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Cross platform multiplayer isn’t held back by Steamworks. It’s held back, mostly, by Sony and Nintendo. You notice that PlayStation and Nintendo are the only platforms that regularly do not allow cross platform play. Even in games that do have cross platform play, Playstation usually only allows it with other consoles and not PC. Because Sony is fucking stupid.

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Elabajaba@lemmy.ca ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

I don’t even know wtf you mean by “cross launcher.” Every source of the game on a PC has always been able to connect with other players who got the game on different stores.

Incorrect. Games that use steamworks for multiplayer can only play with other steam users. This has been an issue for people buying games on gog for over a decade. Big AAA devs use their own multiplayer backends, but most AA and indie use steamworks (or eos these days).

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- Kolanaki@yiffit.net ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  I’ve been on Steam since 2003. I stay up to date with the current trends and almosf always have the biggest releases day 1.
  
  Not one Steamworks game is incompatible with an EGS/Origin/GOGGalaxy game or vice versa.
  
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  - Elabajaba@lemmy.ca ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Steamworks doesn’t support crossplatform or crosslauncher multiplayer, period. Every game that has cross-launcher play between steam and eg. gamepass, gog, epic, etc. has it because they either didn’t use steamworks for multiplayer, or they replaced steamworks multiplayer for either EOS, GoG Galaxy, or their own custom multiplayer backend. This is not up for debate, this is something anyone even somewhat familiar with steamworks or gog would already know.
    
    Homeworld Remastered only recently got cross-launcher multiplayer when they replaced steamworks with their shift backend. Same for Homeworld Deserts of Kharak.
    
    Deep Rock Galactic doesn’t support cross-launcher play or crossplay between the gamepass (xbox or pc) and steam versions because the steam version uses steamworks multiplayer. DRG support crossplay between the MS store and xbox console versions.
    
    Brutal Legend straight up doesn’t have multiplayer on GoG because it relied on steamworks and they didn’t bother implementing anything for gog, so they just removed it.
    
    Dying light 1 only got cross launcher play in 2022 when they replaced steamworks with EOS. Previously multiplayer didn’t work between GoG and Steam versions.
    
    Off the top of my head, No Man’s Sky, Stellaris, Grim Dawn, and Darktide all had to write their own multiplayer backends to replace steamworks to get cross launcher play.
    
    Literally every multiplayer game that was steam exclusive and then releases on epic removes steamworks and replaces it with EOS because steamworks doesn’t support cross-launcher play (eg. Rising Storm 2, Mordhau)
    
    In the future you should do literally any research to avoid making an ass of yourself.
    
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