Maybe I need to give it a try. Apex is nice to watch on streams, but I myself never managed to really get into the br genre.
Nothing to lose. That' how they get ya!
Yeah yeah. Relax now
They already have one, it's called Origin
And it's free. Not like consumers are paying 120 bucks back to back.
It almost makes me think that EA has partially written off Anthem's long term prospects.
Yeah, for me that is the biggest negative with Apex (I am mostly happy with the rest of the game). I really like the art style of the environment and am fine with the guns but the character models are really ugly. I think this could really impact the sales potential of the cosmetics. If you are finding it difficult to get attached to the characters then you are going to give less shits about how they look and spend less money on them. Thankfully when you are running around the map you don't tend to see much detail the character models so its not so obvious. If you look at the characters in Apex side by side with say Overwatch there is a massive gulf between them in quality
They also need to really look at their pricing policy. The skins are way too expensive (Fortnite gets away with it because most people get free V-bucks from Save the World, typically lowering the cost of skins to under $10 - and also the $5 "starter packs" which come with skins is an exceptionally easy deal to justify). It seems like the store isn't really their focus, and that they are putting their hopes on the loot boxes (you get those for leveling up, not store cash), but I don't think a lot of people are going to pay real money for a 1 in 30 chance of getting a legendary item which also kind of sucks. Loot boxes only work when you are happy to unwrap the toys.
My problem is that, for the most part, they don't have really unique silhouettes and their colors are sort of muted browns, so if you see one halfway across the map, you can't tell who they are. You can usually tell the robot and the big guy, but that's it. In Fortnite, everybody is the same, so it doesn't matter. But how you approach a team with the guy who can track enemies is going to be different than how you attack whatever character can rain bombs everywhere.
It helps that 1. Alot of big influencers got paid to promote it.
Doc and Shroud and presumably a bunch of other people have been playtesting this for months.
If it is a CTD that happens randomly during matches and produces no errors *and* you're using usb audio you might try updating the driver for whatever that usb audio device and/or switch to onboard if you have it. Seems to be an issue with some USB audio devices.
It's not shilling, it's organic. It's a well put together BR game and that's the king of the genre Hill at the moment. I don't care of BR games but it's enjoyable.
EA truly aren't the brightest. The sales were cannablizied by not just cod but by their own publisher's battlefront 2. The game even had the good will of being a competitive shooter with free dlc.
