What's with the Sony fan raid going on here? Your Playstation Plus/Network dollars wouldn't be going to Microsoft, and you shouldn't need an Xbox Gold account to utilize cross play. If executed correctly, this does nothing but help the players. Imagine with me for a moment.

Crossplay enabled game happens. Now, people who play less popular games have 2x or more the number of people to match with and play (more if Nintendo and PC get invited to the party). What if I don't play old or unpopular games? You still benefit! In the case of dedicated servers, your number of potential servers would increase by a large margin. What's that do? Well, not only room for more players, but more room for matchmaking tuning (better skill-matched players to play with and against), more servers means better latency as they'll be better distributed geographically, and it would mean no groups of friends would be split because of a console preference.

Sony will not go for the deal if it's bad on their end. Neither would Microsoft. But, this has the potential to be the biggest thing in online gaming's history, no hyperbole. I wanna play some Rocket League with the rest of you nerds, the console wars have always been stupid. Pick the better game platform, or the better hardware, not some blind allegiance to a brand name in a desperate attempt to fit in.

Now that I'm a bit better off, I can afford to have all of the modern platforms. I can say with absolute confidence that all of the big 3 (ms, Sony, Nintendo) and PC platforms have distinct advantages over one another, and more importantly, great games.

I, for one, am sick of seeing great older games die out. I know this will almost certainly not effect games already released, but an "online merger" on good terms is one of the best things I think that could happen to the industry. Cooperate while still competing, good for games, gamers, and developers.

Have a tiny bit of faith, Microsoft's new leadership seems to be steering the ship in a much less scummy direction, and if their intentions are revealed to be sincere, I hope they're rewarded for it.