Apex Legends Revenue Has Reportedly Dropped Off a Cliff

That’s the issue with Live Service games. You have to ensure a strong and steady stream of content to hold onto players as it’s hard to clear them back once they’ve moved on.

Of course maybe EA releasing another live service game in Feb didn’t help; not when 3 other big titles were released that month. After the Titanfall II release date debacle I am honestly starting to think this is all a set up by Unicronic Arts (not my term) to find an excuse to shut Respawn down and squander its assets; like every other studio before.

Simply put there can never be more than a handful of these games at any one time, whether it be Battle Royale or live service as there is just not enough of a crowd to go around them. Most people will play 1, possibly 2 on a regular basis and have no time/money/desire to commit to another, whilst the rest of us have no interest whatsoever in these games in the first place.

At some point developers will learn that it's only a very small point on the top of that mountain and that its already full

I wonder it it's a harder sell than Fortnite because it's first person? At least with the items you purchase in the Fortnite store you actually get to see them front and centre whilst your playing. I know nothing about Apex but, if you purchase a new skin on there, you surely won't ever see it because it's FPS?

That and there is no solo mode like in Fortnite. That's a big turn off for a lot of people, me included.

It was always going to take a mammoth effort to overtake Fortnite's share in the market to be honest.

Doesn't surprise me. Way too many of these games out there.

@kyleforrester87 Fire in the hole!

3 Issues I have with this game even though I do play it for an hour or so everyday. One they are unwilling to make changes to the map until the end of the season. There are areas that clearly need revamping. Two the season pass and character skins are boring. Mostly just a respray. You want to define yourself as a player and these skinds do not allow you to do that. Three weapon skins are defoned by the first person who picks up a weapon. It stays that way for the whole match. So even if you have great weapon skins you are stuck with someones choice.

Overall the game is decent as a shooter experience. But when your comparing it to other ever evolving BR experiences it certainly does not seem to have the same drive or amition as other projects.

@kyleforrester87 Dust-2 for life! I literally only play that and Mirage because the minute I try to learn another map, I play crap and 12 year old Russian kids shout at me.

Probably because I’m back playing destiny 😂

I may have got carried away on Apex!

I went on a 4-kill streak about 2 weeks ago, felt interesting then it dawned me that I just don't have the time to master this game and level up. Way too many games these days that require time and dedication exclusively.

I'm on this website every day, probably too much, and if you asked me right now to tell you the difference between Anthem and Apex my answer would be Ed Norton.

I guess it hit it's apex early.
...sorry.

Played for around 6/7 hours and put the game down as it was fun but repetitive. Starting from scratch everytime is annoying.

@themcnoisy Yep, same story here. But we got a kill. We got both got one before we quit.

I played Apex exclusively for about a month, then it started to wear me down. Once I got back to my backlog, I didn't feel any incentive to return to Apex, even before the battle pass fiasco

That’s what happens when the only reason the popular streamers were playing Apex Legends at launch was because they were being paid money to do so. Bad business strategy for longterm success imo, unless you plan to continue paying those streamers indefinitely, which is not feasible. But I’m sure a ton of money was made off of Apex Legends initially so they’re fine. Not every game can be Fortnite.

I downloaded it, got a kill, and deleted

Unfortunately this is going to be what happens to Halo Infinite too. "Live Service" games just don't have long lifespans and there's too many of them anymore to even play them all.

I still enjoy playing Apex, prefer the gameplay, map, abilities and weapon balance massively to Fortnite and Blackout.
Not surprised about the revenue though, hopefully their second Battlepass's content is much better than the first or they reduce the prices in their shop for direct skin purchases.

its because we all went back to playing anthem...........dry cough...

Have to agree with comment 1 that's my thinking as well because of the past, they did it with Pandemic bought them out promised them the world of Mercenaries 2 but in the end EA wanted the game out asap. And look what happened it flopped and Pandemic was swallowed and IPs put under its own folder. That's what they are doing with Respawn for both it's Titanfall games they launched it between its own BF and COD. If I was at Respawn I'd of ran a mile since TF1 didn't sell so well becaue it lacked content but also was launched between BF and COD.

They did the same with 2 but that game was underestimated and is worth buying even now. But I still think Respawn will be gone in around 2 years

Why "sadly"? This is great news. Hopefully publishers will see it's a major dice roll at best when it comes to putting out multiplayer only games, and the scales can balance more toward story-based single-player experiences again.

Good, the battle royale fad needs to die.

I feel like I haven’t heard much about Apex since launch, so this news isn’t too surprising. I still haven’t had a chance to check it out.

Tired of zombies no im tired of lifeserviceeeee garbage.