Apex Legends players skeptical of dev\u2019s \u201ccompromise\u201d after Battle Pass backlash EANot everyone in the Apex Legends community is ready to applaud Respawn for backtracking on some of its Battle Pass changes. Details of Respawn\u2019s planned Battle Pass update for Season 22 didn\u2019t go over well with fans, the price changes counting among the most controversial in the announcement. Approximately two weeks after the news went live, the Apex Legends studio issued an apology and reversed course in some respects. Most importantly, Season 22 will once again allow players to purchase the Premium Battle Pass for 950 Apex Coins. Several players and well-known content creators praised the U-turn and Respawn\u2019s willingness to address the backlash. For example, 100 Thieves\u2019 NiceWigg said the following on Twitter\/X, \u201cW change and W acknowledgment.\u201d On Reddit, posts praising Respawn and EA for \u201cactually listening\u201d have gained quite a bit of traction. Another user wrote \u201cwe won\u201d when sharing the Battle Pass news in a separate Apex Legends thread. However, other community members have expressed skepticism. Some argue the companies likely expected the backlash and then unveiled a \u201ccompromise\u2026 which ultimately still benefits them as you have to buy the battle pass twice per season.\u201d Wrote another unconvinced fan in the \u201cWe won\u201d thread: \u201cI see a lot of smoke and mirrors. [I] hate the fact they tried to screw us over and reverted just to save face.\u201d In response to one person saying they\u2019re expecting worse in the future, another Apex user stated the backtracking walks a fine line that keeps fans \u201cplaying and paying,\u201d while the company pockets more money without angering users too much. Amid comments calling out optimistic community members for being \u201cnaive\u201d and \u201cgullible,\u201d someone else noted that this constitutes a pattern for the Apex publisher. \u201cEA has built a reputation on making changes, then partially walking it back.\u201d Apex Legends players can decide the value of these Battle Pass changes for themselves when Season 22 arrives on August 6.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Apex Legends players skeptical of dev\u2019s \u201ccompromise\u201d after Battle Pass backlash EANot everyone in the Apex Legends community is ready to applaud Respawn for backtracking on some of its Battle Pass changes. Details of Respawn\u2019s planned Battle Pass update for Season 22 didn\u2019t go over well with fans, the price changes counting among the most […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14202","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14202","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14202"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14202\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}