I dont want to lose 8 years of progress because of migration

[Little-Profesor]

When the switch version of warframe came out years ago, I migrated my PC account over thinking i would play it a lot. I didn't and ended up just sticking to my Xbox and put in 8 years on that account. Apparently, even after linking my switch and PC account today, the duplicate account from the migration still exists and I cannot merge my Xbox and PC accounts. Why cant I just have that duplicate deleted and still be able to merge? I feel robbed of the time and money I am about to lose because Digital Extremes didn't warn players YEARS ago that they wouldnt be able to merge if they migrated :/ 

[VictorProfundus]

It looks to me like you just need to contact Support and have them set your XBox account to be your Primary Account

Then linking would essentially "delete" your PC account, which is the left-behind duplicate you're referring to, if I understood correctly.

[WolfLycan]

This happened to me as well. Because of this one decision where/when I didn't even really play the game on pc at the time, and barely touched my switch, I'm now blocked out of merging the 2 accounts I actually play on and have put a lot of time in to.

Edited December 19, 2023 by WolfLycan

[.2B.]

Same boat.  They genuinely should do away with the account merge exception.  Those both were years ago.

[(PSN)ChibiIncubus]

Even with the exception, the way OP is doing it should work, if the link deletes the copy then there shouldn't be any reason you couldn't merge your other account(s) into it afterwords. This seems like it isn't working correctly

[Little-Profesor]

16 minutes ago, VictorProfundus said:

It looks to me like you just need to contact Support and have them set your XBox account to be your Primary Account

Then linking would essentially "delete" your PC account, which is the left-behind duplicate you're referring to, if I understood correctly.

That’s the thing. I have 1500 plat on pc and none on Xbox but my Xbox has more MR. I’m either losing on years of grinding and primes I don’t have on pc or I’m losing out on 1500 plat and trading it to be behind in virtually every aspect. Im absolutely not making my Xbox my primary account. 

[GoDFaDDa]

I'm in the same situation.  I have tons of currency on both PC and Xbox - more progress on PC, which would be my primary.  I one-time copied to Switch without concern at the time, and it's ridiculous that this means that I can't merge Xbox in.  I've barely played Switch since.  I wouldn't mind if I was unable to merge the *Switch* account back in - that would make sense. 

 

Blocking Xbox merging in makes no sense at all; they just haven't thought through these scenarios closely.  They need to fix this, immediately.

[MinimumWageMage]

Im not excited for cross save if this is what its like.

[(PSN)Sorrior]

As i said in the other post I am in the same position. I get losing my switch account cool sure i rarely if ever use it.

 

I might be ok biting the bullet on losing my pc account(though rather i be able to unsync it's connection to steam) but not even able to connect the xbox accounts a big thing rn. I've been on that platform alot reexperiemcing the game as a lower mr player and was planning to merge it when i could. 

 

Like i kiiinda get the issues with merging but why apply it to ever having been done not just the two copied accounts? 

[GunBuilt]

It'd be different if we were warned about this when we copied our accounts but we weren't and now our progress on unrelated accounts can't be merged its ridiculous.

[MinimumWageMage]

Like at least let me DELETE the switch account I literally don't care about it and its keeping me from merging.

Like you're going to punish me for a mistake I didn't even know I made until you decided it would affect account merging.

I love you guys and your game but this is awful.

Edited December 19, 2023 by MinimumWageMage
Another typo

[GoDFaDDa]

Note - I linked Switch back to PC, hoping that "deleting" the one-time-migrated account might clear the flag.  It does not.  I still cannot merge from Xbox.

 

Their logic is correct for platforms that have been migrated to - if I migrated to Switch, I shouldn't be able to merge back.  However, that logic should be platform-specific, not global to all platforms - that's simply a bug.

[(PSN)Sorrior]

6 minutes ago, GoDFaDDa said:

Note - I linked Switch back to PC, hoping that "deleting" the one-time-migrated account might clear the flag.  It does not.  I still cannot merge from Xbox.

 

Their logic is correct for platforms that have been migrated to - if I migrated to Switch, I shouldn't be able to merge back.  However, that logic should be platform-specific, not global to all platforms - that's simply a bug.

I assumd it's because the switch account also has the flag. 

 

I'm going to wait for my PS one to be elegible and try it then..I'll still lose my switch and probably my pc account(which has alot of time and money but oh well)..I just want to be able to merge my xbox account with my PS as primary..And play on PC. 

 

Sad thing is i need to login to unlink my steam account and just hope i keep my ruby rhino and maybe the cumulus set. 

[MinimumWageMage]

35 minutes ago, GunBuilt said:

It'd be different if we were warned about this when we copied our accounts but we weren't and now our progress on unrelated accounts can't be merged its ridiculous.

And now I've been punished for being their switch guinea pig

[mrflublesworth]

I just ran into the same issue. I'm MR29 on xbox, but I've moved to PC and have a lot invested now. I copied my account to switch way back, and I haven't played it for even an hour. The inability to merge my xbox and PC accounts together when they have no relation is frustrating. 

[Dragondude3]

LR3 on PC with thousands of hours but my PC is not able to really play.  I started an xbox account back in Jan. 2022.  It is MR 20 with a bunch of stuff on it that I don't want to loose since I plan to give that stuff away to friends or just random stream people via giveaways.  Now I'm in limbo on what to do since I can't merge for the same reason.  They did make it seem like migrated accounts could not be merged back into the account they were created from.  Said nothing that it was going to be a global flag that would prevent all merging.

[ratchetgamma]

It's honestly a complete blindside to know that my two 6000+ hour accounts are Ineligible for merge because of a one time account transfer that was advertised as a "Get it or miss out" gimmick back in like 2017 I have honestly never used the switch account and I am in actual shock that I can't keep all my mastery and skins in one place.... Please let me do something about it :(

[.2B.]

No, they should just let migrated accounts merge.

[(PSN)Sorrior]

49 minutes ago, .2B. said:

No, they should just let migrated accounts merge.

I'll take this too but if it's a technical reason I think deleting one is the best we might get..

 

And yes i too would sacrifice my switch account at the altar of merging. 

[mrflublesworth]

I really hope this topic is on their radar. It's an extremely frustrating circumstance that has us standing to lose thousands of hours and hundreds of dollars for a platform that so few of us actually ended up playing. I don't think I even made it an hour on the switch after copying my account over. 

[Ahusaka]

this happened to me too, but for pc and ps4\5 and i didnt realize it before i clicked the button and i just lost soo much progress i think im done with warframe for a while

 

(it made me lose technically 1400hours of pc progress, and i was excited id finally have 1 account with everything i needed instead of account hopping all the time, so im abit disheartened atm)

 

Edited December 20, 2023 by Ahusaka

[Dragondude3]

I have too much stuff on my xbox account to even trade it all out to friends and what not before its too late and that is just the prime stuff I've amassed over the last almost 2 years on that account and it is such a shame to just delete it all.  Not even getting started on all the progress I made in duviri and what not since my PC can't really run the new content over that time.

[mrflublesworth]

I hope we hear something on this soon. I understand not letting cloned accounts recombine, but that's not what any of us are trying to do. Losing that much time/money for no good reason sucks. I will seriously be reconsidering my return to the game at this rate. 

[GunBuilt]

I will happily burn my switch account to merge my actual used accounts because otherwise the "cross save" is just a punishment

[ratchetgamma]

why not just let any accounts that migrated link (delete all progress on one of them) and just let us merge what IS NOT uneligable?? please don't die on this hill I really want to believe in this update after waiting 5 years