Maybe read before you start talking.
@AdamNovice
Actually they only charge anything if the guy play on Sony platforms and buy content on another, i.e play fortnite on PS4/PS5 and buy V-Bucks on PC/Xbox/whatever.
@CielloArc to add to this, Epic has never had to pay this royalty, so I doubt anyone else with cross play has ever had to do this either.
@CielloArc Oh yeah I misunderstood that. Thanks for the correction
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