Apex Legends dev criticizes toxic players \u201cinsulting\u201d Respawn developers Respawn EntertainmentAn Apex Legends developer has highlighted \u2018insulting treatment\u2019 of the game\u2019s developers from some in the player base, explaining that it forces some devs to avoid direct communication with the community. The relationship between Apex Legends players and the developers has been strained at times, especially around monetization issues, and a developer has opened up to give their side of the conversation. Some of the development team at Respawn now apparently avoid direct interaction with players based on the \u201ctreatment\u201d they receive. Daniel Klein, a Senior Game Designer at Respawn, who focuses primarily on Legend balance can be found regularly interacting with Apex players on social media. However, on December 4, he criticized a small portion of the community who insult and personally criticize the devs behind Apex Legends. Klein was originally responding to a question from a player, asking if Respawn could \u201cbring along someone who can speak to the pricing model, bundle trend, and generally horrible store?\u201d \u201cNegativity\u201d from Apex Legends players The Respawn dev weighed in, responding: \u201cNo offense, but many of the people who make those decisions just don\u2019t want to come to Reddit for how they\u2019re treated here. It should be clear that it\u2019s not in my job description to be here either: I do it because I want to, but I want to be very careful not to make it into an expectation for other devs.\u201d While Klein made clear that he cannot speak for other devs, it is understandable that toxicity from even a minority of players could be very off-putting. Player feedback is an important part of any gaming community, but abusing or insulting devs is never acceptable. \u201cEven if it\u2019s not as bad as the stuff I quoted, the constant barrage of negativity and people telling you you suck at your job, asking for you to be fired, calling you names, etc,\u201d he continued, \u201cit will wear you down and people sometimes have serious psychological trauma when they feel pressured to expose themselves to this negativity even when they don\u2019t feel up to it.\u201d Responses to Klein\u2019s comment were mixed. One Redditor argued that: \u201cYou\u2019re basically saying, \u201csome people at Respawn have thin skin and would rather avoid player feedback entirely than attempt to be accountable\u201d. That\u2019s pretty disheartening to read.\u201d Klein, though, stuck by his comments, finishing: \u201cI\u2019m saying people aren\u2019t getting paid to have insults yelled at them and I\u2019m here as an extracurricular. No one owes you their time.\u201d Healthy communication between devs and players is crucial to the success of any major game, but many players can often cross the line and discourage devs from responding publicly. The issues recently have stemmed from the arrangement of bundles in the Holo-Day Bash event. The bundles appear to deliberately put matching skins in different bundles, meaning players have to buy more than one bundle to acquire matching cosmetics. This follows an earlier controversy in Season 7 over changes to the battle pass system. Although changes have now been made, the pass initially took a lot longer to level up, which players thought was a deliberate ploy to encourage the purchase of levels with real money.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Apex Legends dev criticizes toxic players \u201cinsulting\u201d Respawn developers Respawn EntertainmentAn Apex Legends developer has highlighted \u2018insulting treatment\u2019 of the game\u2019s developers from some in the player base, explaining that it forces some devs to avoid direct communication with the community. The relationship between Apex Legends players and the developers has been strained at times, […]<\/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-14506","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14506","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=14506"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14506\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}