Change Game from One platform to another.

shankly1985

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Don't you think we should be allowed to change a game from Uplay to Steam or PS4 to PC?? Even if we was allowed a one time use to do it..

They is couple games on PS4 I would rather play on PC and they is also Uplay games I would rather have on steam.

What you think?
 
shankly1985 said:
Don't you think we should be allowed to change a game from Uplay to Steam or PS4 to PC?? Even if we was allowed a one time use to do it..

They is couple games on PS4 I would rather play on PC and they is also Uplay games I would rather have on steam.

What you think?
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Yes ;)
 
I'll say yes since Santa's bringing my lad a PS4.

While on the subject of transferring across platforms, what about Origin stats, are they carried over between platforms or do you have to start from scratch?

Asking as SWBF was the one he wanted, can I sign in on PS4 and receive my PC stats?
 
tommybhoy said:
I'll say yes since Santa's bringing my lad a PS4.

While on the subject of transferring across platforms, what about Origin stats, are they carried over between platforms or do you have to start from scratch?

Asking as SWBF was the one he wanted, can I sign in on PS4 and receive my PC stats?
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I know with Battlefield that would be a no.. But Battlefront am not sure..
 
shankly1985 said:
Surely this isn't a hard thing to do.. :D Think more people would need to push for this type of thing though..
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Well, cant be that hard as it's what happens for us PC guys. I bought games for both windows and Linux and can play them across MAC, Linux and Windows without any issues. Bar the odd one regards the saves not been compatible.

Though in fairness , the consoles are separate systems.
 
I wish platform exclusives didn't exist ( I can understand a few weeks difference in launch dates for server capacity/optimising individual platforms ) I would love to have the last of us on PC i have finished that game so many times now.

It would be nice if it worked a bit like the office 365 package works. The software is licenced to you and you can use it on any system/platform you are using st the time by simply logging in. If that was the same for games i think I would be the happiest person on earth... But sadly it won't happen because it would cost money and make company's profit far less.
 
Would be nice but then again this is more a business issue than technical. Essentially would be about who gets paid what in case of a game being transferred from Uplay to Steam for example.

In case of cross platform transfer it's a case of whether the company thinks it will lose a possible sale, not to mention chance of system being exploited. Technically none of this would be particularly hard to do but bottom line is that I don't think many companies are prepared to do that.

Although didn't Valve allow Orange Box to be registered both on PS3 and Steam?

EDIT: Thinking about it some more though if Microsoft truly wanted to pull their finger out and actually genuinely deliver for the PC platform for once without throwing more empty promises around, they could go let Xbox owners also play the games on their PCs. Even if it is through their own Games for Windows service, although issue of course would be that you can sell on second hand Xbox games so system could be exploited as above to get cheaper games on the PC.
 
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The platform holders would never allow it. They make money from every console game sold; people would just buy cheap Eastern European/Russian CD keys for PC games like they already do and then register them to use on the consoles.

harry5522 said:
I wish platform exclusives didn't exist ( I can understand a few weeks difference in launch dates for server capacity/optimising individual platforms ) I would love to have the last of us on PC i have finished that game so many times now.
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There are a lot of games that would likely never have existed if it weren't for platform-exclusivity. Plus some developers legitimately seem to prefer just focusing on one particular piece of hardware or at least, working with one particular hardware manufacturer.
 
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