From the subsequent season, you’ll now not be capable of pay for Apex Legends with in-game forex, as EA is removing it from the game.
EA has announced a major overhaul of Apex Legends and it’s not good news for anyone that’s not used to spending real money on battle passes.
The entire concept of in-game currency (called AC in Apex Legends) is being removed from the game and instead you’ll have to buy the battle pass with actual money. In fact, with future seasons being split in two you’ll have to buy two battle passes to keep up.
Previously, players could buy just one battle pass and then, if they played the game regularly, earn enough AC from that to buy the next battle pass purely with in-game currency. Now that’s going to be impossible, which is clearly EA’s intent.
According to EA they’re ‘evolving’ the battle pass, with the promise of improving the value and reducing the time needed to unlock high-end items. The reality though, is that a single battle pass will cost £8.99 and the Premium+ track will be £17.99.
There is still a free battle pass track you can play, but the rewards are minimal and far less than what players will be used to from paying for the full battle pass with AC.
The only benefit is that EA will decrease the level needed to earn all rewards from 110 to 60, but you’re certainly paying for that privilege.
There’s a lengthy blog post, with a mind-bogglingly complicated chart explaining the modifications and totally different battle go tracks, however it’s described in probably the most complicated approach potential, in order that it’s not instantly apparent what a large change this – and what a large sum of money EA might be anticipating folks to pay.
‘The affect of this modification is twofold. It permits us to align seasonal development extra intently with Ranked whereas additionally rising the worth to your time,’ says EA.
In an try to go off a few of the criticism, EA is permitting gamers to finish challenges to unlock the primary battle go, however there’s no assure that might be potential for any of the following ones.
The modifications will go into impact from Season 22, which begins on August 6 – in order that’s lower than a month from now.
As you’ll be able to think about, none of this has gone down properly with followers, with a lot of them shocked on the sudden change, and the complicated approach EA has introduced it.
‘This is a few of the most EA s*** I’ve ever seen.’ says Noko in reply to the tweet asserting the information.
‘Yeah, no approach I’m getting the battle go now, I barely bought sufficient time to play an entire season not to mention two half seasons,’ says Biast12.
Do you need to kill the sport? Cuz that is the way you kill the sport Don’t even hassle releasing Season 22 this fashion, revert it,’ provides DANNYonPC.
‘I’m normally optimistic however that is simply disappointing. You have probably the greatest shooters at its core with an incredible neighborhood and but you retain slowly killing it. For the individuals who nonetheless play your recreation even with the participant depend being the bottom since 2021, you might be simply punishing them by making the battle go now costing actual cash as an alternative of with the ability to use AC,’ writes FireDragon.
‘Please, please, please cease this and deal with fixing the precise points along with your recreation that everybody retains speaking about and wanting so we will see it thrive as soon as extra.’
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