@Ronnie21093 Hope the Epic money was worth it, because this is probably the worst press the series has gotten (outside of some lesser liked spinoffs). They even got in touch with Epic to do a promotional article for the online services about the implementation of EOS in the game.
https://dev.epicgames.com/en-US/news/in-less-than-a-month-how-earth-defense-force-6-added-crossplay-by-adopting-epic-online-services
https://dev.epicgames.com/en-US/news/in-less-than-a-month-how-earth-defense-force-6-added-crossplay-by-adopting-epic-online-services
@Iffine I wouldn't mind it so much if it was only required to play with EGS users and I could still play with Steam users without it, but no, it is required to play multiplayer at all.
@Ronnie21093 The game apparently isn't even on the Epic Games Store. None of the EDF games are. According to the article, they only did this to "solve" PS4 and PS5 crossplay, and just kept it as the online services for everyone. This problem was created by them deciding to make a PS5 version of the game, and nothing else. If they only made a PS4 version, PS5 players could still play it and they'd get matched with PS4 players anyways. 
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@Iffine @Ronnie21093 if they're talking about crossplay between ps4 and ps5, why the fuck do they need epic? it should all just be on the playstation network. if they're talking about playstation to steam crossplay, there are so many other ways of doing that than just using epic.
fuck man, valve had ps3 x pc crossplay for portal 2 and you're telling me devs still don't know how to make a ps5 talk to a pc without some weird third-party account and shit?
@beardalaxy @Ronnie21093 I could just barely understand using a simple pre-existing platform for PC and PS crossplay if that were the actual excuse. However that article that mentioned adding EOS for crossplay was written before the PC release was even a thing, seemingly a decision made back during the Japanese release 2 years ago that was likely never an issue since the EOS just uses PS accounts and doesn't demand linking on consoles.
