I know it looks awesome, and the idea of cross platform play was suggested, and thouroughly thought about over and over by Epic.
I just finished watching a re-run of Interactive Festival and speaking at this year’s Edinburgh Interactive Festival, Epic Games Vice President Mark Rein talked Unreal Tournament III, and he’d specifically talked about cross-platform play.
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"[INDENT] I’d say it’s unlikely…there’s no technical reason you can’t do it, there’s a lot of reasons why it might not make sense and that is the fact that on a PC we can release a patch five minutes after the last patch if we wanted to. PlayStation 3 we have to go through a fairly complex certing process…that’s not to say we’ll never have it, but I don’t believe we’re going to ship with it as a feature.
The thing is, it’s hard to know if people really want it or not. Do you really want to play against PC players?
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I seriously think that Sony should’ve worked on their patch system. Microsoft has their stuff together with live, we just need to watch out for the red ring of death. He also talked about how Epic and Microsoft would make up for Sony’s fault.
With the Xbox Live Silver Platform. XLSP-certified development studios can deliver content through the game publisher’s servers, allowing for user generated content to be downloaded, as long as it is within the publisher’s guidelines. This mean a developer could build a level editor for PC, then use content created from the editor on Xbox 360, says Microsoft Software Design Engineer Zsolt Mathe.
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Even though nobody has done that, I would highly recommend that.
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M$ is really starting to pull their stuff together with Epic, this is somthing that has never before been done before. I’m a little bumbed out about the cross platform play though, but now that i think about it, I wouldn’t want to be playing against someone with a keyboard and mouse, I actually prefer to use them.
Do you guys have any news about UT 3, or UE 3? I’m extremely interested in knowing everything about it, because it’s my favorite game.
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