Anyone who’s been involved with free-to-play games knows how much they stand to gain from cross progression. And in the case ofWarframe, people know how much it hurts to lack it. It’s easy to download a free game onto multiple platforms, and it’s hard when progress on one platform can’t carry over.
Marvel Rivalsis the latest title to be stuck in this hard spot. Cross-progression is not a simple thing to get right, and eventhey underestimated how hard it would be to put cross progression into Marvel Rivals.
As of now,it’s unknown whether Marvel Rivals will have cross progression of any kind- leaning unlikely, ifrecent statements from the developersare to be believed.
In an interview with TheGamer, Marvel Rivals' game director Guangyun Chen shed some light on challenges facing the game’s cross progression features.
For now, we have no cross-progression. We are doing the final tech check to see what we can do and how we can process it.
The feature is something that Chen and the team want for their game.But whether it arrives at launch, or some time later? That remains to be seen.
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The workload is a lot more than we thought at the beginning. We are still having internal discussions, and we’re not sure when we’ll be announcing our decision.
Chen went on to state how important cross progression was to their players. Citing a survey they did, the number of people who specifically requested the feature was “like 100,000”. Bearing in mind that ‘players interested in taking a survey’ is but a small fraction of their total playerbase, it’s easy to see that cross progression is a huge deal.
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The Warframe example is an especially extreme case, as for years the game lacked both cross progression and crossplay. If you started your account on Playstation and a friend independently started on Nintendo Switch, you both were effectively barred from playing with each other, unless someone reset all their progress.
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Marvel Rivalscan handle crossplay, so that issue isn’t quite so dire - but it’s still present. Sometimes it’s just more convenient to play on a PC than a console. Sometimes hardware breaks.
There’s no doubt that Marvel Rivals would benefit immensely from cross-progression. And if it lacks it on launch, some players may prefer to stick with existing games before progressing to a new one.
A game’s opening weeks often set the tone for its entire lifespan, so there’s no shortage of incentives for the developers to make this happen.There’s already been speculationabout what the game needs on launch. But barriers will be barriers, and we’ll have to wait and see if this team can scale them in time.
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