Board Thread:News and Announcements/@comment-26533925-20151203194947/@comment-24577221-20151204042041

I think that just about every Windows MSM player agrees with you.

Any kind of communication between the Windows version and the others could never have been easy, including transferring games between them. That's because they were run on different game servers... and because -- through amazing lack of planning -- the two servers were giving out the same game ID codes. If you got some Windows player's friend code and entered it on your mobile device, you'd end up with some stranger in your friends list.

As for the Windows game being (apparently) stuck missing a lot of features... well. BFG has talked a lot about how all of the new features would be really difficult to implement because of the different technologies of the mobile devices versus PCs. And that is true for a lot of the newer features. But I don't think things were as difficult as they try to make it sound, since other Windows games seem to manage the same kinds of features. And a lot of the new features wouldn't require any special technology, or indeed any development beyond what's already been done. The Windows players haven't even had the last couple of Seasonal events, and that's completely old stuff -- those events were run last year for the Windows players.