Edit - You will still still be able to play with your friends with opt-in.
CoD, Destiny, Fortnite, now Battlefield. Many of these games I'm interested in are forcing PC crossplay on us console peasants when we never asked for it.
I'm happy to play with Xbox/PS users together, but PC is an entirely different ballgame.
MnK has an advantage and can do things controller users can't dream of (no, aim assist doesn't make up for this at all). In Battlefield MnK users have a massive advantage when aiming with vehicles - turrets can turn in a flash with mouse and there's no aim assist in vehicles on a controller. In Destiny the mobility means MnK has an advantage there too. In Fortnite the building gives MnK users another big advantage. CoD is probably the closest to "balance".
And then we come to hackers/cheaters. They may or may not be rampant on PC, but even coming across 1 a week is enough to sour anyone's experience. In Destiny in particular hackers run absolutely riot in high end PvP and will absolutely ruin the console experience when crossplay comes in. (In the past year of console play I've come across maybe one team I've suspected of hacking, and even that wasn't blatant)
Also (less of an issue), PC players can tweak visual settings to give themselves an extra advantage, whether that be in high framerate or turning down visual effects to get a better view of enemies.
And one final thing - opt-out is NOT a solution. If crossplay is on as default and you opt out then you're playing with a decimated playerbase number, since most people probably won't even know you can turn it off.
The only acceptable solution is how Fortnite initially did it - opt-in. If you party up with PC players then you go into PC lobbies. That's fine and entirely optionally allows you to play with friends on PC.
CoD, Destiny, Fortnite, now Battlefield. Many of these games I'm interested in are forcing PC crossplay on us console peasants when we never asked for it.
I'm happy to play with Xbox/PS users together, but PC is an entirely different ballgame.
MnK has an advantage and can do things controller users can't dream of (no, aim assist doesn't make up for this at all). In Battlefield MnK users have a massive advantage when aiming with vehicles - turrets can turn in a flash with mouse and there's no aim assist in vehicles on a controller. In Destiny the mobility means MnK has an advantage there too. In Fortnite the building gives MnK users another big advantage. CoD is probably the closest to "balance".
And then we come to hackers/cheaters. They may or may not be rampant on PC, but even coming across 1 a week is enough to sour anyone's experience. In Destiny in particular hackers run absolutely riot in high end PvP and will absolutely ruin the console experience when crossplay comes in. (In the past year of console play I've come across maybe one team I've suspected of hacking, and even that wasn't blatant)
Also (less of an issue), PC players can tweak visual settings to give themselves an extra advantage, whether that be in high framerate or turning down visual effects to get a better view of enemies.
And one final thing - opt-out is NOT a solution. If crossplay is on as default and you opt out then you're playing with a decimated playerbase number, since most people probably won't even know you can turn it off.
The only acceptable solution is how Fortnite initially did it - opt-in. If you party up with PC players then you go into PC lobbies. That's fine and entirely optionally allows you to play with friends on PC.
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