If there’s one genre I think that cross-platform play is well suited for, it’s Massive games. FFXI can now be played from three separate platforms, and it sounds like they’d be willing to take it to more doorsteps if there was interest. It’s no surprise then that Age of Conan might be a 360/PC crossplay title.

Revealing that the developer is “toying around with many different solutions” to cross-platform action, Conan product manger Erling Ellingsen went on to explain possible options in an interview to be published shortly.

“…one is having some shared servers and some servers that are not shared – simply to give players the freedom of choice. What solution we actually do end up with is something we will have to reveal later”. 

I don’t know why this is even that much of an issue. I can move around Tamriel just as smoothly on the 360 as I did on my PC, and Oblivion’s controls are fairly close to what you’d see in your average MMOG. I actually much prefer spellcasting on the 360, as an aside; the d-pad is ideally suited to hotkeying.  I’m sure there are technical hurdles to overcome here, but I don’t see why we can’t get more of these kinds of happy occurances in the future.

Btw: Blizzard, I’m looking at you. It’s cool if you don’t want to port WoW, but I call shenanigans on ‘it can’t be done’. Bah.

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