Apex Legends: Respawn Entertainment Explains Season 7 Battle Pass Changes

In its Q3 earnings call (the same call during which EA talked about the power of next-gen consoles ), EA revealed that the mobile game isn't being developed in-house; instead, EA partnered up with a Chinese company to both develop Apex Legends mobile for a global release and distribute it in China. According to EA CFO Blake Jorgensen, "Rolling mobile out in China, you need to have a partner, and we’re—as we’ve said in the prepared remarks today—we’re working with a partner there, and we’re very excited about the opportunity. That partner is also helping us develop a mobile Apex for the globe—more to come on that in terms of timing." EA's Chinese partner wasn't actually named in the call and considering it's fairly early in the partnership, that's likely the reason that EA doesn't have a release date for the game yet--although there is a release wind


Since we're talking about a complete different market, you should not be surprised to see a lot of unfamiliar mobile games in the list. Japanese developers are busy, so small mobile timewasters do tend to fit their lifest


These job listings seem to affirm what some players were feeling following a recent leak: Apex Legends has a long life ahead of it. A recent leak by Biast12 seems to indicate that Respawn Entertainment already has plans for the next 7 legends coming to Apex Legends . And while these legends won't be coming for a while, many players felt reassured that Apex Legends is here to s


However, this mobile job listing isn't the only information to be gleaned from Respawn's career section. It seems that Respawn is currently looking to hire a Technical Designer/Scripter dealing with microtransactions. This person's responsibilities will include improvement of the Apex Legends store, event structures, battle passes, Achmavisb.Com and m


To correct this, Respawn attempted to make the player progression in the game more engaging by providing greater challenges for players. The changes were made in a "calculated manner" with the expectation that players would have a better time with updated Apex Legends ' Season 7 content that would be more fulfilling. Especially without purchasing more Battle Pass levels to do so. Of course, the developer didn't count on the amount of grinding this would create, as well as the resulting player backlash that follo


This job listing could be seen as relatively good news as fans of Apex Legends have criticized the game in the past for its extensive and seemingly overpriced microtransactions. When the game first started introducing heirlooms, players even calculated that they would need to spend at least $170 to get Bloodhound's Raven's Bite . While those microtransactions have never been mandatory to be competitive within the game, players have certainly been left with a bad taste in their mouths over the excessive c


EA announced its decision to bring its popular battle royale game Apex Legends to mobile devices last year, but fell more or less silent on the subject until its recent third-quarter earnings call. During the call, EA finally confirmed that the release of Apex Legends for mobile is moving forward as planned, as EA spent those months of radio silence locking in a publishing partner in Ch


A mobile version of Apex Legends first come onto the radar during the game's season 2 content, but both EA and Respawn had little else to say at the time, and definitely no release date. While there's still no release date, EA at least offered a few more details as to how the mobile Apex Legends' development is currently far


In the post, Grenier responded to user Ender112 who asked why Respawn made the changes to Apex Legends' latest Battle Pass and if it was a disingenuous move by the developer. He stated that the team made the changes with the players' interests in mind and are not trying to play "negotiation games" with them. He emphasized that the developers weren't trying to incentivize players into buying more battle pass levels for the game, and were only trying to make the best game possi


A new job listing on Respawn Entertainment's website seems to suggest that a mobile version of Apex Legends is currently in the works. While the job listing itself says the company is looking for a senior game designer to work on "unannounced mobile games," it is under the Apex Legends section of the site, making it pretty obvious that the games in question are likely related to Apex Legen


At the very least, Apex Legends fans do have something in the very near future to look forward to, as the game's season 4--titled "Assimilation" --goes live on February 4. Beyond that, fans can at least be assured that the mobile title they so enthusiastically wanted remains a definite reality; it's coming, but there'll be a bit of a w


This job listing seems to reconfirm what Electronic Arts CEO Andrew Wilson during an EA Fireside Chat back in June. At that time, Wilson had stated that EA intended to do a soft launch of Apex Legends for mobile by the end of the year . However, with it almost being October, job listings for the project still being posted, and Respawn being focused entirely on the full Apex Legends experience and its cross-play update, that 2020 launch estimate is starting to seem unobtaina