Apex Legends pro Ace hits out at Respawn for \u2018catering to casuals\u2019 NRG professional player Brandon \u2018Ace\u2019 Winn has hit out at Apex Legends developers Respawn Entertainment for catering their game to \u2018casual\u2019 players instead of hardcore fans. While it has been on the market since early February of 2019, Apex Legends hasn\u2019t quite exploded on to the competitive scene like Fortnite or even PlayerUnknown\u2019s Battlegrounds. Organizations have picked up multiple players and there have been events \u2013 including a few pro-ams and charity one-offs, but as for real substance, that has been lacking. Despite that, the game is still pretty popular with Respawn rolling out plenty of content updates, fixing bugs and other issues, as well as running events like the Holo-Day Bash. Yet, professional star Ace would like to see the developers pivot and take on the advice of players like himself. Speaking on NRG\u2019s Sunday Sitdown video series, the former Counter-Strike: Global Offensive pro opened up on his feelings about the current state of the game after his last rant went super viral. \u201cI kind of exaggerated that clip but that thing blew up and I feel bad, because, the devs are really passionate about Apex \u2013 you can tell \u2013 but the direction they\u2019re taking the game is like they don\u2019t listen to the actual people who play the game,\u201d Ace said. \u201cThey really cater towards the causal fanbase and I feel like that\u2019s just not the way to take your game,\u201d he continued, before noting that some who plays for 12 hours a day is going to know \u201cwhat\u2019s wrong with the game\u201d and \u201cwhat the game needs\u201d rather than someone who is only dipping in and out. Timestamp for mobile viewers of 19:19 \u201cIt really feels like they\u2019re trying to lower the skill ceiling, and they keep on lowering it, and it\u2019s just not the way to take the game,\u201d Ace concluded before switching the topic to content creation. Of course, it\u2019s not unnatural for any competitive player to feel the way Ace does, but for a game like Apex that is yet to make its mark, he may play a key role in getting changes made. Wheter or not the Respawn development team will heed his words remains to be seen, but until a real competitive scene is struck up, it\u2019s hard to see them changing course in the immediate future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Apex Legends pro Ace hits out at Respawn for \u2018catering to casuals\u2019 NRG professional player Brandon \u2018Ace\u2019 Winn has hit out at Apex Legends developers Respawn Entertainment for catering their game to \u2018casual\u2019 players instead of hardcore fans. While it has been on the market since early February of 2019, Apex Legends hasn\u2019t quite exploded […]<\/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-16158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16158","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=16158"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16158\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}