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when I buy a game, I should be able to play it across my platforms

Why?

Obviously it'd nice if you could, but there's no reason why a publisher should give up sales to people who buy a game multiple times just to make your life more convenient.

Microsoft's first party games as well as a lot of AppStore games to this. But I agree that a publisher would only do this if they have to. Sony is not even thinking about this.

Minecraft does this, and increasingly more games allow cross platform access, thought they are mostly free to play style games, but keep your in app purchases synced

>>no reason why a publisher should give up sales to people who buy a game multiple times just to make your life more convenient

Found the MBA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9h9wStdPkQY

(although he does have a pretty cool site: https://ooer.com/ - so I'm sure he cant be all bad... :-)

Cheers. I don't have an MBA. I do have slightly pointy hair though.

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