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Apex Legends Hits 25 Million Players, 2 million concurrent players
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No idea what even is MCC, but what has that got to do with this, or is this an other Resetera anti-MS bullshit post.
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The fact I can actually hear whats happening in this game alone makes it better than Blackout, which had the worst sound design of any BR game Ive played.
Blackouts numbers have been dropping well before thie game came out. And unlike this iteration, the uniqueness of a BR mode in cod will be gone.
And they copied this idea from Dota 2, the Battlepass was a thing 3 years ago.
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Im very happy for Respawn, but I ain't gonna lie, I've been taking pleasure in EA's failure of recent (bit of schadenfreude), BF,SW, Belgium Fifa etc. They needed a life lesson that not everything they put out can just be manipulated to their greed. Luckily theres nothing too shady about Apex.
He was asking about the Master Chief Collection, but your automatic hostility to a perceived slight against MS says a lot.
Haha. The Master Chief Collection? Microsoft's best exclusive?
Common.
I don't care about the numbers. I'm talking about the actual quality of the BR. I don't think PUBG is definitively better than Blackout like the OP suggested
But at the same time it's extremely predatory and financially detrimental, and has outrageously priced microtransactions. There are a so many kids who have spent so much of their gift money or allowances etc on these ridiculously overpriced or fleeting and largely pointless cosmetics, loot boxes etc, in place of other things that could have given them so much more impact, lasting reward, meaningful use or function and so on.
Hell I spoke to one 12 year old the other day who claimed he'd spent £250 of his gift money on network gift cards to spend on Fortnite, predominantly on cosmetics, many skins of which he'd barely even used. His mum was none the wiser, since he'd convinced her he was spending his money on new gaming content, and as a non gamer, new characters, maps, weapons, gameplay etc to her sounds like a lot more than just cosmetics.
Insane success, EA and Respawn hit all the right notes here. The game is creative, tons of fun, stylish, polished, looks good enough, is generally smooth (bar the server issues, but with 2m+ players on at the same time I'm not surprised)... I played a lot of BR so far over a variety of games, but first of all none launched initially in such a good shape (not even Blackout, and especially not PUBG, The Culling 2, etc. which were beyond janky), and frankly none had these production values at any point. I've been waiting for the ultimate combination. PUBG is tactical but janky. Fortnite gets frequent updates and is varied but the shooting is trash and the challenges take most players' focus away, ruining the matches. Blackout was the best attempt at mixing it all so far but it's inconsistent and the updates are slow. Apex Legends has the chance to be the place-to-go for a BR that plays good, feels good, looks good, and is actually rather unique at being so. Who would have though that Respawn was going to win me over like that after the not-so-hot multiplayer of Titanfall 2?
Extremely deserved success, and proves the market can handle another BR behemoth. Hopefully they can keep up with the updates and the gameplay additions without ruining the game, and I really hope to see this game's additions to the formula (the pinging, the auto-management of attachments, etc.) ending up in other BRs if not in other co-op shooters in general.
Extremely deserved success, and proves the market can handle another BR behemoth. Hopefully they can keep up with the updates and the gameplay additions without ruining the game, and I really hope to see this game's additions to the formula (the pinging, the auto-management of attachments, etc.) ending up in other BRs if not in other co-op shooters in general.
You seem to very confused.
PUBG has 800k peak concurrent players daily. The screenshot you saw was taken when most of the userbase is asleep.
It's the most popular BR game in existence and the one with the most players both overall and concurrently when you add up every version. CoD will never reach that number of players. Funnily enough, Blackout is the one dying(on PC at least) and it hasn't exactly been slow at it either.
Twitch numbers? ROFLMAO. Barely anyone watches Minecraft streams these days but that didn't stop Minecraft from having more monthly users than Fortnite.
The toy industry as a whole is predatory, any product marketed at children can be regarded in this way. I don't think the cosmetics are any more fleeting and pointless as collecting stickers/cards/figures. It's up to parents to teach their kids to be aware of what their limits are with regards monetary transactions.
I've never played BR before and I bought the founder edition for approx $20
They have shit in the store too but not "battle pass", I don't even know what that is.
But they do have ways of making money.
That's my biggest wish actually..
Even if the ping system is very good I would prefer to "practice" without screwing up for others as I am not very skilled.
I heard they are using a "seasons" model work a battle pass and the first season is starting soon. Basically the Fortnite model.
A closer comparison would be Rainbow Six Siege, though I think that grinding for legends is even easier than grinding for operators there.
Won my first game last night and it was quite the rush. Fighting with that last squad and the ring is the size of a bathmat.
None of the other BR games have even remotely interested me. I dunno if its the ping system, the small squad co-op, gunplay or what, but this game is clicking with me in a big way. And I des-PISE PvP.
Well done Respawn. Great to see them get that success (and totes not hoping for Titanfall 3... BT!)
I guess lootboxes are great for printing cash to accounts of publishers, but hardly good model for gamers as getting skin you want may end up costing hundreds. E.g. streamer Sacriel dropped 60£ on APEX lootboxes just to get skin he wanted and he couldn't "craft" it as game seems to be extremely stingy with freemium currency that is used to "craft" / purchase skins.
I know you get box / level, but if there is that one skin you want quickly it easily comes with steep price.
Oh i didn't realize they had rng lootboxes. I thought they were copying the fortnite model completely, which doesn't have lootboxes in the BR mode.
Well deserved! Truly the best BR experience and its not even close.
They do need to up their loot game if they want to reach fortnite's level of profit. The skins are all pretty mediocre
They do need to up their loot game if they want to reach fortnite's level of profit. The skins are all pretty mediocre
That isn't even in the same stratosphere of predatory, at least not toys. There's no luck based investment in to what has underpinnings of slot machine based gambling, and you actually get something lasting, solid and tactile. With respect to card packs and stickers, to that I'd just say whilst it is worse than toys, it is also still not as predatory as gaming loot boxes etc, because not only are they generally cheaper, but you can also trade cards, stickers and so on with friends, relatives, school mates etc, unlike in these games.
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All ive been thinking since this news broke is how many man hours were spent getting emergency servers online to handle the load.
Ive been playing at least 2 hours a day since release, and have obly experienced server issues twice. Incredible considering the way it was released.
Ive been playing at least 2 hours a day since release, and have obly experienced server issues twice. Incredible considering the way it was released.
Amazing how much it has knocked off fortnite in terms of twitch views. Fortnite is massively down whilst apex is pulling huge numbers. This has happened before for a day or 2 but not for this long or this extent. Game is a crazy success.
Power of the cloud, probably. Seriously, I'd also like some insight on their infrastructure.
It's more like a copy of the Overwatch model, except you don't have to pay to be able to play.
