Re: future of this game?
@HappyHourSumwur
"TBH, these issues may kill free to play model for PvP games because if you want to sustain it you have to fund methods of fighting them and selling $60 skins ain't gonna cut it."
Financials are not easy to come by, but at the four-year mark, so roughly this time last year, Apex had grossed something along the lines of three billion dollars. Billion with a B. I'm sure the billion-dollar-per-year rate is dropping over time, but that's still substantial revenue. Pretty sure that even puts Call of Duty, at $60 per, in the rear view mirror. And CoD has to rebuild itself every two or three years, where all Apex has to do is throw out a new map every so often. I can't see how money is the issue unless the amount that EA slices off the top is so extortionate that it leaves nothing left to run the game.
Which may well be the case - witness the closing of the entire Apex Q/A office a year or two ago. Then the opening of an entirely new office for Apex, presumably a cosmetics factory. Which, if so, would definitely be proof of things going in the wrong direction despite the enormous flood of dollars we provide. Well, I shouldn't say "we" on account of I'm a cheapskate who contributes almost nothing other than my presence.
No, I'm guessing this isn't a money problem. It's either a failure of will, or more likely, just another example of the glacially slow pace of progress in a modern bureaucracy. Now that made me sound like way more of a cynical reactionary than I really am. I blame you, Respawn.
"TBH, these issues may kill free to play model for PvP games because if you want to sustain it you have to fund methods of fighting them and selling $60 skins ain't gonna cut it."
Financials are not easy to come by, but at the four-year mark, so roughly this time last year, Apex had grossed something along the lines of three billion dollars. Billion with a B. I'm sure the billion-dollar-per-year rate is dropping over time, but that's still substantial revenue. Pretty sure that even puts Call of Duty, at $60 per, in the rear view mirror. And CoD has to rebuild itself every two or three years, where all Apex has to do is throw out a new map every so often. I can't see how money is the issue unless the amount that EA slices off the top is so extortionate that it leaves nothing left to run the game.
Which may well be the case - witness the closing of the entire Apex Q/A office a year or two ago. Then the opening of an entirely new office for Apex, presumably a cosmetics factory. Which, if so, would definitely be proof of things going in the wrong direction despite the enormous flood of dollars we provide. Well, I shouldn't say "we" on account of I'm a cheapskate who contributes almost nothing other than my presence.
No, I'm guessing this isn't a money problem. It's either a failure of will, or more likely, just another example of the glacially slow pace of progress in a modern bureaucracy. Now that made me sound like way more of a cynical reactionary than I really am. I blame you, Respawn.
