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Play Anywhere: How Crossplay and Cross-Save Quietly Became the Default

Not long ago, buying a game meant committing to a platform and a save file that lived there forever. In 2026 that assumption is dead. Crossplay and cross-save have gone from premium features to baseline expectations, and it is reshaping how we buy games, who we play with, and what loyalty to a platform even means. Here is how the default flipped.