Can I play with my friends from an xbox app account? we are both on pc.

[Orbister]

I got the game on the xbox app for pc and he got it here on steam. The reason i got it on xbox is that it was much cheaper for me there. Can i play with him?

[Chris!!]

Only if your copy and your friend's copy of the game is from the Microsoft Store. If so, then yes you can play together.

[Orbister]

Originally posted by Chris!!:

Only if your copy of the game is from the Microsoft Store. If so, then yes you can play together.

I bought the game on the xbox app for pc and he got it here on steam.

[Aimee]

Originally posted by Orbister:

Originally posted by Chris!!:

Only if your copy of the game is from the Microsoft Store. If so, then yes you can play together.

I bought the game on the xbox app for pc and he got it here on steam.

Then no, steam and microsoft are rivals... although microsoft is rivals with every company that is not them...
So they use different servers and dont work together.

[Chris!!]

Wait for the game to go on sale for a tenner and you can play with them.

[Orbister]

Originally posted by Aimee:

Originally posted by Orbister:

I bought the game on the xbox app for pc and he got it here on steam.

Then no, steam and microsoft are rivals... although microsoft is rivals with every company that is not them...
So they use different servers and dont work together.

well that sucks, we can play together in Shredder's Revenge... Even though it's the same situation...

[Derpykat5]

Originally posted by Orbister:

Originally posted by Aimee:

Then no, steam and microsoft are rivals... although microsoft is rivals with every company that is not them...
So they use different servers and dont work together.

well that sucks, we can play together in Shredder's Revenge... Even though it's the same situation...

That game likely has dedicated servers. This game does not.

[Orbister]

Originally posted by Derpykat5:

Originally posted by Orbister:

well that sucks, we can play together in Shredder's Revenge... Even though it's the same situation...

That game likely has dedicated servers. This game does not.

I thought this was player hosted. Thanks anyway.

[Chris!!]

Originally posted by Orbister:

Originally posted by Derpykat5:

That game likely has dedicated servers. This game does not.

I thought this was player hosted. Thanks anyway.

It is. The lobby browser is Steam side though.

Even then, the game version is different per Steam and MS store (which runs Xbox version), so it's not like you could bypass the lobby browser and connect directly.

[Derpykat5]

Originally posted by Orbister:

Originally posted by Derpykat5:

That game likely has dedicated servers. This game does not.

I thought this was player hosted. Thanks anyway.

It is. That's why there's no crossplay; the game uses the platform to connect players together instead of using a dedicated server to manage the connections.

[Orbister]

Originally posted by Derpykat5:

Originally posted by Orbister:

I thought this was player hosted. Thanks anyway.

It is. That's why there's no crossplay; the game uses the platform to connect players together instead of using a dedicated server to manage the connections.

When it's player hosted you don't need an app, you can use the in-game menus. But whatever. The fact is that this game segregates it's player base and there's nothing i can do about it. Besides buying it again here i guess... I might just do that.

[Chibbity]

Originally posted by Orbister:

When it's player hosted you don't need an app, you can use the in-game menus. But whatever.

DRG is a P2P game, players host the lobbies; but the games online lobby making system requires Steams back end to function. Or The Xbox Live back end, depending on where you bought it.

[Derpykat5]

Originally posted by Orbister:

Originally posted by Derpykat5:

It is. That's why there's no crossplay; the game uses the platform to connect players together instead of using a dedicated server to manage the connections.

When it's player hosted you don't need an app, you can use the in-game menus. But whatever. The fact is that this game segregates it's player base and there's nothing i can do about it. Besides buying it again here i guess... I might just do that.

Even in the cases you're thinking of, the game still needs some networking to link players together. That kind of thing requires a backend server, and this game chose to use Steam's for a number of reasons.

If Steam and Microsoft would stop siloing their customers and allow their backends to communicate with each other, then it wouldn't be a problem, but Steam and Microsoft are greedy, so we get segregation. It's hardly the game's fault.

[Orbister]

Originally posted by Derpykat5:

Originally posted by Orbister:

When it's player hosted you don't need an app, you can use the in-game menus. But whatever. The fact is that this game segregates it's player base and there's nothing i can do about it. Besides buying it again here i guess... I might just do that.

Even in the cases you're thinking of, the game still needs some networking to link players together. That kind of thing requires a backend server, and this game chose to use Steam's for a number of reasons.

If Steam and Microsoft would stop siloing their customers and allow their backends to communicate with each other, then it wouldn't be a problem, but Steam and Microsoft are greedy, so we get segregation. It's hardly the game's fault.

Well whoever fault it is i don't really care because as i said talking about it won't change the fact that it does not allow me to play with my friend on steam even though other games do and i all can i do is buy it again or not play with my friend. I don't care how much you love the game and how much you want to say it's not this game's fault. I literally don't care. I'm not hating this is just 101 stoicism.

[marcusaddamsson]

OP,

Generally speaking, these threads tend to see the OP get all grumpy-dumpy when they learn that they can't play with their friends. So generally speaking we've learned to 'soft sell' this particular feature.

[Aimee]

Originally posted by Orbister:

Originally posted by Derpykat5:

That game likely has dedicated servers. This game does not.

I thought this was player hosted. Thanks anyway.

DRG is player hosted or P2P, but it still connects those players through a server.
You are not playing on the actual server, but being able to find one another does require a server. The rerouting on steam happens through the steam servers that also host the friendslist and community hub, and for microsoft they have their own servers. And they dont want those two servers from connecting to one another.