Seriously, what happened?

They removed b-hopping and crouch swapping.

Zero updates. They released a competitive shooter with pretty poor balance (extremely poor) and just didn't update the thing or say jack shit for a full two months after release.

they're also nerfing smgs, shotguns and the wingman alongside universal hipfire with season 2 so strafing is slower in order to make the other shitty guns reliable

>this game will kill [biggest game in the genre]
That doesn't happen. Leading games end up killing themselves slowly, they don't just get dethroned by other games.

See WoW, Fortnite, TF2.

They went an entire month with no updates while hackers ran rampant.

Bad updates, I blame EA for not giving them enough resources since they were heavily shilling anthem at the time.

this isnt too bad, hipfire is stupid mode in this game and a strafing wraith/lifeline with wingman is an absolute fucking joke to fight. every time you ADS you are actively being punished by characters that are smaller and strafing faster or hipfire in general. also smg nerf prob isnt universal considering only r99 is particular good, i think it could use some adjustments with how its an insta melt weapon and defacto best close quarters gun barring mastiff.

>can't handle 100 players
>forced to play against teams, despite not guaranteed to have a team
>play from a selection of actual cripples and faggots who's abilities are worthless
>loot all over the place, occasionally they are weapons
>games are 100% RNG based and people pretend its skillful or competitive
>map is industrial in a sandy jungle, all you see is brown and grey
>any weapon that isn't the magnum is completely retarded
>only one game mode that is totally still """"fun"""" after you've played it enough times to unlock a single character

It was always shit, everyone just fell for the hype

>playing pew pew reload games

they refused to strike while the iron was hot

Fortnite paid them

Diversity doesn't sell. Gameplay does.

are there any games that were truly killed by a new game?

does pubg count?

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Too slow

yeah and in return you make it absolute baby mode where the entire game turns into guessing how many layers of RNG the enemy team is on because any sort of aggressive play would be heavily punished
this is why nerfing instead of buffing shit will always just outright ruin game design and lower the skill ceiling by absurd amounts

ADHD zoomers are responsible for these Twitch-famous games successes and failures, and they need an aggressive and unending stream of updates and changes, and Apex failed on that front. There hasn't been any drastic developments since the game released and Season 1 was extremely dull, whereas Fortnite has had numerous changes and events in the same time span. Fortnite might be trash but it knows how to keep people coming back with FOMO tactics.

You could start by making more than 3 characters worth paying.

they lied and said they didn't put all their developers to work on the new Star Wars when it's so obvious they did. They only left the D tier employees to work on Apex.

It was basically a BR antivirus
>attacks fortnite
>all but kills it
>Apex turns on itself and dies of content starvation

characters are shit but the fps mechanics are wayyy better than all other br games

EA + going woke actually does make you go broke, even if you repackage Titanfall's great mechanics.

the battle royale playerbase demands frequent updates and respawn didn't deliver, its as simple as that but the poor balance probably didn't help

took forever to release the battlepass and when it finally came it was shit
All they literally needed was a stable of hot husbandu and waifus
It's also not easy for them to constantly change the map like Fortnite

>all but kills it
Expect to see fortnite halloween costumes in stores for the next 3 years or so

Fortnite kiddies don‘t stick with Fortnite for the engaging gameplay. They stick with it because there‘s an update every two weeks.

Respawn is notoriously slow with post launch support, so this was bound to happen. I‘ve been saying it from day one.

>Literally everyone and their dog was saying this would dethrone Fortnite
No, paid shills were saying that. Learn to tell the difference.

Pubg still gets hundreds of thousands of concurrent players. They are just all Chinese and half of them cheat.
So you see, even with a competitor achieving great success, pubg won't get "killed" but has rather begun to just rot from within because of its own problems.

No waifus and slow bug fixes. It's fine otherwise. It didn't dethrone Fortnite because Apex is fun to play but boring to watch.

I'm still playing it. For me it's more fun than fortnite, mostly because enemies don't turn into buildings and the weapon meta doesn't change every few seconds.

Don't really care about the "content starvation", if we get sick of Apex, my team and I just switch for something else for awhile.

You had to be a complete idiot to believe that it's going to "dethrone" fortnite. Fortnite already has the kids and it's a staple "streamer game" now. But why do you care about it Yea Forums? I thought we are here all about actually good games and being contrarian to the mainstream.

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>even if you repackage Titanfall's great mechanics.
Titanfall addict here. I hate when people say this. Titanfall is a completely different beast from this shit.

game has very significant balancing issues that became apparent after a few weeks of people bruteforcing every possible angle of exploit
devs are both extremely hesitant to change fucking anything, taking months to respond to the simplest of problems, and could not even balance a breakfast

when game gets updates, patches create more problems than they solve because theyre being squeezed out under extreme pressure and not being tested properly
devs very clearly do not have the manpower necessary to support the game at the rate it needs to be changed to keep up with its competition, and what they do have is not up to the task, see aforementioned balancing issues
and lastly ea is very clearly squandering money on other ventures and not giving it the attention that the boom it had in popularity earned it

this is probably because game is wholly reliant on cosmetic microtransactions to stay afloat
and nobody wants to sink money into cosmetics for ugly characters, ea makes very little money off it, and isnt interested in extending the brand because theyre desperately chasing the "games as a service" money faucet

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Fortnite is already dieing as it is,hell a lot of Battle royale games are

I wish Apex played like titifall. Pathfinder is the only enjoyable character.