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Blizzard and Valve Want Unified Online Community, Sony Ahead

Posted on Wednesday, September 7 @ 01:52:35 Eastern by


Blizzard Entertainment and Valve Software are joining forces toward the ideal of a unified online space between all consoles.

Gabe Newell of Valve has told Develop magazine that it would be "ideal to have a unified online community regardless of the platform that gamers are playing on", and Frank Pearce of Blizzard Entertainment has separately told Develop magazine that the industry needs to "figure out how to make the internet better instead of figuring out how to keep customers off the internet".

With the success of Portal 2 (and the upcoming Counter-Strike: Global Offensive) on having cross-platform play between the PC and PS3, Valve has already expressed its disappointment over Microsoft's online restrictions while praising Sony for the PS3's open platform. Sony also plans on having cross-platform play with PC for CCP Games' upcoming Dust 514.

At the same time, Pierce accepts that cross-platform play may not be best for every game:

If you have a gaming experience on the PC that you want people to enjoy on the console you may have to adapt components of that experience to different platforms. So maybe that isn’t a level playing-field. Maybe some games are best as a shared community rather than a shared gameplay experience. It really is completely dependent on the game itself.

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Related Games:   Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, Portal 2
Tags:   Valve, Blizzard, PS3, Sony, Microsoft, PC


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  • sliverstorm
    sliverstorm
    Joined: Jun 2007
    Posted: Sep 7th, 2011 at 4:42 am
    And I'm sure they both agree on the online gaming platform that should be at the core of that unification...
    1 1
  • Bras
    Bras
    Joined: Jul 2008
    Posted: Sep 7th, 2011 at 9:33 am
    Wii U for everybody!
    1 1
  • Merlin
    Merlin
    Joined: Oct 2005
    Posted: Sep 7th, 2011 at 10:30 am
    hey i like the idea of sitting in my bathroom with my wii u pad playing portal or defusing a bomb in CS :P
    1 1
  • drathbone
    drathbone
    Joined: May 2011
    Posted: Sep 7th, 2011 at 12:38 pm
    I can has WoW on sexbox?!
    1 1
  • OdiousLupous
    OdiousLupous
    Joined: Jul 2011
    Posted: Sep 7th, 2011 at 1:18 pm
    Dude dont roll on those plate boots man, if you do, Im just saying, Im a hacker and something bad could happen to you. Just pass and everything will be fine.
    1 2
  • Bretimus_v2
    Bretimus_v2
    Joined: Jan 2009
    Posted: Sep 7th, 2011 at 1:23 pm
    If they want me to play a competitive shooter on my PS3 vs. a PC, then Sony better start having more keyboard and mouse capability.
    1 1
  • Sammo
    Sammo
    Joined: Oct 2005
    Posted: Sep 7th, 2011 at 2:26 pm
    I've never tried, but I believe you can just usb in a mouse and keyboard. That means it'll be up to the games to support those devices, and presumably yeah if you're going to go cross platform it would be a good idea to have the option available.
    1 1
  • 213EDD
    213EDD
    Joined: Sep 2007
    Posted: Sep 7th, 2011 at 3:56 pm
    Unify through steam!
    1 1
  • OdiousLupous
    OdiousLupous
    Joined: Jul 2011
    Posted: Sep 8th, 2011 at 3:04 pm
    Imagine the hats we could get in TF2 that were Wow, Diablo and SC themed......mmm.
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