Digital Extremes has announced that its free-to-play powerhouse Warframe will be ported to the Nintendo Switch. Warframe will be free on Switch as it is on the PC, PlayStation, and Xbox variants of the game.
Cross play can be cool and everything, but the real questions is “will I be able to bring over my PC account?”. Now I’m by no means the best WF player (I suck at end game), but I have put almost 500 hours into it and I have amassed a pretty decent collection of weapons and warframes and I would love to bring them over to Switch. It’s the main reason I don’t play on PS4 as well. When it just launched on PS4 we could bring over accounts during one weekend, but I didn’t know anyone on PSN back then and went back to PC unlocking a whole lot more stuff. So now I have like 3 frames on PS4 and about 20 more or less on PC.
Yeah, Massively Overpowered’s question to Sinclair was phrased in an open-ended way to allow for either transfer or full cross-play.
If allowing full cross-play is not possible because the game’s versions are never in sync, then a way to use your account across multiple platforms would be great.
Of course, they’d have to figure out a way to handle the mismatches in available items and such… If they’ve vaulted an item on PC but it’s still available on Switch, can I just hop onto my Switch and farm it there?
Yeah I remember them stating a similar issue when we were allowed to transfer over to PS4 that one time. Maybe at the time all the available items matched up and they held back updates on the PC for the weekend to allow people to transfer their accounts?
Ideally we would be able to use one account to play on both platforms like how Fortnite uses an Epic account, but I would be fine with just having a set time to “copy” my account as it is over to Switch. Even if I then go back to PC and get more stuff. At least I will have everything I had done from the beginning already and won’t have to start over again. Having access to all my frames and weapons will be amazing, even if the account doesn’t always stay “synced upped” between the two platforms.
On that note. If DE announce tommorow that they are opening account transfer for another period to PS4. I’d redownload it on PS4 in a heartbeat. I have a few friends on there actively playing that always nag me to join, but I don’t wanna use MK1 weapons and starter frames. 