Apex Legends came out of nowhere and appears to be a really successful free to play title. In just three days, the game has surpassed over 10 million players and has breached 1 million concurrent players.
Respawn’s Vince Zampella had this to say:
“This has been a truly incredible journey. We tested and tweaked. We argued and agreed. We got to a point where we felt some magic. We knew it would be risky to take the franchise in this direction, to go free to play, and do a surprise launch. But we fell in love with Apex Legends and wanted, needed, other people to play it too.”
Right now, Apex Legends is the hottest battle royale game available. The game borrows the heroes from Overwatch and slightly updates the battle royale formula by allowing players to respawn their teammates. Moreover, the game packs an amazing in-game dialogue system that lets everyone point out items, locations and enemies.
Apex Legends is using a heavily modified version of the Source Engine and while for the most part runs smoothly, it does suffer from some minor optimization issues in specific areas of the map (you can read more in our PC Performance Analysis article).
Congratulations to Respawn for hitting its 10 million goal that quickly and we are curious to see whether the team will invest more resources on Apex Legends (for more post-launch content and support) now that it can become a really profitable product!
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How’s that saying go again? The world is full of stupid people?
Are we at the apex of stupidity in this industry? Let’s hope it doesn’t get worse than this. My optimism however, is at its nadir.
Yup!
Sadly, the masses truly are more “brain-dead” than ever!
and this is why you just can’t take DSOgaming comments seriously,
Explain to me how people are stupid for enjoying a game? Many would argue that games in general are stupid and a waste of time (I mean, they are). It doesn’t make us all stupid for enjoying them. Or does it?
I don’t see how game choice should allow you to insult one person one way or another.
Just look the United States Of America. They got Trump President. Yep,We are a deeply stupid country.
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Just look at people bringing it to a political level, a remark of stupidity.
Anytime the worlds “brain-dead” or “stupid” come to play, a Trump reference is basically a necessity.
Yet he won and what if i i voted for him? The thing is why bring it to a political level just for the sake of it?
It is fine if you voted for him. But, it is well understood that he is not an intelligent person. That’s fine too, but in his position it makes him a very easy target. I think in this political environment we live in right now, it’s near impossible to not bring it up. Games are getting political, like it or not. Politics are just far too controversial right now to avoid it.
For many people politics have ALWAYS been controversial in every situation, and the same many always like to bring that up in a discussion which had nothing to do with politics, like this one.
Oh and i didn’t vote for him, i’m from Italy, i don’t really care what happens to USA, but surely if i was a US citizen and had to vote, wouldn’t have voted for clinton. Anyway this doesn’t really matter.
That’s ironic.
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In this case, it was better to go with the unknown than the known. Turns out Trump has done and said more good than anyone had a right to expect.
And the Democrats have abandoned all restraint as the party of Socialism, gender dysphoria, paraphilia-as-marriage, Islamophilia, and child slaughter.
My first Battle Royale game, I’m playing it like crazy. I’ve also played Titanfall 2 like nuts, ofc I jumped in their new title, that’s also based in TF universe. It makes me sad a bit because Titanfall 2 didn’t get deserved attention, its an amazing and well supported product, Apex Legends also feels like its done by competent hands.
lol
10 million sheep.
How could we go down from Quake 3, Unreal Tournament, CoD4 to this shyte?
EXACTLY!
No FPS MP game can touch the likes of Quake III and UT!
10 million…and rapidly growing herd of sheep! What a depressing sad time. 🙁
EXACTLY!
No FPS MP game can touch the likes of Quake III and UT!
10 million…and rapidly growing herd of sheep! What a depressing sad time. 🙁
10 million people are such sheep for enjoying a fun game.
AKA ruining the industry.
EA:Ok, forget Titanfall 3 guys. Keep making thing like this because its profitable for us…
Happy for me always hope some game just come and get that stupid fortnite down a little.
why? fortnite is a superior game in every way.
yeah sure..
This is not good news, at the end of the day, this is an EA game. EA deserves to be knocked down more than Fortnite ever could.
Let’s face it, people were just waiting for a better optimised and done PUBG and it looks like it’s here, free2Play but Ch-ching.
That’s the power of marketing gents
It looks and plays like a low budget Titanfall
That’s not even really an insult. Apex Legends literally is a lower budget version of Titanfall made by the same devs.
I mean, it is still better than the paid versions, so I’m not sure what to take from that.
Ok good its profitable, now get to work on titanfall 3!
Are you seriously expecting EA to let them make Titanfall 3 after this game is saving their a**es? Respawn is now going to be chained inside the BR mines for the rest of their existence.
its literally a striped down titanfall 2 with 1 map and lootboxes. its should be illegal the streamers who are obviously getting paid to shill this game. its bland and boring. i do think in a year when theres more characters/maps/variety of weapons it will be decent but its so barebones its a joke.
I knew this was going to go big. The game feels great to play!
For me Apex Legends > PUBG – BO4 – Fortnite
Is it all BR or are there any other modes?
I’m not interested in battle royales, but Apex piqued even my curiosity. I’m guessing that millions of others felt the same. Good for the devs. After reading all the glowing reviews for Titanfall 2 and seeing how the game’s sales numbers disappointed, it’s good to see Respawn enjoy some well-deserved success.
After playing this I can say I am very very pleasantly surprised. It’s really good.
I posted the other day another “Garbage of the Day” but I can eat my words since after trying it, the game is awesome.
You might not like the genre and I’m also tired of trends in gaming that instead of giving us new stuff they all go and do the same thing to cash in this trend…this is ruining the industry for sure and we deserve better…but it is also our fault.
I played PUBG for like 200 hours or so but the poor quality of the game and more than anything its netcode which is plain garbage, made me quit the game. And let’s be honest you are half or more part of the time running and searching for stuff like a goat looking for a spot of grass to eat. It gets boring compared to the more regular shooting games for sure.
Now, Respawn took all the good things from the genre and put it all in one game, all weapons feel good and look good, netcode is great (which to me is a priority in any game because of my poor network connection at home), every character feels unique and at the same time the characters complement each other while playing in a good team, which is also great making teamwork be a forced priority which is also great.
Then the quality of life like simple stuff like inventory management or picking up items that goes automatically to the place they should (weapons parts or high level ones change instantly so you don’t need to worry about micro-management all the time but fight), is what makes the game being so good.
Also it looks good and its performance is really good as well.
So to me it is a solid game after all and also free, you can get those paid cosmetic only things for free just by playing, and the game plays great, it feels good so you don’t need to ask for more. (well it could be great some wall running as in TitanFall but oh well)
And no, it doesn’t feel “cheap” at all as some people is saying. (they clearly watched videos or are in this kids trending “hate train” against everything instead of actually trying it)
I rather avoid what I don’t like instead of giving more attention to things that don’t deserve my attention. Calling others “stupid” because they like what you don’t is also stupid.
Like Forrest Gump once said “Stupid is as stupid does”.
I’m having fun playing a game and paid nothing for it…does that make me stupid? At least I don’t pre-order games that I know will be garbage or eat all the marketing bullcrap that companies want to impose on us.
Have a nice day.