When SharePlay was initially announced back at E3 2014, gamers rejoiced at the notion of being able to a play a game without actually owning it. With shareplay, if a friend owns a game that you’re curious about, but not sure you want to spend $65 on, you could try it out from your couch and your pal’s console at his/her house via SharePlay. Each SharePlay session is limited to an hour of streaming or passing the controller, but it is still worth while. One could only predict that it was a matter of time before a developing studio didn’t allow it’s users to SharePlay with their friend’s, but who knew Activision would be the first? Activision has released a statement on why users can’t SharePlay Call Of Duty: Advance Warfare with their friends.
Delivering a great gaming experience for fans is our top priority. We’re focused on launching Advanced Warfare and ensuring that people have a great time playing it, which our fans seem to be. Share Play is a new feature that was introduced as part of the recent PS4 firmware 2.00 update. Our engineers didn’t have access to it before it launched, so we haven’t had a chance to evaluate it to see how it will impact the experience across all modes of play. Of course we wouldn’t include a feature in our game without having the chance to test it. Once we’ve fully analyzed its performance, we’ll determine how to support it going forward.
Sony has since released a statement and it goes against everything Activision stated. Read below what they had to say on the subject.
Share Play is a system level feature enabled by System Software Update 2.0 making it available for all PS4 titles, however the option is available to developers to disable the feature according to what they feel will best benefit the consumer experience.
