Apex Legends Players Want to Boycott Upcoming Halloween Event

Apex Legends gamers wish to boycott the upcoming Halloween occasion which is scheduled to drop later as we speak. Gamers on a number of social media platforms are asking for a server well being replace and need Respawn Leisure to deal with bettering the well being of the sport as an alternative. Following the launch of the newest ranked break up in September, gamers bumped into points when queuing for matches and there have been situations of servers crashing.

This isn’t the primary time that gamers have requested Respawn to cancel occasions or different content material in favor of addressing the sport’s points, and builders have shut down such calls for prior to now. It stays to be seen if a patch just like Rainbow Six’s “Operation Well being” shall turn into a actuality for Apex Legends gamers.

Why do Apex Legends gamers wish to boycott Apex Legends’ Halloween occasion?

A post was made on the Apex Legends subreddit asking others to not buy any skins within the upcoming Apex Legends Halloween occasion. The submit gained a number of traction and gamers appear to be interested by getting Respawn/EA’s consideration to deal with server points and bugs as an alternative of specializing in skins and cosmetics. The submit claims “You are not lacking out on something if you happen to aren’t spending cash for per week or two. It will not damage you, however lacking out on two weeks of income could be sufficient for EA/Respawn to lastly do one thing.”

The submit introduced up the 90-100% GPU utilization situation which has been plaguing gamers for a number of seasons. Earlier this 12 months, explosive holds had to be disabled attributable to server crashes. Every main replace results in server points for the primary few days as the sport’s servers are seemingly unable to maintain up with the excessive inflow of gamers.

An “Operation Well being” for Apex Legends appears unlikely

Whereas a number of gamers really feel that the Apex Legends devs ought to deal with fixing the sport’s servers as an alternative of pushing out new content material, it doesn’t appear to be such calls for might be met. Respawn Leisure’s director of communications Ryan Ok. Rigney responded to fan concerns last month stating that “sport builders aren’t villagers from Age of Empires that may be moved from content material creation to bug fixing”.

He used Rainbow Six Siege’s “Operation Well being” and the “Repair PUBG” initiatives as examples and claimed that they have been advertising and marketing stunts. Rigney was part of the Repair PUBG program and labored at PUBG Corp in 2018 earlier than shifting to Riot Video games and finally Respawn Leisure.