Respawn CEO explains why they have \u2018gone dark\u2019 on Apex Legends content EAVince Zampella, Respawn Entertainment\u2019s founder and CEO, has admitted that the Apex Legends developers don\u2019t know how quickly they should be coming out with new content for their hit battle royale game. Titanfall developers Respawn surprised gamers when they launched Apex Legends without warning on February 4, but it became an overnight success, with many Fortnite players keen to test out the new game. However, thanks to Fortnite Battle Royale\u2019s fortnightly updates, it\u2019s an audience that has become accustomed to regular fresh content. Speaking at GamesBeat Summit 2019, Zampella admitted that the success of Apex Legends had taken Respawn by surprise too. How often should Respawn update Apex? Perhaps it would be unfair to compare Apex to Fortnite, but Zampella said that his team was still struggling with the pace of change. \u201cWe didn\u2019t expect it to be as big as it was,\u201d he said. \u201cWe\u2019re still figuring out internally what the cadence of content has to be and how we support it. We\u2019ve been a little dark because we\u2019re kind of figuring out internally what we have to do.\u201d (Zampella begins speaking at 4:33:37) He also said that Respawn had been caught out by the bugs that the game\u2019s players had discovered \u2013 fixing these has diverted their attention away from fresh content. \u201cWhen you get that many people stress testing the game, you find flaws that you never imagined,\u201d he explained. \u201cWe\u2019ve been fire fighting, fixing things. We\u2019re gonna put the focus back on those quality of life issues and make sure everything is perfect before we really start to build more content.\u201d Apex Legends has a lot of bugs that need fixing There is a large hacking problem on PC in Apex Legends, something the console players are able to avoid, but there are some serious bugs that affect all of the platforms too, some of which have existed since the game\u2019s launch. The developers have said fixes are coming soon, but there\u2019s currently no definitive timetable. At the same time, the game has only had one new weapon and one new \u2018legend\u2019 character since launch, and not a single change to the map \u2013 leaving some players wanting more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Respawn CEO explains why they have \u2018gone dark\u2019 on Apex Legends content EAVince Zampella, Respawn Entertainment\u2019s founder and CEO, has admitted that the Apex Legends developers don\u2019t know how quickly they should be coming out with new content for their hit battle royale game. Titanfall developers Respawn surprised gamers when they launched Apex Legends without […]<\/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-18533","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18533","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=18533"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18533\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}