Crossplatform on PC

[Mathantastic]

Many many times, me and my friends decide to play a game that we all have, but we then figure out that we own it iin different platforms, I own it on xbox game pass, one of them owns it on steam, the other on epic games, and unless the game has a lobby browser, we generally end up not beeing able to play that game together because of that, since I can't invite them, cause when I click the invite button, the steam invite window pops up (or xbox invite window, etc)
Is there any way to fix that?

[bmx6454]

you mean fix crossplatform not working? if the game's servers don't support it, there is now way around that. can be annoying, but it was it is unfortunately.

[sub68]

What games have you tried?

[Chris Pratt]

No, unfortunately. The game has to have cross platform play built in, i.e. generally its own separate multiplayer infrastructure. Depending on the game, there may be mods that use community servers or something, but that's mostly a PC fix, to potentially bridge the gap between Steam and Epic maybe, but not XBL or PSN.

 

The good news is that there is momentum in the space for more developers making their titles cross platform. There's many more games today that support that than even a few years ago. It's still a mess out there, though.

[BlueChinchillaEatingDorito]

25 minutes ago, Mathantastic said:

Many many times, me and my friends decide to play a game that we all have, but we then figure out that we own it iin different platforms, I own it on xbox game pass, one of them owns it on steam, the other on epic games, and unless the game has a lobby browser, we generally end up not beeing able to play that game together because of that, since I can't invite them, cause when I click the invite button, the steam invite window pops up (or xbox invite window, etc)
Is there any way to fix that?

It'll be up to the developer to harmonize all of the different platforms together. So for instance, Bungie brought Cross-Save and Cross-Play to Destiny 2 and is possibly the most successful of the bunch. So right now we have players on Steam, PSN, XBox Live/ Game Pass, and Stadia all matchmaking together. 

 

Purchases of course don't transfer over because each platform wants their commission. 

[Mathantastic]

26 minutes ago, sub68 said:

What games have you tried?

overcooked, moving out, astroneer

[sub68]

Just now, Mathantastic said:

overcooked,

only the secound one is crossplatform

2 minutes ago, Mathantastic said:

moving out

that one isnt

2 minutes ago, Mathantastic said:

astroneer

only pc and xbox

[Mathantastic]

58 minutes ago, sub68 said:

only the secound one is crossplatform

that one isnt

only pc and xbox

yeah, you say only PC and xbox, but we are all on PC, its more about PC xbox app and PC steam cross platform, wich I think it doesn't have aswell?

[kirashi]

21 minutes ago, Mathantastic said:

yeah, you say only PC and xbox, but we are all on PC, its more about PC xbox app and PC steam cross platform, wich I think it doesn't have aswell?

Based on a quick internet search, it appears the developers of Astroneer have chosen not to make it crossplay compatible between Steam and the Windows Store at this time.

https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/xbox/forum/all/astroneer-crossplay-between-xbox-and-steam/022d5e3b-5472-434a-bb0f-3d1e6bb41614