Apex Legends dev responds to complaints about \u201crecycled\u201d LTMs Respawn EntertainmentAn Apex Legends developer has responded to players\u2019 complaints about bringing back old LTMs (limited-time modes), rather than adding new ones. His candid response shed some light on why Respawn continues to \u201crecycle\u201d LTMs and the effort that goes into perfecting them. The debate surrounding Respawn\u2019s continued use of recycled LTMs is not a new one. Certain members of the Apex community continue to voice their issue with the lack of all-new LTMs being added to the game. Although there are have been numerous different limited-time modes since Apex released in 2019, Respawn brings back fan-favorites such as Armed & Dangerous and Always be Closing on a regular basis. Although these modes are generally well-liked, some have assumed that they are recycled as a low effort means of adding \u2018new\u2019 content. However, senior game designer Daniel Klien has explained the team\u2019s thinking. Apex dev responds to complaints of \u201crecycled\u201d LTMs Complaints surrounding LTMs on the Holo-Day Bash announcement thread led to a response from the dev. A number of players had expressed their disappointment that \u2018Winter Express\u2019 was just another \u201crecycled\u201d mode. But, the game designer outlined the amount of effort that had gone into perfecting and reworking the \u2018Winter Express\u2019 mode: \u201cbetween the supply ships and the new stations and a LOT of behind the scenes changes to reduce downtime it feels so much better to me.\u201d Despite the response, this only led to comments stating that \u2018Winter Express\u2019 was still a recycled LTM and that no new content had been added. This led to an extremely candid statement from the developer that revealed the exact reason Respawn choose to bring back fan-favorite LTMs: \u201cReal talk\u2026 everyone ASKS for game modes but looking at our numbers, it doesn\u2019t seem like people play them nearly enough for us to put in the amount of effort required to make a new mode.\u201d This certainly offers some context to the debate surrounding \u201crecycled\u201d LTMs. If the player numbers don\u2019t justify the resources needed to make a new LTM, then why would Respawn continue to produce them? It\u2019s often difficult for developers to grasp what content a player base is looking for. Although social media can be a good indicator, it often only represents those who shout loudest, rather than the entire community. Respawn devs remain very active and engage with players about issues, so feedback should always be encouraged.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Apex Legends dev responds to complaints about \u201crecycled\u201d LTMs Respawn EntertainmentAn Apex Legends developer has responded to players\u2019 complaints about bringing back old LTMs (limited-time modes), rather than adding new ones. His candid response shed some light on why Respawn continues to \u201crecycle\u201d LTMs and the effort that goes into perfecting them. The debate surrounding […]<\/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-14608","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14608","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=14608"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14608\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}