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"Apex Legends Disappointment Signals Substantial Pain Ahead [for EA]"
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What in the end matters is what money it brings in and if players stay playing and paying it.
Everything else is nice and doog PR but doesn't really bring money in
Everything else is nice and doog PR but doesn't really bring money in
I still enjoy it for what it is. Do I wish there was more frequent updates? Sure but I am coming from Overwatch which has a slower update frequency.
That article was so barebones I'm confused why there is even a thread being made about it. Google metrics and twich viewers determine if a game is successful now?
I'm waiting for crossplay to be added to come back because the third person in my social groups for a fireteam are always on a separate platform
I liked it's battle Royale better than anyone else's, but I still play Fornite's single player/ Coop mode a lot more.
Man, i guess I'm a bit lost with this news as I'm still casually playing it and enjoying more and more?
It peaked way too fast, then the battle pass came around and that was filler shit. So that killed any remaining interest.
Well EA is worth X amount of dollars due to Fifa and Madden and X+Y if Apex is doing amazing.
Y was pretty big for a month or so.
For games like this? Yeah. BR is incredibly social and those metrics matter a lot.
I don't play it any more. But to be fair, I'll never play a single game like this for months on end. I don't care how much the game does to keep it fresh, I'll get bored eventually.
But that's not how these businesses work. You can make a modest amount of money at a sustainable and constant rate but once investors and management get taste of even more money, they will expect the game to maintain or exceed that level of success.
EA stock facing substantial decline amid underperforming retail software and declining Apex Legends Player count.
Activision Blizzard forecasting an earnings downturn in 2019.
Take Two is probably also taking heat over underperforming RDR 2's on-line mode.
See how vulnerable these big publishers can be? Keep that in mind next time a Youtuber tells you these guys have made more than enough money already and need to spurn further opportunities to monetize their games.
Activision Blizzard forecasting an earnings downturn in 2019.
Take Two is probably also taking heat over underperforming RDR 2's on-line mode.
See how vulnerable these big publishers can be? Keep that in mind next time a Youtuber tells you these guys have made more than enough money already and need to spurn further opportunities to monetize their games.
Not sure how this makes sense, especially when they paid all the top Twitch streamers to play it on day 1.
I've seen people theorize that Apex was a bit rushed in order to make up for the expected disappointment of Anthem.
Mentioned this earlier today, I played the game religiously when it first came out but after a week or two it got boring very fast. Should have had a solo mode too!
I enjoy watching Seagull play it more than I like playing it myself. Mostly because my PC sucks and I'm a terrible analog stick shooter gamer.
Or maybe it doesnt make sense to for these companies to be tied to unrealistic growth potential instead of profit
Forced popularity via aggressive marketing and paid endorsements eventually fades. It doesn't help that it's another entry in an already crowded market.
Fortnite owns the BR market at this point. It would take a truly extraordinary title to break that hold, and Apex Legends isn't it. EA is finally realizing what all AAA publishers should have: there isn't an infinite supply of money/ whales to pay for every live service game. One or two rise to the top, the rest fade.
Fortnite owns the BR market at this point. It would take a truly extraordinary title to break that hold, and Apex Legends isn't it. EA is finally realizing what all AAA publishers should have: there isn't an infinite supply of money/ whales to pay for every live service game. One or two rise to the top, the rest fade.
Game is great.. I love it. It needs better cosmetics and game modes or it will get run over by the new thing or people will fall back to Fortnite (for good reason) I just don't enjoy the building. I've been playing the BFV Firestorm mode and its pretty fun.
I took a break and I'm now interested again in the game. I think the lame battle pass was it that made me lose interest. Although I'm back in, they definitely have to work on the game; make a better battle pass with challenges and/or achievements in general, add better skins that alter the character strongly like OW does, add another game mode and smaller maps for the quick plug in and play action (the gunplay feels too good to 'waste' it on a BR mode only).
Because their other AAA shooter games have all been massively buggy and poorly supported / unsupported disappointments. Battlefront 2, Battlefield V, and Anthem have all been failures.
1) It's a somewhat clunky game whose gameplay fails to live up to most modern FPS games, especially Titanfall 2
2) The in-game currency model is totally broken/too expensive
3) The battle pass is not a good value
4) People have become used to rapid updates/major map changes because of Fortnight, and Apex now feels stale because of it
5) People have the attention span of mosquitoes
I'm honestly surprised that Apex saw the meteoric rise that it did, but this was always going to happen to it.
2) The in-game currency model is totally broken/too expensive
3) The battle pass is not a good value
4) People have become used to rapid updates/major map changes because of Fortnight, and Apex now feels stale because of it
5) People have the attention span of mosquitoes
I'm honestly surprised that Apex saw the meteoric rise that it did, but this was always going to happen to it.