Today I want to talk about something that I'm surprised more people are not talking about.
I'm of course talking about a video game that has died after only being released for
less than eight months it was a game I actually downloaded and was looking forward to playing,
but I never actually got a chance to play or post it but the main version of the game I
have actually played and posted a number of times on the channel. Erik tell me what the game is!!
Rip Apex Legends mobile... yeah that's right guys after eight months Apex Legends mobile is shutting
down forever and look man I can't pretend to do an actual rip or goodbye video for a video game that
I have not even actually played but I'm not a big fan of video games shutting down and screwing over
the entire player base and not giving them what they deserve which is precisely why I wanted to
make this video and I'm surprised that more people are not making a big fuss about this but before we
dive into some really stinky doo doo flakes I want to show you guys the announcement that respawn
made about the shutting down of Apex Legends mobile they put out this tweet saying we have
made the decision to Sunset Apex Legends mobile why does it always have to be called sun setting
what exactly is this it's not like Apex Legends mobile is riding off into the Glorious Sunset and
give all of those Apex Legends mobile players some kind of Glorious finale no as we go through and
dissect this statement you'll see exactly what's going to happen after this game is shut down it
says we're sure you have a lot of questions for more information on where things are at currently
including an FAQ please read the blog below which we will check this out I haven't actually seen
this so I might get some things wrong but this is the typical kind of like social media statement
they made which is supposed to be I guess really sad dramatic black background with white types
okay so let's dive into this it says we have made the painful decision to Sunset Apex Legends but I
can't take it seriously sunsets hopefully it will sunrise another day but it says this decision does
not come with ease factors beyond our control have prevented us from maintaining the high quality
experience and content that our players deserve as a result the game will sunsets on May 1st 2023 at
4 pm PDT after which it will no longer be playable our gratitude to our players and teams for joining
us on apex Legends mobile even if for a short while is unending from the bottom of our hearts
thank you okay so that sounds kind of [ __ ] Apex Legends mobile like most mobile games is free to
play but has micro transactions that you can buy and spend quite a lot of money on if you wanted
to but before we absolutely rip them to shreds let's check out the blog post and see if they're
going to compensate people who bought micro transactions on a game that is being permanently
shut down please be good news okay I had a strong start content pipeline fell shorts I can't really
speak to this too much because again I didn't even get a chance to play the game I downloaded
it and I just never got around to actually making content on it or even playing it so I don't know
about the actual quality of the game or if it had good content afterwards so but hey if you
guys played Apex Legends mobile you can let me know if the game was good or bad they're excited
about mobile as a platform and look forward to new opportunities to serve players there in the future
so why shut this down if you're still considering Mobile gaming in the future why would you just
kill it off now I don't get it moving on okay so they're saying today marks the beginning
of a 90-day window before we Sunset the game as of 1pm PST today January 31st they're disabling
all real money in-app purchases in the game and removing the game from web stores okay so that
explains why I couldn't download it on game loop I wanted to actually be able to get the game on the
emulator so I could try it out and play for the first time but now I can I do have it installed
on my phone but uh recording that is kind of a nightmare I guess I could actually play the game
if you guys want to see a video on that if it's possible I don't know if I'd had to get some kind
of update because again they're removing it from web store so I don't know if I have to get some
kind of update in order to play but we'll see it says during this period players can spend their
existing Syndicate gold and continue playing the full game okay so if you bought Syndicate gold you
can still spend it but what's the point the game's gonna be shut down forever I don't understand okay
so they have a support link that's not really helpful okay so we're at the FAQ what will happen
to my in-game purchases all of your purchases will remain in your account for you to enjoy until we
kill the game off what will happen to my in-game virtual currency which you spent money on actual
real world clams your existing in-game virtual currency balances will persist in your account
and can be spent on in-game content until we kill the game can I get a refund they're not
giving refunds I and again the servers are going down May 1st 2023 at 4 pm PDT what will happen to
the Apex Legends mobile web store and Apex Legends mobile content offered for sale on third-party web
stores it's no longer going to be accessible and all game content sales on third-party web stores
will no longer be available what does this mean for Apex on other platforms this decision for
Apex Legends mobile is platform specific and is independent of the game on PC and consoles
as a franchise Apex Legends is strong and we're looking forward to sharing exciting updates in
the future okay so now that we're caught up what in the absolute [ __ ] is going on here it's like
dude I get it the game only existed for eight months so it's only eight months for people to
actually get the game and play it and spend money on the game but there's still gonna be people who
potentially spend hundreds if not thousands of dollars on the store in this game and they're not
going to be compensated for anything all of that money all of those purchases have just gone down
the [ __ ] this to me is an absolutely baffling decision I cannot believe they're not going to
consider some kind of migration package similar to when Call of Duty online was shut down and
you could move some of your stuff to Call of Duty mobile granted that whole migration thing wasn't
perfect I mean you could have spent a lot of money on the Chinese Call of Duty game and still not had
a lot of it really moved to Call of Duty mobile but at least they had the decency to give you
some kind of option and give you something for playing the game and spending money on it from
what they've announced so far that is not the case at all from what I can currently see on this FAQ
there's no refunds there's no migration but they do want you to spend the rest of your coins and
lose them on the game even though it's going to be shut down forever oh my before I clicked
on this link I was ready to give respawn and EA the benefit of the doubt and just be like
okay maybe they will give you some kind of refund or they'll give you your money back in some way
shape or form but no they're keeping all of it dude oh my God absolute Savage move from EA and
respawn I mean wow I wanted to check out some of the replies to this because this tweet blew
up if you want the best mobile Battle Royale experience be patient for the wars on mobile
Global release I mean hopefully that doesn't get shut down I haven't received my Apex coins and it
been a week wait is this on mobile I can't tell no that's on Xbox no one cares exactly so y'all gonna
refund us the money spent on mobile Here Comes EA help hi there thanks for reaching out they're not
going to do anything they saw mobile had better updates than skins and said this can't continue
this is nuts feels bad for the people who spent money on the game rip I've opened up the app on
my phone I don't know if this game is actually better than regular Apex Lightspeed Studios
okay yeah we don't need to see the cutscene okay so I have to get an update can I get an update
I can okay okay so this is a mobile exclusive character apparently I'm trying to get the update
from the App Store but there's a possibility that they've already shut down the servers and I can't
get the download which unfortunately means that I will not be able to get this game at all I'm
pulling up the Apex Legends steam charts and as you can see the game is doing pretty good all-time
peak of half a million players just on Steam a 24-hour peak of 400 000 players which is pretty
close to the all-time Peak and 30 minutes ago there was roughly 90k people playing the game if
you look at the all-time numbers for Apex on Steam the game has been doing nothing but climbing it's
been growing and doing well in this separate tab I searched up Apex Legends mobile player counts and
this statistic right here is for the console versions of the game and PC I could not find
anything on actual player counts for the mobile game but at least on the IOS app store the game
has over 241 000 ratings at 4.8 Stars which is pretty good I think it's safe to say that a lot of
people have played this game I've got the update let's see if I can check it out okay so it's Gotta
download like half a gig of stuff now dude this was so funny to me I was trying to see how you can
get Apex Legends Mobile on game Loop which is the emulator that you used to play Call of Duty mobile
this article is so funny they're going to show you the tutorial but it's actually from pubg mobile
they show you how to download game Loop and how to get Apex Legends mobile but all the screenshots
are actually from pubg mobile I'm gonna open up game Loop and show you guys too if I search Apex
Legends mobile it is completely gone the closest thing to this game would be Cod mobile or pubg
mobile but yeah as far as I can see the game is completely wiped from the game Loop store and
I'm pretty sure if you don't already have the game installed on iOS or Android you cannot download it
anymore okay update requires restart my birth year I was born in 2023. this is I'm actually
gonna put that wait is that gonna work oh yeah I was born on December 12 2023. it actually says
my age is negative one it forced me to close the game because I was negative one years old come on
man you're not gonna let someone from the future play I guess by that time the game would already
be dead they're not gonna let me play they're actually just denying me oh I [ __ ] up oh oh
that was bad I can't get past this screen now it's just saying this I just had to [ __ ] around and
find out now I can't even play the game since I can't play and record Apex Legends mobile we'll
have to settle for COD mobile which is perfectly fine with me because this game is amazing big head
blizzard I don't even know what this is but it looks fun there's a game mode called spawn trap
Heist 24 7. dude look at this game still better than Modern Warfare 2 as well big head blizzard
on CrossFire from Cod 4. I don't know what I'm watching what is going on here he got someone
okay so what exactly is this like oh my oh get him
long shot him but yeah man if you're someone who played Apex Legends mobile and you're looking for
a new game to play I would recommend Call of Duty mobile constantly has new updates new content lots
of events it's a fun game to play you can heal your teammates by shooting them that's so cool
okay
I don't know what's happening but these guys are gonna get destroyed
don't let him in I got a nuke come on bro come on no dude these guys are getting
this you can't get a nuke in this can you because I I've gotten so many kills
like what I'm on a 30 already 30 kill streak is there no nuke in this game what is this
oh my Lord this is ridiculous oh I leveled up next dang I got a lot of stuff look how
much stuff I got unlocked what this is a cool looking version of shipping man I just called
this shipment we have a Lunar New Year themed Newtown looks pretty spoinkly but yeah I've
mentioned this in the past for previous Call of Duty online videos Chinese Call of Duty was shut
down permanently which I still I hate that so much the game was packed with tons of content
from classic Call of Duty games the maps the game modes the weapons the unique PVE content I mean it
was incredible and a lot like Apex Legends mobile Call of Duty online was a free to play game and
like most video games nowadays the way that they made their money was in the shop by selling skins
and a big big part about what made Cod online so awesome was the Skins I mean the game had
incredible skins now to be perfectly Fair some of the Mythic skins in this game Call of Duty mobile
are even better than what caught online ever had but yeah I'm getting a little off topic by talking
about Cod mobile the whole point I'm trying to make is that Call of Duty online had some
amazing microtransactions and they drove people to want to spend money and buy things in the
game but the game got permanently shot down and the main difference between Cod online and Apex
Legends mobile is that with Call of Duty online they had a migration package and basically it's
not necessarily that your exact microtransactions you know like the Skins you bought and the things
you purchased would move to Cod mobile but if you spent a certain amount of money on Call
of Duty online they would try to match that with a certain kind of package on COD mobile
I should know because I was one of those people who actually bought stuff on Cut online and even
though it took some time to figure it out because it's a Chinese game and I had to translate things
I was able to get my compensation package to Cod mobile even as someone who has never played Apex
Legends mobile and has now been denied the ability to play the game because I was goofing around
I think it's an absolutely horrible decision to not give the players anything no refunds no form
of compensation absolutely no way to be able to move any of their microtransactions or purchases
from the mobile game into the main game that seems extremely stupid to me it's not like their hands
are tied here they could easily do something but after reading the blog and checking out the
FAQ it just seems like they really don't want to do anything and you know what we made this
Apex Legends mobile thing and it seems like some people actually like the game better than the main
version of the game so we're just gonna kill it oh you spent hundreds if not thousands of dollars on
skins because we try to entice you to buy it hey hey well guess what buddy family friendly sensor
noise yeah that's essentially what we got going on here guys but look man I like to think of myself
as an optimist someone who likes to try to look at the brighter side of the turd there's still
roughly three months until this game is shut down forever so there is still time for them to adjust
and change their course who knows maybe if EA can see this video they will decide to be generous
why did I say that oh we know that's just for a second I really don't think that there's any hope
here I I don't think it's likely that they're going to undo any kind of decision I'm sure
from their standpoint they have no incentive to actually be generous and do the right thing and
help out players it's obviously so much easier for them to just shut down the game forever and that's
it I really do think the best thing that they could do at this point is give some kind of gift
package to people who spent money on apex Legends mobile and give those players a certain amount of
time to be able to link their Apex Legends Mobile accounts to a regular Apex account so that way
people who played Apex Legends mobile for the last eight months aren't completely screwed my God man
this whole situation is so terrible I mean I guess on the bright side of things the game was only out
for eight months so thankfully people didn't get too invested in Apex mobile from everything I've
seen so far that's really the only positive that's come out of this is the fact that the game wasn't
even around for that long for people to really get that invested as far as it goes for the main Apex
Legends game I don't have any problems with it I don't have any beef with it but between
Battlefield 2042 and now Apex Legends mobile I feel like EA is really gonna have a hard time
with player confidence I'm sure you guys remember when Battlefield 2042 came out there was a massive
Edition for players asking for a refund from EA because of how bad the state of Battlefield 2042
was and guess what came of that nothing no one got refunds no one got any money back so if you bought
the game you were just [ __ ] out of luck and now with the shutdown of Apex Legends mobile I think
we're starting to see a pattern here if they don't do the right thing here and they don't give people
their money back or try to compensate them in some way they will 100 lose those players as confidence
and trust and again man I am shocked that this is not being talked about more it's insane also I'm
pretty sure we just won yep just casually once in Battle Royale on COD mobile I'm telling you
man if you're one of those people who's getting screwed over by Apex Legends mobile being shut
down check out this game I don't really play COD mobile all that much but every single time
I do I actually really enjoy myself granted I'm playing on an emulator on PC so I think
I'm gonna have a pretty good time no matter what but with that being said Thank you guys
very much for watching I hope you guys enjoyed watching me talk about the permanent shutdown
of Apex Legends mobile if you guys did enjoy this video and you want EA and respawn to compensate
players who spent money on apex Legends but we'll make sure to drop a like once you guys later.com
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