Bro, do you listen yourself.. Fortnite was full of cheaters and it was unplayable for about a year.. There was no big and interesting updates for about a year too.. You put on a line Apex with 3 months and Fortnite with few years.. I agree some changes should be made and it will be made.. They don't have some strong back up from EA just cause its free to play.. It will be better, you don't need to say they won't do *, they are going for the best, just it's need time buddy..
You really think EA are going to support and "unprofitable" FTP game for the year or so you're saying it takes to "git gud"?? I hope you're right but I don't share your optimism ☹️
And FTP or not, the idea that it's okay that games are garbage until 12-18 months following release is not one that should, imo, be normalized... and we shouldnt be making excuses for that I feel.
It was only a few short years ago that consumers were outraged that Portal2 had day 1 cosmetic skins for $4-5 dollars, and people pointed to bugs etc. that existed saying, "why didnt they fix those first"? Look how far we've already fallen ☹️ These things go by small increments, grinding a little more each time.
I don't want to say that it's normal to wait 12+ months to stabilise the game, I just wanted to point some facts to our friend up there, he is compering Apex with Fortnite like it is here for 5 months and its flawless already with all that shiny * everywhere.. Fortnite is stabilized game right now and have for everyone something etc but they needed a lot of time to make it like this, that is the thing our friend and many ppl don't understand.. I read so many comments on this forum, people act like making and programming games is easy to do.. If that was easy and fast process I would do it for fun lmao.. Ok, it's their job to make it good but still, it's not easy and fast process..
Oh I totally agree that comparing Apex to Fortnite isn't a fair... although it is true that both games were initally rushed to market to capitalize on the BR trend. It is true that many people have very little notion of how much work creating a game actially is, and how even small changes can be complex and time-consuming to implement. Peiople do moan about the uninspired loot in Apex but to me that is actually a positive thing as I think it shows respawn were far more concerned with crafting a decent game than they were with selling loot boxes.
My guess is that EA gave Repsawn the minimum resouces required to support the game after release (keeping the servers running, debugging and fixing driver breakages etc.) but not the kind of manpower it would take to devise, code and testi mportant gameplay and system updates. I'm sure Respawn are aware of many of the complaints from the community and problems with the game but simply don't have the support, manpower and resouces to tackle it.
Either way, I think Respawn have done an amazing job with Apex, and I really blame 99% of the problems with the game on EA's bad, neglectful management.
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