© EAApex Legends arrives on Switch tomorrow, and we were lucky enough to sit behind the harbor with the team recently.
One of the questions many fans wanted to answer related to cross-progression – an understandable request given that many people are already playing the game on other platforms and want to continue that progression on Switch.
Sadly, although cross-play is supported, Switch owners who play Apex Legends elsewhere will have to start over when it hits Nintendo’s console tomorrow – unless they feel like a long wait.
When asked about cross progression, Respawn’s Chad Grenier told us:
It is planned, but I think we have a way out to be able to provide it. I really want it as a gamer myself, so I hear what our fans are saying and I agree with them completely. We do everything we can to make that possible, it is a complex challenge of multiple accounts existing for different users that we need to resolve or merge, there are legal and contractual things to navigate with purchases on other platforms and that transfer and also some technical challenges. So it’s not something we can just turn on, but we’re working on getting it and the team is passionate about delivering it at some point.
Be sure to check out our full interview with Respawn and Panic Button here.