Greed Is Destroying Apex 

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-Imagine going to the supermarket to buy chocolate candy. -You don't need candy to live, but you enjoy candy. -The cashier brings out 8 boxes and tells you, that only one of the boxes is a chocolate candy, rest is candy you don't like. -Than the cashier tells you, that if you pay X dollars, you get a random box. -On top of it all, the cashier tells you, that if you buy all 8 boxes (7 of them useless to you), you will get the best chocolate candy out there, BUT ONLY THIS WEEK. Would you keep going to this place? *This is how respawn is treating you.*

Respawn: “We have heard the community and promise to never do a gambling event ever again” EA: “Did somebody say *gambling events?”*

This is called conditioning. EA and Respawn are slowly introducing these systems, over time, anticipating and calculating the impact of backlash, then either making really minor adjustments to then say "we listened to the community" or to just full send it and tank the negative PR... bc we all know that it's still a net positive for their bottom line, at the end of the day.

The game has seemingly entered the infamous death spiral. Less people play it thus less people are spending money in the shops causing Respawn to cash grab even more which ends up driving more people away.

U can hear the anger in his voice

I mean.... The pilots are always looking for new recruits. Hop on Titanfall 2 everyone?

My favorite thing in games is taking a break for a year or two, then on revisiting the game there are now a bunch of new, bolted-on currency systems that have been reworked, modified or removed multiple times.

Dont forget , they dont update old prestige skins with sky dives trails, they introduce new recolors heirloom with finishers but dont update wraith and Revenant with heirloom recolor finisher

It went downhill the moment they added universal hierlooms

Monoco yachts are expensive to maintain bro - Andrew Wilson EA CEO (probably)

*EA Board discussing the next event:* “Lets try to rip them off again and see how many still fall for it”

Comunity: what prompted you to make such a controversial change to the battle pass? Respawn: *voice of Mr. Crabbs* I like money.

Before I feel like apex devs cared about the players base. They used to have devs stream and it was nice to keep us in the loop of what’s going on , but now it’s all gone :(

When Apex launched on steam in 2020 it was in the low 90s in positive reviews, today it has 69% mixed. Nice.

Glad someone finally made a video in detail on the progression of monetisation in apex becuase people seem to forget about things like the iron crown event and respawn know that which is why it always gets worse and they just stay quiet about it... hopefully now the community realise how scummy and predatory the monetisation in apex is and will finally take a stand

At the end of the day I don’t give a f about battle passes,skins, trails, badges, heirlooms, trackers, stickers, etc. I care about the gameplay, game health + ranked. Which is obviously what respawn cares the least about.

its just annoying because for like 17 seasons, from like season 3 all the way until like season 19 when the gacha stuff started, they had a mostly alright monetization system. they're just suddenly changing it into this weird cash grab gacha stuff and it sucks. it's so greedy all of the sudden for no reason.

i cannot express enough how much i respect you as a content creator for these videos, it show how much you like the game and want it to live and succeed in a healthy way (even tho EA puts a lot of effort to end it.)

One thing I'll never forget is how the first anniversary event we got 24 reskins and heirloom shards while today half of the anniversary items are banners and holosprays completely not worth it

This video needs to start trending. He broke everything down to an absolute T.

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="390">6:30</a> Dont forget that firsst heirloom recolour was half price in coins and crafting. I thought it would have set a precedence for recolour events in the future but no straight back to full price

I still find this so hard to believe as a Titanfall veteran that this is the same studio that used to sell prime Titans skins for $5, nose art packs were $4, camo packs were $3 and elite weapons skins that were $5 that give you 1 extra merit to you an your teammates and a chance to get double XP back in Titanfall 2. It’s disappointing to see the studio that I held such high standards for to turn out like this.

Not the runescape soundtrack 😂😂😂 love it

Greed is destroying every game in general

One thing I find funny no one brings up is the random addition of the Crypto Heirloom recolor, just dropped in the store. And what it strange is they gave him NO new animations with it. So it's probably why it didn't go in an event. It didn't have the same perceived value as the other recolors.

If I had a dollar for every time I was nickel and dimed by EA I wouldn't be worrying about being nickel and dimed

It all started with the heirloom recolors.

Its funny how the first music instantly put me on edge. I felt like I was about to lose all my loot.

I remember that s1 Battlepass. Basic is putting it lightly

"Hey we're working on this really cool thing that the players are gonna love, it doesn't eat their wallet!" "Scrap it."

Props for Runescape/Rust music :D

Man apex is strait up cooked

The outrage is much needed, hopefully this will FINALLY convince EA to fucking do something to help the game

Boss, our game is dying, and players are losing their trust in us and we're losing a lot of money. What should we do? -Wait, say that last part? ...We're losing money? -Dear god... look, just increase the price of literally everything and the suckers will buy it. In fact, add a new curreny and dont let players buy the battlepass with the coins those greedy bastards hoard to get the battle pass free every season.

the runescape music lmao

I didn't even start playing Apex until s16, I'm truly upset that I never got to experience peak Apex and just have to watch a game that I've grown to love plummet to the ground. I spend more time in the range than I do in actual games now

I'll tell you all a secret EA dont know. It's easy to increase your price when your product is good.

this runescape remix goes hard asf

Runescape theme eh respect 😂

Remember when apex came out and EA didn't had his dirty hands on this game? I remember and it was beautiful

I feel like you should've mentioned the ALGS Team Shop store where all they added were the banner frames for the participating teams and reused old skins just so they could call it a bundle

Ive been an apex fan since Season 0. I remember hearing about the game and being so hype. I was naive, and unaware of the repeated punches to my gut I'd get from the developers I put in such high regard.

the og rust music getting me nervous, i thought i was about to lose my m249

ngl once i done with this season battle pass, im going to take a photo and flip the screen off and tag ea and apex in a tweet and be like im not coming back lol

Atleast queue-ing up isn't behind a pay wall.

I’m so sad omgggg I can’t believe this is happening to apex😭😭😭 But also nice video garret your awesome!!!❤️❤️❤️🐐🐐🐐🔥🔥🔥 (seriously I really loved this video and the style of it!)

“Blizzard is being greedy! Overwatch 2 is bad!” Apex Fans:

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="446">7:26</a> I wonder if that was some sort of test for splitting battle pass in two.

Honestly at this point I may as well give my kids,beers and cigars as there old enough to gamble awesome

Titanfall 3 was cancelled for this btw

greed isn't just destroying apex. it already ruined it ages ago! :(

Gonna be honest this season had felt dryer than a desert

In the past , they create recolor skins for we players can buy with red coins , but now they create recolor skins for drain our wallets, in the past create stats trackers, now they dont care, etc i give up of this , they dont update old prestige skins with sky, dives trails , i love arenas , duos and they take from the game , they see we players save the crafiting matirials for buy nice skins from events , they just create a way to create events and make sure we cant buy with crafting materials 😢 its sad , i have around 2500 hours , around 700 legenderys , im very disapoiting with the game ,

They are missing out on having a daily or 42hr shop with new Emotes,Skydive Emptes, banners,finishers. Apex also needs to evolve

You know Apex is BAAAD if Grrt is mad...

Thank you Apex and Garet for the wonderful time I have spent on this game and community but the greed and mishandling of the game has grown too much for a casual like me. I'd rather enjoy watching Pros play ALGS than to scream at my screen because a shite with cheats 1 mag headshotted me across the map. This channel kept me up to date from leaks to changes to events. Im gonna migrate to a game where the community matters. Rock and Stone ⛏. Goodbye from a silent viewer

You forgot one. We used to get a free legendary weapon skin from the collection events' reward track. Not anymore.

As a causal player I don’t have time to grind a battle TWICE! in one season. Apex been fun but it’s time to give it a rest

Me and my friend joke about how many different types of ingame currencies there are on pubg. It seems apex now wants in on the joke.

I knew this was gonna happen, i quit the game next season and i won't even turn back to see it anymore

Its a free game! You can continue to play with out buying the extra stuff! Im okay with paying if that means we can get better servers.

Send this video to EA and Respawn, this is a perfect description of companies greed

just don't buy skins, easy

I’m curious what happened at respawn, they were doing everything right, then suddenly you can see the huge shift from final fantasy event, and now it’s been downhill constantly

The rust music threw me off 😂😂

Greed is destroying all capitalistic Businesses. Its not just happening in Apex, and its being Pushed Heavily. What these companies realize now, is that its their game,and no one can say anything about it because who is to stand in their way? even then everything IRL is getting even more expensive, this is just Capitalism at its finest.

the dive trail change wasn't needed, now ranked rewards are awful

the old school runescape track in the background doe

This game killed the Titan fall universe

Now That First Descendant is out, I haven’t even thought about Apex.

I foresaw this day the moment I quit apex years ago, when the only thing left to do was to become a sweat lord and just tap strafe your way to bottom tier diamond. this game needs to be in the grave. its time to go apex, you were beloved, but you screwed up.

I appreciate this video. Thank you. Its spot on. 💯 end of an era😢

‘We want to keep this game alive, so that you can play it with yours kids in the future, Ape sec leg ends

"Aaaand it all starts back in season 1" Ok buddy we all know you just want to pad out the run time 😂😂

Lol,Imagine those Titan Holos on Vanilla R301!!!

Players: -we want higher tick rate -balance controller aim assist -more fair events -better character balancing Respawn: - lol sticker on battery

I remember playing this game from day one up until season 13 2000+ hours later and still the game has not been better than season 3

How many content creators do you actually trust to tell it like it is? Finally listening and boosting the community

i have around 100 days played on apex played since the first week of release up until around season 11 and since then apex has never felt the same, i miss the game i love

The Seven deadly sins can be very deadly sometimes

Say it with me now: EA penny, nickle, and dime. Every single gaming time.

love the osrs music on yt videos

Apex season 0 - 3 used to be so much fun man

I just came back to my old favorite battle royale, just to discover that is dying, how beautiful.

I remember someone said “We wanna make Apex your children will play” Well if they keep this up my children won’t know what Apex is 😪

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="300">5:00</a> That was the best part. I got heirloom shards and choose the Bangalore heirloom. And two months later I got heirloom shards back to back from a single pack.( I thought it was a bug so I immediately bought 2 heirlooms)

The deathbox in the ff event can only be used if you use the sword. So the heirloom that came after with all the tiers cant use that and the deathbox from last event thats pure greed. It should be two separate things in the menu. And wraith still dont have a dive trail

RuneScape background music poppin off

You know a game is dying when they put more effort on monetization than dealing with cheating.

they just know one thing Garr: SKINS SKINS SKINS SKINS SKINS NEW EVENT SKINS SKINS

Bruh, Exotic Shards are pretty much useless if EA doesn’t allow players to use Exotic Shards to craft: - Mythic Heirloom Recolors if you already have the original one - Mythic Heirloom Banners for OG Heirlooms - Mythic Heirloom Emotes - Mythic Intro and Kill Quips

Idk why yall complain every single flippin day about apex but you still play 24/7. If you want a company to listen. Stop. Playing. Their. Game.

Apex has been destroyed for awhile, it just took awhile for everyone to see it.

Wish they did the same event for the reactive flatline skin by allowing us to grind over the course of the season, but instead of a reactive skin, it would be heirloom shards. This would bring back a lot of people. There are over 20 heirlooms if you count skins, they can give one heirloom shards away by having us grind in game.

Whenever I get stickers, they look cool at first, so I put them onto all of my healing items but I never notice them in-game. It's pretty disappointing

call of duty and apex legends competing for the most expensive in game lootboxes reward of the current times

I swear when stickers came out, we didn't get any new stickers for like 2 whole seasons lol

Really wish the final fantasy stuff would come back 😞

Respawn taking notes from Nexon 😂