Apex Legends and Star Wars: Jedi Dev Respawn Cancels Another Incubation Project, Lays Off Unknown Number of Individuals

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• RightHandOfIkaros@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I bet it was Titanfall 3.

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  • MilitantAtheist@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    It was

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• apfelwoiSchoppen@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Leadership cites not being able to buy more than two yachts as the cause.

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• ampersandrew@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  From Jeff Grubb:

  To clarify, I’ve been told the layoffs are more than just Respawn and are similar to last year’s February layoff where 670 people were cut. I don’t know the exact number.

  But yeah, I’m sure continuing to chase live service as though you’ll ever get Apex Legends to be as successful as it once was will totally work out.

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  • real_squids@sopuli.xyz ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Imagine making billions (with an S) off of one game and still calling it a miss. Chasing infinite growth is so dumb.

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    • Katana314@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Recently, Clair Obscur told another story of ex-publisher success. So far, we only know of the review success and I don’t actually know if it’s a financial success.

      If it is, I can only hope it leads to some investor understanding in just how done the world is of lottery-planning in the game world; seeing one victory, and having every single publisher chase it.

      • Cover shooters
      • Candy crush mobile games
      • NFT games
      • Battle royales
      • 5v5 Overwatch clones

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    • ampersandrew@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      In chasing infinite growth (of the same game), you have potentially infinite spend as well.

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  • Zorsith@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I remember Apex Legends being pretty fun when it came out; did something happen or was it just EA being EA?

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    • ihatefascist@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Controller aim assist is too much of an aimbot which made all the russians turn their hacks on and it’s just controllers vs cheaters and some nolifers in this game these days, not fun at all for most casual players

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    • slumberlust@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      They overtuned controller aim assist to the point that 99% of pros swapped to it to remain competitive.

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    • pycorax@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I’m still playing it and it’s still pretty fun. Seems to be a controversial take but I do like that they’re constantly changing mechanics since I don’t really take the game seriously.

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    • real_squids@sopuli.xyz ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Afaik they’re still using awful third-party servers, lag compensation is still aggressive as fuck, they tried to “fix” visibility by slapping a bandaid in the form of healthbars, and the anticheat thing was another bandaid instead of a surgery. Overall it’s kinda stuck, all of the old issues are still there.

      They have a shitload of new cosmetics though, if that’s your jam. Funnily enough, they were so greedy even esport orgs didn’t want to keep working with them. Rspn offered a one-time payment, orgs wanted a percentage of sales. Mind you, it’s a fairly big esport that advertises the game for them (btw played on better servers than available in-game).

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    • ampersandrew@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      The decline of a live service game is so inevitable that it seems silly to me to ascribe a reason to it. Eventually, people just want something newer than regular content updates can provide.

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