Anyone who's been involved with free-to-play games knows how much they stand to gain from cross progression. And in the case of Warframe, 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 Rivals is the latest title to be stuck in this hard spot. Cross-progression is not a simple thing to get right, and even they 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, if recent statements from the developers are 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.
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.
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...