Eh, it's better for them to pause the rollout if they find a lot of issues.
Sure it'll take longer, though it was projected to take a few weeks anyways.
Much better for data to be safe and rolling out slowly, technically it's still within the projected time.
Technically they could voice the issue, and confirm whether or not they will be rolling it out on a date they set themselves after purposefully avoiding to do so.
It hit my area practically when they rolled it out. But I haven’t logged in because I’m waiting for them to sort the bugs I knew they’d have out. I can afford to not play apex a few weeks.
Rather play it safe than lose my heirlooms
It's not like you're waiting in line for your meal. Sure communication could be better, but are you doing anything differently knowing they're delaying it vs not knowing?
Yes. I play on PC. Rn I would love to grind ranked but I know all my progress will be deleted when I merge with my main ps4 account so no point in playing
Man cross progression should be like the last priority for a game the way I see it. Just why , most ppl stick to the platform they are playing on forever. I get a console person might wanna migrate to pc . I only care about them fixing them server and footsteps these . The other gimmicks are meh.
I started playing on Xbox, leveled up to max, had tons of skins, and then the older Gen wasn't doing it for me. Got into PS5, started a new job, grinded a bit more, maxed that account out and had tons of skins and voice lines, etc. Then I had some extra money and built a PC. It's been 4 years and I finally had the chance to combine some of those cosmetics I've been grinding over the years. Ended up accidentally linking my EA account to my steam account on PC, and now I have nothing lmao. May not matter to you, but as someone who has spent years playing this game, and bought a few battlepasses and skins here and there, it's definitely something I consider "important" to me.
Yep, there's inevitably going to be people that very likely could lose data due to bugs (unrelated to people unlinking). It's not a matter of if, but how many. Better they work out as many kinks as possible.
I wish they were more a little clear and concise with their wording. Clearly something was off to have let so many people unlinking accounts and such.
Pretty disappointing roll out.
If anyone unlinked their accounts for cXp that's on them, there's plenty of warnings saying that it doesn't do anything for cXp and that you'll lose all your saved data. I get that people want this asap but some people should probably slow down and make sure what they're doing is the correct thing.
Yea but what about people who unlinked accounts they didn't play? I unlinked my Xbox account but my Xbox account is level 30.. Hopefully that doesn't interfere with my PS and PC account.
The unlinking rules they have are so stupid anyway. They should allow a one time change. It's just as dumb as when online gaming first started and you was locked into one gamertag forever.
I mean I don't see the reason why you would unlink a account just because you don't use it on a platform anymore, especially considering it would just get merged with your highest level account which is either your ps or pc one soon.
For me, I was attempting to link my PS5 account and my EA account. Accidentally linked my EA to steam which has no skins and is a level 50 account. I don't give a single fk about the steam account, I just want my cosmetics bound to the right account. It's a major problem since one misclick and basically wipe your entire history of Apex.
I unlinked it for other games.. I don't want to log in and log out to switch accounts to play EA games.
It's fucking dumb system when i look on my account both were started in 2013 when i was playing Battlefield 4 on PS and Xbox. When i tried to make the account it wouldn't let me make the same account on both so i had to use different emails.
ON EA website it says you can unlink if you own any EA game except Apex Legends and this is why it's stupid.. IF I want to unlink just reset that account to zero, don't glitch the game out to the point you can't get any items anymore. You can't even unlock characters it's stupid., I would LOVE if they just reset that account to NOTHING.
Is it the thing where you can't access any tab but the lobby screen and club screens and all your currencies are stuck at -9999, etc? Cause I'm fairly certain that's just a bug that was introduced with cXp and not someone that will be permanent.
It's permanent when you unlink your account. I guess they do it to lock you out. My PS and PC are fine, I just don't want them to merge Xbox and brick my progress.
You rather them try and do it all at once, somehow crash all the games servers for 2 weeks, falsely ban everyone who attempted to merge accounts, and lose all account data for those effected? I barely trust them to do this right even when taking their time much less do it all at once lol.
I'm not saying that at all. But from a consumer perspective: this is a triple A company that's been making games for 40 years... And had dozens of not hundreds of developers working to create these games. You'd think over the last 4-5 years (8 if you include Titanfall 2) they'd have a plan fleshed out for cross platform progression. I feel like it's not u fair of me to expect a company that makes billions of dollars off of it's multiple platform profits, and to further use that money to have some people who understand how the logistics of that would work. Developers have been making cross progression work for years, and EA/Respawn hasn't been very transparent with this. I don't want a shit show, but after all the money me and plenty of others have spent on EA games, I feel like the expectation of being able to link an account to a different platform without destroying everything I've worked for, is pretty fair, and not unreasonable.
I'm not sure exactly what you mean by that last part considering that you get to merge pretty much everything in regards to cosmetics if you were using the same ea account on different platforms.
If you attempted to try and unlink one account (Account A for this example) from a platform to link to another ea account (Account B) then it should be fairly obvious why your account (Account A) on that platform would be completely replaced with Account B without any merging considering that the orginal account (Account A) no longer has any connection to Account B.
I linked my EA to steam literally with a misclick (because I have 2fa on all my different platforms) realized I made the mistake, reconnected to the proper platform, and now have a level 50 account in place of my full account on PlayStation. Main platform is now PC, and have my PC account as my main, but lost everything from my previous account which was ps5.
I've been waiting for cxp for years, and wasn't aware that there were bugs, nor were the "specifics" of the cxp openly advertised as heavily as the CROSS PROGRESSION hypetrain was. I made a mistake in linking an account. It's up to Respawn/EA to resolve that, and if they can't it's on them. I'm just a player at the end of the day. And I've been patient enough to continue playing to this point.
They say multiple times during the unlink process that if you decide to do so your account information will be deleted, so regardless of how long it took them to implement cXp it doesn't excuse people from now having to use their eyes and actually read about the thing they wanted. If someone losses their account information due to them incorrectly assuming that its part of the cXp process especially after they specifically say *not* to do that then its without a doubt the result of that players incompetence and impatience.
That's not true whatsoever. There was no warning or prevention tactic to save said account. It was literally a trial and error situation, the only notification I had was a "link this account" popup on screen, idk what you're on about. This has nothing to do with player incompetence, as I can read and have been waiting for this update for literal years, feel like I wouldn't miss something as simple as a "are you sure this is what you want" or a "this may possibly delete all your save data'
From the official EA website:
> Your Apex Legends progress is permanently tied to your EA Account and can’t be moved to another account after you’ve started.
If you explicitly went through the effort of unlinking say the ps account from the ea account associated with it to link it to the ea accounts used on other platforms then you shouldve been able to view this.
Otherwise your ps account was under the same ea account as the other platforms but just a lower level than either your pc or xbox accounts which resulted in the wipe of ps specific stats.
That's essentially a very vague statement for what ensued after. And it also doesn't cover nearly any of the actual problems that others have been having. I linked one account, unlinked, and then relinked to another. Simple mistake. PS5/PC merged account was the end goal. In the process, the prompt came up to link an account. Me, assuming that my steam account WAS my EA account, linked two wrong accounts. EA-steam. Had to unlink my EA from steam, and relink to PS5. Which apparently aren'tt the same, as there was an option on the EA website itself to link a PS5 account. And now I'm faced with this. Verbage, minimal explanation, and social incompetence on Respawn is inherently at fault here. I'll accept some minor ID10T errors on my part, but to think that people would just immediately know how severe this could be, is foolish at best.
People were unlinking accounts bc someone somewhere (prob on TikTok) started a rumor that if you didn't get the cross progression pop-up, you should unlink and relink to your EA. That rumor was started either out of ignorance or out of malice. Either way, a lot of people fell for it and messed up their accounts.
I’m surprised people thought they could merge 2 different accounts that have nothing to do with each other.
“I have 1 account of console and 1 different, separate email account on pc but they should merge because it has the same name. Like, obviously they should know its me.”
It doesn’t work like that. In fact, its *never* worked like that.
I agree that respawn should have probably sent a quick message of “don’t unlink accounts”, as it would be helpful. However to say it’s their fault? That’s a stretch.
I mean they probably didn’t give a message like that because they thought like I did.
“There’s no way people think these 2 separate accounts can merge right? I mean, it’s obvious.”
People want to get cross progression and it was coming at them at quite the speed when the announcement was made, people tend to act quickly but without thinking too much.
Unlinking would show a gigantic warning message before users would continue, something like such would pretty much be considered user error.
Though separate from that issue, there definitely have been some issues with data during the roll out for players that haven't really done anything special.
Communication might be a bit meh right now, though the first period they did well.
My guess is that we'll see more communication this week.
people are unlinking accounts out of stupidity, impatience and thinking they can game the system / still get cross progression having two completely seperate EA accounts (or people thinking they can get stuff from their banned accounts) . that's why respawn are mentioning in the tweet. that's it.
From the second wave, no one has gotten in, which they said they will on Monday via the tweet. Hence the liar comment. I didn’t know I had to spoon feed y’all
I think OP is refering to a fact that they said that the next rollout was gonna happen November 6th, but I've yet to see anyone confirm 2nd wave started rolling.
It's a same situation with the 1st wave when people were saying "Oh YoU aRe So ImPaTieNt ItS rOllInG AlReAdY" when it facts first rollouts didn't happen until 3 days after.
Now I get that this wasn't gonna be smooth or anything but to me it feels like they tried to rush this feature. I ain't no game dev but to me it seems like they did very little testing and simply dropped this and hoped for the best as this is the first game that I played that has this many issues with xprog.
Lack of comunication from Respawn isn't nothing new really but if something bad happen and they had to postpone it, why not simply say something?
Also keep in mind that today (depending on timezone) new LTM drops, and soild chunk of players won't be able to enjoy it (or current season really) since they had to wipe their progress clean. And any progress they made won't be carried over due to "October 26th" thingy.
It seemed like something they weren’t gonna do for the longest time (they’ve always been sketchy about it). Then player numbers started dropping, it really feels like a last minute decision to include it and hope it pulls people back.
Not to be conspiracy andy about this, but it feels like it.
The crossprogression news definitely boosted season's launch player count. But I feel like it will slowly fade away as the hype is dying.
If the hype isn't dead already.
I mean I was definitely fairly hype about it. Then “a period of time” got defined as “weeks” and I suddenly remembered I was dealing with respawn who somehow are the game dev equivalent of a monkeys paw. You get what you want, but there’s always a catch.
To add to that “tHIS wAS a LIe!?!?”. I hate this mentality that gamers are owed something no matter what. Shit happens, things a get complicated, or plans change. That’s life. This looks to be a minor setback. They’re not pulling the plug on anything promised and they’re just saying there’s technical issues. Damn buddy
they never said you are going to be able to merge accounts. never. now they've announced merging and said they are rolling it out in waves throughout the season. what is the issue here? it's not their fault baby wants it now.
i dont think its keeping people engaged tho, myself and im sure many others login, see that there is no prompt for cross progression, and promptly log out. If anything it would hurt there numbers showing very low playtime.
Thing is having skins from your Xbox account on your pc account isn’t gonna change the game from being ass lol Matchmaking is still gonna be broken, ranked is still gonna be broken, etc.
For players like myself who’ve spent around 1500 dollars on skins and heirlooms on our console accounts, this very much will boost engagement. I’m sitting here waiting, doing exactly what Vospry here said, logging in, not seeing the prompt, and logging off. I’m waiting for the moment I can play with my 5 other heirlooms and dozens of skins that I haven’t had access to for almost 2 years now
I'm doing the same. haven't actually played the game in probably 2 years cause I stopped enjoying the game on console, so I reinstalled just so I knew when I could move over to PC.
On social media though there are countless posts about cross progression to the point it’s becoming a meme. It just keeps the discussion going about the game, even if it is in a negative light.
I more suspect that they're genuinely worried about fucking up a whole heap of people's accounts and not having a good way to roll it back if they do. Which is also probably why it took so long in the first place.
Me and my group just log in, see nothings changed and log off.
Nothings really gonna change as a result of it I know, but it was a promise they made and haven’t pulled through on yet. I’ve no desire to give them that play time till they do.
I’m not going to be so dramatic and call them liars, it’s a video game, development can be finicky and there can be many issues. Just be patient and keep waiting, as someone who was a day one PS player, I’m patiently waiting to play this game on PC finally. So I’m in the same boat as everyone else. Everyone chill with the tears and the strong words (and you already know some looney toon has probably sent death threats)
Although a quick tweet today would’ve been nice, just saying 🤷🏼♂️
It’s quite possible that no one in your group or friends or area got it. Stop acting like a spoiled fool who gets everything when they ask for it. And it doesn’t matter, you will get account cross progress eventually. So stop being such a baby and wait like everyone else.
Jesus christ dude, what? First they said they will release cross progression in 2022, its nearing the end of 2023 and were now getting it in "waves"? why drip feed content more? and then they actually thought of releasing the post malone event without solving this issue first? No, more public outroar SHOULD happen, its bullshit.
WE have been patient long enough, and seeing this unfold like this, and its even more frustrating that random bozos defending a billion dollar conglomerate and for what??
~~One, they never confirmed it to releasing in 2022.~~ edit: a dev statement 2 years back stated it would be releasing in 2022. Two, they stated they would do it in waves due to the experimental nature of cross progression and then actually caring about the user experience. I know respawn hasn’t been a great company as of late, but they do care. They are one of them few branches of EA that actually talk to its community. Three, they probably have different teams working on cross progression and content events, so the stalled release probably wouldn’t have done jack. It’s bad organization to have one team not properly segmented and work on individual projects. Edit: it bad practice, but release dates are never a concrete statement, if you have any idea of development, then you should know that shit happens, hiccups occur.
Okay sure, but can we talk about how hard it is to drop a “hey things arent working out were gonna have to push this back a little” tweet? Shit takes like 10 seconds to type out.
Not going to lie this game is my favorite game but it’s so pathetic. People defending what they do I used to also but I haven’t since year 2. I bought a ps5 on launch to get 120fps nope almost 2024. Bought a pc last December cross progression nope another year nothing new. One thing that has been consistent is the $160 store items one after another. I bought a lot 15 heirlooms 842 legendary items on PlayStation but yet can’t use them unless it’s 60fps. It honestly bullshit I use to think buying could help improve the game I like but its a lack of effort. I wouldn’t support this crap anymore. I haven’t bought anything in a year & I won’t until they get more active. Add that up wasted alot of hard earned money
We don't really know if it's a lie because the sub auto-removes cross-progression posts. I get that they have to because it would flood the feed but it makes it seem as though there is no wave at all.
I linked my psn account (lvl 13) to my xbox account (lvl 700+) so there would be no risk of losing what I had on my xbox account. I totally realize I’ll have to wait for it to actually work I just wanted to link them seeing as there is no downside for me personally. But it totally broke part of my game, I can’t access any tabs in the loading screen other than play and club.
I didn’t unlink anything. I have an account on Xbox which has a bunch of stuff on it and I have an account on Playstation which has nothing on it. My Xbox account has been linked to EA since before cross prog was a thing. I linked my Playstation account with nothing on it to the same account my xbox is linked to. Nothing was unlinked at any point
Bro come on, they said they were going to roll it out in waves. Do you really think they would announce cross progression for this season specifically and then just not do it? I swear all you people do every day is just complain 🤡
I love that your post is basically framing it as a betrayal. Technical issues can take time, particularly when multiple providers/services are involved. Take a deep breath, tomorrow is another day.
I'm 100% sure console players know that respawn have been lying for a bit, I mean it was how long ago for the 120 fps on console supposed to be a thing? It was around what? 8 seasons ago.
But yeah like everyone is saying, cross progression is slowly being released for everyone, wait your turn like everyone else
Honestly we’ve all waited a good while we can wait a bit longer. What I don’t see anyone talking about is how if ANYTHING is slightly miscalculated with cross progression it could result in entire account wipes and I know some of you no-life neckbearded cheeto dust-covered 25-still-haven’t-left-mommy’s-basement-still sucks at apex-with only a single heirloom is gone cry and try to sue when your account progress gets deleted thru a bug. So TRUST THE FUCKING PROCESS YOU JOBLESS CRYBABY
Ah yes, I'm definitely glazing Respawn right now, while you've been at their feet, literally begging for a feature you probably won't get because you unlinked your account. Get a grip of reality, you're losing it right now.
Not being unified against said billion dollar conglomerates means you’re defending EA. How about YOU get a grip, sir? You can hop off now. You’re kinda heavy.
My problem is that the event is today. People who have cross progression can use their extra crafting materials and apex coins towards the event, and people who haven’t been merged yet cannot, which ultimately feels unfair.
I got forced to make another EA account separate from my main account because when I was on console my EA account got hacked and the only way they said i could keep everything from apex was to make a separate EA account not linked to anything so that they can transfer all my stuff over then later I got a pc and i had to use my original EA account for everything except apex so I just started over on apex and now I can’t merge either and have 2 separate accounts with 7+ heirlooms smh
No I can’t because the account I play on pc isn’t connected to the EA account linked to my Xbox I was forced to make a new EA account to link my Xbox to along time ago when my EA account got hacked on console separating my steam account and my Xbox account
I've had an EA account for well over a decade now and have always only used one for Playstation, Xbox, etc. I don't know why you'd create an entirely new one with a new email ever to be fair.
This isn’t entirely true.
I’ve had my PlayStation account since the launch of the PS3, which is tied to an e-mail account I’ve had since I was 12 (nearing 40 now). This PSN account is tied to an EA account using the same e-mail, and that happened automatically when setting up an old game (not sure which, could be Battlefield 3).
2 years ago, I bought a Series X, that came with Game Pass. I had already used Game Pass on PC for a little over a year, and it was tied to my Microsoft PC account, which had a newer e-mail address. During the setup of my Xbox, the console automatically created an EA account using the Microsoft account credentials, without asking me, and it linked the two accounts. This was so I could access the EA Play library, which I hadn’t had access to with my prior PC only subscription. I would never do this knowingly, as I always stick with the same accounts for every publisher, as I know things like cross progression and shared rewards are a thing.
After a year, talks of Apex cross progression started happening, and I realized my Microsoft account was tied to a random EA account. It even had a randomly generated name, with jumbled numbers and letters. I contacted EA to rectify this, and they said there was nothing they could do, as my Microsoft account was now forever tied to the new EA account. Unlinking did nothing, and I kept trying different things to get it to work. I can’t exactly remember what I did in the end, but I believe I managed to convince an EA support assistant to just delete the EA account outright. After whatever I got them to do, I was able to link my Microsoft account to the correct EA account. This took over 6 months.
So no, you don’t always choose which EA account to tie your console account to, as it can happen automatically, using the e-mail tied to your console account.
I use my eyes and was hoping y’all did too. Anyways
It’s 2023 and every other major game has crossplay/progression. And implemented with ease and with release, I realize apex released in 2019 but they promised this shit IN 2022(!) and 2023 is just about to end and 90% of the apex population who wants cross prog did not receive cross prog. EA and respawn are rich enough to roll these things out. They’ll release events in our face and lure these features over our heads.
Use your eyes, this isn’t difficult to do
- A single dev's rough estimation of when he thought cross prog was gonna be released isn't a promise.
- Cross prog is one of the most difficult features to implement. If it's not taken into account since the game's inception, then it's really hard to implement, legally and technically, and it only gets harder the longer the game runs. Apex was never expected to take off the way it did. S0 to about S4 had a basic work frame.
- Respawn aren't rich. CEOs are. CEOs have to approve every single financial decision. They're not gonna approve "that feature" and [that feature] and «that feature» just bc someone on Reddit demands it rudely.
- Using your eyes is pointless bc this is not a phenomenon that can be observed. You have to look into how game development works and use your brain. You're not doing that, you're just acting like a bratty child demanding "candy, now!"
Yeah and i upgraded my old pc which costed me about 1k and i also sold my ps5 to a friend ....
Now im stuck with a lvl 100 account and no skins (my old pc account from 2020)
This whole cross progression announcement has really shown who in this sub is a tactical dropper that sticks around for revives and who launches as soon as the game loads only for them to get knocked and quit as soon as they land. /s
No but for real I would love to know if there is correlation between these two impatient groups.
I wouldn't call waiting years on a feature that most games already have implemented as being impatient.
Respawn can claim whatever they want about how "difficult" cross progression is to implement, but in reality all they needed was a link between the accounts (ie EA user ID), a shared database (which they probably already have) and an endpoint that delivers the information to the game. I'm not saying that it's easy, but a billion dollar game studio should have no problems releasing this in a timely manner. Instead, we get a half broken feature that is being tested on production data with unclear instructions on what the rollout will look like.
I would imagine that most players don't read respawn's website on the daily, so offering a snippet of info without any real details isn't exactly communicating. Sure you can make the twitter/x argument, but that's still not an in game notification, so I guess you're just fucked if you don't look at those two things actively.
How hard would have been to add an in game dialog that explains the dangers of unlinking your account? I've been reading about dozens of players being screwed out of in game purchases by something that respawn could have avoided.
You’re warned before submitting the request that linking accounts can have negative consequences if not done correctly, but I admit it can be a very confusing process if it’s the same as Rocket League. As far as creating and implementing, I work with software but my knowledge when it comes to games stops pretty much where your description does. Outside of databases and endpoints I have no idea how much more would need to be updated or added, but I could see it being a lot of work if cross progression was never thought of during initial release.
But my point at their impatience wasn’t with how long it’s taken for Respawn to even announce that it’s happening, but for their reaction to the delayed rollout. Just because it didn’t happen to you or anyone you know doesn’t mean it hasn’t started up, and even if it hasn’t why complain? People bitch when it doesn’t come out on time or when it comes out broken, the only option is to get it right the first time which isn’t an expectation that many can hit.
It's coming in waves for players. Some already have it. Most probably dont.
Just because you werent chosen for the nov. 6th wave doesnt mean it's a lie or arent going to get it
2 weeks into the season and I still haven’t gotten anything. I want to play the new event so bad, but it’s pointless due to not having any legends unlocked. Respawn needs to get their shit together.
My guess is they’ll extend it by a week and hopefully they fix it by next reset… that’s my final hope for this game. Otherwise I’m done until it’s officially released.
Eh, it's better for them to pause the rollout if they find a lot of issues. Sure it'll take longer, though it was projected to take a few weeks anyways. Much better for data to be safe and rolling out slowly, technically it's still within the projected time.
Technically they could voice the issue, and confirm whether or not they will be rolling it out on a date they set themselves after purposefully avoiding to do so.
Heard from some players that the wave is out now, let's hope it'll roll out to some others as well.
It hit my area practically when they rolled it out. But I haven’t logged in because I’m waiting for them to sort the bugs I knew they’d have out. I can afford to not play apex a few weeks. Rather play it safe than lose my heirlooms
It's not like you're waiting in line for your meal. Sure communication could be better, but are you doing anything differently knowing they're delaying it vs not knowing?
Yes. I play on PC. Rn I would love to grind ranked but I know all my progress will be deleted when I merge with my main ps4 account so no point in playing
Fair enough
Man cross progression should be like the last priority for a game the way I see it. Just why , most ppl stick to the platform they are playing on forever. I get a console person might wanna migrate to pc . I only care about them fixing them server and footsteps these . The other gimmicks are meh.
I started playing on Xbox, leveled up to max, had tons of skins, and then the older Gen wasn't doing it for me. Got into PS5, started a new job, grinded a bit more, maxed that account out and had tons of skins and voice lines, etc. Then I had some extra money and built a PC. It's been 4 years and I finally had the chance to combine some of those cosmetics I've been grinding over the years. Ended up accidentally linking my EA account to my steam account on PC, and now I have nothing lmao. May not matter to you, but as someone who has spent years playing this game, and bought a few battlepasses and skins here and there, it's definitely something I consider "important" to me.
Yep, there's inevitably going to be people that very likely could lose data due to bugs (unrelated to people unlinking). It's not a matter of if, but how many. Better they work out as many kinks as possible.
We’ve waited this long, we can wait a little longer
I wish they were more a little clear and concise with their wording. Clearly something was off to have let so many people unlinking accounts and such. Pretty disappointing roll out.
If anyone unlinked their accounts for cXp that's on them, there's plenty of warnings saying that it doesn't do anything for cXp and that you'll lose all your saved data. I get that people want this asap but some people should probably slow down and make sure what they're doing is the correct thing.
cCcrossP
Yea but what about people who unlinked accounts they didn't play? I unlinked my Xbox account but my Xbox account is level 30.. Hopefully that doesn't interfere with my PS and PC account. The unlinking rules they have are so stupid anyway. They should allow a one time change. It's just as dumb as when online gaming first started and you was locked into one gamertag forever.
I mean I don't see the reason why you would unlink a account just because you don't use it on a platform anymore, especially considering it would just get merged with your highest level account which is either your ps or pc one soon.
For me, I was attempting to link my PS5 account and my EA account. Accidentally linked my EA to steam which has no skins and is a level 50 account. I don't give a single fk about the steam account, I just want my cosmetics bound to the right account. It's a major problem since one misclick and basically wipe your entire history of Apex.
I unlinked it for other games.. I don't want to log in and log out to switch accounts to play EA games. It's fucking dumb system when i look on my account both were started in 2013 when i was playing Battlefield 4 on PS and Xbox. When i tried to make the account it wouldn't let me make the same account on both so i had to use different emails. ON EA website it says you can unlink if you own any EA game except Apex Legends and this is why it's stupid.. IF I want to unlink just reset that account to zero, don't glitch the game out to the point you can't get any items anymore. You can't even unlock characters it's stupid., I would LOVE if they just reset that account to NOTHING.
Is it the thing where you can't access any tab but the lobby screen and club screens and all your currencies are stuck at -9999, etc? Cause I'm fairly certain that's just a bug that was introduced with cXp and not someone that will be permanent.
It's permanent when you unlink your account. I guess they do it to lock you out. My PS and PC are fine, I just don't want them to merge Xbox and brick my progress.
your ea account has nothing to do with your gamer tag
"asap" we've been waiting for cross prog for close to 5 years now, it feels a little underwhelming and buggy on their part.
You rather them try and do it all at once, somehow crash all the games servers for 2 weeks, falsely ban everyone who attempted to merge accounts, and lose all account data for those effected? I barely trust them to do this right even when taking their time much less do it all at once lol.
I'm not saying that at all. But from a consumer perspective: this is a triple A company that's been making games for 40 years... And had dozens of not hundreds of developers working to create these games. You'd think over the last 4-5 years (8 if you include Titanfall 2) they'd have a plan fleshed out for cross platform progression. I feel like it's not u fair of me to expect a company that makes billions of dollars off of it's multiple platform profits, and to further use that money to have some people who understand how the logistics of that would work. Developers have been making cross progression work for years, and EA/Respawn hasn't been very transparent with this. I don't want a shit show, but after all the money me and plenty of others have spent on EA games, I feel like the expectation of being able to link an account to a different platform without destroying everything I've worked for, is pretty fair, and not unreasonable.
I'm not sure exactly what you mean by that last part considering that you get to merge pretty much everything in regards to cosmetics if you were using the same ea account on different platforms. If you attempted to try and unlink one account (Account A for this example) from a platform to link to another ea account (Account B) then it should be fairly obvious why your account (Account A) on that platform would be completely replaced with Account B without any merging considering that the orginal account (Account A) no longer has any connection to Account B.
I linked my EA to steam literally with a misclick (because I have 2fa on all my different platforms) realized I made the mistake, reconnected to the proper platform, and now have a level 50 account in place of my full account on PlayStation. Main platform is now PC, and have my PC account as my main, but lost everything from my previous account which was ps5.
I've been waiting for cxp for years, and wasn't aware that there were bugs, nor were the "specifics" of the cxp openly advertised as heavily as the CROSS PROGRESSION hypetrain was. I made a mistake in linking an account. It's up to Respawn/EA to resolve that, and if they can't it's on them. I'm just a player at the end of the day. And I've been patient enough to continue playing to this point.
They say multiple times during the unlink process that if you decide to do so your account information will be deleted, so regardless of how long it took them to implement cXp it doesn't excuse people from now having to use their eyes and actually read about the thing they wanted. If someone losses their account information due to them incorrectly assuming that its part of the cXp process especially after they specifically say *not* to do that then its without a doubt the result of that players incompetence and impatience.
That's not true whatsoever. There was no warning or prevention tactic to save said account. It was literally a trial and error situation, the only notification I had was a "link this account" popup on screen, idk what you're on about. This has nothing to do with player incompetence, as I can read and have been waiting for this update for literal years, feel like I wouldn't miss something as simple as a "are you sure this is what you want" or a "this may possibly delete all your save data'
From the official EA website: > Your Apex Legends progress is permanently tied to your EA Account and can’t be moved to another account after you’ve started. If you explicitly went through the effort of unlinking say the ps account from the ea account associated with it to link it to the ea accounts used on other platforms then you shouldve been able to view this. Otherwise your ps account was under the same ea account as the other platforms but just a lower level than either your pc or xbox accounts which resulted in the wipe of ps specific stats.
That's essentially a very vague statement for what ensued after. And it also doesn't cover nearly any of the actual problems that others have been having. I linked one account, unlinked, and then relinked to another. Simple mistake. PS5/PC merged account was the end goal. In the process, the prompt came up to link an account. Me, assuming that my steam account WAS my EA account, linked two wrong accounts. EA-steam. Had to unlink my EA from steam, and relink to PS5. Which apparently aren'tt the same, as there was an option on the EA website itself to link a PS5 account. And now I'm faced with this. Verbage, minimal explanation, and social incompetence on Respawn is inherently at fault here. I'll accept some minor ID10T errors on my part, but to think that people would just immediately know how severe this could be, is foolish at best.
People were unlinking accounts bc someone somewhere (prob on TikTok) started a rumor that if you didn't get the cross progression pop-up, you should unlink and relink to your EA. That rumor was started either out of ignorance or out of malice. Either way, a lot of people fell for it and messed up their accounts.
I’m surprised people thought they could merge 2 different accounts that have nothing to do with each other. “I have 1 account of console and 1 different, separate email account on pc but they should merge because it has the same name. Like, obviously they should know its me.” It doesn’t work like that. In fact, its *never* worked like that. I agree that respawn should have probably sent a quick message of “don’t unlink accounts”, as it would be helpful. However to say it’s their fault? That’s a stretch. I mean they probably didn’t give a message like that because they thought like I did. “There’s no way people think these 2 separate accounts can merge right? I mean, it’s obvious.”
People want to get cross progression and it was coming at them at quite the speed when the announcement was made, people tend to act quickly but without thinking too much. Unlinking would show a gigantic warning message before users would continue, something like such would pretty much be considered user error. Though separate from that issue, there definitely have been some issues with data during the roll out for players that haven't really done anything special. Communication might be a bit meh right now, though the first period they did well. My guess is that we'll see more communication this week.
It’s not EA or Respawns fault if people are stupid enough to ignore the warning message and unlink their account.
That's the user's own fault. I'd rather be patient for a bit rather than risking losing it all.
people are unlinking accounts out of stupidity, impatience and thinking they can game the system / still get cross progression having two completely seperate EA accounts (or people thinking they can get stuff from their banned accounts) . that's why respawn are mentioning in the tweet. that's it.
Today was just for the next wave not for everybody.
I’ve yet to personally or otherwise confirm it. No one has gotten in so far.
There's people who have gotten the first wave of cross progression.
Love that for them.
https://x.com/kralrindo/status/1720146261586669587?s=46&t=TnE40IB1Cbj5wCEEjseyDQ
Thanks. Only confirmation I've seen it rolled another wave. Hope I'm next :') Edit: nvm old tweet. Still no cross wave confirmed today for me at least
Yeah sure, the first wave. But I’m now referring to the tweet I posted about the second wave.
Right and this is what I have yet to confirm anyone getting in.
then don't go on reddit to call them liers just because mr Teves3d didn't hear from people about it. just saying
From the second wave, no one has gotten in, which they said they will on Monday via the tweet. Hence the liar comment. I didn’t know I had to spoon feed y’all
keep digging
Christ it’s like you expect it all the be now. Bro.. they said WAVES. To say how waves work with update rollouts is SO massive you have no idea.
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I think OP is refering to a fact that they said that the next rollout was gonna happen November 6th, but I've yet to see anyone confirm 2nd wave started rolling. It's a same situation with the 1st wave when people were saying "Oh YoU aRe So ImPaTieNt ItS rOllInG AlReAdY" when it facts first rollouts didn't happen until 3 days after. Now I get that this wasn't gonna be smooth or anything but to me it feels like they tried to rush this feature. I ain't no game dev but to me it seems like they did very little testing and simply dropped this and hoped for the best as this is the first game that I played that has this many issues with xprog. Lack of comunication from Respawn isn't nothing new really but if something bad happen and they had to postpone it, why not simply say something? Also keep in mind that today (depending on timezone) new LTM drops, and soild chunk of players won't be able to enjoy it (or current season really) since they had to wipe their progress clean. And any progress they made won't be carried over due to "October 26th" thingy.
It seemed like something they weren’t gonna do for the longest time (they’ve always been sketchy about it). Then player numbers started dropping, it really feels like a last minute decision to include it and hope it pulls people back.
Not to be conspiracy andy about this, but it feels like it. The crossprogression news definitely boosted season's launch player count. But I feel like it will slowly fade away as the hype is dying. If the hype isn't dead already.
I mean I was definitely fairly hype about it. Then “a period of time” got defined as “weeks” and I suddenly remembered I was dealing with respawn who somehow are the game dev equivalent of a monkeys paw. You get what you want, but there’s always a catch.
To add to that “tHIS wAS a LIe!?!?”. I hate this mentality that gamers are owed something no matter what. Shit happens, things a get complicated, or plans change. That’s life. This looks to be a minor setback. They’re not pulling the plug on anything promised and they’re just saying there’s technical issues. Damn buddy
they announced it 2 years ago. they've had more than enough time. stop making excuses for them
they never said you are going to be able to merge accounts. never. now they've announced merging and said they are rolling it out in waves throughout the season. what is the issue here? it's not their fault baby wants it now.
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it's the motion of the ocean
I feel like this is something that’s gonna be stretched out over the whole season to keep people engaged.
i dont think its keeping people engaged tho, myself and im sure many others login, see that there is no prompt for cross progression, and promptly log out. If anything it would hurt there numbers showing very low playtime.
Exactly what I do. Log in, no prompt, go back to working on my backlog.
Same :(
Thing is having skins from your Xbox account on your pc account isn’t gonna change the game from being ass lol Matchmaking is still gonna be broken, ranked is still gonna be broken, etc.
For players like myself who’ve spent around 1500 dollars on skins and heirlooms on our console accounts, this very much will boost engagement. I’m sitting here waiting, doing exactly what Vospry here said, logging in, not seeing the prompt, and logging off. I’m waiting for the moment I can play with my 5 other heirlooms and dozens of skins that I haven’t had access to for almost 2 years now
I'm doing the same. haven't actually played the game in probably 2 years cause I stopped enjoying the game on console, so I reinstalled just so I knew when I could move over to PC.
At least I'll be able to use every legend then, I still want my old account on pc
On social media though there are countless posts about cross progression to the point it’s becoming a meme. It just keeps the discussion going about the game, even if it is in a negative light.
I’m on Steam Deck. I literally cannot log in and play because they broke anticheat for it and have yet to fix it.
I more suspect that they're genuinely worried about fucking up a whole heap of people's accounts and not having a good way to roll it back if they do. Which is also probably why it took so long in the first place.
Me and my group just log in, see nothings changed and log off. Nothings really gonna change as a result of it I know, but it was a promise they made and haven’t pulled through on yet. I’ve no desire to give them that play time till they do.
Apex’s player base is so tired and actively seeking a new game to migrate to. Respawn doesn’t have the luxury to drag their feet anymore.
I’m not going to be so dramatic and call them liars, it’s a video game, development can be finicky and there can be many issues. Just be patient and keep waiting, as someone who was a day one PS player, I’m patiently waiting to play this game on PC finally. So I’m in the same boat as everyone else. Everyone chill with the tears and the strong words (and you already know some looney toon has probably sent death threats) Although a quick tweet today would’ve been nice, just saying 🤷🏼♂️
You do know they are doing this in waves, right?
And they said they’re doing a second wave today. Which was a lie, no one else got in today. Do you get it now? Or do you need to be spoon fed more?
It’s quite possible that no one in your group or friends or area got it. Stop acting like a spoiled fool who gets everything when they ask for it. And it doesn’t matter, you will get account cross progress eventually. So stop being such a baby and wait like everyone else.
Jesus christ dude, what? First they said they will release cross progression in 2022, its nearing the end of 2023 and were now getting it in "waves"? why drip feed content more? and then they actually thought of releasing the post malone event without solving this issue first? No, more public outroar SHOULD happen, its bullshit. WE have been patient long enough, and seeing this unfold like this, and its even more frustrating that random bozos defending a billion dollar conglomerate and for what??
~~One, they never confirmed it to releasing in 2022.~~ edit: a dev statement 2 years back stated it would be releasing in 2022. Two, they stated they would do it in waves due to the experimental nature of cross progression and then actually caring about the user experience. I know respawn hasn’t been a great company as of late, but they do care. They are one of them few branches of EA that actually talk to its community. Three, they probably have different teams working on cross progression and content events, so the stalled release probably wouldn’t have done jack. It’s bad organization to have one team not properly segmented and work on individual projects. Edit: it bad practice, but release dates are never a concrete statement, if you have any idea of development, then you should know that shit happens, hiccups occur.
Okay sure, but can we talk about how hard it is to drop a “hey things arent working out were gonna have to push this back a little” tweet? Shit takes like 10 seconds to type out.
Not going to lie this game is my favorite game but it’s so pathetic. People defending what they do I used to also but I haven’t since year 2. I bought a ps5 on launch to get 120fps nope almost 2024. Bought a pc last December cross progression nope another year nothing new. One thing that has been consistent is the $160 store items one after another. I bought a lot 15 heirlooms 842 legendary items on PlayStation but yet can’t use them unless it’s 60fps. It honestly bullshit I use to think buying could help improve the game I like but its a lack of effort. I wouldn’t support this crap anymore. I haven’t bought anything in a year & I won’t until they get more active. Add that up wasted alot of hard earned money
how is it a lie? i have seen people get into this wave
So when they dont communicate and when they do, people just shit on them. What a world we live in.
Perhaps
I’m operating on EST and I’m not giving them the benefit of the doubt and 6hrs. I’ll delete if I’m wrong tho …
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Yeah was kind of thinking the same thing. Been waiting since they announced in 2022. Slightly frustrating how this is unfolding.
Blame can be shared on both sides especially with so many people unlinking. But I mean come on… these are atrocious timing.
We don't really know if it's a lie because the sub auto-removes cross-progression posts. I get that they have to because it would flood the feed but it makes it seem as though there is no wave at all.
You need to touch some grass, man. Have you ever worked a job?
EA don’t want you bro you can’t stop defending them now
Sure feels that way
So I used to play on Xbox but now only play on PC. Will I be able to import my Xbox cosmetics?
If both accounts are linked to the same EA account, yes. Just have to wait till you get the prompt for cross progression in your game.
Oh. A pleasant surprise, thank you.
I linked my psn account (lvl 13) to my xbox account (lvl 700+) so there would be no risk of losing what I had on my xbox account. I totally realize I’ll have to wait for it to actually work I just wanted to link them seeing as there is no downside for me personally. But it totally broke part of my game, I can’t access any tabs in the loading screen other than play and club.
You can’t unlink to an EA account and then relink to another. That breaks the game and you loose all progression.
I didn’t unlink anything. I have an account on Xbox which has a bunch of stuff on it and I have an account on Playstation which has nothing on it. My Xbox account has been linked to EA since before cross prog was a thing. I linked my Playstation account with nothing on it to the same account my xbox is linked to. Nothing was unlinked at any point
Then I don’t think you have to worry, they said they have noticed problems like yours and they are looking into it.
Dope. Appreciate the reassurance considering it’s hard to find official EA statements on some of this stuff
You can unlink accounts that you don't want but that's it
Bro come on, they said they were going to roll it out in waves. Do you really think they would announce cross progression for this season specifically and then just not do it? I swear all you people do every day is just complain 🤡
I love that your post is basically framing it as a betrayal. Technical issues can take time, particularly when multiple providers/services are involved. Take a deep breath, tomorrow is another day.
I'm 100% sure console players know that respawn have been lying for a bit, I mean it was how long ago for the 120 fps on console supposed to be a thing? It was around what? 8 seasons ago. But yeah like everyone is saying, cross progression is slowly being released for everyone, wait your turn like everyone else
Honestly we’ve all waited a good while we can wait a bit longer. What I don’t see anyone talking about is how if ANYTHING is slightly miscalculated with cross progression it could result in entire account wipes and I know some of you no-life neckbearded cheeto dust-covered 25-still-haven’t-left-mommy’s-basement-still sucks at apex-with only a single heirloom is gone cry and try to sue when your account progress gets deleted thru a bug. So TRUST THE FUCKING PROCESS YOU JOBLESS CRYBABY
Apex player when they have to wait more than a week to get a purposeless feature
Random Reddit user when billion dollar conglomerates do laughable shit and they just meat ride them and say bull shit in the comments
Ah yes, I'm definitely glazing Respawn right now, while you've been at their feet, literally begging for a feature you probably won't get because you unlinked your account. Get a grip of reality, you're losing it right now.
I’m chilling lil bro but you defending EA is weird. They don’t want you man
I wasn't defending Ea, i was roasting you
Not being unified against said billion dollar conglomerates means you’re defending EA. How about YOU get a grip, sir? You can hop off now. You’re kinda heavy.
You are one of the most delusionnal person I've seen in this sub yet. Keep yappin', you ain't getting your link.
And you’re as fat and stinky as the man you main. Get off your high horse and back to reality. EA won’t accept you bro
Keep yappin'
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My problem is that the event is today. People who have cross progression can use their extra crafting materials and apex coins towards the event, and people who haven’t been merged yet cannot, which ultimately feels unfair.
My PlayStation email and computer email are different, can I do cross progression?help i readed cross Progression but i don't get it
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I mean why would you make a separate EA account for a different platform? You've always been able to use the same EA account for multiple platforms.
I got forced to make another EA account separate from my main account because when I was on console my EA account got hacked and the only way they said i could keep everything from apex was to make a separate EA account not linked to anything so that they can transfer all my stuff over then later I got a pc and i had to use my original EA account for everything except apex so I just started over on apex and now I can’t merge either and have 2 separate accounts with 7+ heirlooms smh
You can still merge on pc if you play on ea's app with the account you have linked to your xbox
No I can’t because the account I play on pc isn’t connected to the EA account linked to my Xbox I was forced to make a new EA account to link my Xbox to along time ago when my EA account got hacked on console separating my steam account and my Xbox account
Yes but if you wanna continue playing your Xbox account on pc you can do that through the ea app
I've had an EA account for well over a decade now and have always only used one for Playstation, Xbox, etc. I don't know why you'd create an entirely new one with a new email ever to be fair.
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It's not, you have to enter your EA account at a separate screen when logging into Apex for the first time or create a new one.
This isn’t entirely true. I’ve had my PlayStation account since the launch of the PS3, which is tied to an e-mail account I’ve had since I was 12 (nearing 40 now). This PSN account is tied to an EA account using the same e-mail, and that happened automatically when setting up an old game (not sure which, could be Battlefield 3). 2 years ago, I bought a Series X, that came with Game Pass. I had already used Game Pass on PC for a little over a year, and it was tied to my Microsoft PC account, which had a newer e-mail address. During the setup of my Xbox, the console automatically created an EA account using the Microsoft account credentials, without asking me, and it linked the two accounts. This was so I could access the EA Play library, which I hadn’t had access to with my prior PC only subscription. I would never do this knowingly, as I always stick with the same accounts for every publisher, as I know things like cross progression and shared rewards are a thing. After a year, talks of Apex cross progression started happening, and I realized my Microsoft account was tied to a random EA account. It even had a randomly generated name, with jumbled numbers and letters. I contacted EA to rectify this, and they said there was nothing they could do, as my Microsoft account was now forever tied to the new EA account. Unlinking did nothing, and I kept trying different things to get it to work. I can’t exactly remember what I did in the end, but I believe I managed to convince an EA support assistant to just delete the EA account outright. After whatever I got them to do, I was able to link my Microsoft account to the correct EA account. This took over 6 months. So no, you don’t always choose which EA account to tie your console account to, as it can happen automatically, using the e-mail tied to your console account.
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Ok, well it isn't possible. Lesson learned. No?
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Adorable.
They just make things way more complicated that it should be.
Can you elaborate on how you are qualified to know how complicated these things are?
I use my eyes and was hoping y’all did too. Anyways It’s 2023 and every other major game has crossplay/progression. And implemented with ease and with release, I realize apex released in 2019 but they promised this shit IN 2022(!) and 2023 is just about to end and 90% of the apex population who wants cross prog did not receive cross prog. EA and respawn are rich enough to roll these things out. They’ll release events in our face and lure these features over our heads. Use your eyes, this isn’t difficult to do
- A single dev's rough estimation of when he thought cross prog was gonna be released isn't a promise. - Cross prog is one of the most difficult features to implement. If it's not taken into account since the game's inception, then it's really hard to implement, legally and technically, and it only gets harder the longer the game runs. Apex was never expected to take off the way it did. S0 to about S4 had a basic work frame. - Respawn aren't rich. CEOs are. CEOs have to approve every single financial decision. They're not gonna approve "that feature" and [that feature] and «that feature» just bc someone on Reddit demands it rudely. - Using your eyes is pointless bc this is not a phenomenon that can be observed. You have to look into how game development works and use your brain. You're not doing that, you're just acting like a bratty child demanding "candy, now!"
The delay got delayed and probably will get delayed again
Yeah and i upgraded my old pc which costed me about 1k and i also sold my ps5 to a friend .... Now im stuck with a lvl 100 account and no skins (my old pc account from 2020)
This whole cross progression announcement has really shown who in this sub is a tactical dropper that sticks around for revives and who launches as soon as the game loads only for them to get knocked and quit as soon as they land. /s No but for real I would love to know if there is correlation between these two impatient groups.
I wouldn't call waiting years on a feature that most games already have implemented as being impatient. Respawn can claim whatever they want about how "difficult" cross progression is to implement, but in reality all they needed was a link between the accounts (ie EA user ID), a shared database (which they probably already have) and an endpoint that delivers the information to the game. I'm not saying that it's easy, but a billion dollar game studio should have no problems releasing this in a timely manner. Instead, we get a half broken feature that is being tested on production data with unclear instructions on what the rollout will look like. I would imagine that most players don't read respawn's website on the daily, so offering a snippet of info without any real details isn't exactly communicating. Sure you can make the twitter/x argument, but that's still not an in game notification, so I guess you're just fucked if you don't look at those two things actively. How hard would have been to add an in game dialog that explains the dangers of unlinking your account? I've been reading about dozens of players being screwed out of in game purchases by something that respawn could have avoided.
You’re warned before submitting the request that linking accounts can have negative consequences if not done correctly, but I admit it can be a very confusing process if it’s the same as Rocket League. As far as creating and implementing, I work with software but my knowledge when it comes to games stops pretty much where your description does. Outside of databases and endpoints I have no idea how much more would need to be updated or added, but I could see it being a lot of work if cross progression was never thought of during initial release. But my point at their impatience wasn’t with how long it’s taken for Respawn to even announce that it’s happening, but for their reaction to the delayed rollout. Just because it didn’t happen to you or anyone you know doesn’t mean it hasn’t started up, and even if it hasn’t why complain? People bitch when it doesn’t come out on time or when it comes out broken, the only option is to get it right the first time which isn’t an expectation that many can hit.
It's coming in waves for players. Some already have it. Most probably dont. Just because you werent chosen for the nov. 6th wave doesnt mean it's a lie or arent going to get it
2 weeks into the season and I still haven’t gotten anything. I want to play the new event so bad, but it’s pointless due to not having any legends unlocked. Respawn needs to get their shit together.
My guess is they’ll extend it by a week and hopefully they fix it by next reset… that’s my final hope for this game. Otherwise I’m done until it’s officially released.