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Edited by Recon Number 54: 9/2/2015 8:59:46 PM
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Will we ever be able to transfer characters from Xbox to PlayStation?

So we can transfer our progress and characters from PS3 to PS4 or 360 to Xbox One, which is pretty rad. I was just wondering what the technical hitch is that prevents me transfering from PS4 to Xbox One or 360 to PS4? Presumably if I can go between PS3 and PS4, my profile is stored on a Bungie/Acti server somewhere and that allows it to move between platforms? Because it's not as if the PS3 and PS4 are similar in architecture any more than the 360 and PS4 are. I have some friends playing on Xbox One that I want to play with and similarly I have some on PS4 that I want to play with. I'm buying the game on both formats, but it's a shame that I'll have to have two separate progress profiles for the two platforms. I'd hoped when new B.net launched and we were able to link all our accounts here that we may get some sort of unified account that you could tap into from any console and access my characters and progress. Has this ever been suggested in an update or anything? [quote]Ninja Edit [spoiler]Hello OP (or anyone who has decided to open the spoiler and read all of this). I'm one of the Bungie.Net Ninjas. We may have met before, we may have interacted, you might have heard of us, or you may have no clue as to who we are and what we do. Well, this little note is to explain some of the things we do. One of the major roles we play is to handle the reports that come in whenever a member clicks on the "Report" button, to let us know that there is a post, a topic or a user that either doesn't understand or isn't following the rules that we all agreed to follow when we joined. But that's not the Ninja function that brought on this note. The reason I am writing this is because I have retagged your thread. Bungie.Net uses hashtags to designate their major forums and to help keep things organized. Your OP (original post) was opened, created or given a hashtag that well, wasn't the best choice. It could have been that you were browsing through the [u][url=https://www.bungie.net/en/Forum/Categories]various forum/tags[/url][/u] that are available on the site or app, and clicked on "New Topic" while in a forum that didn't "match up" with the subject matter of your OP. Or, you may have thought "this belongs here", when unfortunately, it doesn't. That's another role of the Bungie.Net Ninjas. We not only try to keep things fun, pleasant and welcoming here by removing rule-breakers, but we also want EVERY good topic to have the best chance to survive, thrive, find the right audience, and get lots of on-topic replies. And so, I have retagged your topic to move it to the forum where it has the best chance of doing that. I give you my word that I have not altered a single letter or character of your Original Post, just placed this message below it and set the tag to better describe your topic. You may notice that you are unable to edit this post anymore. That is a part of the system, and I apologize for any inconvenience that it may have caused. I've not replied or commented on your OP, since this message would most likely be "off-topic" to your thread and when members see a Ninja or Mentor (who are volunteers from the community) or even a Bungie employee post, they tend to go a little crazy and the disruption to the thread becomes a distraction. I don't want that to happen to your thread. I want it to be in the BEST place possible, to be seen by the largest audience who is looking for this sort of topic, I want it to take root, get replies, grow strong and make these forums a better place. If you have any questions, you should feel free to PM me. My name is now in the upper right corner of your OP where it says "edited by". Thanks for your patience, thanks for being a part of this community, thanks for taking the time to read all of this (I hid it in a spoiler so that anyone who clicked couldn't complain about "too long, didn't read"), and thank you in advance for creating your future topics with the forum/tag location in mind. --Cheers[/spoiler][/quote]

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  • I honestly can't see many good reasons why they haven't tried this... your actual characters are stored on bungie's servers, which is why you can access them from any console of the same family... if you put the characters on an independent account and linked an xb live acc and a psn acc, you could access the characters from the bungie account with either... playstation exclusives? ever heard of content locking? it's the same basic principle that stops you from using legendary equipment without being a level 20, or playing HoW content without buying the expansion... only you make the requirement to be on a Playstation... if you try and pass a character over to xbox who has something like a hawkmoon equipped, you would be unable to log onto said character without first equipping weapons that aren't playstation exclusives... it's simple in theory... probably take a lot of effort to implement effectively though... in fact the only good reason I can think of why they aren't trying to do this is cause it would definitely bring it's own set of bugs and glitches to the game, for instance you could lose the contents of your vault because of a glitch while accessing your account from a different console... or even losing characters because of a bug... and it would be a giant hole in account security... oh, they didn't steal your xbox live account, or playstation account.. but they stole your characters by hacking your bungie account and linking their xbox live account/playstation accounts to it instead... just saying, account security would be a really big issue with this...

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    • People keep saying its because of the PS exclusive content, they obviously dont understand coding. You could make it pop up and say something along the lines of "This gear cannot be transferred" Like really, the vault should be cross platform.

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    • This would be great. Almost everyone I know plays on PS4, but like always, I've been an Xbox Fan for quite some time and I only have a PS4 because of certain games that I could not play on Xbox. I agree with what someone else said, I do not want to pay for more than one live service at a time, because that would start to be expensive. I would love to be able to transfer my characters and progress to PS4 because then I could finally play with a lot of my friends, but without that possibility, I'll never make the switch because of my progress and the fact of having to redo a lot of what I've done to progress through the game would be a terrible experience. If I had made the dedication to PS4 from the beginning, I wouldn't be having this problem, but like I said, I've been an Xbox Fan and for some reason I'm just more partial to them. Guess I should have only bought the PS4 like I did first and just stuck with it.

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    • Hate to bump this again, but I normally play on PS4 but bought an Xbox one and downloaded the Destiny trial on Xbox. On the first "update" screen with the Traveler on it, it says "transferring profile" or something similar to that. Is this normal? I quit the game before it finished. I use the same username for all 3 services (psn, Xbox, Bungie) and would hate for it to screw something .

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    • Bungie please make this happen! Cross-platform gameplay may be too much to implement, but cross-platform characters and progress needs to happen!

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    • Nope, Sony and Microsoft will have to merge for that to happen probably

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      • I want to necrobump this because this would be awesome. You would think, at the least, you could go from Xbox to Sony given the partnership Sony has with Bungie but with PS4's exclusives not many people would leave for Xbox so I don't see why Sony would fight it (if they are). As far Microsoft is concerned there is no partnership with Bungie so I doubt they have much say in the matter. I brought this up again because I want to switch from Xbox to PS4 because by best friend is making the switch (he doesn't like Destiny anymore though, so this isn't even an issue for him), but I won't unless this feature becomes available. And no, I will not pay for two separate live services at once, so buying and owning both is out of the question for me.

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        • So you can't use PS exclusives on Xbox

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          • The issue would be the PS exclusives. Maybe they should do like a one time copy of progress then they would stay separate. Just so if you want to switch you don't have to switch over.

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            • Console exclusive content doesn't transfer problem solved people. Yes Bungie please do this I want to get an Xbox One because of Sony's network throttling but I don't want to leave behind my characters that I've worked so hard on building.

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            • Unless Sony and Microsoft become one, don't hold your breath..

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            • I need some help i'm trying to transfer my ps4 caracther to my new ps4 and it's just stuck on 2.28GB/15,89 and has been that way for 10 hours, i tried uninstalling the game and download it again but that won't work... please help, thank you

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            • I can see xbox moving to playstation. but playstation to xbox won't work.

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              • Nope will probably never happen

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              • I am willing to purchase a ps4 as well as destiny and all dlc content AGAIN if I could transfer my accounts from Xbox one over. I am fed up with Xbox live and the servers for destiny on the Xbox are always crashing. I can never enjoy the game. BUNGIE make this happen. It is more money for you anyway if everyone converts. It is a business opportunity so take advantage of it and please let me know if and when you make the smart decision. Thanks.

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                • Issue I see right away would be console exclusive content.

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                  • Dont think so.

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                  • No

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                  • Nope

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                    • [quote]So we can transfer our progress and characters from PS3 to PS4 or 360 to Xbox One, which is pretty rad. I was just wondering what the technical hitch is that prevents me transfering from PS4 to Xbox One or 360 to PS4? Presumably if I can go between PS3 and PS4, my profile is stored on a Bungie/Acti server somewhere and that allows it to move between platforms? Because it's not as if the PS3 and PS4 are similar in architecture any more than the 360 and PS4 are. I have some friends playing on Xbox One that I want to play with and similarly I have some on PS4 that I want to play with. I'm buying the game on both formats, but it's a shame that I'll have to have two separate progress profiles for the two platforms. I'd hoped when new B.net launched and we were able to link all our accounts here that we may get some sort of unified account that you could tap into from any console and access my characters and progress. Has this ever been suggested in an update or anything?[/quote]

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                    • I don't see why u can't either I know a cool guy on Psn who was thought I could play with cause I assumed he was on Xbox plus Psn gets exclusives and just like FlawleddC0wboy said ur profile is stored om the bungie servers

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                    • I know this is old but I agree with this. we need to be able to transfer progress between consoles. You will think this will benefit all, you have to still buy the game and dlc for both consoles. you still have to buy the Live and PSN...so in reality is a win win for all.

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                    • No Sony and mic would never let it happen

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