They're Trying To Kill Apex
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- Опубликовано: 7 июл 2024
- They're Trying To Kill Apex
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Well 21 will be my last battle pass
Ah well I’ll just forgo getting loba trackers
Just buy sparking zero at this point
Nah, 21 is probably the last time I'll play. It's only gonna get worse.
I’ve had every battlepass since season 11 with the exception of season 19. I’ve been playing when the game first launched but didn’t bother buying the earlier battlepasses which I regret. It seems because this game asks for real money I’m no longer buying the battlepass. In fact I’m no longer spending money on this game let alone the battlepass. I’ve barely played this season because it’s boring and I’m level 35 so I doubt I’ll reach the max level in time.
@@someone_67406I was going to lol
EA: We want to save the game
Also EA: *makes shit like this*
fr this is the most bull shit I've ever seen in a game
By 'save the game' they mean make it profitable for them.
EA doesn't want to save the game. They couldn't care less. They just want to milk it until it dies. Then they move on to the next poor cow and do it all over again.
Sucks for the devs that actually do want to save the game.
fr fr bro said the truth they killed the game
@adamknife2484 lmao couldn't have said it better myself
This makes me sad because players will complain at first and then instantly give in when the new season launches and then go on to say how much they hate the game while spending even more money
League of legends
Victims tend to return to their abusers
For real, I don't spend money on it just battle pass and get the new one after I grind the season
Overwatch
That only happens when the disrespect isnt blatantly obvious
Never spend a dime, never care about skin, never care about battle pass, pub only is the way. And if the game die, let it die
for real spend ur money on irl gear and pcs
Next they gonna charge us for every hour you play lmao
@@edyou2323Then we won't play it that way their greedy ass don't make money
@@ImKezo-kq4pq agree
This is like watching an old friend become a crackhead
Fr 😂
LMAO hit it right on the nose. 😭
100% accurate so many good times 🥲
The kind of old friend that charges you $160 everytime you hang out and $360 every time you want to go on a trip with?
@@Huskasin geez bro. comment seemed kinda personal
I can already predict their next move: they are going to discontinue collection event, so we wouldn't be able to complete entire collection events with these crafting materials we get there
Bet, they finna make all events like the gamble ones
It seems like they’re making the game friendlier to the absolute zero never spend money free to play players, with events and battlepass, cucks the maybe £10 every half a year (most players) and is bleeding the I spend my paycheque people on this game dry (they know they’ll keep spending).
Essentially they’re killing off its main player base, the game, which is already on a decline, will die. Not only financially but player wise too.
@@thsxiI honestly never saw a problem with spending a bit of money on a game you love. But forcing people to pay for a BP, when every other game is basically "free" that's a huge issue. I rather buy individual skin for the legend I play, instead of random garbage
@@Evoraxi think they just copied brawl stars
Respawn seeing this comment: WRITE THAT DOWN WRITE THAT DOWN
Well, looks like Elden Ring will be taking much more of my gaming time now
I’m a 5 year player and… I can’t I f****** can’t I’m done with this game, zero gameplay changes, it has been the same game since season 0 while fortnight actually changes gameplay EA focuses on how to take your money… I’m f***** done…
See you tomorrow
see you in season 22
Dang. Anyways see you in season 22
zero gameplay changes? movement has been nerfed to babysit controller dogs, thats a change
Played daily from S3-S18.
The writing has been on the wall for years now. I'm honestly surprised it has lasted this long.
Leaving was the best thing I've done for my sanity in years tbh.
"You might end up spending $20 a season on battle passes"
No, I will continue to spend $0 😂
Attaboy. I spent 10 bucks like 5-6 seasons ago. Never again .
@@thebinarysquad5962only money I spent was on s11 bp
Period.
What’s wild is that I don’t give them money because they keep messing with us/don’t fix issues. They could have _more_ money from me if they _didn’t_ act like this.
I am glad that i stopped playing Apex when they removed tapstrafe on Controller
1:30 correction: Most people, including me, won't buy the bp, not just because we don't want to spend money. Its because we don't like supporting people who think we are stupid
Well said
Yeah that’s exactly what I was thinking
Ja
You're supporting them by playing the game and giving them a playerbase so that doesn't make sense.
If you buy reskins then you are
The doing challenges for a free battlepass is to make sure people do the update, play the first weeks and have the battle pass so they can show with statistics that this new season and new battlepass is a success, because a lot of people have it.
“Here’s more bullshit that you’ll never use or see again after you hit mark all as read.” We’d rather do that than fix any problems in the game.
"You can earn twice as many AC per season" but it literally doesn't matter because Apex Coins are basically worthless to most players now. Most players only spend them on the battle pass every season. Now you can't do that. Fuck EA.
Yellow crafting materials basically
the end of an era. rest in peace, apex legends. you will be dearly missed.
No the fuck it will not
@@justagamethrower the first year or two of this game being out was actually pretty enjoyable. They killed it off with lazy seasons and over monetization.
@@Zero_Degrees yeah I know, I played it back at launch and quit at like season 4. I've installed it a couple times since to see if it's changed at all but it really hasn't. Game can stay dead and uninstalled
@@justagamethrower I quit after season 7 because it was for me the last good season.
@@justagamethrower exactly, it was only temporary. For me it lasted 4 years. I’m out.
At this point you'll have to pay per bullet you shoot 🤣
Fr
"Wasn't an easy decision" yuh I bet bro😂😂😂
Easiest decision ever 😂😂
Sometimes the only reason I play the game is because I have to finish the BP, I think I'll stop playing entirely because of this bs
Deadass you not alone
Funny seeing you guys cry
@@apples874 EA wont suck you off lil bro
@@WishlistDreamBBQ Love seeing you guys voluntarily get milked by EA and then crying when EA milks you guys too much
I also play just to finish the battle pass, looks like this game will be ain’t ever gonna get fixed other than its shop
I'm so annoyed, I really like the game itself, but what EA/Respawn is doing makes it difficult to want to support it.
remember its EA killing the game not respawn
@@beardiller1624they’re the same respawn is just as bad
If you one of the people who spent $10 once then you pretty much never supported it lol
Classic EA.
@@griggs1764 I supported them more then just 10€, but do they deserver it, when the game crashes even in lobby, store is not working, the WHOLE game is not working do to unstable server or straight up hacked? I would love to support a game that deserves it
Respawn knows its a dead end and Titanfall will rise once again like a Phoenix from the ashes
Instant game killer. As far as I know, this is the only Battle Royale game to do this. They’re about to less a whole bunch of money, ironically because of their greed.
Cod did this with their blackcell BP, was 35usd. But the BP itself still is 1100 cod points. This is worst
Next, they're gonna start making us pay for maps, guns we can use in game, and pay for how long we can play.
Paypex leggends 😁🔫
EA IN A FUCKING NUTSHELL.
This is literally going to happen
You mean like normal DLC in the past. Crazy to think developers need to be paid for new maps
@@ngf5077 But there's a difference between free to play game and pay to win game. And the OP wasn't probably talking about new maps but a map to look at whole playing
respawn can not be this broke😂😂😂
They're not, they make billions from this game. Greed is never enough.
@@jmorales6539 Billions which the ceo takes literally half from in the same year as they fired their qa team 💀
@@doivee6915their CEOs compensation is predominantly call options. This is not paid from revenue. It comes from shareholder equity redistribution
Especially after firing so many people last year
It ain’t Respawn bro. It’s EA. They are money hungry as hell and are killing these games
This doesn’t affect me too much cause I never spent money on this game, but it is foreshadowing that this games gonna die or go to pay to win. It’s a good game too. Makes me sad.
Brawl stars kids did the same thing but they cut the time for seasons in half but they gave you a lot more rewards for the premium part of the battle pass that was twice the amount of the original amount
We are thinking the same thing
This is EXTREMELY INSANE. JUST KILL THE GAME AT THIS POINT.
You don’t like the gameplay?
@@ngf5077it’s fine but there are better triple A titles that have better gameplay season 21 may be the last season I play
@@miga8686what games are those, please, I need something else to play
Try Battlefield 1 it is amazing to play or deep rock galactic, which has an amazing community, and gameplay. @mocsmore1308
@@mocsmore1308you can play BattleField 1 which still has an active playerbase and you can play deep rock galactic which has an amazing community, gameplay, and overall is an amazing game.(my first comment is not appearing for some reason so sorry if I replied twice)
Yeah fuck this, game getting deleted 5 in game currencies is crazy. Apex Coins, Exotic Shards, Legend Tokens, Crafting Metals, and The U.S. dollar bill. Apex once again shows they do not care about the player and only care about how much money they can get out of the player
I just noticed how all these companies are literally dictators, they do whatever they want and never ask players about their opinions
And heirloom shards
You can still play the game without having cosmetics, ya weirdo.
@@zHoody so you agree with this decision? No way your sheeping around so hard that this is fine to you…
@@haydenrhead7692 i left those out on purpose because you cant go and specifically buy them but yeah including those 6
Out of all the times I've tried to come back to this game, hearing this may have just put an end to all of that
They will say, we heard you, we will leave the same BP as before and you can still buy it with Apex Coins. But they won't say that they will leave it with 120 levels instead of 110. Or some scheme like that.
That battle pass absolutely influences me to play the game more than I would normally. Not being able to use my apex coins to buy the battle pass means I won't be playing the game as much.
Lol no more freeliading
They couldn't even offer non-expiring battlepasses. They had a chance to add _something_ consumer friendly, but no.
non expiring?
@@rnybadbro Yea, as in the battlepass will always be there. It won't expire. You could buy it whenever you want and progress it whenever you want.
@@MrGamerBudsmind explaining what games have a BP like that rofl. What’s the point of a season then rofl. Imagine having the same battle pass for 5 years. You must be a 🤡
@@MrGamerBuds so basically XP progression..
@@EphyumHelldivers 2 has that
So are there 2 different weapon reactive skins in each battle pass or will be same weapon with different color options.
Haven’t touched the game since there’s no cross progression, I moved to pc and don’t feel like unlocking previous characters I’ve already unlocked
This is a major shame, I first started playing back in 2021 so I’m not a veteran of sorts but, I do miss the old Apex 😞
2021-2022 were the last years of old apex imo the last 2 years have just been getting worse and worse
Whenever Valkyrie came out was my first season. Game has changed a lot since then
I’ve been playing since 2019. Season 13 was the last amazing season imo. I regret not buying the battlepass until season 11.
I started in 2019, they have down graded the game consistently since its release.
Season 5 is where I started. I was mostly into a lot of the changes since then but the gamble events, overpriced Peacekeeper skin and this new BP system is really disappointing. I don't know how a publisher can take advantage of this much good will towards the game..
Goodbye apex.
yep
You don’t like the gameplay?
@@ngf5077shit servers, cheater lobbies, shit matchmaking, deprecated engine, yeah the gameplay is shit too
@@ngf5077bruh your a bot spamming the same message stop glazing the game and admit it sucks
@@miga8686fr i quit when i lost my heirlooms when the glitch happened
This is why you don't buy microtransactions. Ever.
It always eventually turns into something like this when they aren't "making enough money" any more because the player base has shrunk and isn't purchasing things.
Ahh, apex legends. I’m not trying to sound corny but 6-7 months ago I used to be a great pathfinder main, yet I just couldn’t find the thrive to play apex anymore, so I just kinda naturally stopped, I’m glad that other people are realizing that ea is killing their game by being money hungry
"Twice the money, double the fall"
Accurate
It would have been a good change if they didnt make the battlepass only available for irl money
Fr every change is good if it’s a one time purchase for both battlepass. The only problem is it’s a 2 time purchase and you can’t use coins
Yeah, if they just split the battle pass in half but still let you buy for coins, then people wouldn't have enough coins to buy both anyway, so it would have been fair. Instead they doubled down.
@yahootube90 exactly. They still coulda made more money but they went too far..
@@yahootube90 no people would. By hitting maxing out the first split you would have enough for the next.
@@yahootube90since they split it. They should make it like $4.50 or they should’ve made it cost 450AC coins but, $9.99 for each is awful.
Bro... I wasnt really bothered by the changes until you said that purchasing the battle pass is mandatory.. That was literally my only use for apex coins
Ea- lets spend the budget on designers to make skins no one sees instead of investing in better servers that make the game playable
this would actually be an awesome change if they kept all the rewards but made the battle pass purchasable with apex coins. shame on EA tbh
Every free to play player completes the battle pass for the reactive weapon skin, crafting metals and coins are just a bonus. This was one of the only things that kept the average going, the battle pass was considered to be the in-game progress. Now these same type of players will have to decide whether they forcefully have to pay $10 a split to earn that same skin. In other words, they will have to decide whether they want to pay the $10 to play the game and feel like they are progressing towards something. Most of Apex’s micro transactions usually provided a luxury item, but to put a paywall in front of something that was considered a progression item is indirectly hurting a portion of the player base
as a casual gamer due to working a lot, i just continue to enjoy the game for what it is. pure enjoyment. i can see how diehards are mad cuz i used to be one but ill just continue to spend the money i do for the regular BP since i don’t play often enough to get the coins to buy it over and over again. overall casuals like me are getting more.
On the plus side,at least you don't have to complete this seasons battlepass anymore
DO NOT PLAY THIS ANYMORE. ITS TIME WE NEED TO STAND UP. OR IT’LL ONLY GET WORST.
Haven’t played since May of last year. I’m doing my part. 🫡
I stopped playing too when they didn't give back duos 🫡
Haven't really played since season 21 because it sucked.
Damn I stopped like over a year coming up on 2 years 😂
Haven't played in a long while either, last time I played was for a crypto skin.
please just let this game die. EA is just milking you guys for cash.
The game has potential but the company’s don’t wanna let it happen
Game doesn’t need to die but stop giving them money
@@Res1wolf No the game needs to die and they need to make titanfall 3
you can still enjoy the gameplay itself ,these are only cosmetic stuffs.
@@mocsimocsi8319not even close mate. Cheaters are still about too commonly
i really needa finish this battle pass but im to focused on tfd
POV season 22 : oh no we lost our player
POV season 23 : we return it to the old battle pass
Love how there’s “fixing” everything we didn’t ask for and wont fix stuff we are asking for also make last April fools event a permanent mode and bring back areanas
I thought I was the only one who loved the April fools event. Easily the best game mode they ever did. Just dumb, stupid fun. At least glad others felt the same.
@@MAVJ yes me and my friend want it back so much because I have one duo that we play ranked together and sweat and the other duo we play very casual mostly trolling and this game mode was so fun for that and imagine they let everyone pick the same legend so like you could have 3 ramparts and just fly around and with the red devo it would be so fun
I miss arenas so much 😢 they keep giving us modes and taking them away. Why put all the work into the mode, to not put them in the game consistently?
April fools is best time I've had in yrs I like armed and dangerous also but the never add anything fun so f them
@@squeasel09because no one played it, it was a joke to 80% of the player base the entire time it existed
Whos the head of ea and respawn? They need to be fired.
Ea
@@ohwellagain9652both
Greedy fks
by who
*arrested
Yup that’s a last straw scenario
This literally crushed my excitement for season 22
All we can do is pray that this only lasts 1 season
I hope so
It won’t.
We pray it doesn't even happen at all.
Nah imma just use my coins on packs then leave, this shit is not worth it anymore lmao
They literally turned it into a subscription service 😂😂😂
whenever something like this happens, i think back to when Respawn first got acquired, and said it wouldn't change things at the studio. This isn't the Respawn I remember.
Welp at least my computer would have more storage next season...
I'm not getting another battle pass after this season. The hell with that
We should do the same thing we did with the pk and just not buy it and be angry.
then it was one of the ugliest skins in history of apex. now it's bp with a lot of skins and 2400 materials. People will be angry, but they also will buy it. Through anger and hate
Imagine spending your life angry hahaha
Don’t listen to this kid his just a bot defending a game with scummy business practices
@@miga8686 be angry. Your precious and short life is more meaningful that way
@@ngf5077 your pretending like I shouldn’t care about a game that we spent and time and money on and bad business changes to a game you’ll be playing wouldn’t make you upset that doesn’t make sense
Oh well onto the next game 🤷🏾♂️
Stopped playing back in S19, Never been happier.
And I thought respawn was getting smarter…
that's not respawn that's just EA respawn only do what EA tells them to do
Its EA bro. Respawn is getting whipped right now like slaves into making these changes.
@@dipflipdabaroooo like respawn cares
What on earth gave you that idea? I’m genuinely curious..
@@dipflipdabaroooo nah Respawn hasn't fought back against any of this. They enjoy the money.
can't wait for the premium challenges to come out...
1) Get 50.000 kills using Ash's snare
2) 5 USD
3) your soul
Y’all seen the shop in the finals? It’s ideal, cheap and fun, high quality it’s so tempting every time I open the store
God forbid EA does monetization right.
Welp time to find a new game.
Try the final, so far feels great. Or is it finally a time to enjoy single player games, xd?
@@tenedrae5079 I already do play both The Finals and single player games. I jump back into Apex every once in a while hoping it has improved but it doesn't. The battlepass changes are the true nail in the coffin though. Maybe I'll play again one day, when Arenas return.
Just play the finals, fun and they are always trying to improve.
Modded Halo is a treat.
Elden ring, cyberpunk plenty of games to play
They think we are stupid trying to frame this decision as a win for the community by saying that 'its all so we can lower the price of the premium bundle' ya the one that no one bought cause it's a rip off.
exactly. they're trying to use marketing mind games on their consumers. instead of putting an anticheat into the game and hiring an anticheat team. but they want $10 from you now every few months, when they cant even provide a real anticheat solution. lowlifes, dead game.
I loved apex for a long time as i found the gun play and gadgets and there game changing interactions just as good as titan fall 1 and 2 but the season they added the wall teleport lady was the last I played and quit at the start as it just felt like a mobile game to me
1 minute 25 second of the video and I'm already like ewwwwwwwwww 😅🤣 thanks for the content Grrt!
I'd rather backflip into an incoming train than to ever give respawn a single cent. It's like they pulled a rocksteady and decided to throw away easy money.
They fked so hard i really hate respawn
Its not respawn its EA
@@ImJustTheCameraMannit's both
@@ImJustTheCameraMannboth
@@ImJustTheCameraMann its only respawn ea is shit but i am blaming respawn
@@sigi0650 EA has been doing stuff like this for years in Madden and Fifa..
Aw yes so I won't be able to slowly get levels every few weekends
Right, we all know what to do! If we as a community don't spend the cash then respawn & EA will see that the system needs reverting just like when they released the peacekeeper recolour for cash.
Welp all the Apex Coins that ive been grinding to get from this season BP are now completely useless.
ok this is the point where i actually quit this game after almost 900 hours of playtime fuck this shit
3800 for me dude
4300 for me
I quit with 6,500 hours.
I have 4 hierlooms.
1 prestige skin.
The Cobalt Katar.
It doesn't matter what you do, you're fighting controller modder cheaters. Everyone is cheating with a CronusZen or a Xim. Look them up on RUclips in conjunction with apex. Then tell me you didn't instantly vomit in your mouth when you realize that these are 80% of players on console. The game is long 💀
@@XenomorphTerrorFR, if the game would be working I wouldn’t mind spending money. But demanding that much money and not even having decent servers is insaneee
At first I was upset when I heard about this...but I wanted to start getting shards for the new heirloom coming out anyways.
I see it as a way to get my shards and some extra skins and items too.
Im glad i was able to play this game when it was still in its prime.. When the devs played their own game and interacted with the community
I've been coming back every season to do the BP. Not anymore.
Had every battlepass since season 1, the amount I spent on it total for 21 season is probably £50-£60. In the new system I’d be paying £80 for 8 battlepasses a year, more than I have in the past 5.
Funny how this game drove me away 2 years ago with the way you nearly couldn`t finish the BP without going online every day or paying for levels...
Glad to see nothing has changed and I don`t have the need to come back!!!! TITANFALL 3 is dead before it`s even in the making!
Damn this is just like when my favorite restaurant stopped selling wings at a loss cause my friends and I were buying so many and ordering free water and no booze.
EW why ruin the game by making it more pricey!
Because no matter what they do, people will still pay for this so in the end they get more money. Then theyll do this again and again
@@MrQubi_ not gonna be the case for streamers when cheaters make it even worse
In addition to that
I don't think you will be able to force a streamer to say that this is better
It's gonna be even worse when streamers are forced to pay 40 dollars every 45 days, not saying they don't have the money to spend but it would certainly be shitty
Because money 🤑💰
Time to make room for X defiant and the finals…..
Stopped playing competitive games because of anti consumer policies and man, my life improved a ton, i advise everyone to do the same.
Having not heard of Blackcell until now, that’s just a dlc it makes sense it would only cost IRL money
Yes! This is exactly what I needed to finally quit playing daily to complete the pass. With FOMO gone I can now just play whenever I feel like it. Thank! God!
Rest in peace... GL Legends
and later they replace all collection events with this gacha sh.. because now ppl will have a lot of crafting materials...
5:30 wait does that mean I have to buy the battle pass to play?
Is a battle pass not always optional?
Was thinking about getting back into Apex. Guess not lol
The battle pass change isn’t that bad except for the fact that THEY MADE IT ONLY MONEY ea is interesting
Its not only money but you have to do challenges in the first 2 weeks of the new season if you want the premium bp split 1 for free. Still pretty consumer unfriendly since not everyone of the f2p playerbase can grind 2 whole weeks just for a free premium bp
@@zeronin4696 To my understanding, that's only a one time thing.
@@zeronin4696 oj heah i forgot about that
@@zeronin4696that is a one time thing buddy.
@@user-uq1rg9wk1tsorry but that is one n done.
On the Apex Reddit they have deleted all posts discussing the battle pass including mine as they are “low effort/duplication posts.”
Shows that they don’t really care about their community and their thoughts so instead of replying, they are simply hiding how the community actually feels.
That's desingenuous, the top post is about this change. They simply remove extra posts about it to avoid the sub being flooded. Discuss it in the existing posts instead.
@@nobat00 Yeah thats a great way to spread awareness and get the most community feedback about changes, by limiting posts about the topic to comments in a post that is only seen if you sort by “hot.”
It’s clearly an attempt by them to prevent as much backlash as possible. You can make the argument that its spam, but that is thrown out the window because whenever they implement a change the people enjoy, like the Evo shields, you can find hundreds of similar posts that haven’t been removed because it makes them look good.
They’re willing to accept the compliments but not the complaints.
I’m fine with this, the only thing that was keeping me playing apex was battlepass fomo.
- More crafting materials!... but they don't implement any new permanent content, just FOMO, so what's the point.
- More Apex packs!... so you can get 8 more white-tier things and 1 purple for a character you'll never play.
- 10 exotic shards!... for the heirloom and skins you don't have and never will.
- 3 legend themed packs!... for a character you don't play.
You get the point. A battlepass should be an incentive to play, not a demand to pay.
How about better anti cheat, Dying to cheaters in mixed tape modes
they dont care about cheaters only money their the mr krabs of gaming
If that mistery Titanfall universe game isn't cancelled for me it seems like jumping ship,they are tryna get the most money of the Apex before releasing a new game to print even more money with it
I just heard the new voice lines for lifeline, when they do her rework I feel like they are going to change her name to flatline since it seems she's going down a dark path in the lore. I haven't played in months so I really don't know I just had a quick theory I had from his vid from 2 weeks ago.
BP was one of last reasons why i grinded Apex. Now... well...
Already deleted apex
Sure you did
@@RandumXero what,you want proof?
@@RandumXero not everyone is a dick rider like you.
@Demobunny you'll be back you're weak
@idstayaway9992 nah, I'll be fine, apex was getting boring after a while.
And learn to write, you look like a Twitter user
Helldivers battlepass is good. Hope more games takes inspiration.
THE FINALS continues to blow every other FPS' monetization model out of the water by just being fair & honest about it.
Xdefiant also
@@justagamethrowerThat game is going to die.The second black ops six comes out
@@mariobadia4553 dude we get that cod is the best at making fps games. people like you who buy glorified updates and bundles costing more than the game itself. Is why cod Is actually dead. Got you buying yearly releases still when they proved they can could just make one client instead of milking you. Too bad you still suck at it
@@mariobadia4553 the finals is a dead game
@@mariobadia4553 Keep huffing your copium dude, Cod has been ass since cold war and I'm glad I've not bought any
Looks like it’s time to hop on finals