EA's Pain and Redemption: Apex Legends has 50 Million Players, and Anthem Breaks PS4
This week, Electronic Arts seems to be sitting on two chairs. Apex Legends has another victory, and Anthem has found itself in the center of a new scandal.
Apex Legends has 50 million players
More than 50 million people have played the new Respawn game in just a month. In honor of this event, the studio released a special video clip with a cut of the gameplay.
The growth rate of Apex Legends is significantly higher than that of Fortnite. The latter took 16 weeks to reach its audience of 45 million players. However, now the Fortnite community has 200 million people, so Apex Legends has something to strive for.
Note that the Respawn battle royale was not advertised before the release, but was released immediately after the announcement. The surprise was obviously a success.
Anthem has threatened the players’ consoles
But the BioWare title disappointed the players again. PS4 users on Reddit began to complain about gaming failures, due to which the console completely turns off – “like a cord pulled out of the socket.”
Such an abnormal shutdown may eventually damage the console. The players managed to draw Sony’s attention to this, as it turned out, a common problem. She began to return money to users for Anthem. Literally went against its own rules, because the company does not have a program of refands.
However, the money is not returned to everyone. Sony simply advises some users not to launch Anthem while BioWare is preparing a new fix.
Today EA openly acknowledged the presence of critical bugs in Anthem and began collecting information about them. The publisher asks all affected players to contact him and tell him in detail about the problem with Anthem. Nevertheless, some of the players on the forum complained that their PS4 after departure from Anthem simply did not allow them to send an error message.
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