Apex Legends Dev Tracker

It's absolutely fair to discuss and criticize and call out our actions. It is not ever acceptable to deliver this feedback in the form of personal insults and threats, and there should be no expectation that people will show up personally here to be yelled at. That's my point.

He said it's much worse but some of it is deserved. I pointed out that none of it is ever deserved.

Yeah if we have something to say about monetization stuff in the future it'll come through official channels (playapex.com or Twitter), definitely not through my Reddit account. Tell your friends, repost this far and wide, like and subscribe, etc. etc.

Literally none of it is deserved. That was the whole point of my post.

As a dev, there's no upside to talking about monetization online unless there are positive changes to announce. People want action, not talk.

If y'all see me or other devs popping into threads and then not responding to (totally fair) monetization questions / feedback like this one, please know that this is why. I don't want to waste your time with bullsh*t answers.

I've not spent much time thinking about this but no-fill in duos/trios might give you some of what you want. Sure you'll be going up against squads, but you'll be able to fend for yourself at least.

I fundamentally don't think the combat in Apex holds up for 1000s of hours as a solo game. It's built around the pacing of 3 people fighting 3 other people, with all the knock downs, revives, and respawns that comes with that.

Just to jump on that last point: NO ONE should be idolizing us. I'm seeing that too and it's just as wrong as assuming we're evil villains out to ruin your day / steal your money. It turns out devs are people; people who make mistakes, who sometimes have an off day, people who just want to put in their 8 hours of work a day and be able to pay rent and put food on the table for their family. It's not healthy to form a parasocial relationship with the people who make the games you like over some posts on social media. Absolutely do geek out with us and talk about the games we make! But don't put us on a pedestal or whatever the opposite of a pedestal is. At the end of the day we're just nerds who put stuff into an IntelliJ window hoping not to break the game ;P

I'm very happy to discuss the things I do work on! At the moment that's mostly balance changes to Legends, smaller reworks, and at some point in the medium future there'll be a Legend I worked on.

I've seen it too, highly motivated and talented devs leaving for a variety of reasons, often entirely preventable. I think a lot comes down to both creating an environment devs feel happy in and also making sure there's proper career advancement paths for them. It sucks that in our industry, the quickest way to get promoted is to switch companies, to the point where the "leave and come back" strategy is common enough we have a name for it.

Some of these definitely veer into questionable legality land, but if you've got laws the police just aren't interested in enforcing there's not much you can do. I did go to my local police station once when there was a credible swatting threat and explained it all to them and predictably the answer was "just stay off the internet".

Lol this is true.

And neither this sub or r/leagueoflegends has anything on r/PUBATTLEGROUNDS

I don't understand. Can you show me a screenshot or a video? Your teammates should ALWAYS be outline for you, regardless of whether or not they're in the gas.

Not pictured here: 18 grenades landing at your feet the moment you set up Sheila :D

whispers it was actually much worse over in League of Legends land you all are kind of tame <3 <3 <3

I've got a lot of thoughts on this topic.

It feels like there's a stalemate between devs and the people that play their games. I don't just mean here, but everywhere.

The same patterns play out in cycles, and it has all become very predictable.

Devs hide in their trenches, mostly, and occasionally you'll see one stick their head out and get torn to shreds. Cue the thread with 20k upvotes with players lamenting it. Then next week there'll be some fire about pricing on a cosmetic, and it's back to trench warfare.

We're hoping to help break the stalemate with things like seasonal AMAs, more regular messaging on our owned channels (like new content types on Respawn.com), and with more direct support for brave soldiers like Daniel Z. Klein who like to wade out amongst the people. That stuff matters, and it'll be worth doing.

But man. I sure wish the overall relationship between devs and players online felt different.