Apex Legends Hits Big Milestones Within Hours Of Release

@millionsedge: Okay. Yeah, they should ignore video game stories on their video game website.

@Barighm: But but but it is set in the Titanfall universe!!!!!!

@Barighm: you can buy the 2 heroes from lvling

@Barighm: EA buys Respawn, cancels Titanfall 3, which was in development for a 2018 release, and pushes this BR, loot box garbage on them. This makes me feel for all of the people at Respawn that were working hard to get 3 out.

@PETERAKO: exactly. Look at what happened with turtle rock studios/2k games when they bragged about numbers when evolve went f2p. It's a good start though because if it started with low numbers then they could've ended up being the next lawbreakers, but I doubt that would've happened because Nexon wouldn't have considered buying them otherwise.

@PETERAKO: I read the headline and thought exactly the same thing, easy come, easy go.

@sladakrobot: I bought a copy just to support the addition of the campaign. As for TF3:

'So those are the main facts - but why did we only hear about Apex Legends at the last possible minute before launch?

"Our desire is to be completely open and transparent with our player base, and part of that expands to how we talk about problems, and we understand this game is gonna have a sceptical audience," McCoy told me.

"There are some people who think there are too many battle royale games or it's a fad, the world thinks we're making Titanfall 3 and we're not - this is what we're making.

"To try and convince a sceptical audience for months with trailers and hands-on articles, we're just like 'let the game speak for itself' - it's the most powerful antidote to potential problems.

"We're doing a free to play game, with essentially loot boxes, after we were bought by EA, and it's not Titanfall 3. It's the perfect recipe for a marketing plan to go awry, so why have that - let's just ship the game and let players play."

It's a surprisingly open response. But then, in the context of what happened with Star Wars: Battlefront 2, Apex Legends' release with the bare minimum of marketing makes sense. Respawn simply want the game to speak for itself, McCoy says.

McCoy's answer also confirms what many already suspected: Titanfall 3 isn't in development, and Apex Legends is its current Titanfall focus. (Respawn is also working on Jedi: Fallen Order, an under-wraps Star Wars game it briefly announced last year.)

Back in fall 2017, a Respawn source told Kotaku's Jason Schreier "Titanfall 3 was well into development" and would release by the end of 2018. The reason for the hurry was that the modified version of Valve's Source engine (used by the previous Titanfall games and reportedly also Apex Legends) - "was starting to feel dated", and "Titanfall 3 might not feel or look as good if it came out too much later" - which, clearly, it did not.

This fits with what McCoy explained to me: that progress towards Apex Legends began after Titanfall 2, when the developer experimented with battle royale, "decided this wasn't going to be a mode", and chose to make Apex Legends "a game on its own". It certainly feels like Apex Legends could have been a battle royale mode for Titanfall 3.'

From:

https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2019-02-04-respawn-explains-apex-legends-surprise-release-and-why-there-are-no-titans

@sladakrobot: I still believe that release date was done deliberately to force a buy out. Like Titanfall 2's sales were worse than Titanfall 1 which was an Xbox exclusive.

@Rufus_the_rat: Sure. Not greed, pollution, crime, or inequality. Video games.

@Rufus_the_rat: stfu you loser