Valve wants Counter-Strike: Global Offensive to be cross-platform
Valve is aiming to make Counter-Strike: Global Offensive sport cross-platform play, but recognizes that contractual or platform-holder business realities might keep it from happening.
Counter-Strike: Global Offensive is planned for PC, Mac, PlayStation 3, and Xbox 360--but ideally, Valve wants you to be able to square off against players of any platform. "We never want to create these 'islands of players'," Valve boss Gabe Newell said at Gamescom.
One of the real limitations of cross-platform play may be input devices. "You have to be sensitive to control differences, and make sure you're accommodating that, but you know, our view is players should be able to play as part of a community on whatever device they can," Newell told PCGames.de (via Blues News). He said that cross-platform play is "certainly our goal."
But, sometimes business realities get in the way. "You know, sometimes there are contractual, or other issues that make that hard, where somebody, a platform holder doesn’t want you to do that for whatever reason, but that’s always our preference. To let customers play and be part of the larger community." Of course, saying "a platform holder" instead of "Microsoft" was awfully tactful.
There is some hope for a cross-platform solution. Valve pushed for Steamworks and cross-platform play in Portal 2, and--minus the PlayStation Network outage--it seemed to work out fine and dandy. If cross-platform play is implemented, Sony will probably be up for letting Valve do it again with CS:GO. But will Microsoft relent to match their chief competitor?
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Valve is aiming to make Counter-Strike: Global Offensive sport cross-platform play, but recognizes that contractual or platform-holder business realities might keep it from happening.-
Portal 2 is cooperative so it's not a straight-up comparison - why would Sony or MS let PC gamers with mice and keyboards and with lower barriers to cheating come on and destroy any chances of a playerbase get created?
Console users would pick up the game and end up getting destroyed by PC players who have been playing this game in some form for years. -
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CS seems to be the most likely to transition to console of the more usual FPS games.
It plays pretty much like CoD with very high damage hitscan weapons so your main problem is just having your crosshair in the right spot instead of aiming though pure aim skill is certainly valuable.
Put some aim assist and it would probably be fine, though it would certainly be interesting to see what happens.
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So you didn't play the Alpha then? That's cool.
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Combine this with John Carmack's "I wish that Sony and Microsoft would allow mouse and keyboard" comment.
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It's a shame the developer's don't allow it.
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They can which doesn't mean they do.
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