The final time Apex Legends popped up within the information it was associated to an try to transform the sport’s battle go system. Sadly, that backfired with followers evaluate bombing the sport on Steam as a consequence of the unpopular adjustments. Now, we’re within the hitherto-unforeseen space of a second backfiring occasion, with a U-turn on the battle go replace being met not with aid however additional unfavourable critiques.
Developer Respawn aimed to provide the Apex Legends battle go a revamp with higher rewards, offsetting this with a change to how gamers gained entry to them. Earlier than, gamers may use Apex Cash to seize every new go, incomes sufficient from earlier passes to fund their subsequent buy. The brand new system for the battle royale sport would require actual cash transactions along with doubling what number of battle passes could be launched per season. You possibly can see how this is able to not go down effectively with followers of the sport – and if by clockwork, Apex Legends’ Steam evaluate rating started to plummet.
Final week, nonetheless, the developer introduced that it will let gamers use Apex Cash to buy battle passes in the identical approach as in earlier seasons. On the face of it this could have ameliorated the group’s anger in the direction of the sport however the reverse seems to have occurred, with Apex Legends now struggling not solely with Steam critiques but additionally starting to expertise a downturn in participant numbers.
Presently on Steam Apex Legends is sitting on an ‘Overwhelmingly Damaging’ evaluate rating, with solely 7% of critiques within the final 30 days being optimistic. This isn’t simply the work of some individuals both, as on the time of writing the sport has been reviewed 85,929 occasions because the begin of July. Nearly all of these adopted the announcement of the battle go adjustments, however even within the days following the U-turn these poor scores have continued to pour in. Now citing issues with cheaters, matchmaking, and the sport’s anti-cheat system as the first causes for negatively reviewing Apex Legends – it appears group sentiment has firmly turned towards the title.
Participant numbers have additionally been hit by this souring, with a decline over latest weeks doubtlessly pointing at issues forward. Whereas the variety of gamers concurrently in-game on Steam continues to be extraordinarily respectable, they’re the bottom Apex Legends has seen since January of 2022. Although this will nonetheless be arrested pending future updates, it does point out the sport’s troubles are removed from over and the developer faces an extended battle to win again the viewers it as soon as had.
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