Why change the battle pass
Not gonna lie this is the dumbest * apex has done the battle pass was fine we didn't need two battlepasses for a season one a season was enough and you could grind it out to get the battle pass for f...
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What an absolutely short sighted move it was to charge double the price for a single season. The game has not been on great standing since the final fantasy event and now they want to double down by trying to milk the remaining loyal players https://9apps.ooo/ ? Truly crazy levels of greed going on at respawn. (They have said multiple times they are in charge of monetization). Tiny violins for the billion dollar company & Ggs. Far too many better games to play these days.
@binolmi
Some background:
Please remember that EA is stock listed corporation so they have to make certain profit to achieve the shareholders expectations. Otherwise the guys at the top will lose their jobs and someone else even more ruthless could take their place with promises of even bigger profits.
Apex is free to play game so there is no income on the game sales. There are significant server costs to have hundreds of thousands of players playing it globally + Respawn has about 300 employees. Where does the money come in brother besides the microtransactions to cover the costs & make profit? I know you cant be that blue eyed that you expect these corporate execs to host games out of goodwill or even care about your matchmaking experience.
Where we are now:
Player count is going down and money coming in is slowing down etc. So management has two options: Cut the cost = remove servers or fire people OR find other ways to get money coming in.
I am glad they chose the latter one which means there are still employed people to make such games in the future with this game possibly dying. Apex 2.0 with proper anti-cheat etc.
Most likely we are going to get alot of good (new maps + weapons etc.) with the bad delivered to us first to make us ignore/forget this kind of pricing change. I havent bought BP even though I had the coins. No-one is forcing you to buy it in the future. Get rid of the pixel FOMO and keep playing as you did before.
- @Airish85 Ngl mate, but theese explanations while explaining their greed are true, it’s their own doing that put them in this spot in the first place.
Theese short sighted views their execs have are just terrible for the game on the long run, we don’t need to try to defend it.
The issues that are ripping the players out of the game exist since years.
Maybe ONCE they do something for the longevity of the game@BallisticMVP "Their execs"
Brother, its everywhere. Try to maximize profits. Rather see their product crash and burn / lose some customers than to make decent profit.All of the big gaming companies are doing the same thing, streaming companies like Netflix, HBO, Disney also so I guess its like a trend or sign of times...
@Airish85
"so I guess its like a trend or sign of times..."
I don't think I'm being any kind of socialist when I simply make the observation that this is a sign of capitalism. Management's needs come first. Shareholders' second. Customers' a distant third. And to give the devil his due, no game stays viable for as long as this one has. It was always going to decline, in one way or another, at one time or another. It's now and it's like this. It's still far from unplayable, imo, as long as you're not addicted to worthless electronic swag, and are not trying to grind a rank.
bruh if you think this is not a problem. you are absolutely in the wrong they have been milking the cash cow(apex) since s1 and each season it has significantly gotten worse. they should have never changed the bp at all. The game's already in the dying and this was like a nail in the coffin. If you think cash>players then it will absolutely kill the game. Majority of the players aren't good earners and 40 dollars premium battlepass is like a significant amount of money for the low income players. Not everyone is privileged to earn so much that they can spend 160 dollars each year. Apex is dying and EA is trynna speed up the process and you are supporting EA. (English is my second language so I dont know if i have made any mistakes but i am sry for it)
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