Support for Legacy Title Progression Transfers
Hey EA, i know all the FAQs regarding cross-platform progression on older titles has been addressed numerous times stating - its simply not possible...
but my $.02 is that seems like a missed opportunity. I know that there is always going to be prioritization driving where dev/support efforts are allocated, but considering the overall lack of trust amongst your player-base it seems like it would be worthwhile to focus some energy on developing tools/processes/policies to enable data migration for loyal fans still interested in playing once-great battlefield titles. With services like battlelog, its obvious that there is an extensive data-model present surrounding these games' progression/unlocks/etc. and as someone who is employed by these exact kinds of data-migration challenges (enterprise software migration) i have a hard time understanding how this problem is impossible to solve - the main issue seems to be driven by politics of priority, and maybe ethical/governance challenges associated with ensuring content isnt granted to those who didnt earn it, as well as a general apathy toward legacy title support/extension.
My observation is that any company who thinks they can secure new customers at a pace that will completely offset the damage of existing customer churn is only gambling on growth/profitability that is uncertain at best, and the investment required to develop a new game that will hopefully acquire new fans surely dwarfs the cost of building a simple migration utility and launching a marketing campaign that would represent a triumph over a long-standing barrier for legacy players who miss the experiences that battlefield once provided.
what better time to re-capture lost fans from titles like BF3/BF4, than on the march toward launching what is being marketed as their spiritual successor?
