They have a system to connect twitch account (for using item we unlock). A similar system to connect a psn or xbox live account to unlock bazaar items people have buy would be ideal right now.
No, Conan Exiles is a „play anywhere“-title on the Xbox-Ecosystem. So you have two Funcom-IDs (Xbox and PC), tied to one Microsoft Account (plus the Funcom IDs you can create as guest, these will have the DLCs but no Bazaar Items) for all the purchases you made. So DLCs and Bazaar Items are available on Xbox and PC.
Pretty neat, the one advantage the Microsoft Store Version on PC has in comparison to Steam or Epic.
But for enhanced version, they will still need steam version which is what they meant by saying starting from scratch because ms store version won’t be getting the UE5 update for now.
If you are patient enough you can simply wait for a Microsoft store version (chances are better than for Xbox I think), your buildings and thralls are lost anyway.
Of course, I have. I played a while on my old PC (~2023 I think) parallel to playing on Xbox/Playstation. Just to be sure I removed the dust of said PC and checked (after download of several gigabytes of updates…).
I made a quick run on singleplayer and as new player on official Siptah PvE 6058 (I’m an idiot, all my plant fibre, sticks and stones and my valuable 1x1 sandstone castle will be lost forever in a few days) to check if I could use all the stuff I purchased on Xbox. I can (for another five days online at least, single player we will see. Depends on what the plans are for Funcom live services and the legacy Version).
Side note: I runs way better on this PC back three years ago than today, barely playable now (i3-4150, 16G, 1050Ti, SSD).
Yes, all items and DLCs you purchased on Xbox console is available to windows store xbox version, and until the update drops you can play with Steam users on official PC servers. But neither of these version will get enhanced edition so no point if you’re migrating to PC because of the upgrade like OP said.