The Cycle is coming to Steam and will support crossplay with Epic Games Store

Yager announced at Gamescom that it is bringing the competitive quest shooter The Cycle to Steam in Q4 2020. The game is also leaving early access at the Epic Games Store and will support crossplay with Steam.

[mrsolidsteel20]

Are the two getting along now?

[Vits]

Not really. If this crossplay use EOS and the work in the similar style of Killing Floor 2 crossplay. Then it will require Steam users (and only Steam users) to create a Epic Games Store account and log into said account in order to use it.

So it's basically Epic using Steam users in order to inflate their own store user numbers.

[Razmiran]

Thats the choice of the devs tho, borderlands 3 also has crossplay and asks users of both storefronts to create a Gearbox ID

[Vits]

@Razmiran

That is because the developers created their own ID system to manage the crossplay. But that is not a viable alternative to a indie game like this one.

[Godmars290]

Oh hey...

Cross platforming on the same platform...

[ocelot07]

Has boggled my mind for years. Like I remember saying when Advance Warfare released on Windows store and steam and they couldn't play with each other. So not long after release Windows store buyers could hardly get into a match due to hardly anyone being online.