After Apex Legends had a dream start, the game is now steadily losing viewers. Even streaming giants like Shroud no longer have the desire and show this live.
What is the status of Apex Legends? Apex Legends has been steadily losing viewers on Twitch for some time now. Since its launch in February 2019, both peak viewers and average viewers have declined.
Previously, Apex Legends lost about half of all viewers. Currently, Apex Legends is only in 5th place for the most-watched categories on Twitch in the last 30 days (as of April 16 at 1:00 PM), behind:
- League of Legends
- Fortnite
- GTA5
- Just Chatting
Even huge streamers like the new star Shroud are speaking out. In one of his recent streams, he said that he might leave Apex Legends for good. He’d rather play PUBG again.
What is the problem? One of the biggest problems that Apex Legends has, according to many player reports, is a lack of content. So far, the following things have made their way into Apex Legends:
However, many players find this not enough and the Battle Pass has disappointed most fans rather than encouraging them to play. The rewards simply aren’t worth investing so much time.
In addition, there are issues with hackers, which particularly plague many players on PC, and annoying bugs. One such bug also occurred with Shroud, just when he was already frustrated with the game.
The plan of developer Respawn is to publish fewer updates but better ones that have been well-tested and bring more important content. However, players apparently prioritize having the most important points addressed immediately.
The start was very good: These problems overshadow the start of Apex Legends, which can confidently be described as bombastic. Apex Legends took over Twitch in no time and already reached 50 million players after 4 weeks.
The reason for the success are particularly good features like the ping system and also the marketing. For example, Apex Legends booked important streamers right at the start to make the game more known.
What does this mean for Apex Legends? At the moment, the news looks like the end for Apex Legends. The US site Polygon sees it quite differently, however. They say what is happening with Apex Legends is normal.
It always happens that developers have to deal with a new game and updates. However, in the case of Apex Legends, the fall from the strong start to the weaker aftermath is much more severe. Competitors like Fortnite started more slowly and only achieved success after initial problems.
Whether this is really just growing pains and whether Respawn can manage to bring Apex Legends back to the size it had at the beginning remains to be seen.
Fortnite even says that the success of Apex Legends has not had any impact:
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