Apex Legends fans are review bombing the game and threatening to leave after EA announced they will now have to buy battle passes with real money. Earlier this week Apex Legends publisher EA announced that it is ‘evolving’ its battle pass in the free-to-play shooter, which means that you can’t buy it with in-game currency (AC) anymore, forcing fans to purchase it with real money instead. Not only that but seasons are being split in two, doubling the number of battle passes, which is going to cost a lot of money when the new system starts with Season 22 on August 6.
Many fans aren’t onboard with this and they have now started to review bomb Apex Legends on Steam, with some players threatening to abandon the game altogether. Apex Legends has enjoyed favourable acclaim on Steam since it came out in 2020 and its all-time review score is labelled ‘Mostly Positive’, when adding all 844,000 reviews together. After the news that fans will have to spend real money for the same perks in the upcoming battle pass, 13,000 new reviews have seen it drop to ‘Mixed’.
Many of these are complaining about the new battle pass, with one fan calling it ‘insane greed’. ‘That new battle pass system is absolutely rubbish. A whole new level of greediness,’ says Citron on Steam .
‘Player base declining, cheaters running wild and Respawn and EA have the audacity to change the battle pass system for season 22, to not be purchasable with coins. ‘Stop this insane greed and fix th.