PS5 question

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stoastyd#7185 wrote:

So I mainly play on PC but my roommate who isn't the most avid of gamers really only enjoys playing on consoles (Prefers controllers) and the couch co-op may give a good reason for him to play. My question is this however, if I have it on PS5 for my account can we do couch co-op with a single purchase or will his account also need to have it in order to make that work? Any info would be appreciated. I tried to search for the answer but came up empty.

Thanks in advance!

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CloudIVXX#4358 wrote:

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stoastyd#7185 wrote:

So I mainly play on PC but my roommate who isn't the most avid of gamers really only enjoys playing on consoles (Prefers controllers) and the couch co-op may give a good reason for him to play. My question is this however, if I have it on PS5 for my account can we do couch co-op with a single purchase or will his account also need to have it in order to make that work? Any info would be appreciated. I tried to search for the answer but came up empty.

Thanks in advance!

GGG gave the finger to SONY so no. You can’t do anything albeit play cross play with PSN. There’s no transferring characters. No MTX transfers no cross progression no linking accounts. It’s truly a slap in the face but hey it’s a free game so don’t expect much from it tbh.


I tried to get PSN players to speak up weeks ago and simply crickets… I was one of the only people pleading with GGG. Thus, nothing and nobody cares. I lost ALL of my support packs from PSN because of GGG. But again. Can’t expect much from a free game. Just won’t be buying any more support packs other than the one I got. They won’t receive any more money from me that’s for sure

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CloudIVXX#4358 wrote:

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stoastyd#7185 wrote:

So I mainly play on PC but my roommate who isn't the most avid of gamers really only enjoys playing on consoles (Prefers controllers) and the couch co-op may give a good reason for him to play. My question is this however, if I have it on PS5 for my account can we do couch co-op with a single purchase or will his account also need to have it in order to make that work? Any info would be appreciated. I tried to search for the answer but came up empty.

Thanks in advance!

GGG gave the finger to SONY so no. You can’t do anything albeit play cross play with PSN. There’s no transferring characters. No MTX transfers no cross progression no linking accounts. It’s truly a slap in the face but hey it’s a free game so don’t expect much from it tbh.


I tried to get PSN players to speak up weeks ago and simply crickets… I was one of the only people pleading with GGG. Thus, nothing and nobody cares. I lost ALL of my support packs from PSN because of GGG. But again. Can’t expect much from a free game. Just won’t be buying any more support packs other than the one I got. They won’t receive any more money from me that’s for sure

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sempuken#7215 wrote:

Keep in mind you will have to buy a second EA key.

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OGRONIN#3246 wrote:

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CloudIVXX#4358 wrote:

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stoastyd#7185 wrote:

So I mainly play on PC but my roommate who isn't the most avid of gamers really only enjoys playing on consoles (Prefers controllers) and the couch co-op may give a good reason for him to play. My question is this however, if I have it on PS5 for my account can we do couch co-op with a single purchase or will his account also need to have it in order to make that work? Any info would be appreciated. I tried to search for the answer but came up empty.

Thanks in advance!

GGG gave the finger to SONY so no. You can’t do anything albeit play cross play with PSN. There’s no transferring characters. No MTX transfers no cross progression no linking accounts. It’s truly a slap in the face but hey it’s a free game so don’t expect much from it tbh.


I tried to get PSN players to speak up weeks ago and simply crickets… I was one of the only people pleading with GGG. Thus, nothing and nobody cares. I lost ALL of my support packs from PSN because of GGG. But again. Can’t expect much from a free game. Just won’t be buying any more support packs other than the one I got. They won’t receive any more money from me that’s for sure

What are you on about.. the OP didnt ask anything about MTx

He asked if 2 players can couch coop on one purchase...

Pretty sure this was answered in the QnAs and is yes.. The second player can on same console can join or as a guest account

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KuroSF#6521 wrote:

hold up, there IS character cross progression, just no shared microtrahsaction spend (including the EA key as far as we know)

If a PC-and-PS5 user wants to couch-co-op with a PS5-only user...

then the PS5-only user needs to buy an EA key on the PS5, and the PC-and-PS5 user needs to buy an EA key for *both* PC and the PS5.

Character progression can be shared, but the microtransactions can not, so if the PC user wants to have an extra stash tab accessible on both platforms, he needs to double purchase it on both PC and PSN.

WHen the game is in final release, it's free-to-play, so there will no longer be a requirement to buy an EA key on PS5 to play there, but PC and PSN microtransactions will still not be shared (unless something changes).

I BELIEVE the reason this situation exists is mostly out of GGG's control... Sony is notorious for lock-in, and they likely required all microtransactions that work on PS5 be bought on PS5.

Because of this, GGG couldn't allow PSN microtransactions to work on PC, or every user who wanted to play 5% of their time on PS5 would have bought *everything* on PS5, causing GGG to lose 30% to SOny's cut for users who play 95% on PC, which frankly just would not be fair.

Every other platform has opted into the "shared microtransactions" (either explicitly, or because of their policies), so anything you buy on Steam, direct, xbox, epic is shared among all platforms... even though when you buy from a 3rd party they are taking a cut and GGG makes less money.

So the only way to fix this is to lobby SOny that this is stupid and they should allow shared microtransactions. Good luck.