The gaming company Epic Announced today that it will allow developers on its home platform, allow gamers on Epic andSteam Play with each other. According to a blog post on the Epic Games website, the developer and distributor has launched “New Cross-Play Tool for Game Developers”, And added that it will give to studios “Everything they need to connect their game and community between different platforms and stores.”
Although the PC world is known as a more “open” field for gamers. In recent years trends have not necessarily entered into charges for the same medium. Each platform has its own development tools, which work on the servers of the same company, which impairs the ability of the development studios to develop games that will work on all platforms smoothly. While services like GOG Galaxy have long since added cross-play compatibility with the services of Bus Vests, the two largest PC stores (Sets holds 75% of the market), which often have difficulty coexisting, causing headaches for gamers around the world.
Today we launched Epic Online Services SDK 1.15, introducing a new crossplay tool for game developers—starting with PC.
Discover how these services give teams everything they need to connect their games and communities across platforms and stores: https://t.co/ggGzVT4lox
— Epic Games Newsroom (@EpicNewsroom) June 16, 2022
Although Wallab has always been open to compatibility with other services, Afik as a competitor and relatively as an underdog, it has preferred not to link itself to sets, other than trying to take to a customer store, in no way. The initial tools will allow developers to merge friends lists, link accounts, invite friends to games through the two platforms and more. According to Bus: The tools are designed “Give developers everything they need to connect their game community across platforms and stores.”
Afik’s Senior Director of Online Services, Simon Alais, He explained. “We are in a fortunate position to drive change in the industry with cross-play availability for all developers and we believe connecting friends and communities will take the gaming industry to its next big growth burst and its next billion players.”
Afik has always been adamant about the idea of cross-play, and for good reason, the big gaming companies put in large amounts of money. Cross-play encourages players to play with each other and against, it is regardless of the platform, resulting in a much larger player base. The revenue and amount of players in the Battle Royale Warzone games, and Apex Legends, is a prime example of this claim.
Although I will indeed advocate this option, the company preferred not to link it to anything that could be related to sets. Since the launch of the Epic platform, the company has used a variety of ways to gain users, even in ways that some would claim to have lost users due to the company’s “anti-consumer” actions such as, locking computer games of various companies “as exclusive” on its platform. The company has games like Fortnite, Rocket League, as well as Fall Guys, all of which are leading titles owned by Afik, already attracting millions of dollars in annual revenue. This number will only increase if the integration between games becomes smoother in storefronts and digital platforms. But this number will increase even more, if society behaves in a less predatory manner, and more in a positive way. After all, if there’s something that Seth and Wallab taught