Highlights
- Apex Legends neighborhood outraged over Battle Go modifications, threatening boycott if applied.
- Respawn splitting Battle Passes into two, requiring actual cash buy, sparking backlash.
- Void Reckoning occasion trailer bombarded with dislikes as gamers specific disapproval of modifications.
The Apex Legends neighborhood is continuous to precise its disapproval of the upcoming Battle Go modifications as the sport’s latest occasion trailer is bombarded with dislikes.
Earlier this month, Respawn Leisure introduced that it could be re-working Apex Legends’ Battle Passes from Season 22, which is about to be launched someday in August. The modifications went down like a lead balloon as followers instantly threatened to boycott the favored Battle Royale title if Respawn went forward with the modifications.
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However gamers are nonetheless urging others to not purchase crates.
Why are these modifications so controversial? Nicely, there is a handful of causes. One of many important ones that followers took challenge with was Respawn splitting every season’s Battle Go into two and forcing gamers to pay with real-life cash to buy them. Not solely does this work out to $20 per season, however it prevents gamers from buying any upcoming Battle Passes with Apex Cash, one thing that might be executed by gamers beforehand.
Shortly after these modifications have been introduced, the Apex Legends neighborhood evaluation bombed the sport on Steam to precise their outrage on the modifications. On the time of writing this text, Apex Legends has an “overwhelmingly damaging” evaluation badge in relation to current critiques. In keeping with Steam, solely 10% of the practically 55,000 critiques within the final 10 days have been constructive.
Most of the critiques name out Respawn Leisure’s resolution as a “silly money seize,” whereas some even declare that they’re “deleting the sport” as a result of new Battle Go system.
Regardless of the 1000’s of damaging critiques and outcry from the neighborhood, Respawn Leisure has refused to again observe and even acknowledge the controversy. Whereas the studio seems to be standing agency in its resolution (at the least for now), gamers are persevering with to make their voices heard. This time, it is within the type of YouTube dislikes.
Earlier this week, Apex Legends introduced the brand new “Void Reckoning” occasion with a brand-new trailer. The occasion will see the debut of a brand new limited-time mode often called “Huge TDM,” the sport’s first ever 12v12 Deathmatch mode. The occasion will kick off on July twenty third, however there’s just one factor on the neighborhood’s thoughts proper now.
On the time of writing this text, the Void Reckoning occasion trailer has a large 40,000 dislikes with solely 5,600 likes. To place that into somewhat higher perspective, Apex Legends’ earlier occasion trailer (which premiered previous to the reveal of the Battle Go modifications) has solely 8,900 dislikes and 13,000 likes.
Most of the feedback on the trailer proceed to name out the upcoming modifications: “I am shocked that they did not made us pay to look at the trailer,” one person joked, whereas one other stated, “I like how respawn is appearing like nothing dangerous is going on atm and thinks everyone seems to be proud of the state of the sport.”
Apex Legends
- Launched
- February 4, 2019
- Writer(s)
- Digital Arts
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