@ThisGameBlows respawn need to move apex to unreal 5! If they don't they are going to be left behind. Might mean a ground up rebuild, but it has to happen sometime. Clearly the current situation is consigning one of the best br games into history.
100% agree. And I'm not sure if you or anyone knows how much Apex actually generates EA annually. It's a billion, with a "B." And that's a conservatives estimate. There's no reason, other than greed or poor management as to why they can't port this game to a functioning game engine like UE5. And yes, this game on UE5 would be amazing. In fact, it might actually register footsteps consistently. But that's the trifecta, Game engine, Servers, management. If you don't hear anything addressing these issues, especially the first 2, I would assume it's never going to improve because of it's ongoing technical limitations.
@ThisGameBlowsThe audacity of EA calling this a 10yr game is still funny. Don’t get me wrong I still enjoy it but the small inconveniences really stack up sometimes.
Haha, yeah right. I literally "lol'd" when they said that. It's clearly a message to appease their shareholders and to keep players continuously purchasing skins or other content for their fiscal quarters. That's all. Personally, I would appreciate transparency. If they came out and said, "We are never porting the game to a new game engine, nor addressing the audio issues and servers issues that plague the game. If they said that, it would suck, but at least I would appreciate and respect their honesty. I think that's where a lot of frustration lies, is the lack of transparency these companies exude for their "live service" titles.
@ThisGameBlows I fail to understand why such an effective cash cow is not getting the investment it needs to future proof itself, from a business point of view???
I know! It's baffling! I don't get it either. Truly. They are so greedy, it's to the detriment of their own product and company. It truly is baffling. You're spot on. From a business standpoint, if you're a smart business man, you would invest heavily back into this product to make it future-proof and a sustainable IP for EA considering how much it generates annually. I don't get it either lol. As I'm writing this I'm trying to make sense of it, and it still makes no sense besides detrimental greed from EA and more specifically, their CEO Andrew Wilson. He ultimately approves all these decisions. This is why suits should not be in charge of gaming companies. They ruin creativity. They don't know what's best for them to remain sustainably healthy. Seriously, what does EA have now? Fifa and Apex. That's it! Maybe Madden, I don't know, haven't played it in years. But a AAA publisher has 2 titles that generate money. That's it! Battlefield, Anthem and even Bioiware, have all been destroyed under his management. Truly astonishing how bad the management is all-around. This is why mommy drinks.
@ThisGameBlows I mentioned in a previous thread that fortnite is majority owned by the owner afaik, ea has shareholders. The dividends must be blinding the shareholders at the moment, as its them the management is answerable to in the long run. Why are the shareholders oblivious to this obvious business flaw?
@OldTreeCreeperBecause companies are always looking for the next big thing. At one points BRs weren't the thing in FPS. I'm already seeing lots of speculation extraction modes will make BRs obsolete. I'll believe it when I see it tho.
Why doesn't the apex generated money get stuck right back into it? Because that money gets used to fund other games and initiatives. A company that sticks to only what works today dies tomorrow.
