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Subject: Cross platform Multiplayer.. is it possible?

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With the advent of the Activision deal, Bungie's focus shifting from Halo to a new IP, and their belief in a community experience, do you think tat cross platform multiplayer is a realistic possibility?

I don't mean just Xbox/PC, I mean Xbox/PC/PS3, all working together in synergy and harmony. What are the technical problems? How could these be overcome? Are the legal and licensing problems more difficult than the technical issues?

Dare Bungie go completely the other way and give us a great single player and single player only experience?

  • 11.16.2010 9:27 AM PDT

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I think there would be issues with varying performance pending on the system.

  • 11.16.2010 9:43 AM PDT


Posted by: Flatliner74
With the advent of the Activision deal, Bungie's focus shifting from Halo to a new IP, and their belief in a community experience, do you think tat cross platform multiplayer is a realistic possibility?

I don't mean just Xbox/PC, I mean Xbox/PC/PS3, all working together in synergy and harmony. What are the technical problems? How could these be overcome? Are the legal and licensing problems more difficult than the technical issues?

Dare Bungie go completely the other way and give us a great single player and single player only experience?


Technologically yes. That's not hard really not at all. Shadowrun did Xbox to PC.

The issue is actually on the corporate side. Lets face it, Microsoft isn't going to let two outside entities use the live infrastructure. The best we can get is PC to Xbox because Games for Windows Live is using the live service.

Unfortunately because the PS3 has it's own external service and Microsoft requires everything that communicates with an Xbox to be on the live service this can't happen.

Sadly: Corporate politics > creative freedom

  • 11.16.2010 10:44 AM PDT

I am alpha, i am omega.

I am the last of the primes.

Xbox to pc sure why the hell not, xbox to ps3 (bit like ferrari giving the blue prints for a new hyper car to lambo). Besides why the hell would would u want xbox to ps3 online, everyone knows xbox live is better then psn (not fanboysim fact, like how the ps3 is more powerful then the 360)

  • 11.16.2010 11:13 AM PDT
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PC players would win with their superior aiming system. But as long as we can out auto aim them we should be fine.

[Edited on 11.16.2010 11:18 AM PST]

  • 11.16.2010 11:17 AM PDT


Posted by: Haze85
PC players would win with their superior aiming system. But as long as we can out auto aim them we should be fine.


ever play Shadowrun? There are ways to fix console vs pc. :)

  • 11.16.2010 11:39 AM PDT

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CCP games is currently working on a game that will have that feature.

  • 11.16.2010 11:49 AM PDT

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Posted by: Haze85
PC players would win with their superior aiming system. But as long as we can out auto aim them we should be fine.


ever play Shadowrun? There are ways to fix console vs pc. :)


How well does Shadowrun play? And is there still a community playing it even at this stage?

  • 11.16.2010 12:31 PM PDT

Yeah dust 514 is supposed to link with the EVE Universe. I for one would like to see how it affects me in EVE. I think it is supposed to be an FPS game for control of planets, and then if the certain entity in-game (Amarr, Gallente, Minmatar, or Caldari) wins the battle, the sovereingty of that race owns the planet in EVE

I think it would be cool to see Halo do that hen 343 makes the next installment.

  • 11.16.2010 12:35 PM PDT

At the very least I would love to see the abillity to share user created content between the three game variants.

Assuming that there is some form of map or world editor (and after the success and popularness of Forge Bungie would be crazy not to include somehting like it...), it would be awesome if a good map made on the PS3 could be shared with everyone else.

  • 11.16.2010 12:38 PM PDT

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Posted by: Hylebos
At the very least I would love to see the abillity to share user created content between the three game variants.

Assuming that there is some form of map or world editor (and after the success and popularness of Forge Bungie would be crazy not to include somehting like it...), it would be awesome if a good map made on the PS3 could be shared with everyone else.

I now i am may sound a bit like a fanboy but do you rember how 70% of ps3 fans bashed halo? I know it would be cool and all but imagine the flame wars, oh btw hows jun?

  • 11.16.2010 12:48 PM PDT
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yer dude i know a game its really good but its got a halo feel to it its on pc and you can download from steam its called shattered horizon anyway i think bungie and these guys should make a game thats got shattered horizon and halo in it i mean shattered horizon know how game work for the pc with out hacks and bungie have a awesome game engine then we could have xbox and pc as one
...is this a good idea?

  • 11.16.2010 1:19 PM PDT
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well then make 5 host shared intend of 1 i don' know but maybie

  • 11.16.2010 1:34 PM PDT

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Posted by: Gruntpocalypto
Yeah dust 514 is supposed to link with the EVE Universe. I for one would like to see how it affects me in EVE. I think it is supposed to be an FPS game for control of planets, and then if the certain entity in-game (Amarr, Gallente, Minmatar, or Caldari) wins the battle, the sovereingty of that race owns the planet in EVE

I think it would be cool to see Halo do that hen 343 makes the next installment.
It'll also have cross console (XBOX 360, PS3) multiplayer.

  • 11.16.2010 1:43 PM PDT


Posted by: Flatliner74

Posted by: tocom11

Posted by: Haze85
PC players would win with their superior aiming system. But as long as we can out auto aim them we should be fine.


ever play Shadowrun? There are ways to fix console vs pc. :)


How well does Shadowrun play? And is there still a community playing it even at this stage?


a community? ooh yes...

only problem is they're all hardcore shadowrun vets so you usually get owned :|

  • 11.16.2010 1:48 PM PDT
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eve is getting a update were you can walk around your ship

  • 11.16.2010 1:51 PM PDT

A cross platform multiplayer game between Xbox 360, PS3, and Wii would pprobably be possible, only if they all used the same exact online service, which they do not. The controllers are also drastically different, so a Wii/PC plyer would demolish a 360/PS3 player in a FPS. And then there are the differences in tech specs, and lets face it, none of them are going to partner with each other (the last time Sony partnered with Nintendo was for a CD add-on for the SNES, but that didn't work out, and led to the creation of the Playstation).

So to put it simply, NO, its not possible.

[Edited on 11.16.2010 2:08 PM PST]

  • 11.16.2010 2:03 PM PDT

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Posted by: Stacka30
A cross platform multiplayer game between Xbox 360, PS3, and Wii would pprobably be possible, only if they all used the same exact online service, which they do not. The controllers are also drastically different, so a Wii/PC plyer would demolish a 360/PS3 player in a FPS. And then there are the differences in tech specs, and lets face it, none of them are going to partner with each other (the last time Sony partnered with Nintendo was for a CD add-on for the SNES, but that didn't work out, and led to the creation of the Playstation).

So to put it simply, NO, its not possible.
Read.

These people are making a game that [u]will[/i] have cross-platform combat.

  • 11.16.2010 4:46 PM PDT

it would be great to cross console link xbox360-ps3, then i could finaly play burnout paradise with my cousin!
but microsoft is probebly to stubborn to make it possable (i did hear about some pc program where it looks like a xbox system link but it's the pc hosting, maybe there is a way to link with ps3 through the pc or something)

  • 12.12.2010 3:16 AM PDT