During its latest investor call, Electronic Arts revealed that Apex Legends had reached over 2.5 million unique players. Respawn’s battle royale title was able to reach 1 million players in just 8 hours so I think it is safe to say that this was a successful launch.
During EA’s investor call today, they confirmed that Apex Legends had over 2.5 million unique users and over 600,000 peak concurrent users just one day after release.
— Apex Legends News (@alphaINTEL) February 5, 2019
Apex Legends came out of nowhere and while there are some minor optimization issues, it’s one of the most stable release we’ve seen for a multiplayer title. We did not experience any connection issues and – with the exception of an NVIDIA DXGI_ERROR_DEVICE_HUNG error that occurs in the latest drivers – it works without issues.
According to Electronic Arts, the game has reached a peak of over 600K concurrent players, meaning that gamers can immediately find a server and play the game.
It will be interesting to see whether this success will continue later this month, whether Apex Legends will be able to top 5 million players by the end of February, and whether the number of concurrent players will be further increased!
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Nobody said entertaining the simple minded public wasn’t easy. Just look at the top selling movies and games. Food for the brain dead, and this is no exception.
Premature dismissal. I watched hours of gameplay yesterday and there’s a fair amount of brains involved in playing this game. it’s far more cerebral than the other BRs and those were already not totally braindead either. I don’t play BR games but the old guard’s negativity (of which I am a part of!) against them is honestly unwarranted when applied to the genre in itself. individual games have their flaws but the basic concept is literally a spin on arena FPS deathmatch. BRs might mature into something very much worth my time if they become more like Apex and less like PUBG over time. I might even try Apex myself at some point.
So judgy.
Good thing people will enjoy what they like regardless.
I quite enjoyed the game, despite normally liking the more complex stuff, and generally not being too into shooters in the first place.
By all means enlighten me.
what should they be doing/what’s up to your standard? what is it that you think is “great stuff”… ?
Datriax: “entertaining the simple minded… for the brain dead”
Dudebro Zero: “I watched hours of gameplay yesterday”
No comment! ?
this industry is doomed
guys before being so negative, have you tried the game ?
I didn’t enjoy any BR game but this one is really fun
Same. I dabbled in PUBG and Fortnite but never actually enjoyed them that much. This feels different. I’m kinda addicted.
exactly ! if you wanna squa up my id on origin is madattitude93
The focus on squads is definitely a big plus, though it’s likely not enough to sway me personally. What I find really interesting is that they’ve promised more game modes in the future.
It’s kinda ironic that all I want is Respawn to give me something with respawns.
You can respawn, with a little help from your team. To me, that’s the real incentive that will get people to stay in a group.
Yep — that feature alone is why I’ll give the game a chance. Definitely prefer traditional respawning though; could never get into Counter-Strike for the same reason.
This game is actually really good. I was quite surprised. It runs great too. People should give this a go.
I played better games so does that count? Or do in need to eat sh*t in order to know its sh*t?
suit yourself, it’s your loss 🙂
Do you believe that this game is technology better that Quake 3? Also cant miss something you have never experienced before so you argument isnt valid.
not better than Quake 3 doesn’t mean sh*t.
Most of the people who tried it are not saying it’s sh*t and we all know what sh*t is so yeah have fun with Quake 3
If i knew you would react like this i wouldnt have asked anything.
How’s not playing a dumb battle royale a loss?
Yes I’m still enjoying Quake 3/Live and Unreal Tournament games.
Yeah all the testers and critics will play it and uninstal in next day…..
A weak later https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/32767ba8a558d51c11632ffb3021691219a24f6b01e0db0bf4858725a5c302c6.gif
Did you play it ?
Honestly, if you did and you have negative feelings about it, I’d like to hear your assessment.
I dont need to play it to know its good or not
Yeah, why bother making a informed decision when you can just spout some meaningless drivel anyway.
You dont need to experience this trash to know its a trash . You try every EA Game to see its good?
Or you have half of a brain cell to know its trash even before its out
This is a battle royale + skills .
Norhing new.
They coud work in titanfall 3 what had a good SP short story and a ok MP.
But noooooo battle royale is the new hotness
I lost brain cells seeing (not reading) your reply.
Stop trying to articulate anything.
BR is not new. And you suck. Correlation confirmed.
BR is not new .
Yeah deathmatch was here for at least 20 years ..
*Stop trying to articulate anything.*
Yeah. GJ telling this random guy on the internet who never lernd english in school and its his 3 language how bad his english is GG man GG
… actually, oh great and wise swami, you do.
but, whatever ?
I think I will buy it for you just so you can finally play a game rather than complain about it. (do I really need to put the /s in here?)
How can you buy a free game .
?????????
This is good news indeed?
respawn deserves this success.
they didn’t quite find it with Titanfall, Titanfall 2 everyone agreed was a great game, but again no matter how much positive word-of-mouth, it just didn’t have the sales numbers and catch on.
granted this is a free-to-play title,
but I’m hearing nothing but positive.
my son was on it for about 3 hours and he’s huge on pubg, doesn’t particularly care for fortnite, and he said it’s different, it’s solid, it’s smooth, and it’s really really fun,so kudos to respawn entertainment ?congratulations guys.
I hope it turns out to be a huge winner for them.
“they didn’t quite find it with Titanfall, Titanfall 2 everyone agreed was a great game, but again no matter how much positive word-of-mouth, it just didn’t have the sales numbers and catch on.”
Ehm this is free
Ehm its the first day
Ehm its a 0 effort BR game?
Hello?
How mutch they pay you to promote this garbage
At least he has a job…unlike, well, you.
Woowee arent you butthurt
Ehm, how do your words taste?
Ehm, it being a free game is part of the point, $0 entry…
Ehm, read the reviews…
Never will the success of Quake be repeated.
So, we have pretty much confirmation right now that Anthem’s demo numbers were awful. EA are happy to report these numbers but are terrified to reveal how many actual people downloaded and played Anthem’s open demo/beta. They must have been embarrassing numbers lol.
Well at least it’s not filled with 4 years olds. Hope it ends fortnite, shame it’s on EA’s Origin.
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Nothing to see here move along