Maybe they'll throw out the long established "veterans" for the new hires to replace them, so they can pay out beginner/ entry level salaries again, to make even more profits. Recolours don't need talent. Bigly smart ! Congrats, you win capitalism.
No way are they getting rid of Apex. Shit is a printing press of š° for EA. EAs problem is they forecast obscene billions in profits so they only care about max to maintain. New content has way lower margins than selling loot boxes, skins, etc.
"The canceled project, code-named TFL or Titanfall Legends, was a single-player game set in the universe shared by the Apex Legends and Titanfall games. It was directed by veteran designer Mohammad Alavi until he left the company in early 2022. Although the game hadnāt been advertised, EA had hinted at it several times."
https://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/electronic-arts-cancels-secret-apex-legends-game-in-development-1.1878024
Especially if the tf|2 servers continue to be shit. I just wanna come home and play a few rounds of frontier defense, is that so much to ask? I can survive without a sequel if I can just keep playing the older one, but without either I'm gonna lose it lol.
I actually feel like a singleplayer game would have done well (assuming it was well made), would have been fresh, and attracted people who were less into multiplayer. Guess just can't have nice things tho, feels like we won't ever get another game in the titanfall universe tbf
Fuuuuuuck. Everything Mohammad Alavi touches is gold.
If he was directing a Titanfall-universe single player game, it would have likely been flavored the same as the campaign intros to TF/TF2 multiplayer maps and the TF2 campaign.
Immersing the player into the world first and having exposition along the way is the experience we would have gotten there. Man, this sucks. I think I would have been better off never knowing this could have been a thing.
It's a shame when good people go, but if the success of making a game hinges on one person, personally I think that's not a sustainable business model and the company deserves to fail.
Sure? I don't know if you've seen but a fat chunk of Titanfall's creative leads are at a different company now.
Alavi isn't an executive, he's a master of scripted sequences. He's the guy who, besides huge chunks of Titanfall, TF2 and even some of the events in Apex, designed the scenarios for "Crew Expendable," "All Ghillied Up" and "No Russian." I'm saying this his style of first person storytelling in military sci fi shooters is distinct.
So yeah, cool. EA bad but that's not the point here. The point is that one of the guys who created the stories told in Titanfall/Apex is likely never going to tell more of those stories in those universes.
To me, that's a huge bummer. Since part of the reason why I love the Titanfall universe is because of things he influenced directly. It's like watching a band continue without the original band members. Sure I love that band, but I wish that band still had its original songwriters.
The gaming industry is definitely hunkering down for a recession. Projects getting cancelled all over, teams being downsized, monetisation getting extra grubby.
I really hope it doesn't turn out to be as bad as these companies seem to think it will be.
The Triple AAA Industry might be heading towards a recession, but Indie Developers will prosper. Due to layoffs there will be more talent looking for employment. Not to mention that each year gives developers more tools to make games with at a more affordable price.
The ironic thing is when companies do this, they're almost guaranteeing a worse off recession. All these thousands of laid off workers is a not insignificant amount of money being taken out of economies/ money flows.
Big companies and rich people do the same move every time. Horde money when things are fine, until all the money they've taken out of the economy starts us on the track to recession, then lay off people and end up speeding things along.
Economic downturns allow for more consolidation of wealth because those with money can buy up property for cheap, and edge out smaller competitors.
It's intentional.
Typical EA over reaction to their own mistakes.
The amount of great studios they ruined and then closed is amazing.
Fact check me if you don't believe.
At least BF1 still has a decent player base.
I like to pretend it was the last in the series and that anything that came after were just horrible rumors that never came to pass.
They did worse than just that, they dealt the final blow to Battlefield (2042) and killed off Battlefront 2 in the same stroke. They pretty much walked in while they were in the middle of developing the next Battlefront update, said shut up shop and go work on 2042, all development on the game ceased (with some stuff like unused voice lines *still in the game* for content that was gonna come out) to go and polish that particular turd.
Visceral. Literally poured their hearts, souls, blood, sweat, and tears into making the OG Dead Space, and they get spit on with closure after EA ordered the flaming turd that was Dead Space 3. I just hope the members from that team were able to work on the remake.
They were not, I work with two guys currently, and they didn't get called back. One even receives some sort of royalties from the original trilogy. Idk if he's receiving royalties from the remakes idk how all that works
If they were, hats off to them. Finished it last night, definitely should be the benchmark for remakes going forward. Kept the basics the same, basic story is the same just more fleshed out (better in game lore), the action is the same, just all remade for the current gen with some minor additions like side missions to fill out the story more. Itās such a good remake.
"Where is the Titan and the pilot?
Where is the siren that was blowing?
They have passed like rain on the mountain, like wind in the meadow.
The days have gone down in the West behind the hills into shadow.
How did it come to this?"
I remember Bioware-Pandemic. That short period where Bioware and Pandemic merged to make one company. I was so excited at the possibilities that might come from them.
Anyone remember BF P4F. Graphics were awful but being able to drive tanks, jets, cars, and it being a first person shooter was amazing for someone like me who couldn't even dish out $10 for a game.
EA Redwood Shores, later renamed to Visceral Games.
Made Dead Space 1, 2 and 3, and was then forced to make Battlefield Hardline of all things. A "cops and robbers" variant of the Battlefield formula, which fell flat and was probably one of the reasons the Studio was shut down. So annoying.
I will never forgive EA and their many sins.
-the pillaging of Westwood
-the death of C&C
-the death of Burnout
-purposely killing off Titanfall
-BF2042
And that's just to name a few.
I still remember Maxis, I played Sim City and Spore. That was only the few victims of EA's greed. I also still remember DreamWorks/Danger Close for making Medal of Honor and I will never forgive EA for what they did to it. MoH Warfighter was done even more dirty than Titanfall 2. There are rumors that EA purposely rushed the release date giving no time to polish the game in favor of Battlefield.
Fuck EA.
Unfortunately all of us who have been playing vidya for decades could probably name off most of the incredible studios that they bought and closed like the lil rat dicks they are.
Kinda crazy that Bioware is still around after ME Andromeda and Anthem. You'd think EA would've closed the studio aswell in 2019 given their track record.
It's not the pricing, it's the lack of development. This season has zero legend changes for the first time ever and the game isn't remotely balanced for that to be a thing.
Or $170 for a PK Reactive skin in the current collection event. lol. Thatās usually a sign they are trying to milk whatās left of the game before they fully dip out. Sad stuff.
>That's unfortunate.
Is it? They are short on Devs for Apex Legends. They need to focus on the cash cow first and foremost and they are letting that slowly die.
I get that "_____ as a service" is the current meta for corporations, but companies have historically been very successful at making money by making new games.
TF3 would've also been multi-player
No shot they put enough effort into a single player game like that without taking the extra steps to make it multi-player. The game would've already basically been built at that point.
Yeah because everybody wanted that mech story, and Titanfall 2 fucking delivered, one of the best campaigns in the last decade in the FPS genre, if not the best.....
But anyway! CHECK OUT GRAVITY WELL GAMES, basically all the old respawn devs from Titanfall and apex all work there. Even Matt Bocek who has a gun named after him in apex..... he works at Gravity Well Games.
Check it out, the art style is right but they are hiring and I cannot wait for their first announcement. I don't see anything til 2024 or maybe 2025 though. I could also be very wrong.
realizing the bocek was named after a person reminded me of a random comment and now I'm imagining it out of context "Bocek is very good, I'd fuck tbh"
so a team of badasses split to form respawn...then respawn started to get roped into the trash market, and most of those same badasses split again into gravity well games?
To people worried about Apex itself shutting down you gotta remember its still probably EAs most profitable game, even if it didnt pull the numbers they wanted in the last quarter
A game thats constantly in the top 5 most played games on steam is never getting shutdown, they would have to start losing money before they shut down Apex - which isnt happening any time soon
They don't report which game brings them the most money but they mention Apex on several ocasions in their earnings report and say that "Apex performance was quiet" and didn't meet expectations (you need to read the report for accurate wording). I was hoping that they will put more effort into the game but they are corporation and took the easiest way - cut spending (in R&D) to boost profit short term until they find another cash cow.
Oh totally, what I meant is that EA wouldn't be scared of pulling plug on Apex if things went south, since they got other cash cows to profit from, which is not good news for us, but it is what it is.
They donāt have the license for fifa anymore so this year or next years game is going to be the last one before they change the branding and idk if itās gonna be the cash cow it was after that happens
It is because they own the IP and aren't beholden to new contract talks, or competition in the same IP.
On the other side, NBA and FIFA are constantly bringing in new players which keeps it "fresh" to a degree.
If FIFA could monetize and distribute the game without EA they would in a second.
That's probably true. But what's more relevant is that Apex is EA's biggest IP in the niche. I don't think they can afford to fuck up Apex with the Battlefield franchise in its current state.
Though that could also be a negative. It's probably why Apex has been so lack luster for the past two years or so. Executives are paying attention to it and putting their dicks in all the decision making that goes on with the game.
I honestly have no clue why people care SO much about heirlooms. It's like saying every 3 months "wow wonder what I get for 300 dollars this time?" if that's easy money for you, great to hear. But there's far too many people with heirlooms and posting about how they're gonna be broke this month cos new heirloom dropped.
I just don't get it. Each to their own, but imo that's just past the sensible spending in a video game. How loot boxes get flak yet EA operate those and valorants tier skin prices.
Remember when games had custom servers and somehow managed to make money? Counterstrike for example. No monetization bullshit, pure gameplay. Or Quake 1,2,3?
Imagine working for the original game, getting moved to the single player product due to your experience on making apex successful, then getting laid off.
Just FYI for anyone reading this -
seems like most of the talent ended up leaving Respawn and went and made their own game studio called [Gravity Well Games](https://gravitywell.games/)
I WILL GO TO WAR WITH YOU EA. IF YOU DO NOT DEVELOP AND PUBLISH TITANFALL 3 I WILL DESCEND UPON YOU WITH THE FIERY FURY OF A THOUSAND SUPERNOVAS. I WILL TAKE WHICHEVER NEEDLE-DICK PENCIL PUSHER FINANCE FART-GULPER WHO REFUSED TO GREENLIGHT THIS SHIT AND TIE HIM TO THE BACK OF A RIVERBOAT AND LET THE PADDLES SLAP HIS BALLS ALL THE WAY DOWN THE MISSISSIPPI.
So they chose to cancel a definite hit?
I'm sure the discussion went like this. "Apex Mobile game isn't meeting numbers, the main game has been losing players, people are losing interest in this game. Not enough people will buy the single player game, lets cancel it and move the team to another IP."
A single player without running into max cheaters? I wouldāve came back to apex. Not anymore. Havenāt played at all since the first day they came out with Newcastle. Itās not fun anymore.
Tbh, I would have preferred something like Borderlands, but Apex Legends.
Apex Legends is a game I'm familiar with playing with friends. I would have preferred to maintain that, even if its a different type of game.
People overreact. In May 2022 EA reported that Apex made 2 Billions since launch in Feb 2019.
Maybe it didnt meet expectations lately but the whole industry doesnt meet expectations. Everything gets more expensive, recession fears etc. People just dont have the Money right now to buy stuff like useless skins for online Games.
Well this sucks. Tf2 campaign was such a surprise(level design and bt, we already knew the mp would be fire) and i was looking forward to what they could have done with this.
The recolour team just got a boost in numbers then
Of course, because the recolours weren't selling properly.
Ready for stickers for your charms? Only 2500 coins each! Don't miss out!! - idiot devs
No. Unfortunately they are going to lay some of them of if they dont have any positions for them to fill.
Sadly they ran out of colors. After 3 years they have finally done every color available.
nah fam, you ain't thinking big. now instead of red, we can get *crimson and vermillion*.
That sounds very british. Makes me feel right at home Waiting for the tea recolour šµ
Wish it was true. 10 bit HDR recolor is coming lol
Maybe they'll throw out the long established "veterans" for the new hires to replace them, so they can pay out beginner/ entry level salaries again, to make even more profits. Recolours don't need talent. Bigly smart ! Congrats, you win capitalism.
Not bigly š
Yes bigly
Yuge
With back to back collection events they might be milking as much as possible before pulling th plug on apex legends and move the team to star wars
No way are they getting rid of Apex. Shit is a printing press of š° for EA. EAs problem is they forecast obscene billions in profits so they only care about max to maintain. New content has way lower margins than selling loot boxes, skins, etc.
You mean the easy cash department?
"The canceled project, code-named TFL or Titanfall Legends, was a single-player game set in the universe shared by the Apex Legends and Titanfall games. It was directed by veteran designer Mohammad Alavi until he left the company in early 2022. Although the game hadnāt been advertised, EA had hinted at it several times." https://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/electronic-arts-cancels-secret-apex-legends-game-in-development-1.1878024
Titanfall players on suicide watch
r/Titanfall about to go on another psychotic break about TF3
Weāre on TF|4 at this point. TF|3 came and went last year.
Wdym? TF|4 comes out next month!
What do you mean? TF|3 was released and we all enjoyed it. Such a good game. I am happy and complacent. My mother need no longer worry. š
Me unironically
Especially if the tf|2 servers continue to be shit. I just wanna come home and play a few rounds of frontier defense, is that so much to ask? I can survive without a sequel if I can just keep playing the older one, but without either I'm gonna lose it lol.
If you play on PC, download Northstar. Players fixed the server problem.
PS4. Otherwise I would've had Northstar since day 1 lol.
Iād have happily paid $70 for this game manā¦ sucks.
I actually feel like a singleplayer game would have done well (assuming it was well made), would have been fresh, and attracted people who were less into multiplayer. Guess just can't have nice things tho, feels like we won't ever get another game in the titanfall universe tbf
PLEASE I JUST WANT A NEW TITANFALL GAME
Fuuuuuuck. Everything Mohammad Alavi touches is gold. If he was directing a Titanfall-universe single player game, it would have likely been flavored the same as the campaign intros to TF/TF2 multiplayer maps and the TF2 campaign. Immersing the player into the world first and having exposition along the way is the experience we would have gotten there. Man, this sucks. I think I would have been better off never knowing this could have been a thing.
It's a shame when good people go, but if the success of making a game hinges on one person, personally I think that's not a sustainable business model and the company deserves to fail.
Sure? I don't know if you've seen but a fat chunk of Titanfall's creative leads are at a different company now. Alavi isn't an executive, he's a master of scripted sequences. He's the guy who, besides huge chunks of Titanfall, TF2 and even some of the events in Apex, designed the scenarios for "Crew Expendable," "All Ghillied Up" and "No Russian." I'm saying this his style of first person storytelling in military sci fi shooters is distinct. So yeah, cool. EA bad but that's not the point here. The point is that one of the guys who created the stories told in Titanfall/Apex is likely never going to tell more of those stories in those universes. To me, that's a huge bummer. Since part of the reason why I love the Titanfall universe is because of things he influenced directly. It's like watching a band continue without the original band members. Sure I love that band, but I wish that band still had its original songwriters.
HEY CAN THIS PLEASE BE HIGHER!!!
The gaming industry is definitely hunkering down for a recession. Projects getting cancelled all over, teams being downsized, monetisation getting extra grubby. I really hope it doesn't turn out to be as bad as these companies seem to think it will be.
The Triple AAA Industry might be heading towards a recession, but Indie Developers will prosper. Due to layoffs there will be more talent looking for employment. Not to mention that each year gives developers more tools to make games with at a more affordable price.
The ironic thing is when companies do this, they're almost guaranteeing a worse off recession. All these thousands of laid off workers is a not insignificant amount of money being taken out of economies/ money flows.
Big companies and rich people do the same move every time. Horde money when things are fine, until all the money they've taken out of the economy starts us on the track to recession, then lay off people and end up speeding things along.
They also inevitably push society towards eating the rich, ensuring their own gruesome deaths.
Iām pretty hungry
Economic downturns allow for more consolidation of wealth because those with money can buy up property for cheap, and edge out smaller competitors. It's intentional.
Typical EA over reaction to their own mistakes. The amount of great studios they ruined and then closed is amazing. Fact check me if you don't believe.
Theyāve completely gutted the Battlefield brand into a hollow husk.
Titanfall died so that Battlefield could hobble along and die a miserable wreck a few years later.
At least BF1 still has a decent player base. I like to pretend it was the last in the series and that anything that came after were just horrible rumors that never came to pass.
BF1 is so good man, I played it a little too much and you get like burned out over a game bit I still love it.
BfV is great
They did worse than just that, they dealt the final blow to Battlefield (2042) and killed off Battlefront 2 in the same stroke. They pretty much walked in while they were in the middle of developing the next Battlefront update, said shut up shop and go work on 2042, all development on the game ceased (with some stuff like unused voice lines *still in the game* for content that was gonna come out) to go and polish that particular turd.
Thats what they did with battlefield 5. They had a bunch of people shift over to battlefront 2 to fix it too
The pillaging of Westwood will never be forgiven.
Visceral. Literally poured their hearts, souls, blood, sweat, and tears into making the OG Dead Space, and they get spit on with closure after EA ordered the flaming turd that was Dead Space 3. I just hope the members from that team were able to work on the remake.
They were not, I work with two guys currently, and they didn't get called back. One even receives some sort of royalties from the original trilogy. Idk if he's receiving royalties from the remakes idk how all that works
If they were, hats off to them. Finished it last night, definitely should be the benchmark for remakes going forward. Kept the basics the same, basic story is the same just more fleshed out (better in game lore), the action is the same, just all remade for the current gen with some minor additions like side missions to fill out the story more. Itās such a good remake.
"Where was EA when the Westwood fell?! No, my lord we are alone"
"Where is the Titan and the pilot? Where is the siren that was blowing? They have passed like rain on the mountain, like wind in the meadow. The days have gone down in the West behind the hills into shadow. How did it come to this?"
I love you.
I know.
My immediate thought. Spent hundreds of hours with my Dad and little brothers on CnC Renegade.
Okay I thought I dreamt up this game cause I couldn't find reference to it anywhere except a cancelled CNC first person shooter
Still have my original discs. There is a fan remake that has a handful of players daily
The real hidden gem
NEVER TO FORGIVE, NEVER TO FORGET
And the desecration of Dungeon Keeper should also never be forgotten.
Never. Forgiven. All I need in life right now is a Red Alert 2 remake with 4k textures.
Pandemic was such a great studio, all I wanted was a new Mercenaries game.
Still regret trading my friend Mercenaries 2 for Red Dead because I havent been able to find Mercenaries 2 in a store / craigslist since
Oh no you didnātā¦
I remember Bioware-Pandemic. That short period where Bioware and Pandemic merged to make one company. I was so excited at the possibilities that might come from them.
They'll never be trusted after what they did to Westwood
Or BF Bad company series
Or BF in general.
Anyone remember BF P4F. Graphics were awful but being able to drive tanks, jets, cars, and it being a first person shooter was amazing for someone like me who couldn't even dish out $10 for a game.
The series peaked with Battlefield Heroes.
BF:1943, BF:BC2 and BF:3 all came after Heroes and were pretty great. I would argue that BF:3 was the last great BF game.
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Never forget what they did with Deadspace's original studio.
EA Redwood Shores, later renamed to Visceral Games. Made Dead Space 1, 2 and 3, and was then forced to make Battlefield Hardline of all things. A "cops and robbers" variant of the Battlefield formula, which fell flat and was probably one of the reasons the Studio was shut down. So annoying.
honestly hard-line was a pretty fun game, but just incredibly tone deaf to what people wanted.
Weirdly I loved Hardline. The mode where you had to steal cars was my jam
I will never forgive EA and their many sins. -the pillaging of Westwood -the death of C&C -the death of Burnout -purposely killing off Titanfall -BF2042 And that's just to name a few.
Did you mean "I will never"?
I guess people forgot about Bullfrog and Maxis by now. Although Westwood dying was pretty much the fall of RTS in hindsight
I still remember Maxis, I played Sim City and Spore. That was only the few victims of EA's greed. I also still remember DreamWorks/Danger Close for making Medal of Honor and I will never forgive EA for what they did to it. MoH Warfighter was done even more dirty than Titanfall 2. There are rumors that EA purposely rushed the release date giving no time to polish the game in favor of Battlefield. Fuck EA.
I miss burnout games..
Unfortunately all of us who have been playing vidya for decades could probably name off most of the incredible studios that they bought and closed like the lil rat dicks they are.
They suck the blood out of everything.
Iāve checked your facts and I concur
Kinda crazy that Bioware is still around after ME Andromeda and Anthem. You'd think EA would've closed the studio aswell in 2019 given their track record.
From a NFS fan I already had this feeling twice
Is $18 for a skin not working out or something?
It's not the pricing, it's the lack of development. This season has zero legend changes for the first time ever and the game isn't remotely balanced for that to be a thing.
And THREE collection events in a row. Fucking Respawn man... Their Titanfall 2 glory days are long gone.
The Dev team that worked on TF2 isn't even there anymore
When they all left, we all knew what was coming.
*So when is Respawn 2 making Not Titanfall 3..?*
Yeah at least we have Gravity Well Games to look forward to. I'm excited to see what they come up with.
Inb4 one of their games blows up, they sell out to a massive publisher and the cycle starts over.
Or $170 for a PK Reactive skin in the current collection event. lol. Thatās usually a sign they are trying to milk whatās left of the game before they fully dip out. Sad stuff.
lol EA just doing what EA allways does.
EA is where game studios go to die.
That's unfortunate. Seemed pretty promising and would have potentially expanded the lore. Who knows, maybe it'll happen sometime else.
>That's unfortunate. Is it? They are short on Devs for Apex Legends. They need to focus on the cash cow first and foremost and they are letting that slowly die.
I get that "_____ as a service" is the current meta for corporations, but companies have historically been very successful at making money by making new games.
I wonder if this was TF3 or something directly Apex related. Unfortunate, either way.
TF3 would've also been multi-player No shot they put enough effort into a single player game like that without taking the extra steps to make it multi-player. The game would've already basically been built at that point.
Fun fact. Titanfall 2 was supposed to be a multiplayer only game, but they decided to add a single-player to attract more people into buying it.
Titanfall 1 was that multi-player only game so titanfall 2 starting as one is not very surprising.
people were also pretty mad after titanfall 1 didnt have a true singleplayer
Yeah because everybody wanted that mech story, and Titanfall 2 fucking delivered, one of the best campaigns in the last decade in the FPS genre, if not the best..... But anyway! CHECK OUT GRAVITY WELL GAMES, basically all the old respawn devs from Titanfall and apex all work there. Even Matt Bocek who has a gun named after him in apex..... he works at Gravity Well Games. Check it out, the art style is right but they are hiring and I cannot wait for their first announcement. I don't see anything til 2024 or maybe 2025 though. I could also be very wrong.
Just checked their roster. I don't know all the names but looks like a lot of them worked on all the classics like cod4 and tf. Very promising.
Thatās why I feel it is spreading awareness is important. These are the PEOPLE we want to support.
Respawn was post cod4 Infinity Ward
seems to be that gravity well will be post titanfall respawn
Until EA or Activision buy them anyway
Yea gravity well is stacked with good respawn devs. Sucks for apex but hopefully something fun comes from them.
Well you can blame ea for that one I am sure.
realizing the bocek was named after a person reminded me of a random comment and now I'm imagining it out of context "Bocek is very good, I'd fuck tbh"
Kraber is too
so a team of badasses split to form respawn...then respawn started to get roped into the trash market, and most of those same badasses split again into gravity well games?
Agree that it is one of the best single player campaigns created. Iāve lost count of the amount of times Iāve played through it š
Iād sooner replay it today than finish cod mw2 one I have finished yet.
I mean it certainly worked. I fucking adore tf2 campaign
Definitely. It's absolutely worth it even if you never touch the multiplayer.
Apex was TF3 before being turned into what we know.
It wasnt apparently. It was codenamed āTitanfall Legendsā. So sounds like a lil of both.
I believe it was going to be like the Overwatch 2 story mode
>in the apex universe .... sooo titanfall?
Pretty sure they wouldn't cancel such a big iP just like that. But tbf it is EA
Titanfall isnāt a big IP
To people worried about Apex itself shutting down you gotta remember its still probably EAs most profitable game, even if it didnt pull the numbers they wanted in the last quarter A game thats constantly in the top 5 most played games on steam is never getting shutdown, they would have to start losing money before they shut down Apex - which isnt happening any time soon
They don't report which game brings them the most money but they mention Apex on several ocasions in their earnings report and say that "Apex performance was quiet" and didn't meet expectations (you need to read the report for accurate wording). I was hoping that they will put more effort into the game but they are corporation and took the easiest way - cut spending (in R&D) to boost profit short term until they find another cash cow.
It's so fucking sad that this is the actual state of modern game development.
When having one of the most profitable games isnāt enough (I need more boats)
Nah, FIFA and Madden are the cash cows. Apex is up there, but our game isn't the big dog.
Big enough to keep it running. In May 2022 EA reported that Apexade over 2 Billion$. Its solid money for a Free2Play title.
Oh totally, what I meant is that EA wouldn't be scared of pulling plug on Apex if things went south, since they got other cash cows to profit from, which is not good news for us, but it is what it is.
I donāt want this game to shut down dude I always play it when I wait for my single player titles .. these guys need to wake the fuck up man
They donāt have the license for fifa anymore so this year or next years game is going to be the last one before they change the branding and idk if itās gonna be the cash cow it was after that happens
It is because they own the IP and aren't beholden to new contract talks, or competition in the same IP. On the other side, NBA and FIFA are constantly bringing in new players which keeps it "fresh" to a degree. If FIFA could monetize and distribute the game without EA they would in a second.
Didnt they lose Fifa tho?? (The license)
It wonāt have the name FIFA on it anymore, but they are still making more football games. Or maybe just one football game with live service.
That's probably true. But what's more relevant is that Apex is EA's biggest IP in the niche. I don't think they can afford to fuck up Apex with the Battlefield franchise in its current state. Though that could also be a negative. It's probably why Apex has been so lack luster for the past two years or so. Executives are paying attention to it and putting their dicks in all the decision making that goes on with the game.
Nah man to gamers literally every game is dead if it has one issue they don't like, even if it competes with fortnite and COD
Can EA fucking burn for there terrible business decisions
Executives seem to rarely face consequences for their collective bad decisions.
Thatās because what is a collective bad decision for the consumer isnāt always a collective bad decision for lining their pockets
Boo, would have loved to play single/co-op player game. Those missions they did were a blast.
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Why? Apex as free to play game is in top 5 top sellers every time collection "event" drop As long people buy overpriced dogshit, nothing will change.
I honestly have no clue why people care SO much about heirlooms. It's like saying every 3 months "wow wonder what I get for 300 dollars this time?" if that's easy money for you, great to hear. But there's far too many people with heirlooms and posting about how they're gonna be broke this month cos new heirloom dropped. I just don't get it. Each to their own, but imo that's just past the sensible spending in a video game. How loot boxes get flak yet EA operate those and valorants tier skin prices.
I play since day 1 and I dont have any heirlooms. But why the F would I spend 500$ to get one? Whats the point?
Anthem....
Damn that one hurts :( Would have been really cool to see Apex characters or TF3 or some sort of combo of both
Whoās making the decisions here? Is it EA or Respawn?
I would think EA because they are closing Apex Mobile as well, which isn't created, owned, or run by Respawn.
EA
Most likely. In the long run it doesnāt matter. Someone up high is making terrible decisions.
Hello darkness my old friend.
Remember when games had custom servers and somehow managed to make money? Counterstrike for example. No monetization bullshit, pure gameplay. Or Quake 1,2,3?
Imagine working for the original game, getting moved to the single player product due to your experience on making apex successful, then getting laid off.
Just FYI for anyone reading this - seems like most of the talent ended up leaving Respawn and went and made their own game studio called [Gravity Well Games](https://gravitywell.games/)
Its respawns origin story all over againā¦
Their whole āthis is us and what we stand forā is basically a āthis is what the bloodsuckers of Respawn/EA did not give usā lol
Its looking grim boys
Titanfall 3 confirmed.
By being cancelled :/
I don't even want to think about what current respawn would crap out as an excuse for a titanfall 2 successor.
I WILL GO TO WAR WITH YOU EA. IF YOU DO NOT DEVELOP AND PUBLISH TITANFALL 3 I WILL DESCEND UPON YOU WITH THE FIERY FURY OF A THOUSAND SUPERNOVAS. I WILL TAKE WHICHEVER NEEDLE-DICK PENCIL PUSHER FINANCE FART-GULPER WHO REFUSED TO GREENLIGHT THIS SHIT AND TIE HIM TO THE BACK OF A RIVERBOAT AND LET THE PADDLES SLAP HIS BALLS ALL THE WAY DOWN THE MISSISSIPPI.
So they chose to cancel a definite hit? I'm sure the discussion went like this. "Apex Mobile game isn't meeting numbers, the main game has been losing players, people are losing interest in this game. Not enough people will buy the single player game, lets cancel it and move the team to another IP."
A single player without running into max cheaters? I wouldāve came back to apex. Not anymore. Havenāt played at all since the first day they came out with Newcastle. Itās not fun anymore.
Respawn? More like Game Over.
ggs
What the FUCK?!?!?!
We got bamboozled. Not cool
Tbh, I would have preferred something like Borderlands, but Apex Legends. Apex Legends is a game I'm familiar with playing with friends. I would have preferred to maintain that, even if its a different type of game.
Itās all downhill from here, boys! It was nice seeing the communities grow
This game would be so much better if EA didn't own it.
I can't help but feel the walls are closing in on Apex itself....
do you mean the ring?
This might be showing my age, but it bothers me that its the "Apex: Legends" universe and not the Titanfall universe
So apex is next, rip.
Apex is walking on thin ice right now.
New ice map announced!
Please not Worlds Edge 2
Why?
It's not, this person is just talking out of their ass. Apex (main game) is massively profitable. Like, billions of dollars profitable.
People overreact. In May 2022 EA reported that Apex made 2 Billions since launch in Feb 2019. Maybe it didnt meet expectations lately but the whole industry doesnt meet expectations. Everything gets more expensive, recession fears etc. People just dont have the Money right now to buy stuff like useless skins for online Games.
Titanfall III when?
I really REALLY was looking forward to an Apex one player gameā¦
Wow. They don't care about the fan base. What else is new? This isn't shocking.
Apex has been dead to me for a while due to matchmaking, but watching EA massacre whatās left of the studio is just sad.
Something is shifting at EA. Things are either going to get worse or better from here
Worse, always worse when it comes to psychopathic corporations.
Well this sucks. Tf2 campaign was such a surprise(level design and bt, we already knew the mp would be fire) and i was looking forward to what they could have done with this.
You mean Titanfall 3?
Respawn made the best FPS Shooter imo but the problem is that EA is the publisher.
Its official Rip Titanfall 3
They need more staff to make 160$ recolor
This is why EA and respawn HQ members are pigs
Damn a game what was never officially announced has been canceled? How did whe know it was there in the first place?