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Doesn't work it has to stay on because servers are broken if crossplay is off.
The sole reason anyone pushes crossplay is to sell more stuff. Consoles have a large install base. Devs want to make money off their work. Its a no brainier. I dont blame them, business is business.
Is it good for the end user? Eh...debatable...typically no, it never is. There is not a single console game that does not play better on PC for various reasons. Either technical or control schemes.
Then again, if PC is the smallest market due to the higher entry barriers and consoles are much bigger and accessable. Smart phones dominate both combined a dozen times over.
The 10 top biggest games for the past few years are all Chinese phone gatcha games lol by a GIGANTIC margin, these things rake in several times more than GTAV did at its peak, billions of dollars and players.
Basically...just turn crossplay off. You can group find PC players in discord, most people do that these days as IRC/BBS was destroyed by discord.
Developers keep intentionally making the setting useless by preventing you from seeing any PC players with Crossplay enabled. The intended goal players want from turning off Crossplayer is to see only PC players when it's off. You know, like how things were before we had Consoles constantly shoved into multiplayer.
Who'd a thunk it people don't want to deal with console plebs?
That shouldn't be an issue. It should be if you have it set to off, then you can only see other players that also have it off. If that list is tiny, then oh well, it's what you asked for imo.
And generally, beginners don't really matter that much to an advanced players playstyle. They're so slow, that a good player usually has finished the contract by themselves already, before the incapability of new players really matters. Unless you take pure beginners into a Nightmare (or higher) difficulty, but then you're pretty much asking to get your sanity erased in no time through deathes, before finishing even half the ghost tests. And if you fear those players using cursed possessions, just switch them off in custom difficulty, not to mention that oyu can just kick everybody who uses low quality mics, if you really don't want them in your lobbies (or whatever you dislike about people in general).
Only PC players can see and join your lobby. Nothing more, nothing less. Those on PS or Xbox console wouldn't see the game or be able to join it.
As it stands now, the toggle is misleading and incorrect on what it performs and offers. You aren't turning off other platforms, you're turning off the ability to play with any PC player that doesn't have that setting turned off. Last I checked, other PC players on Steam while I play on Steam are not a different platform or console.
I could pull up quite a few examples of why this didn't work before, and why this doesn't work now. Although it's a bit pointless since it won't change the group thunk on the topic, nor does Kinectic really care much about the opinions beyond their buddy buddy "content" creators.
For example, if I have it off and join a PC host with it on but then a console player joins after me should I get kicked from the lobby? Should the console player be barred from joining because I have crossplay off but the host has it on?
What they could’ve done is make crossplay a setting when creating a new lobby to host so only pc players can see and join it regardless of what toggle other pc players have in the options. I see that working a bit better than the current iteration.
Well, they could do it so that it depends on the hosts settings, but then obviously people would complain, why they join another PC player, just to have the 2 remaining slots be filled with console player, because the host doesn't care about this elitism nonsense.
The way how it is now is definitely the most clear way of what players could expect, because it literally makes sure that you don't mix with console players.