only pay once to get all platforms

[Bones]

Not true anymore. QQ

Nothing else to see here. Just informing folks that jsut becuase you own it on the playstation, doesnt mean you can play it on all platforms.

Either way, May end up buying again if they have some new features in this and don't include them on other platforms.

[Tiramisu]

"anymore" ^_^ Really....?

Im gaming decades and I dont recall a time when it was normal to only expect to buy a game once and be able to play it across entirely different platforms.

You must live in a very special land (population: you).

[Bones]

Nah, just going from the helldiver website. I'm not strictly a pc master race kind of guy. More of a lover of all. Aside from the xbone and the likes.

[BlackjackGT]

I think a gentler :) explanation is Vita, PS3, PS4 are Sony-owned/manufactured platforms, so it makes financial/selt-promotional sense for them to offer a "buy on one Sony platform, get the game free on all Sony PlayStation platforms."

PC isn't a Sony-owned/made gaming platform so there's no hardware impetus for them to add PC into that "free on all Sony platforms" mix. If they would've, I would've been happy because many of my online buds now seem almost entirely console gamers -- you'd have to pretty much give them a cool online PC game in order for me to get to play with them anymore.

[Bones]

Yes, i get that. But for those who still think its pay once, play on all platforms, they will be able to see this thread and know that you will have to buy it again if you dont want to reach for the ps4 controller on the other side of the room.

Edit - Know the feeling blackjack. Most of my friends are mixed between steam games, league of legends, playstation and the xbone. Just need to get rid of everything and get a monopoly going for one machine, play with everyone!

[BlackjackGT]

Yeah, like Star Wars Battlefront's Survival mode is awesome co-op -- aside from inexplicable lack of text chat in that mode -- but I have few friends on Origin to begin with and pretty much anyone I know is playing the console versions of it. While I'm enjoying Battlefront, rest assured I will be switching over to a Cup of Liber-tea starting Dec. 4.

[Bones]

Yeah man, this game is such a blast with friends. Safe to assume you have played it?

[BlackjackGT]

Originally posted by Broseph Ballin:

Yeah man, this game is such a blast with friends. Safe to assume you have played it?

Helldivers? Yes, only on Vita. Most of the time I was playing cross-platform with PS3 or PS4 players. It was great for Arrowhead to get it working on Vita, but I rarely ever crossed paths with other Vita Helldiver players, it seemed.

My only nitpick with the campaign system was I didn't like how the overarching campaign process funneled you from being able to switch among battling the three alien factions (Bugs, the Illuminate and Cyborgs), to eventually just two factions, and then in the last campaign leg, just one.So sometimes for days, you could only battle one alien faction online. I understand why the campaign worked that way, I just wasn't a fan of losing the alien faction variety or being forced to play a narrow selection of maps/missions during the last campaign leg.

If none of this makes sense, it will as you play the game soon. :)

On PC, I guess I am worried a bit that it presumably doesn't have the integrated voice chat as Sony's gaming platforms do. I'm sure folks will use Teamspeak, Ventrilo, Steam's built-in chat model etc. but it's simpler for pick-up-groups when it's one integrated voice chat platform w/ muting options imho. I know Sony can do it - Planetside has it in the MMO space for at least 12 years I think, but I'm assuming Helldivers PC won't. Though I haven't heard anyone specifically address that.

[Bones]

Oh I know what you mean. Have the 4 and vita, tried playing vita, but just wasn't as fun for me. guess i prefer it with a controller.

I actually liked how they had it set up. Makes sense, and gives purpose.

[Master Tang]

Cross-platform buy hasn't really ever been a thing, for like ever.

[Mutant1988]

You know that the reason why it's available for PS3, PS4 and Vita is because Sony owns the platforms themselves, right? They can afford giving excess copies, since it's their profit regardless.

They don't own PCs or the OSs running on them.

[Ehie Yovach]

So we have to buy the game (and DLC) again? Damn shame, guess I'll have to pass up the PC release.