No way. It's a simple foreign key or table that sits between. This is pure Sony fuckery.
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If your Fortnite account has ever logged in on a PS4, it cannot be used on Switch
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No way. It's a simple foreign key or table that sits between. This is pure Sony fuckery.
I'm not defending it (my wife plays fortnite on PS4, and I had considered playing with her via my Switch before realizing we can't cross play so bummer for us), it's common sense. Phil Spencer isn't your friend, if the Xbox one was outselling the PS4 by a wide margin there is ZERO chance xbox would be pushing for cross play. ZERO.
No it isnt.
It's already working in both Fortnite and Rocket League. Both Epic and Psyonix just needed the go ahead.
This is literally nothing more than "arrogant Sony" back at it again.
1. You cant prove that and 2. We'd still be asking for it and 3. He's no friend sure, but he sure as hell is leagues above Don Mattrick
Good. Keep up the pressure and maybe Sony will do something.
Even if the cross-play situation doesn't work out, at least allow cross-progression. If my account would work on any platform, that's a big step.
But they do allow linking to PC and Mobile, so that can't be it.
They just want to force people to play in their ecosystem. They're not worried about a threat from mobile or PC.
So you're pretty much blaming EPIC, which is what it sounds like by reading your post. Before the Fortnite BR craze, EPIC couldn't have any leverage nor play hardball as the game was actually seen as a failure before they added the BR mode. They HAD to abide to whatever SONY said in order to have the game on PS4, which makes sense and not lose the player base. SONY is enforcing this rule, not them. This is SONY's fault 100%.
Just PS4. If you used your Epic account on say, Xbox and PC only, your fine.
What's confusing is that it does mean something if you are in the reverse scenario (played on Xbox/Switch/etc. and now want to play on PS4). In this case, you have to delink your PSN, then make a new Epic Account and link your PSN to that. It's crazy.
Nah, Epic are a tiny bit to blame (though no where near as much as Sony). Epic really should have warned people that this was going to be the case. Instead they let people link their accounts not understanding what the consequences would be.
Yea but I'm sure MS does the same thing with stuff bought in the Xbox store. I don't understand how this benefits even Sony.
No it's not stupid, overly cautious and short sided. I am quite certain that in more than a few countries, the locking of content not bought on their platform to their platform will be considered criminal.
2. No argument from me, people were asking for it last gen two.
The love of corporate mouthpieces is hilarious though.
Yeah, I am definitely resetting my PS4 Fortnite account once and for all so I can play on the other systems. I haven't got much gametime on it, so I don't mind starting from scratch. Shame I can't play with my usual group though.
Edit: Hang on, you can't unlink it anymore? Okay that's so stupid. Guess the last alternative is to use a alternative email address? Hope folk bring their voices up on this or it could get annoying.
Edit: Hang on, you can't unlink it anymore? Okay that's so stupid. Guess the last alternative is to use a alternative email address? Hope folk bring their voices up on this or it could get annoying.
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is it possible to delete an epic account? I just want to reuse the same email for switch
Usually they defend Sony no matter what.
Like you can see how The Verge first article was like: "Sony is doing it because they are dominating the world so deal with it"
While now they have a new article showing how many Sony users are so fucking pissed by this issue.
This is an issue that might get solved only if you gamers and journalists will complain about it, there is no need to bring console war here, it just sucks for everybody.
Biases aren't always set in stone. So long as journalists are simply talking about it, it raises awareness. Hopefully that brings change.
like I said earlier. Complain to who? none of these people at playstation ever talk to the community. when was the last time you seen Shawn Layden on twitter? all you can do is mass tweet the Sony account and watch them never respond.
This is definitely the case, but I do think this issue will be the thing that get Sony to change their stance on cross-platform play.
Before this, it was just "Oh c'mon Sony, let PS4 players play Rocket League and Minecraft with other platforms"
This is different and a lot of people are upset over it. I'd be very surprised if they don't address this in the next day or two.
Sony doesn't care, and Epic is probably banking on people, despite the frustration being expressed, embracing the suck and repurchasing everything with another account. Time will tell.
This is indeed very bizarre. If you live in the EU, under the GDPR that took affect from 25th May this year, it might be illegal for Epic games to refuse the request to remove the 'mark' that you've used your account on PS4 as they're legally obliged to comply with the request to have personal data erased. If all your previous purchases were made on PC then it's worth a shot sending a support ticket and quote the Article 17 of the GDPR.
And this is why as a PS4 and Switch owner, I think I might buy Microsoft's console instead next gen. There certainly seems to be a cycle, and lately I'm really liking what I'm seeing on Xbox.
It doesn't sound like it's typical policy then, if the only other instance is Blizzard letting you uses few specific cosmetics across platforms? Can you not do it with Fifa or Minecraft or Rocket League? I guess I'm asking why is there an expectation that this should be possible? Everyone seems so angry about it, but I can't think of a time I've ever seen this sort of thing possible in any other game? (admittedly I don't play multiplayer so that's not saying much!) Sorry if it's a stupid question!
Without going through the TOS's, my gut tells me that this might be out of Epic's hands since they are using PSN to power part of their game. Maybe I'm wrong but I feel that if Epic could do anything about it they would