Summary

  • Apex Legends will split the battle pass in two and charge $9.99 for each half going forward.
  • The community is outraged, so much so that the "Recent Reviews" score on Steam has already dropped to "Mixed".
  • Fans are uninstalling the game in protest, but on the subreddit, players are putting together a more organised boycott.

Apex Legends is "evolving" the battle pass in Season 22. It will be split into two parts, neither of which can be purchased with Apex Coins. Instead, they'll cost $9.99 each, or $19.99 for both.

Fans are so angry at the news that the "Recent Reviews" score on Steam plummeted to "Mixed" overnight in protest of these changes. "Very good battle pass update," wrote one player. "Makes my uninstall button spin".

I'm uninstalling the game, unless Respawn and EA walk back on these BP changes it will stay that way.

"Uninstalled due to new BP," another said. "Final nail in the coffin."

"After playing since Season 1, I'm very sad it has come to this," writes another. "The company is greedy and will never listen to the community".

"The game already had tons of issues for many seasons, and yet EA decides to make the game's already predatory monetisation even worse," reads one review. "Great job".

They really know how to split their player base like they do their battle passes.

"Hi, Billy Mays here and in two easy steps I can show you how to pi-- off your dwindling playerbase," another says.

Apex Legends Players Are Organising A Protest

While a lot of players are instinctively uninstalling the game, the community is also putting together an organised boycott. "How To Effectively Protest BP Changes" has skyrocketed to the top of the Apex Legends subreddit with over 1,000 upvotes in just 15 hours, detailing how you can take part.

It asks other players to stop buying microtransactions, to stop participating in events, and to quit playing. It also asks the community to post about the protest on social media, share the post with other players, call on streamers and content creators to boycott the game (they also stress that you should not harass anyone), post links to protest media under official Apex Legends news, and uninstall the game.

Hundreds of comments have poured in agreeing with the post, but many point out that the community tried this before. Two years ago during Season 13, thousands of players put together a boycott they called "No Apex August", but not only did it fail to make a splash, there was a surge of players. Will history repeat itself, or will the community pull it off this time?

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Apex Legends

Battle Royale First-Person Shooter Released February 4, 2019 ESRB T for Teen: Blood, Violence Developer(s) Respawn Entertainment Publisher(s) Electronic Arts Engine Source on console/PC, Unreal Engine 4 on mobile Multiplayer Online Multiplayer Cross-Platform Play PC, PS4, Switch & Xbox One Cross Save Cross Progression lets you share your game progress across PC, PlayStation®, Xbox, and Nintendo Switch
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Blending the genres of battle royale and hero shooter, Respawn Entertainment's Apex Legends has become a staple of the competitive gaming scene. Set in the same universe as the hit Titanfall series, players must come together in cross-platform play to be the last team standing.

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