FIFA 23 Missing Important Cross-play Functionality
Electronic Arts is making some long-needed improvements to its annual soccer game with FIFA 23. The introduction of cross-play between PC, PS5, Stadia, and Xbox Series X/S players, as well as between PS4 and Xbox One players, is particularly exciting. Cross-play has been requested in FIFA by fans for a very long time. Yet as exciting as it is, EA is actually holding back on full support for the technology. Specifically, FIFA 23 is not enabling cross-play for its incredibly popular Pro Clubs game mode.
An official confirmation from EA has made clear FIFA 23's cross-play will not be coming to Pro Clubs in the foreseeable future. The reason for this, according to EA, is to ensure that its «product innovation is delivered at quality.» Further, Pro Clubs, according to EA, requires a level of technical intricacy that is beyond what the developers are able to support at this time.
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«Technical intricacy» is an understated way of describing the situation. Pro Clubs inFIFA allow up to 22 players together in a single online multiplayer match, with between 2-11 real players per team. Connecting 22 players together on a single platform is no simple matter, so adding the intermixing of up to four different platforms makes it that much more challenging. In practice the platforms are less of a complication than the 22 players, but EA is only just exploring cross-play, so it's believable when it says more time is needed.
That hasn't stopped FIFA fans from being disappointed and frustrated with the situation, however. Demands for cross-play to be enabled forFIFA 23 Pro Clubs are being shared across the internet, with FIFA YouTuber JCC rallying players to the cause. JCC and other prominent names in theFIFA community
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