Why Apex Legends isn\u2019t bringing back old Battle Pass system anytime soon Respawn EntertainmentRespawn doesn\u2019t have any plans to revert the Apex Legends battle pass back to its pre-Season 7 state, game director Chad Grenier has confirmed, despite all the backlash the battle royale devs have copped since making the switch. The latest season of Apex Legends, its seventh since release, has been fairly well-received. It added a new legend, Horizon, and took players to the battle royale\u2019s third map, Olympus. There\u2019s been one sticking point for Apex Legends players across the board though; the battle pass. Respawn made the decision to switch the title over to a new progression system on Nov. 4. Let\u2019s just say players were less than thrilled. Respawn have tweaked it \u2014 they couldn\u2019t just ignore the backlash \u2014 but according to Apex Legends director Chad Grenier, who responded to the community concern in a Reddit-hosted Q&A, there are \u201cno plans\u201d to fully revert it anytime soon. The main reason, Grenier said in a heavily-downvoted reply (his post has just under 1,700 \u2018downvotes\u2019 at the time of publication), is due to players \u201cnot having much left to do\u201d at the end of each Apex Legends season. Respawn often sees players complaining about finishing the battle pass \u201c2\/3rds of the way through the season,\u201d he added. A solution, Respawn believed, was to extend the battle pass. This included making challenges more difficult, and offering less experience in a new \u2018star\u2019 system. \u201cWe adjusted our challenges to give players something to accomplish in that final month,\u201d he explained. \u201cThis change\u2026 was calculated so the majority of our players [could still] finish leveling without purchasing levels.\u201d To their credit, Respawn did admit they had \u201cmade a mistake\u201d with the battle pass difficulty, and comms. director Ryan K. Rigney soon apologized; he even added the Apex Legends devs were far from \u201cmasters of manipulation,\u201d as some had accused. The battle pass won\u2019t be going back to its pre-Season 7 style, however. Grenier and the rest of the Apex dev team are sticking to their guns on the change. It\u2019s the \u201cright step forward,\u201d he stated; it just had a few problems and kinks at the start. \u201cThe battle pass is about keeping players engaged through the season, so we\u2019re not trying to do you wrong here,\u201d the Apex Legends director promised in a heavily-downvoted reply. \u201cWhen these changes went live we heard your feedback loud and clear, and quickly put in a change to make the challenges roughly 50% easier to complete, and we have more changes planned\u2026 to give more agency on challenge completion.\u201d So, there\u2019s no plans to swap back. The devs will keep \u201clistening to feedback into the future,\u201d but Apex Legends will be keeping its Season 7 battle pass into that same future \u2014 they won\u2019t be going back, at least not any time soon. \u201cWe are not trying to secretly force you into buying more battle pass levels. Respawn is made up of passionate gamers, just like you,\u201d Grenier added. \u201cI promise everyone on the team are good people\u2026 [we] just want what\u2019s best for the game.\u201d Apex Legends Season 7, and its battle pass, will end in Jan. 2021.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Why Apex Legends isn\u2019t bringing back old Battle Pass system anytime soon Respawn EntertainmentRespawn doesn\u2019t have any plans to revert the Apex Legends battle pass back to its pre-Season 7 state, game director Chad Grenier has confirmed, despite all the backlash the battle royale devs have copped since making the switch. The latest season of […]<\/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-19321","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19321","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=19321"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19321\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}