• gk99@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    There’s not really any excuse for a Microsoft-owned game to not be Xbox Play Anywhere. If they’re going to make it exclusive, we damn well better get the benefits that are supposed to come with the platform.

  • UncommonBagOfLoot@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Personally I’m fine with it not having cross-progression with xbox.

    A modded save from PC will probably break when you load on xbox. Might even corrupt it.

    • VoxelBase@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      It does look like it’s going to be a play anywhere title, though! So you can buy it once and play on Xbox/PC (Xbox app, not steam) and share a save file between the two.

      • AlexanderTheGreat@lemmy.worldOPM
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        1 year ago

        In case you were wondering, Starfield will not support cross-platform progression.

        Are you sure? The article doesn’t seem to think so. I’d love if it did though.

        • VoxelBase@lemmy.world
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          1 year ago

          Yeah there was this old tweet from Bethesda that kind of confirmed it. Though I guess to be fair that could change. Most of their 1st party titles have had that option so I’d be surprised and disappointed if it didn’t.

            • rubberducky182@lemmy.world
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              1 year ago

              tbf it only says that you can play on both platforms… that doesn’t necessarily mean that the progression is shared.

              • AlexanderTheGreat@lemmy.worldOPM
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                1 year ago

                A user above made a good point about mods breaking the save between platforms if it was. But having access either way is great.

                • rubberducky182@lemmy.world
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                  1 year ago

                  yeah… and I just checked Skyrim and FO4 on the Xbox store. both of them don’t have “Xbox play anywhere” and therefore no shared saves. so it’s likely the same for Starfield.

                  And I get the thing about the mods. I was still hoping for cross platform saves, because I haven’t really decided yet whether I want to play on Xbox or PC. and it would suck to start over again after having played for several hours on one platform.

    • Vordus@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      1 year ago

      It’s almost as if these types of articles are just churned out to a template with as much seo as possible or something

    • Lord_Logjam@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      I think it’s referring to cross-save functionality rather than playing with people on other platforms.