Community AdminHi all, Vince Zampella put out a tweet and a fun video to celebrate hitting the 50 million players milestone, check it out below!
"Thank you to the 50 million players that have shown up in the first month since Apex Legends launched! You have all made this something special and there's much more to come!"
Cute video. But the game has too little content to make me want to put up with randoms for much longer. At least bring the battle pass around so I can pay my money before I forget.
That's a clue btw. I would have bought a lot of skins and packs individually if I thought the prices were worth it.
@MjNaise wrote:Sadly it´s not 50M players... only accounts created.
It would be more interesting to see some stats on how many unique IPs or HWIDs created to see how many uniqued players there are instead of just accounts.
Not entirely true. It's 50 million (give or take) individual accounts that have downloaded and played the game at least one time. If it were literally just accounts, it would make no sense, since you need an Origin account and there are well over 50 million of those since Origin has been around since like 2010 or 2011. There is no "Apex account" so you can't look at this number as "accounts created" which is how Blizzard markets their Overwatch numbers, it makes sense if Blizzard does that because an account costs money to open, so their number of accounts are directly tied to sales of the game.
The only people making duplicate accounts would be cheaters trying to bypass their bans. There is currently no reason to open multiple Origin accounts just to play Apex on more than one account...this game has no ranked system and there isn't any way to smurf, everyone is in the same boat, you might be paired with a level 1 noob or a level 100 guy with 3k kills. I'm not saying this makes it impossible for people to open a bunch of Origin accounts and download the game, I'm just saying I find that UNLIKELY because there is no incentive. It's very different than when people open new accounts in League or Overwatch.
Also keep in mind that Respawn is aware of this, that's why they advertise a "total" number and a "concurrent" number, the latter tells you how many individual players have been online simultaneously at peak.
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