Xbox Stop Crossplay or Provide an option for a Console ONLY Experience

Crossplay is not why people play on Xbox. You are forcing users to play with keyboard and mouse, supercharged PCs, and have yet to even fulfill your Xbox Series X orders. This is a frustrating time to be an Xbox supporter. Focus on the gaming experience and stop focusing on revenue. You have more than enough profit coming in to take a moment and invest in the Xbox Server Architecture to support a Console-Only experience.

you do realise that the majority of games online servers are actually owned and run by the devs/publishers of those games, microsoft just makes you pay to get access to them.

people play with keyboard and mouse on xbox either legit in game or using adapters.

Xbox is not just a console anymore it is a service across more platforms.

Microsoft are just tapping back into a huge pool of gamers (more than all consoles combined) by going back to PC where they originally made games back in the 80's, 90's and so on.

Even playstation is following suite slowly.

Hi Darren,

Thank you for posting in Microsoft Xbox Community. I understand that you're having issues with crossplay on your Xbox console.

Players on Xbox consoles can adjust crossplay options through in-game settings or through the console settings. Please note that console settings will take priority over in-game settings.

Multiplayer Unranked Crossplay (on consoles)

Open the Options menu.

Navigate to Settings and select Account & Network.

Under Multiplayer Unranked Crossplay, select one of the following:

ON: Allow matchmaking with other gaming platforms when playing in Multiplayer Unranked playlists.

ON (CONSOLE ONLY): Allow matchmaking with other console gaming platforms when playing in Multiplayer Unranked playlists.

May negatively impact matchmaking quality

OFF: Multiplayer Unranked matchmaking only uses your current gaming platform.

Will negatively impact matchmaking quality



Multiplayer Ranked Crossplay (on consoles)

Open the Options menu.

Navigate to Settings and select Account & Network.

Under Ranked Crossplay, select one of the following:

ON: Allow matchmaking with other gaming platforms when playing in Multiplayer Ranked playlists.

ON (CONSOLE ONLY): Allow matchmaking with other console gaming platforms when playing in Multiplayer Ranked playlists.

May negatively impact matchmaking quality

OFF: Multiplayer Ranked matchmaking only uses your current gaming platform.

Will negatively impact matchmaking quality

Follow these steps to Allow or Block crossplay.

Select your Gamertag at the top of the Xbox PC app.

Select Settings.

On the Account tab, scroll down to Privacy settings and select Manage.

On the right side of the screen, select the Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One, and Windows 10 devices Online Safety tab.

Select Allow or Block for the You can join cross-network play option.

Select Submit.

Regards,

Alvaro

why stop crossplay with pc, is it because of keyboard and mouse and higher refresh rates etc etc, if that is the case they then should stop cross play between xbox one and xbox series x as the series x has a higher refresh rate and is also an unfair advantage due to having more power.

don't say cheats, i play multiplayer on pc a lot and very rarely find cheaters, and there are a huge amount of cheaters on console too.

you can also use keyboard and mouse on console to these days, if you want a true console experience then you should all be on the exact same framerate, hardware, controller only.

VR and CrossPlay are two of the big words in the future of gaming I think. Bringing people together and providing a more realistic experience have been long term goals and those two items seem to provide a big boost to those goals.

Hi thanks for the reply

Unfortunately disabling crossplay in system options results in not being able to find any games during matchmaking, forced me to turn it back on in Warzone last year. So this isn't viable for anyone.

Since I got a PS5 after turning off crossplay in the game I haven't had these issues, there's always games to be found.

On top of this people on reddit are claiming doing this for Halo doesn't actually disable crossplay there's still PC gamers in lobbies.

The main concern is implementing the option in game. And to add insult to injury both Warzone and Battlefield have this option implemented in game but it's greyed out on the xbox version of the game. The option is there but we've been blocked from accessing it.

Crossplay should be optional if you happen to have friends who play on PC. Console players who have been asking for crossplay were asking for Xbox vs PS crossplay.