Over the past four and a half months, Watch Dogs Legion has been available for purchase. Many players will be through with Watch Dogs Legion’s plot in that amount of time, so the multiplayer will focus on the remaining players.
Even well-known games like Watch Dogs Legion will suffer from dwindling multiplayer player bases, particularly if there is no cross-play and each platform is an island. Ubisoft has responded by stating that it intends to release support for cross-play and cross-gen in the future.
The clarification didn’t come in the form of a press release or a big revelation. Rather, it was an answer to a Twitter post. A Watch Dogs Legion player asked the game’s official Twitter account to allow cross-platform multiplayer. According to the official Watch Dogs Legion account, the development team is planning on integrating cross-play and cross-gen at a later date.
There is no further detail about the planned update; all that is confirmed is that both features are being worked on. At the very least, knowing that they’re in the works is preferable to them being only planned on paper.
The lack of a release date, on the other hand, could mean that the Watch Dogs Legion update could take weeks or months to arrive. The fact that it was discovered in an off-handed Twitter joke clearly suggests the former.
It’s also likely that Ubisoft is already weighing whether or not to include these features in Watch Dogs Legion and needs to gauge player reaction. Obviously, if Ubisoft had the requisite funds and time, it would be finished. However, with Watch Dogs Legion’s age and dwindling player base, it could become a more difficult choice.
While crossplay and cross-generation-play is currently not available for the Watch Dogs: Legion Online Mode, the development team is working on adding this feature to the game with a later update.
— Watch Dogs: Legion (@watchdogsgame) March 14, 2021
Whether or not cross-platform and cross-gen play is currently in progress, fans’ dissatisfaction with Watch Dogs Legion’s lack of these features is understandable. Watch Dogs Legion offers a wide range of multiplayer options, including cooperative and competitive play. They can’t compete with players on competitive systems, and they can’t play with players who have switched to a next-gen console.
Ubisoft likely runs out of time to add more content to Watch Dogs Legion’s multiplayer or that it wasn’t ready for the launch of next-gen consoles. Regardless, the features will hopefully be included in Watch Dogs Legion and other forthcoming Ubisoft games before their launch.
