Apex Legends not too long ago discovered itself in some scorching water as a consequence of modifications it was going to make to its battle cross. The studio had meant to interrupt up the premium battle cross into two when Season 22 launched. This upset a lot of the sport’s fanbase and the outcry worsened as Respawn revealed that gamers would now must pay real-world cash to unlock each battle passes as an alternative of the standard alternative of actual cash or Apex Cash (Apex Legends premium foreign money). Apex Legends’ battle passes have at all times awarded Apex Cash, permitting gamers to buy new passes by finishing earlier ones–this change would have eliminated that perk, which means particular person gamers could be pouring extra money into the sport than earlier than
Shortly after that was introduced, a good portion of the Apex Legends neighborhood started pushing again in opposition to this. On July 24, Apex Legends issued a press release on its official X/Twitter account claiming that the workforce won’t proceed with its unique battle cross plans.
The assertion explains that in Season 22, Apex Legends will proceed to permit gamers to get the premium battle cross for 950 Apex Cash. “We acknowledge that we might have dealt with the battle cross modifications better–that’s on us,” the Apex Legends workforce writes within the assertion. When the season launches on August 6, gamers could have the prospect to get the season’s first premium battle cross by finishing in-game challenges. When the second cut up happens on September 17, gamers should purchase the season’s second premium battle cross utilizing the sport’s premium foreign money or actual cash with plans to run with this format going ahead after that.
In an interview with IGN, Steven Ferreira, the inventive director of Apex Legends, revealed that the studio had made these modifications as a result of the workforce needed to have the ability to “observe information on what number of gamers are partaking with the battle cross” and that this was one thing the workforce did by itself with out EA pushing them by hook or by crook.
In response to the assertion, going ahead, at any time when the workforce plans to implement important modifications, it’s going to slowly roll them out and interact extra with the neighborhood as an alternative of simply dropping them.