DC Universe Online Coming to Xbox One Really Soon, But It Won't Have Cross-Play

DC Universe Online is in certification and will be released soon on Xbox One. However, there won't be any Cross-Play with PC & PS4/PS3.

[Garethvk]

Cross play would be ideal but it has rarely worked.

[Alexious]

It works just fine in many games. They probably just don't want to bother with merging Microsoft's and Sony's online networks.

[Garethvk]

That is also a big factor. Making two or more rivals work with one another.

[TheCommentator]

FFXI was cross play with PS2, 360, and PC, so I'm not sure what kind of hold up there is with getting cross play to move forwards this generation.

[KillZallthebeast]

You're right the US was much better off when we all had different water fountains

[demonddel]

Leave the cocaine alone young fella

[KillZallthebeast]

GATTACA!

[Liqu1d]

What? How has it rarely worked?

[Garethvk]

Microsoft had a few that they tried with Vista and it did not work. There was also the issue with Portal 2 as the PC and PS3 had lag issues and the control issues were highly favorable to PC users.

[Felix313]

it works fine across PC and PS servers, they might add it later as their team is a lot smaller these days and I'm sure their priority is getting it launched asap, and implementing cross-play would hold the launch back too much.

[Artemidorus]

It works fine

[slavish0]

Seemed like the perfect game to do it

[Hoffmann]

#born-dead

[KillZallthebeast]

Dead baby jokes are immoral

[Hoffmann]

You talk to someone who was once thrown out of a church after pissing on the altar in front of a ton of people.

[KillZallthebeast]

don't talk about my normal weekend routine

[Anthotis]

It'll be a ghost town in no time then. What a complete waste.

[kingPoS]

I don't think I'll be a waste. But at the same time, it won't have cross-platform support. Unfortunately that means the dcuo community on xbox will have to stand on it's own legs. Expect to see some sort of advertising push on the Xbox's dashboard.

Gateway MT6706 2008

[iceheart3113]

They said that about Neverwinter also when the decision was made not allow cross platform play between Xbox and PC players. "They" were dead wrong.

[PhoenixUp]

This would've been the perfect game to demonstrate how willing Microsoft is to allow cross-play for Xbox Live with other networks, but apparantely not.

Looks like the PS3, PS4, and PC versions are the better ones to get in that regard.

[DragonbornZ]

Yeah it wouldve been a good one. There's no reason stated in the article tho. I wonder what happened.

[YinYangGaming]

It's unclear whether this is a decision made by Microsoft but considering their willingness towards cross-platform play vs. Sony who is now turned off against the idea I'd say this was more a Sony/Daybreak decision imo

[MasterCornholio]

Sony never said they would ban Microsoft.

They were always open to cross platform play.

Problem with you people is that you believe it's something that can be enabled by flipping a switch. Like Major Nelson taught us it takes time to apply the effects of a 180.

Cross platform play will happen between PS4 and XB1 but it will take some time for developers to incorporate that into their games.

[Avernus]

Sony has been doing it for years now, and all of a sudden it's SONY who's "turned off" of the idea?...lol, ok

[TheCommentator]

You forget that MS already stated that they opened up XBL to cross play between consoles and the option was ready for any developer who wanted to take advantage of the feature. It was Sony who fumbled around with ambiguous statements when pressed for information... something ambiguous about how they'll have to investigate things on a case by case basis.

It's more likely that this is a developer issue and they are intent upon implementing the feature when they have time to do so. Who knows though, maybe there's too much red tape on Sony's end to get the game launched with the feature? All anyone can do is speculate since they didn't mention why it's not happening in the article, but it's quite obvious this has nothing to do with MS.

[jb227]

You also make the mistake in taking anything MS says for gospel & being quick to label anyone not outright being dishonest to their consumers as "the bad guy".

At the end of the day, MS can come out & say that cross play is "ready for any developer" only to tell certain devs on the downlow that they can't access it, or they can make it so difficult to implement that they won't bother with it. That way they can pick & choose the games & platforms they want cross play with (big hint: Xbox & Win10 PCs) while still seeming open. Devs working w/ MS won't tarnish their relationship by calling them or their policies out so they get to keep their image of being open w/o actually being so. All of that is a huge possibility here, and we've seen MS obfuscate the truth about the exclusivity of RotTR and we've seen them outright lie about QB's exclusivity so to automatically take anything they say for gospel is a little backwards.

Meanwhile Sony hasn't opened up much beyond "looking into" cross plat play w/ MS and they don't necessarily ever need to, they can just do it or not. They should look into these kinds of things first before they sell it to their gamers, I fully expect that. I don't want them to take the PR route of just blurting out whatever they can to keep people happy only to never follow through with it, and I don't want them to write checks that end up being cashed to our detriment.

[TheCommentator]

Lol, JB. What I said about the topic is what is actually known about cross play on consoles at this point. Nearly everything you're saying about this subject is simply a biased opinion full of hypothesis about why MS is the "bad guy", and Sony is not. At any rate I never said Sony is the bad guy, just that they haven't made it clear what their stance is yet while MS has made it clear what theirs is. That makes it more likely that Sony is to blame for lack of cross play, if the developers themselves aren't to blame. Whatever though, until I hear otherwise, what both companies say is what I currently believe.

Why are you so hurt by the truth anyways? It's downright childish of you to obfuscate the point with all your off topic whining about things like exclusivity.

[jb227]

Yup.

Said this from the very beginning, but the entire 'open to cross platform play' was pr fluff talk that journos & gamers ran wild with. The only truth behind that announcement & the entire point of it was to say that MS will support some cross platform play on a case by case basis. People acted like it meant that MS were entirely open & they'd have no questions asked cross plat play all around all the time. They assumed it meant that any XBO game that didn't have it would only have been held back by that game...its devs & other platforms were automatically the "bad guy" in any situation. It's the same way MS has been playing their PR game this gen, they tell half truths or make big bold statements that can't really be disproven in the here & now, that will only be clear in the long term as to their validity. People eat it up though apparently.

[silvacrest]

It's an MMO this xbone version would have greatly benefited from cross play, the last thing an MMO player wants is a mostly empty world

[JackStraw]

Never understood what people saw in this game. Always thought it was done really poorly. I miss the old EQ games. Their only good games imo. Hopefully H1Z1 is good, though.

[Clown_Syndr0me]

That's kind of a good thing, all the players will be starting at the same point rather tHan being years behind.

[addictedtochaos]

Likely Sony is the reason for it. Though it makes sense (for a while at least) since PC and PS players are very highly leveled and XBOX players will all be starting at lvl 1. Imagine trying PvP with a lvl 160 waiting outside to annihilate you.

[MasterCornholio]

Microsoft took down the barrier a short while ago so it takes time to incorporate the effects of the 180.

Its really not as easy as flipping a switch.

[dangerousbrian0]

You do realise Microsoft is only extending out the olive branch of cross platform play because they are loosing the console race between them and sony at the moment where was the olive branch from Microsoft when Sony was loosing last gen no where in sight Microsoft has only won 1 generation of consoles compared to Sonys 3 and thats last gen.If it was on the other foot and Microsoft was winning and Sony extended the olive branch of cross platform play they would have the same attitude as Sony.Its as the Saying goes If you cant beat them join them and thats what Microsoft is trying to do in a small way.I do admit though Cross platform play should happen.

[MRMagoo123]

MS came last with the 360 .......ps3 came second and wii won just a FYI. but last gen wasn't such a dominant slaughtering by ps3 it was neck and neck even tho MS released a year earlier this year ps4 is completely smashing the xbone in every way possible ...amount of games , highest critically rated games ,most sales just every thing so that's why MS is wanting to do this.

[iceheart3113]

As a current veteran PC player and future XB1 player, I'm glad DBG decided not to attempt cross platform play yet. It will give us time to catch up. For those of you conspiracy theorists out there that want someone to blame, I hate to break it to you but it was an internal decision not to include it with the initial launch because it would push back the launch an undisclosed amount of time. There is no "bad guy" in this situation. Not to mention there are several more pressing concerns that devs intend to tackle before attempting to implement it within the game. To me, at the very least, that makes perfect sense.