Having to rebuy stash tabs & MTX on PS5 feels like GGG just doesn’t care
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Hey Exiles,
Cross-progression in Path of Exile 2 is amazing on paper — I can jump from PC to PS5 and keep playing my characters. That part works great. But the way stash tabs and MTX are handled across platforms is honestly terrible. I’ve already paid for stash tabs and cosmetics on PC. When I log into PS5, all of that becomes remove-only or unusable. If I want to actually play comfortably on console, I’m forced to rebuy stash tabs and MTX through the PlayStation Store. Other games do this way better. In Destiny 2, cosmetics are tied to your Bungie account, not the store — if I buy something on PS5, I can use it on PC. Same thing with Fortnite, Apex Legends, Call of Duty: Warzone, Genshin Impact, even Minecraft — all of them allow true cross-platform MTX sharing. Buy once, use anywhere. GGG, meanwhile, makes us repurchase basic QoL features like stash tabs just because we change platforms. It feels like they don’t care about the player experience and just want to squeeze more $$$ out of us. I can understand cosmetics being platform-locked if the stores demand it, but stash tabs? Those aren’t optional fluff, they’re basically mandatory to play comfortably. Locking them per platform is just bad design and a clear cash grab. It’s frustrating that in 2025, other studios figured out true cross-platform support, but GGG hasn’t — or worse, doesn’t want to. ขุดครั้งสุดท้าย เมื่อ 11 ต.ค. 2025 18:50:36
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This is not a GGG issue.
GGG *wants* all MTX to be fully cross platfrom. Sony refused to allow it, because it would mean people could buy all their stuff on PC and use it on PSN, and then Sony doesn't get a cut. (When I say Sony refused... we don't know the details. It's possible they didn't refuse outright, but made an unreasonable demand, like, say 50% of all transactions on the platform. It makes sense to be frustrated by, maybe even mad, but direct that anger at the people who actually caused it. And before someone says "but D4", at the time GGG was making these deals (before PoE 2 came out), the console playerbase for GGG was tiny. They had no leverage. OTOH, Activision Blizzard is a giant gaming juggernaut. They have leverage. PoE2 had *much* larger numbers at launch then PoE1 has ever had (on all platforms), but the deal was already long finished by then. Maybe someday GGG will get a chance to renegotiate, but I wouldn't hold your breath. By default, Sony is a closed system. They reject everything, and have only made exceptions for the largest, most influential companies. Heck, the only reason there has EVER been crossplay on Playstation is because Fortnite turned it on without permission ("by accident"). Before that, Sony had been claiming there were technical reasons it couldn't be done, even though it was well known at gaming companies that it was forbidden by contract, not technology. After that incident Sony was more or less forced by public pressure to allow crossplay in some cases. | |
" Do you have a source for these claims? |
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" Which ones? That GGG wanted fully cross platform? They announced that themselves, beforehand. It was stated in a video, and also in at least one interview. They also have fully cross platform with XBox. So it's not a "let's make people buy it more than once!" plan, because they don't *have* to allow it be fully cross platform anywhere. You think they were like "f* PS5 players, specifically"? Or did you mean something else? | |
" The part about Sony requesting an unreasonable cut, I understand that you are making conjecture, but I feel this narrative has become the prevailing answer in this debate, and I've never been able to find and concrete evidence. I'm just unsure why Sony have been made out to be the bad guys, when GGG is sat collecting double MTX payments from players across PS5 and PC. |
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" It's already been explained, both here and elsewhere. Just follow the logic: 1) GGG has no obligation to allow cross-purchase. 2) GGG allows cross-purchase with Xbox 3) Cross-purchase with Playstation is not allowed. Why would one assume that the same people who are like "yeah, let's do cross purchase on Xbox" would suddenly be like "but those Playstation cretins, they've got to pay up twice!"? Especially when GGG has in the past publicly stated that they wanted full cross-purchase? AND when Sony has a well-documented well-known history of fighting against this stuff? Look, I love my Playstation, and I own a bunch of other Sony stuff, but in this particular arena, they're the bad guys. Just like they were the bad guys with whole CD rootkit thing (you can google it). I don't know if Sony made unreasonable demands, or (just as unreasonably) simply refused to allow it without negotiation, but it's super clear which side made that decision. |
