The Apex Legends group is continuous to precise its disapproval of the upcoming Battle Go adjustments as the sport’s latest occasion trailer is bombarded with dislikes.
Earlier this month, Respawn Leisure introduced that it might be re-working Apex Legends’ Battle Passes from Season 22, which is ready to be launched someday in August. The adjustments went down like a lead balloon as followers instantly threatened to boycott the favored Battle Royale title if Respawn went forward with the adjustments.
Why are these adjustments so controversial? Nicely, there is a handful of causes. One of many predominant ones that followers took concern with was Respawn splitting every season’s Battle Go into two and forcing gamers to pay with real-life cash to buy them. Not solely does this work out to $20 per season, but it surely prevents gamers from buying any upcoming Battle Passes with Apex Cash, one thing that might be achieved by gamers beforehand.
Shortly after these adjustments had been introduced, the Apex Legends group evaluation bombed the sport on Steam to precise their outrage on the adjustments. On the time of writing this text, Apex Legends has an “overwhelmingly adverse” evaluation badge on the subject of latest evaluations. In line with Steam, solely 10% of the practically 55,000 evaluations within the final 10 days have been optimistic.
Lots of the evaluations name out Respawn Leisure’s resolution as a “silly money seize,” whereas some even declare that they’re “deleting the sport” because of the new Battle Go system.
Regardless of the 1000’s of adverse evaluations and outcry from the group, Respawn Leisure has refused to again monitor and even acknowledge the controversy. Whereas the studio seems to be standing agency in its resolution (not less than for now), gamers are persevering with to make their voices heard. This time, it is within the type of YouTube dislikes.
Earlier this week, Apex Legends introduced the brand new “Void Reckoning” occasion with a brand-new trailer. The occasion will see the debut of a brand new limited-time mode often known as “Large TDM,” the sport’s first ever 12v12 Deathmatch mode. The occasion will kick off on July twenty third, however there’s just one factor on the group’s thoughts proper now.
On the time of writing this text, the Void Reckoning occasion trailer has a large 40,000 dislikes with solely 5,600 likes. To place that into a bit higher perspective, Apex Legends’ earlier occasion trailer (which premiered previous to the reveal of the Battle Go adjustments) has solely 8,900 dislikes and 13,000 likes.
Lots of the feedback on the trailer proceed to name out the upcoming adjustments: “I am stunned that they did not made us pay to look at the trailer,” one consumer joked, whereas one other mentioned, “I really like how respawn is appearing like nothing dangerous is going on atm and thinks everyone seems to be proud of the state of the sport.”
