Can you remove cross-platform play from this game?
This has never been done successfully in other games and this game is even worse at it.
If you don't, you will just lose user base as it is impossible to compete with players using XBOX / Kinect.
I don't doubt there are very good XBOX / Kinect players just everyone should compete on a similar system with access to the same controls or else what is the point?
If you look at tournaments, most top placed players are using a XBOX, the others don't even have a chance.
That's a great suggestion. At least, there should be an option to disable cross-platform play.
Or a box to check in the options that says, "Check this box to only see scores on the WDF from your platform. When checking this box, only players on your platform will be able to see your score." It seems this might be a simple fix from a technical perspective, as they wouldn't need a separate dance floor, song list, etc. They could simply filter the scores based on this criteria.
Just Dance is clearly aware that scoring across platforms isn't equitable. In past World Cup qualifiers online, they adjusted scores to help the other platforms out. I wonder why it didn't occur to them to make cross-platform play optional or to strive to make the scoring more equitable. It would be great if every platform had the opportunity to use equipment like Kinect with similar scoring results.
If each platform had its own separate leaderboard, then there would be more "winners" (one for each platform). Everybody would show up higher on the leaderboard and feel better about their results. When a player finishes way down the leaderboard, he/she wouldn't blame it on players using a different platform; they would know that all of those scores were made on the same platform. The way I see it, there is much to gain to at least make cross-platform scoring optional.
They recently added the extremes and other alternates to the WDF for JD 2020 and it seems to be making the discrepancy between cross-platform even more pronounced than usual (though Kinect seemed to generally enjoy a significant advantage prior to that). For whatever reason, it seems to be much easier to hit 13k (or at least a hight 12) and do it consistently across most/all of the extremes than on other platforms.This has never been done successfully in other games and this game is even worse at it.
Today, for example, I joined the WDF when a tournament had just ended. The last song was Tel Aviv and the first page of the leaderboard had no Kinect players. I danced for a few songs, then a new tournament came up. The winner was one of the best Kinect players, who hits virtually perfect scores on just about everything; the song selection wasn't going to matter for the winner. But after 2 songs, the 3rd position wasn't a Kinect player and except for the first 2 spots on the leaderboard, the first page was loaded with non-Kinect players. The non-Kinect player in the 3rd spot had a pretty sizable lead over any Kinect players. But the third song that came up was Sushi Extreme, and all of the non-Kinect players dropped way down the leaderboard. All top 3 positions were Kinect players.
Hopefully in the future either the scoring becomes more equitable or cross-platform play becomes optional for all platforms. (Right now it is optional only on Xbox where it doesn't really need to be.) For now, perhaps they could pump a few Unlimited dances into the song selection, specifically songs that favor other platforms over Kinect, to help make the outcomes of Classic and Weekly tournaments more equitable between platforms. Ordinarily they only put Unlimited songs in for Happy Hour, but if they wanted to address this issue now (without disabling cross-platform play or releasing an update where it becomes optional) they could so something like that... (It would just take a handful of dances where it's challenging to hit 12k on Kinect, let alone 13k, and where it is much easier to hit 13k with a remote/phone. There are a few such dances in the Unlimited catalog, which could help provide balance. Some Kinect players might not appreciate this, but perhaps would help make things more fair. It wouldn't be necessary to add more than a handful of different Unlimited songs into the usual rotation.)