Apex Legends criticized for selling nearly identical weapon skins The Apex Legends store has always drawn criticism in the past, and it\u2019s once again under fire from fans over very two similar-looking weapon skins, both for sale at a premium. Apex Legends isn\u2019t alone in the battle royale market with its in-game store as Fortnite makes a killing with its daily updated shop. As free-to-play games, they rely solely on in-game revenue. However, Respawn\u2019s store has been criticized for its high prices, with \u2018legendary\u2019 items costing the equivalent of $18, and occasionally underwhelming skins, although they have definitely improved in this area. One frequrent addition to the shop are skin \u2018recolors\u2019, which take an already existing skin and give it a new colorway. While not problemetic on their own, fans have pointed out that some of the colors are very similar. Reddit user bricious posted a meme that shows how similar \u2018The Life Saver\u2019 and \u2018Rescue Effort\u2019 skins for the Kraber sniper are \u2013 practically just the same design on the weapon with very slight color tweaks. The picture showing just minor differences leaves no real reason to get the next one, which is only available by dropping 1,800 coins on The Life Saver. For the Rescue Effort skin, players will first have to buy \u2018The Snowpiercer\u2019 for 1,800 coins, and then use 6,500 Legend tokens, which is the free in-game currency. Some users have suggested that the recolorings could be determined by some sort of random algorithm, rather than a human artistic choice. Of course, this isn\u2019t the first time Apex Legends has come under fire for the pricing of their weapon skins, with the most famous criticism being during the Iron Crown event. Respawn later admitted that they had \u201cmissed the mark\u201d with the pricing and MTX system. During the Fight or Fright Halloween event, EA decided to throw players a bone by offering a \u201cfree\u201d Lifeline heirloom, but things aren\u2019t quite what they seem as you\u2019ll need to collect all of the event cosmetics first and fans are not happy about this either. For all the things Apex Legends gets right, it\u2019s clear there\u2019s still work that needs to be done in the shop. Luckily, the gameplay is top-notch and players are still able to enjoy the game without spending a dime.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Apex Legends criticized for selling nearly identical weapon skins The Apex Legends store has always drawn criticism in the past, and it\u2019s once again under fire from fans over very two similar-looking weapon skins, both for sale at a premium. Apex Legends isn\u2019t alone in the battle royale market with its in-game store as Fortnite […]<\/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-14410","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14410","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=14410"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14410\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}