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Thanks Dave for everything 🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽😁
You’re welcome! Apex is in good hands. I’m really, really excited for its future :)
Thanks to you, this amazing community and everyone who voices their feedback on Apex. Helps more than you think.
(Just realized I need to remove my flair… lol)
High turnover is a myth from the days you'd ship to disc and then fire half the team during pre-production for your next project. These games in heavy liveops don't suffer from that. The exodus you are seeing is fueled by something else.
Source: Video game developer for over 15 years.
Re the turnover, you're correct. The Titanfall/Apex team didn't have high turnover, with most of the MoH and COD (up through MW2) team working together all the way through Apex. That said, the reasons for the departures vary from dev to dev and can't really be attributed to any one thing. They're also not as recent/clustered as folks here seem to think, it's been a slow burn for the past year or two.
A LOT of the people leaving had been there 10+ years. I can't speak for anyone else, but sometimes you just need to try something else. Respawn is a great company, full of talented people. Apex will be fine, as well as the other titles they've got brewing. And of course there will be a new bigger better game in the future. That's just how games go.:)
Edit:. Looks like I should get rid of my flair as well <3