What happened to VA language selection on console? It was mentioned like 2 years ago and no news on it since. Did you just give up on it?
I haven't seen it on a roadmap recently tbh. Will try to find if there's something more recent on it but it's possible it fell off in favor of other higher priority work or fixes
things like cross-progression
Speaking of.... how's that going?
in-progress. aiming 2022
Not the person who asked but I also play on Ps4 and I would say it is a significant portion of the time. I played like four games yesterday and only saw the select screen once.
I'll ask around internally—hadn't heard of this one prior, thanks!
real question: Why is there only shadow royale on the third week? You guys totally could have done Shadowfall week 1, shadow royal week 2, and maybe even shadow royal on WE week 3.
IDK, we've all seen the feedback on the event—it's basically just something we'll have to learn from and take forward to next time.
Community is gonna come at you for telling a guy to go kick rocks even if he told you to go f**k yourself. I guess you should have thanked him then went and fixed every bug yourself
I committed the ultimate cardinal sin, I got personal. I, as a professional trying to make money, got personal. I got personal and decided to insult my playbase, saying "go kick rocks bro." Not a wise move.
You won't forget this. I've set a new tone for the kind of interaction you'll be having with me. It's a cold one. One where there aren't any illusions about the reality of the situation. Previous notions of "family" are dead. You are mere consumers to me, and that is obvious.
I have chosen to bring in a new era of hostility and bitterness. Well done. Great PR move.
can you give anythinng, even an uh huh, about arenas matchmaking working badly for ranked? i legitimately got <(edit:)level 50 teammates, bronze players , unranked while soloing through diamond, any answers/ maybe a yes itsbeing worked on at least?
I laughed at "even an uh huh" that's a nice rhetorical flourish lol
To your question: some of those <50 level players or low-rank players may have been detected as smurfs and bumped up to a higher skill bracket—matchmaking isn't just based on how long you've played
That being said the team is definitely looking at things and paying attention. Remember this is ranked Arena's first season. As with everything in Apex, it'll change over time
what causes the character select screen to not show player names/not show up at all. i notice it on ps4
No idea. Is it every game?
I’m not saying this as a guy that doesn’t like you, or the guy that you told to go kick a large rock so I would hurt myself.
Learn to read the f**king room.
Have a look at the front page of this sub. People are boycotting this game because Respawn just don’t seem to care about it enough. Servers, matchmaking, bugs, lack of communication and solid answers to our questions. We’re all pissed right now. And you work for Respawn. It’s like asking if you can bring a stripper to a funeral.
the guy that you told to go kick a large rock so I would hurt myself.
If you clutch your pearls any harder they're gonna turn back into sand
are the devs aware of the issues with windows 11? My audio was forced to 7.1 surround while I only have stereo headphones. the only fix I found was the launch option code/command "+miles_channels 2". other than that, the lobby a bit choppy at its start (launching the game, getting out of a match, etc...)
Another issue for us Egyptian player, we get constant timeouts when we are getting into a match ever since the game released. The ones we do get in the ping could be fine around 70~80 with no packet. If I am playing with local friends we tend to all time out together though so no harm don , right? However, playing with anyone outside of Egypt is difficult as there is a high chance they will get into the match alone as I timeout.
I'm on 11 and haven't had any issues. Would be curious to see if this is more widespread.
Our ME server support does leave a bit to be desired. Nothing I can share atm but I can raise the issue internally.
Idk if you guys can answer this, but on PC i been having this issue that when I set my memory card limit to what my hardware has (for example I have a gtx 1050ti with 4gb and I set the memory limit to 4gb) after a couple games it would just lag and start to stutter, idk if you guys know about an issue like this or if it's related to ram limitations (I have 8gb) anyways keep the great work!
I have no idea how to solve tech issues like that. I saw some pro on Twitter the other day saying some guy helped him tune up his machine... maybe somebody in the comments here knows what I'm referencing and can point you to it. Good luck, bud
Good morning,
It seems that there has been a bit of a wave of departures over the past year including recently announced departure of lead designer of Apex Legends, Chin Xiang Chong.
Is this because management isn’t sharing the loot fairly with the troops?
Over a Billion dollars in revenue in 2021, and they can’t keep lead designers and SW developers?
Chin leaving hurts. I love that guy. Y'all have no idea how many times he busted ass to fix a problem with the game. Money's not the problem though. He's gotta go do his thing, and I respect it. Gonna miss him.
Read moreIm curious as to if you’d be willing to compare your monetization model to destiny?
Destiny is a game that is also owned by a big publisher, also free to play, and also has In game currency.
But even the most expensive in game cosmetic items that you can buy are $15 at most; and accompanied by the fact that you won’t have to spend more than the equivalent amount of money $1 = 100 silver to unlock it.
This is accompanied by the fact that nothing that’s paid for in real money is RNG. You want it? You buy it. No run around in the monetization.
As compared to let’s say collection events, where the asking price of an heirloom is 160$
That’s two new release AAA games right there.
Whereas destiny has expansions for 30-40$ maybe twice a year that add TONS of in game items for free, hours and hours of gameplay, new activities, and so on and so forth.
Maybe you don’t have control over the marketing department, but are we going t...
There's a lot to unpack honestly but I'll say that different genres have different expectations and monetization teams on every game are trying to strike a balance between making the business a healthy profit and not making items unattainable for non-spenders or low-spenders. It's not really my discipline tho so I can't speak as a real owner of these decisions could.
Hi Ryan,
I’ve seen this question asked several times but don’t recall a definitive answer on it. Where does crossprogresssion fall on the roadmap for Apex? I’d love to be able to take my skins from Xbox to my PC account, but I had to start all over on PC with no skins and no progress.
Thanks!
2022
How are you doing this fine morning, my good sir?
Sorry for the hate you've been getting- nobody deserves that kind of hate!
Love you. Thanks for the bit of kindness.
How many licks does it take to get to the center of a tootsie pop?
I've been trying to find that out but this goddamn owl keeps swooping down and eating mine
Thank you for the comms, in any sense of what that means in this day and age. I respect the fact you make yourself available for these kinda discussions.
Side note/question, was curious to know if the cross progression side of things is making good strides at all. Dont need a date or timeframe, just curious to know if its still on the list of upcoming updates :)
Yep progress is ongoing. Last AMA we said it's coming in "2022" and we still believe that's right.
Just curious, do you regret the joke you made on the day of the facebook server crashes?
I know this job is very tricky and a good portion of the vocal playerbase can be quite toxic. Personally I felt that comment was a complete kick in the teeth. I spent 2 hours yesterday trying to play this game and i probably had a total of 30 minutes game time. I had a full pre-made squad and the majority of the games we would fail to load in, slowmo, only 2/3 would go into the game. I love playing Apex but honestly it's so hard sometimes to enjoy this game. I get that issues arise and you need to fix them, that's fine. but the joke you made I think was completely uncalled for. As a Director of comms i think it was just bad form. I think respawn deserves a lot of criticism but dealing with the toxicity isn't something anyone should ever endure so I understand lashing out every now and then.
I don't regret it because a lot of people saw it for what it was and got a kick out of it. And frankly, I'm not in video games to be a boring corporate suit.
But it does bother me that it felt like a kick in the teeth to you. I don't want you or anyone else to feel that. Wasn't intended that way at all and I want you to know you CAN choose to read it the other way, which is a lighthearted way of dealing with some of the same pain you've felt. We feel it too. I can't make you change your interpretation, that's up to you.
Bit of a tough question but how many times has some weird legal stuff stopped yall from being more clear about some problem or issue?
Usually legal restrictions aren't the problem for like product features, which is why we occasionally pop in on things like cross-progression and provide an update. Things like hacking, cheating, personnel changes, and anything financial can be much tougher though. Obviously I can't give any specific examples (lol) but you can imagine some.
The director of communications just wished self harm on a Reddit commenter, and doubled down that it wasn’t a joke.
Oh lord.
Man, that ain't it, can we PLEASE have some fun in here just once
You should tell the monetization team to kick rocks too.
Nah they're really nice people, I don't want their toes to get stubbed.
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