Quote Originally Posted by Valkyrie_Lenneth View Post
Because those games are peer to peer, but a matchmaking server is still a server. The game communicates with players somehow. No mmos have cross platform functionality other than xiv, and the other MMOs have separate servers per platform. XIV does not.

And again, the game let's you choose to play with only Xbox players. You can't do that in xiv.
Minecraft Realms. Dedicated Minecraft servers run by Microsoft. Any platform can log on those with no restrictions. Except PS4. Because they refuse to have other console in their ecosystem. I know this is irrelevant to a certain extent. I'm not saying that your facts are wrong. What I'm saying is that Microsoft has demonstrably shown that they have no issues allowing other systems connecting to theirs without any restrictions. I'm saying that logically based on information we have now, if a company between Microsoft and Sony is responsible for locking xbox players out of FFXIV, it's Sony. They have done it several times with other games and I feel like that should qualify as a pretty good indication of where they stand with FFXIV. Never mind the Square PR talk. Several other developers have gone on record saying that Sony was blocking cross console connectivity for their respective games.

Either way, I don't even know why I'm debating any of this, I play on PC lol