Here is what we know about Apex Legends Battle Pass 1

in #gaming5 years ago (edited)


First of all, we have to declare that the rumors were not true! The battle pass did not arrive yesterday (12th of March).

BUT!

There has been an unintentional update of the Apex Legends' Origin landing page, claiming that the season 1 Battle Pass is here with new weapons, unique loot and the new legend, Octane. All this for the price of 950 coins, around ~9.50€. (<- header picture.)

People of course lost their mind, but after realizing this is kind of a self-leak from Respawn they lost some of the hype, knowing that most likely there will be no pass released that day - and they were right.

Not much later the landing page cover got replaced by this:


That's one way to handle it, eh?

On the other hand... was it really unintentional?

My guess is no. Let me explain. The crowd was waiting for the battle pass so bad. People took it really seriously that it will be realeased on the 12th - even if it was just a rumor.
If Respawn stayed silent lot of people would have been disappointed, so they the devs be like:

"A'ight here is all the information you needed about the pass, and as you can see it is almost publishable"

If they would have just posted some calming comments on reddit it wouldn't have had a too much of an impact - everybody can state that the pass is almost here. This "leak" was more convincing.

The other way the devs could benefit from this mistake is that they can now see the reaction of the players on the price. Since this is the first launch of the battle pass they need feedback because a LOT of people are about to buy the pass. If something went wrong it would be a disaster.

To be honest I am pleased with this pricing, since it is EA published I was afraid that it would be too expensive, but that's the basic price of most games' season pass.

Official update

Since then an official state update has been posted to reddit in which Jayfresh, the Respawn Community Manager confirms that the pass was not supposed to be released on that day. (12th March) (link)
He also writes about the fact that dataminers dig up lots of interesting things from the game and leak them, but they are not gonna be necessarily part of the game, since a lots of old and to be tested prototypes are still in the code.

This was the summary of the things we know as of now, thanks for reading.
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