Apex Legends has a content drought issue. Best Battle remains his one of his royale, dominating the scene thanks to its intense, fast-paced movement, impeccable shootouts, and unique Legend his character. But it’s been four years since Apex Surprise launched and quickly became a success, and now he’s starting to look tired.
Apex season launches are usually great, offering either new guns, legends, or maps, but usually very little content between season launches. A month or two after launch there will be some updates between seasons. Season 14 kicked off on August 9th with the introduction of the new Legendary Vantage. The next update, the Beast Collection event, was removed after two months.
Collection events typically last about two weeks and offer several cosmetic items that can be purchased and earned, including Heirlooms, which are Legendary items that convert melee attacks with unique weapons associated with specific Legends.
These collection events also include limited-time modes such as Gun Run (essentially Call of Duty’s Gun Game) and Control (Domination). It’s not a draw and the player base, including myself, is tired. For too long, we’ve had the same limited-time event every year. The Train Conquer Mode event in Winter Express has been the same for the last 3 years and is a fun game mode, but I would like something new. The Halloween event is the same, the timed event lasts two weeks after him, but some players lose interest after a week after him.
The community has been coveting new permanent game modes like Control, which pits two teams of nine against each other. It appeared in previous timed events and is a welcome change from Battle Royale and Arena.
Last week, Control returned as part of the Spellbound Collection event. This was great. However, there were many problems with updating the event. I ran into a lot of difficulties when trying to load Apex. Most of the time I couldn’t get past the loading screen and when I finally got to the main menu I was kicked out of the game due to a “fatal error”. error” or codenet.
Disconnecting from matches is a recurring issue after major season updates, especially when there are big game changes like new maps, guns, legends, etc. I’ve said before that Apex honestly doesn’t mind taking a day or two off to implement a big update to fix some of the game’s fundamental issues, like Fortnite does between seasons. But implementing this is much harder than just said. However, disconnecting from a ranked game, in particular, often results in timeout penalties for “ending” the game when you’ve just been disconnected, so players have long been stuck with Apex for server stability. I have asked you to fix the problem.
The community really wants open communication and updates on the situation. Especially when those issues are exacerbated by event and season updates that highlight new cosmetics and the same recurring limited-time game modes.
Respawn tweeted from their official account (not even their Apex account) that they were investigating post-launch issues with Spellbound. There was no update or anything from Respawn the next day, but many players reported losing the money they spent to get event skins, all due to server instability. He later tweeted an update that a fix had been rolled out to stabilize the issue. Almost 24 hours after the debacle, it was still only a Respawn account.
Be careful, Legend 📢
Pushed fixes to resolve connectivity issues players saw in the lobby. Thank you for using our service. Enjoy the event!— Respawn (@Respawn) January 11, 2023
i love apex. This is my number one battle royale and I play it continuously. But we can’t ignore the problems Apex has. No content drops and poor communication from Respawn. A quick fix is to open the custom private lobby to everyone, which was done in the Spellbound event. However, we needed a server full of 30 people to get the lobby up and running. Anything below that will not work.
Obviously, game development is very complicated. Especially with a live service, there are a lot of moving parts to consider and everything should be thoroughly tested before going live. However, Apex developers have already said they are looking at data from current modes and limited-time modes, as well as player behavior, in order to provide updates to the game. If so, why do we keep repeating the same holiday events over and over, even though interest is waning? Also, bugs such as server issues that prevent users from logging on are frankly unacceptable.
Epic took Fortnite offline for a few days and relaunched it with a new engine. This was a big move. No doubt millions of dollars in lost revenue, but ultimately it meant that the player his experience when he was back online was the best it could be. Maybe it’s time for Respawn to do the same?The Apex community has been plagued with audio bugs and server lag issues in the past, and for years it’s been a major resurgence of sound and server systems. I have asked for his update, but so far the situation does not seem to have improved.
The lack of updates means that many players and content creators who used to play Apex started moving on to other games. According to SteamDB, Twitch viewership has dropped significantly from his peak of 285,383 on November 21st, to a low of 83,838 on December 19th. A significant drop of 70%. His player base also dropped 12% from 413,000 on Steam to 360,000 in between content updates.
Major Apex streamers like LuluLuvely have switched to playing other games like Overwatch 2. Rocker, a former Apex Pro player who played for top North American Apex team NRG, released a statement on his Twitter on January 10th. I play Apex in general, not just competitive Apex.
he wrote: I lied to myself for a while and said I enjoy doing things and playing games, but in reality the games he can’t seem to enjoy let alone play for more than 2 hours. “
stop
read: https://t.co/KhW7Mh0exG
— Locker (@rockerapex) January 11, 2023
I also took a short one-month break from Apex to play Warzone. It was a great vacation, but for me, nothing matched Apex’s moves and shootouts. I love his Apex and its core game, but the lack of updates is going to be doomed unless the issues are fixed.
Apex Season 16 is set to launch in early February, and now that the holiday season is over, May Get more game updates. I love the game and hope it continues to thrive, but I hope so because if nothing changes, the main his FPS focus will have to be shifted elsewhere.
