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1 year ago

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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Airish85

1 year ago

@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.

BallisticMVP

1 year ago

@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

Airish85
1 year ago
@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...
- reconzero
  Seasoned Ace
  1 year ago
  @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.
  - Airish85
    1 year ago
    @reconzero Agreed except one point. Shareholders = company board are holding their money boot on the neck of the day-to-day business management who gave them budgets & profit estimates prior.
    
    These have to be met with results or super good "force majeure" excuses or its bye byes.
    
    And just to be clear I could maybe label myself as one of those corporate a-cavities but in a completely different industry XD
    So these opinions are pretty much how I would handle or see the situation if I put myself in the position of game developer side.
    Not that socialistic or capitalistic views are all that bad.