The multiplayer shooter “Apex Legends” has updated many contents in the past year. It is one of the top ten most played games on the platform according to the third-party data platform Steam Charts. However, the number of players will decrease significantly in 2023.outsiders thinkIn addition to the problems of the game itself, there is also the fierce competition among new shooting games.
“Apex Legends” was released on PS4, Xbox One, and PC (EA Launcher) in 2019. It will be launched on Steam in 2020 and on Nintendo Switch in 2021 with cross-platform connection enabled. It will support PS5 and Xbox Series from March 2022.
Judging from Steam Charts, the 16th season of “Apex Legends” “Carnival” was launched in February this year, attracting new and old players to join with the new energy weapon Nemesis, setting a new high of 620,000 simultaneous connections on Steam. Evan Nikolich, the game design director at the timeHe also said that this game will last another 20 years.Be on par with “Absolute Force”.
However, EA’s potato server,Game points competition ranking and matching mechanismChanges occurred, causing the Steam connections of “Apex Legends” to drop to 340,000. The number of players fluctuated in the following months, until the average number of connections dropped to a new low this year in December, about 140,000.
The unofficial news channel of “Apex Legends” pointed out that the average number of players in December fell by 44% compared with the peak in February. BirnoOCE It was pointed out that the content of the new season is insufficient, and a large number of new games are released to compete for the FPS market. For example, “The Finals” was officially launched in December, and the survival horror escape “Lethal Company” was launched at the end of October.
Of course, there is also Valve’s popular shooting game “Absolute Force 2”, “In fact, since the release of “CS2”Games like “Apex Legends” continue to lose players and take the place of “CSGO”. “
Mixture of:
– Lack of content
– Massive other games coming out/competingNot just all Apex’s fault
— BirnoOCE (@BirnoOCE) December 28, 2023
Despite this, “Apex Legends” has not fallen out of the top ten most popular games on Steam (with the same number of connections), and players do not only play on Steam. Third-party data cannot completely faithfully present the complete picture of the player group. In addition to the home consoles of Microsoft, Sony and Nintendo, many people also play this game through the EA launcher.
