Greed Is Destroying Apex

Greed Is Destroying Apex

Apex Legends™ is a free-to-play hero shooter game where legendary characters battle for glory, fame, and fortune on the fringes of the Frontier. Play for free now on PlayStation® 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S, Nintendo Switch, and PC via Origin and Steam.

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[Grrt]

Reupload because the youtube content ID system is broken and falsely claimed audio :)

[iesdise]

-Imagine going to the supermarket to buy chocolate candy.
-You don't need candy to live, but you enjoy candy.
-The cashier brings out 8 boxes and tells you, that only one of the boxes is a chocolate candy, rest is candy you don't like.
-Than the cashier tells you, that if you pay X dollars, you get a random box.
-On top of it all, the cashier tells you, that if you buy all 8 boxes (7 of them useless to you), you will get the best chocolate candy out there, BUT ONLY THIS WEEK.

Would you keep going to this place?
*This is how respawn is treating you.*

[VideoGameHaven]

The game has seemingly entered the infamous death spiral. Less people play it thus less people are spending money in the shops causing Respawn to cash grab even more which ends up driving more people away.

[statixfear]

This is called conditioning. EA and Respawn are slowly introducing these systems, over time, anticipating and calculating the impact of backlash, then either making really minor adjustments to then say "we listened to the community" or to just full send it and tank the negative PR... bc we all know that it's still a net positive for their bottom line, at the end of the day.

[RevenantMain]

Respawn: “We have heard the community and promise to never do a gambling event ever again”
EA: “Did somebody say *gambling events?”*

[mattd]

My favorite thing in games is taking a break for a year or two, then on revisiting the game there are now a bunch of new, bolted-on currency systems that have been reworked, modified or removed multiple times.

[bottlecapsyt]

I mean.... The pilots are always looking for new recruits. Hop on Titanfall 2 everyone?

[AncientRepublic]

Dont forget, they dont update old prestige skins with sky dives trails, they introduce new recolors heirloom with finishers but dont update wraith and Revenant with heirloom recolor finisher

[kokoreall]

I just came back to my old favorite battle royale, just to discover that is dying, how beautiful.

[uddstar]

It went downhill the moment they added universal hierlooms

[DCommando]

When Apex launched on steam in 2020 it was in the low 90s in positive reviews, today it has 69% mixed.
Nice.

[telvanniis]

its just annoying because for like 17 seasons, from like season 3 all the way until like season 19 when the gacha stuff started, they had a mostly alright monetization system. they're just suddenly changing it into this weird cash grab gacha stuff and it sucks. it's so greedy all of the sudden for no reason.

[Badd.G]

*EA Board discussing the next event:* “Lets try to rip them off again and see how many still fall for it”

[ASAP_Fenix]

At the end of the day I don’t give a f about battle passes, skins, trails, badges, heirlooms, trackers, stickers, etc. I care about the gameplay, game health + ranked. Which is obviously what respawn cares the least about.

[EzraPrescott]

I still find this so hard to believe as a Titanfall veteran that this is the same studio that used to sell prime Titans skins for $5, nose art packs were $4, camo packs were $3 and elite weapons skins that were $5 that give you 1 extra merit to you an your teammates and a chance to get double XP back in Titanfall 2. It’s disappointing to see the studio that I held such high standards for to turn out like this.

[noraneka]

Before I feel like apex devs cared about the players base. They used to have devs stream and it was nice to keep us in the loop of what’s going on, but now it’s all gone :(

[themadafaka]

Titanfall 3 was cancelled for this btw

[Kronos]

Comunity: what prompted you to make such a controversial change to the battle pass?
Respawn: *voice of Mr. Crabbs* I like money.

[AzzyXIII]

Glad someone finally made a video in detail on the progression of monetisation in apex becuase people seem to forget about things like the iron crown event and respawn know that which is why it always gets worse and they just stay quiet about it... hopefully now the community realise how scummy and predatory the monetisation in apex is and will finally take a stand

[Anarcaeful]

6:30 Dont forget that firsst heirloom recolour was half price in coins and crafting. I thought it would have set a precedence for recolour events in the future but no straight back to full price