What happened to Apex Legends Mobile? (and how it killed EA's Mobile Division)
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- čas přidán 15. 05. 2024
- From its initial release in May of 2022 to its inevitable demise less than a year later, the tragedy of Apex Legends Mobile has never been more important than it is today.
Not only reshaping EA's place within the mobile world, but also influencing Activision's handling of Warzone Mobile, serving as a warning for the potential fate of Farlight 84, and even giving birth to the ever-growing High Energy Heroes.
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Timestamps:
00:00 Intro
01:03 What is Apex Legends
02:32 Season 1 (Prime Time)
04:10 Issues Arise
06:26 Season 1.5 (Cold Snap)
06:45 Season 2 (Distortion)
07:31 Season 2.5 (Hyperbeat)
08:48 Season 3 (Champions)
10:03 Season 3.5 (Underworld)
11:49 Season 4 (Aspire)
12:51 The Fall & Why It's Important
15:01 What's Next?
16:19 Outro - Hry
So much potential in this title, really unfortunate to see how everything ended up turning out for it :(
Edit: this is also probably one of the best, if not the best, mobile documentary videos I've seen in a long while!
True 😞
I miss apex legend
Try blood strike it is a really good game and it is just like wzm but better
@@Helli-kids it is not better ! Wzm is the best game on Mobile now, we just can't play it at its full potential yet. I have both blood strike and WZM but it cannot recreate the feel of wzm, the physics in wzm are heavy, it is so satisfying to get a kill in warzone
i miss my rapsody :(. it was a very cool concept for a legend
It could've been great, hopefully all other mobile titles learn
Fr ❤
Yo. Nice meeting you here fergie.
I wanna play be in your next tournament 😶🌫️
I am afraid warzone mobile is walking on the same path
Ferg was easy clips in apex 🤓
I watched this video and cried; I called my neighbor to watch with me, and we cried a lot. We summoned the entire village, and we are now crying together
I am edging looking at you ☺️
😭
Lol
😂😂
🤣 lmao
Apex Legends Mobile was one of my favorite mobile games. I still miss playing it!
I'm still playing it
@@Uohhhh777bro the server's got shutdown💀
@@-Aaron-138 I'm still playing in in my dreams
I'm too Man
People don't have patience. All they did was complain.
We lost a diamond in search of gold 😢
True 😢😢
dont worry if they bring back game they will link ur old account.. recover everything
@@YOU-kd5fbwill they? i lost like almost a 100$
@@YOU-kd5fbThat is "If" they bring back the game 😢
It's an overpriced garbage MOBILE GAME lmfao.
Apex mobile was the pioneer of a good quality mobile battle royale 😓
I thought it was ROS especially in 2018+2019
@@Paulklampeeps he said "good quality" , but I have to say that ROS was incredible the time it got released, I played it till its serves to be shut downs
I loved ROS in every way but PUBG was better in everything sorry🚶@@otaviolopes3156
@Paulklampeeps It's fun to play with friends but the quality is not even OK
If they would fix those things the game would be amazing and would be my game of Choice
i left PUBG for Apex legend, then Apex left me.
😢
Sad
Truly an apex experience
Talk about heart break 😢 still missing it
I did the exact same thing and now I'll be returning to PUBG again. I did this with fortnite aswell
Activision clearly didnt take note
Warzone is a shit show
Cod mobile sure was and still is a success, warzone was a rushed mess/cash grab
@@packerman7410Warzone isn't rushed in the slightest.
2.5years of development is a lot for a mobile game with only 2maps.
Most phones are simply not strong enough to handle it, WZM is just too ahead of its time.
It isn’t optimised for android devices.
@@ananyomukherjeeixd281 So ahead of its time only 1% of devices can properly run it, my iPhone 11 overheated and had such battery issues I had to delete it
@@BunnyMobile. Yeah that's what I meant.
Apex legends mobile has to return ❤
I agree!
agree
They did this game dirty
bro it was the best fckng mobile shooting game
Real
I had a device that wasn’t optimized for apex mobile , but I kept playing the game because I enjoyed it and it was fun, but after Apex was shut down, and I lost all my hell room and all my exclusive skins and everything I will, never,I say never play Apex ever again.
I'm not touching EA games too.
Same brother
I was a free to play player but what about yall
@@olusegunbelcon bought a heirloom 💀
@@resof are you stupid or you played another game because two months before apex mobile was shutdown,the creators gave free Heirloom to everyone by completing quests.
ApexM had a specific advantage that main Apex didn't. *FUN*
Seriously though. Apex is too hectic.
Actually now if you dont try too hard and play with friends the main game is really fun
Totally agreed, as a very casual player that only played at most 3 hours of gaming daily, Apex mobile is perfectly fun, I don’t have any desire to be a predator or anything, I just want to play, get some kills or even winning from time to time. Apex’s main game is just too damn sweaty even in the lower rank matches.
I’m not really sure about that one. When ApexM first came out I played it during lunch for a few games, but it got boring pretty fast. I dunno fps games don’t really work on mobile for me. I much prefer games like clash royale, dragon ball legends, etc.
Honestly, Apex Legends was the best mobile game. What made me mad however, was the fact we couldn't get refunds. I did spend a bit of money for a few battle passes, so it really sucked to know I basically wasted my money
It was an unfinished product. It should've been called High Ping Mobile. Not to mention the amount of hackers
Area f2?
@@icefire5649omg i rmbr that game
Yeah lots of money wasted
@Hurley164 Not true at all I had no problems with hackers nor ping even in the beta on vpn, was either a skill issue on your part or you have bad internet.
Bro, trust if you keep making videos like these, you will hit 1 million soon
+1
Trust him. He can see the future
It was my favourite mobile game.... Wish respawn would have taken the fans consideration and make the necessary changes and optimization.. especially introducing competitive tournament..it will surely blow up..m
Why would someone play on mobile ?
The truth is mobile gamers do not like to switch games , people playing pubg are still playing pubg , people playing free fire are still playing it and people playing codm are still playing it.... I have been playing codm from last 4 years i tried Apex but , i felt like the graphics are cartoonish , not well optimised and maps are small and also didn't wanted to learn all the new machanics of a new game when I was already good at codm. The point is mobile gaming community is very loyal to the game they playing
Exactly
Exactly....u can hardly find a mobile gamer who'll switch especially wen they re already gud at d game they re currently playing
truth.. i have many mobile game in my phone i have here pubgm,codm, bloodstrike, arena brakeout, and new state mobilemobile legend ,wildrift, diablo immortal, any many more to mention..but i only play more time with pubg mobile. and clash royale.. because that is the game i really prefer in my own taste.. yes i play those many i mention but only in a short time play for an hour or 1 game.. but in pubgm mobile i play 3-6 per day.. i can play other game but not totally on my taste i olay only for boring time those other game..
especially when cod mobile has 2 br maps in its own...zombie rounds, and zombie open world, and reg mp with 40 plus maps and 100plus skins, camps, and over 80 guns
Mobile "gamers" are retarded apparently.
What you said makes absolutely no sense.
This explains a lot i used to play Apex legends mobile then I uninstalled it because my exam was close and after my exams I couldn't find it in play store.
Bro 😭the literal same thing happened to me, I had been playing beta versions desperately waiting for global launch and when it did it was such an awesome experience playing but then 😭 I hoped to continue playing once my exams were over and that didn't happen 😭
Lmao thats lame😂who uninstalls a game just because of exams😂
This game has a special place for me.
I had ended up in a hospital during its launch. I was there for almost half a year.
I was really down and asked my family to bring me my iPad.
I remember downloading Apex Mobile and spending hours on it!!
It was the small amount of fun I had while stuck in the hospital.
I did fully recover and eventually stopped playing Apex Mobile all together but it got me into the console game.
I can say that Apex Mobile was good but needed polish. Hopefully it returns.
Optimization was the biggest issue for me and my friends even though we're in high-mid range phones we still faced heating issues and fps drops. The only reason we stopped playing after one month.
Same now for warzone mobile
I genuinely had fun playing apex mobile, especially when playing as fade and rhapsody, such cool legends
Dude absolutely amazing video and please keep making more videos like this
Great content, i see your older videos didnt get much attention. Keep doing what you did here. State of mobile gaming is in shambles post covid but it feels like we about to get another upswing. Ride the wave up!
Tencent steals the Apex Mobile data and created their own version which is named High Energy Heroes. The same with Square Enix's Front Mission Mobile after Square Enix cancels the game, they steal the data and created another turn-based mecha game based on Front Mission.
@jhonfloibelmiculob6581 Tencent is the reason why we have so many mediocre games on pc and mobile especially mobile tencent controls most high percentage of market in mobile gaming
@@pc-mz6rn And they just imitate the games made by other gaming companies. They steal their data and design, and they create a replica of the game but with different title.
we got the same pfp lol. im embarassed@@pc-mz6rn
@@Mr.DISRESPECT 😇😊
@@Mr.DISRESPECT 😲 wtfudge
Thanks for making this, a year old thing but really awesome and informative video, I was in this game from starting amd reached till Diamond IV, SO NOSTALGIC!!😢😢😢😢
It was one of the best Mobile version of any pc game
The biggest issue i faced in this game was hacker.
As i go higher rank i was facing hacker in every lobby its was horrendous.
And its not just 1 or 2 haker there were many in just 1 lobby.
And even i have the high end device game doesn't feel optimized at all.
It didn't feel smooth as codm and pubg.
The frame show 60 fps but did feel like 60 fps.
I hope it come back in future.
Your content is actually so enjoyable… you’re like the sunnyV2 of gaming
for me personally..the fact that the devs took approx 3months to fix such game breaking bugs like going inside rocks with loba and infinite bhop sealed the deal..not to mention that ranked became infested with bots and hackers..leaving the remaning playerbase to quit ultimately
The fact they suddenly took one season just to fix bugs is a big red flag.
Literally just deleted the app last month cuz I couldn't let go
I wish wzm was optimized like apex atleast with apex you have good device it works but with wzm it either barely work on a good device or runs well but sets your device on fire
I played it since Closed Beta until Sunset. Even paid the battle pass during Open Beta because I'm totally invested on this game. Just really sad when they announced it is closing down.
Bro how do u only have 1k subs. This video is so good
Your content is so good, I'm surprised you only have 1.4k subs. Keep grinding you deserve 1mil.
I still missing it.....😥😢😥
Me too 😢
I was lookin for this game about 2 months ago and i checked and it wasn’t there but never wondered why this video helped thank you
Great video! ❤
I'm a Nigerian and till date I still miss Apex legends. It remains the best Battle royale mobile game ever.
Same my brooo
Easily the bestttt
Enjoy your poor life 🤡
It had soo many cheaters and bugs exploitation and the fact devs took an entire month to fix a single bug was crazy
Bro i was bad at the game but when the game realised I had fun with my friends man I feel happy looking back at that time even though my journey with apex was a small one
I think you should do more of these kinds of videos because they are great and we need content like this in mobile gaming
watching this after the horrible launch of warzone mobile😂😂
They didn't learn anything at all
Man i loved this game when it came out even though my phone wasnt well optimised for it back then it qas still crazy fun and i even made it diamond 3 seasons in a row but sadly i couldn't reach it one more time before ot got shut down, RIP apex mobile, so much wasted potential
i noticed your high quality contents. you earned a sub
Great video. and the editing is sooo good
As I'm Apex Mobile player I'm not excited gor warzone mobile its a good game but no game cannot take a space in my heart expect Apex Mobile which is still remains in my heart in my whole life. I'm still waiting for Apex Legends Mobile if its returns in future ❤.
saying Tencent won’t be greedy cash grabbers shows you don’t know how bad Tencent is in the SEA gaming market
yeah but at least the game is playable even on lower end device
I don't see how the topic of optimization has anything to do with monetization but go off.
Can't wait for you to do a video on warzone mobile
amazing well put video ❤️
Apex legends mobile fucked a lot of us over when they lied about the in game currency carrying over from beta to release, i grinded for tons then they removed all my skins
its kinda hilarious that you believed what EA told without even second guessing. lmaoooo
Im so sorry for poor clown like you. With the currency or without, you still dont have 2-3k $ to buy a gaming PC 🤡
Im guessing ur next video will be what happened to wzm
Bro the vedios of giving knowledge is the one which are need most to the audience, more then the gameplay. 🔥🔥
As you have the quality to explain in a great way which is very rare . 🙌🙌
Be different from other by give the knowledge not the sheep walk as everyone is going for gameplay.
👍🏼
Watched a screen recording of my gameplay yesterday
Got sad, looked forward for so long only to end up
EA is that kid your parents tell you don’t hang out with.
Every mobile game encounters bugs and cheaters. Dealing with cheaters is challenging, but if developers took immediate action on bugs based on community feedback, they could earn the trust of players who would continue to support the game. However, unresponsive developers often lead players to abandon the game easily. Having an active player base provides an opportunity to rectify the situation.
The sad part is that gamers have seen this go down numerous times with many different games and can see it from a mile away now, and a lot of people abandon games early at the first signs of it
The lower end device skill gap was crazy, I couldn't get past diamond 3 coz I played at 20fps
I didn’t even game before ALM, now I miss that game more than anything. Even met some amazing friends on there.
Warzone is on similar path
And now we got the unoptimized warzone mobile💀
Buy a PC, poor moron
Good Video!!! Keep it up Broski ❤
I really miss this game a whole lot … i got to meet the most interesting randoms and even made a friend in the UK and we played every single day it was beautiful.
Whether they launch it again with different name, people would still want that old vibes of apex mobile though (I am one of them)
5:19 bro really dropped the cleanest transition
What i liked about it that i could play with players from different country and have a interaction with them learning about their pov on how they see people from different countries, i liked it and i made lots of friends in the game and now its just gone
i thought you had like 700k subscribers or something like that but dude.... 2k subscribers? nah thats crazy, youre an underrated channel bro, keep grinding and you will be one of the big shots for sure.
Activision delayed wzm so they could optimize it?yeah they had one job and failed in that
30fps and blurry graphics on a device that can run games like genshin impact on very high with 45-60 fps😂
We will miss apex legends mobile forever
❤❤ thanks for clarification
It's the only Mobile shooter I enjoyed other than CODM.
same dude
Lol .. remembered buying a new high-end device for play this game just to watch it sunsetting within a year. Now my device are just for watching a CZcams video until warzone mobile came out. So i can fully utilize it's potential again. Fingers crossed.😅
But you can use your device for playing COD WZ mobile and upcoming RainbowSix Mobile
dont hold your breath, even the s23 ultrq can choke with warzone mobile, just as poorñy optimized as arena breakout
@@mementocity really..? That bad huh...? Lol
It can barely run on s24. It overheats after 20 mins of play
@@kristoftroytagab wow... 😅
I played when it 1st released, but had stopped after a few months. I tried to come back around 2.5 but I just couldn’t get back into it, and I didn’t stay long.
The biggest problem i think was Draw Distance of a map. They were abnormal and the moment u get knocked, next thing the enemy was at your doorstep. Map wasn't same as pc like stretched out !
And lastly the optimisation, bugs and the support of Controller which messed the game up pretty bad. Let's not forget the hackers.
I miss caustic ❤
Codm has a server for the Oceania region where people from Aus, NZ, Fiji, and PNG can play together. Apex didn't give us that. Instead, they connected us to the Asian servers and expected us to play with ping of 700ms. There was too much lag, and it was impossible to defeat Asian server players who had a huge advantage.
Warzone Mobile : i'll break this record
Not yet 🙄 😂😂
Currently it's just in an ass position lol
its already breaaked record over apex legends
record 1: Most uninstalled game in 24hrs
record 2: Worst Battle royale mobile game rating ever
@@yeswinmeena847
They already did 😂
Well explained 👍. Hope Apex will comeback.
Apex legend mobile was pretty fun, i had a mid range device 4 gb ram but i still enjoyed the game to its fullest even managed to reach master, i hope it returns once again. And about warzone mobile i dont know about it i think it is much less optimised as compared to apex mobile. But we can hope for the best. 💛
Warzone mobile will not survive it focuses on high end ios devices
Bro cheating was discovered in the beta... The anticheat was complete ass... We had to wait for entire seasons for bug fixes which would then resurface with better explanation.
True but right now everyone is waiting for apex mobile 2.0 as hyper legends
I truly hope warzone mobile is better than cod mobile
Turns out it is trash.
Exactly
I miss mobile so much. I was so excited for this game to follow me for the next few years. I bought a bunch of cool og skins, the faide heirloom, and even grinded to hit masters in season 1 (caustic was op lol, even thru cheaters n wallers). It broke my heart not only losing alll my purchases, but also seeing that it's never coming back. I loved apex mobile despite everything wrong. I miss it.
great video bro; such a shame developers just gave up.
The mobile version was very poorly optimized
Not really.
@@mikehasfallen when compared to pubg , cod mobile etc
@@demonx7735 I know
I love the fact that in the last moments of the game being active there was a message announcing the date when the game would "sunset" (or something like that) but they also told you as a player to spend money on cosmetics before that happens 😂
Ima be honest, I never was an apex fan but when i started playing mobile,i had MUCH fun
its no different from the main game issue LMAO
Ikr
ApexM > WZM anyday. WZM is so trash . im comparing them in their initial release states
I mean yeah , the graphics quality is trash even when you play in iPad for wzm , you can literally see the polygons 😮😂 . Whereas there were no graphics issue in Apex at all, it ran smooth both in Android and iOS . Wzm launch is like 1000x worse than apex . Only if apex focused on bug fixes ,glitches and cheaters more . It might still be alive
0:52 this didn't take a while to make. This took a long time to make. Good job
I was a beta player when this comes out and I promised myself imma get an iPhone to play smoother but then when i bought a 12pmx it was gone. Made some good plays and memories though. I love using wingman and carbines, the hitmarks sound is just so good.❤
And warzone mobile will be like apex legend Mobile
We can only hope not, but I’ll be right here to cover it if it does
@@Glad2be1000 warzone only playable on high & device ios more then Android & worldwide lunch is here but game is not ready for Android ☢️ Not well optimize for Android
Apex was also not optimised for Android.. iOS it was smooth af
Apex moblie was overhyped very boring and characters were ugly . So lil maps. They must stay in pc moblie is not for them even codm is better and codm only has bots 😂.
I miss this game… made some many good memories playing it :’(
I will miss it forever I have played so many mobile games ..and this was by far the most fun I had playing a shooter game even though it was the hardest ( by a big margin ) and I think at the end of the day this was one of the biggest reasons why it couldn't keep. Many of my friends tried this game but they got their ass kicked so hard they went back to pubgm or codm.
Keep going🥰
I had so much fun playing as ash on multiplayer tdm it's sad
I remember my phone cant handle this game very well but i still play apexm despite of having a low device back then
In June of 2022, I had a pretty bad seizure that left me in the hospital for a week. I got my Fiance at the time to bring my iPad, and an Xbox controller from our house to the hospital, and it was the only thing that kept me going when I was alone. 120FPS, perfect controller support, I was impressed and really grew to enjoy it on mobile.
Great video!
I still remember the news where CAR would be available on next patch. But then comes the sunsetting announcements 🥺
I honestly loved this game. Going back to CODM was really rough.
Really great video
Season 0 was the best that was my first ever game to be called an OG at apex legends mobile. I had soo much fun and enjoyed every moment REST IN POWER Apex Mobile 😢❤😢❤😢
i rember deciding to switch to APEM after First Soldier died, and got the season pass like a day before they made the announcement
fml. hope it comes back, with WZM and BS on the market it's got competition
I enjoyed playing it alot ,the best game i have ever experienced on mobile but i struggle defeating actual enemies because the ping was always so high ,there no servers ,they would kill me in an instant