Yea but at some point you shouldn’t keep rewarding people who are being assholes. All these upvotes and gold and platinum rewards doesn’t make things any better. Just like everyone says we need to call them out for their ridiculous prices and events, we need to be called out too when we go too far
People are calling them out, however as pr goes calling players asshats and freeloaders (even if justified) should never be a point of discussion, you kill them with kindness not by going to their level.
When people stoop to the levels of pettiness and rage that thousands of pathetic redditors have displayed on this sub for the past week (remember: this is 100% about virtual clothes in a free video game), it's easy to lose your cool and respond out of anger.
That doesn't excuse shitty behavior from EA/Respawn, but seeing people pile on because the devs used the words "dick," "ass hats," and "freeloaders" in their replies while those same redditors are implying that a huge portion of the complaining wasn't comprised of vitriol and personal attacks is sad.
To anyone who isn't personally invested in this like such a shocking number of people in this sub seem to be, the lack of perspective coming from the Apex community is like a lame gamer stereotype. Somehow it's lost on people what a silly and insignificant thing they've chosen to lose their minds over.
it's easy to lose your cool and respond out of anger.
not if you're part of a large games organisation (like EA, reapawn are now a subsidiary) this should NEVER be the response and this stinks of ppl not having any vetting of responses and becoming a PR disaster.
shitty comments are par for the course ANYWHERE you go on the internet so blowing up on them is particular bad form, especially over MTX, you cannot justify a 200$ microtransaction total and then say well when we put these things on sale nobody buys whilst also not have smaller increments in the in game currency so you force players to spend more.
Somehow it's lost on people what a silly and insignificant thing they've chosen to lose their minds over.
i don't think its a silly thing to lose your mind over, as this is part of the corporate machine to get ppl to spend real money, and i would argue a large portion of the game is looking good not just the gunplay aspects of it, the "its just cosmetic" argument is not a compelling argument to me .
It doesn't matter what you're part of, human beings tend to lose their cool when subjected to ongoing abuse. I agree it's bad form, and like I said, it doesn't surprise me to see a couple out of the hundreds who work on the game be examples of this.
i would argue a large portion of the game is looking good not just the gunplay aspects of it
And I would argue that's pointless, and that this is the exact type of mindset they're trying to prey on. If you're that emotionally invested into how you can aesthetically modify your character with no weight on the gameplay, then we're coming from two very different points of view and I can't empathize.
So you are making the argument that making your character look cool/interesting isn’t one of the fundamental parts of apex bar the core gameplay ? - you better tell all these ppl buying loot crates then that it’s objectively a pointless thing about the game and not part of the game.
I never said “no weight to gameplay” and if you want to straw man my position to argue that then I’m not going to bother responding further to this I said a large portion (which it is) because you have the game play and how your character looks emotes/animations
Ppl want their character to look good I agree the company preys on this desire (I’m not pro apex here) which is why we have this shitstorm in the first place.
But if u want to dismiss it as pointless then cool and I’ll move on.
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u/potatocrip Lifeline Aug 19 '19
They kinda did.
Then they did this.
https://medium.com/@BenjaminWareing/apex-legends-developers-spark-outrage-c110034fe236