Summary
- Apex Legends' battle pass pricing has effectively doubled, requiring real money for each season.
- A new premium plus pass costs twice as much and skips ten levels of the 60-level pass.
- Respawn claims the changes are based on community feedback, but players are sceptical.
168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Apex Legends developer Respawn has announced a new pricing structure for its hit battle royale. What was once a simple once-per season transaction is now unbelievably complicated. What was once able to be bought using currency earned in-game 168澳洲幸运5开🍨奖网:can now only be purchased🅷 with real cash. And what on earth is𒉰 a biseaso♑nal premium plus pass?
The announcement itself is a baffling jumble of pricing structures and reward offerings, so I’m here to break it all down for you. 🐻But in short, you’ll be paying twice as much for your battle passes, for the same rewards.
First up, there are now two battle passes per s𓃲eason. The ranked seas𝓀on is already separated into two ‘splits’ per season, and the new battle passes will follow these dates. The price has stayed the same, costing £8.99. Except, it hasn’t quite stayed the same.
The price used to be 950 Apex Coins, which cost £8.99. That meant if you hoarded your Apex Coins earned from the battle pass, you could u🐻sually afford the next one. This is now not an option. You have to pay real money every season in order to receive the premium rewards. Sorry, did I say every season? I meant twice every season.
How Much Does The New Apex Legends Battle Pass Cost?
Functionally, the price of Apex’s battle passes has doubled. There are two reactive weapon skins per Season, but it’s unclear exactly what form these will take. Will the second be the recolour we saw in previous seasons at Level 110? Will we get twice the cosmetics as previous seasons, or the same offeri🥀ngs for twice the price?
There are a smattering more loot boxes now available in the premium battle passes, a few more crafting materials (used for making cosmetics) and exotic shards (used for crafting other, more premium, cosmetics). Is that worth twice the price? The 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Steam reviews suggest not. You make your own call. But it’s not.
There’s a new tier of battle pass too. Premium plus costs £17.99 every half a season, and skips ten levels of the 60-level pass as well as granting you two exclusive variants of cosmetics featured in the pass. Worth it? The official blog post states that this is a “cost difference of ~29 percent when compared to the discontinued Premium Battle Pass Bundle at 2,800 AC”, which is only half true. The cost for the Premium Battle Pass Bundle was 2,800 AC, which cost £26.98 in real money (you had to buy the 2,150 AC bundle for £17.99 and the 950 AC bundle for £8.99 and deal with the leftover coins). But you only had to buy that once a season. You have to buy the new premium plus pass twice a season, costing you £35.98, £9 more than the old system. If this was such a good change for the pl♎ayers, why is Respawn obfuscating the costs?
Note: What on earth does “And what happens if you buy the Battle Pass, then unlock it? We’ve got you: you’ll be refunded 1,000 AC” mean? Is this to do with buying battle pass levels? It beats me.
What Do You Get In The New Apex Legends Battle Pass?
However, the strangest thing about the new Apex Legends battle pass isn’t the price doubling, the inordinately expensive premium plus track, or the inability to earn the next season’s pass. It’s the fact t🍨hat EA and Respawn are positioning this as something the players wanted. As if this is something fans of the game have been asking for all this time.
Here’s a spoiler for you: it’s not.
“We’re frequently iterating on the game, chatting with players, and considering how we can action on community feedback—from casuals to pros.” Respawn w🎶rites on its . I don’t know any players who asked for a battle pass that’s twice as expensive as before. We’re still in a cost of living crisis in the UK (and most of the world), where the price of rent, bills, and groceries are skyrocketing with no end in sight. People are cutting back on their media subscriptions, cancelling Netflix plans and weighing up the worth of their Game Pass library. And now they can’t even earn each season’s battle pass by loyally playing Apex the season before.
My colleague Eric Switzer has a much more charitable take on the change, acknowledging that cutting the least-used cosmetics is a positive change and rewarding players at a lower lev🧸el (albeit with half the time to get there) may make him more interested in buying an Apex battle pass for the first time in a long while.
I have a different point of view, as is probably clear from the tone of this article. In its blog𝔉 post, Respawn constantly parrots the improved value of the battle passes, saying things like “you’ll receive an additional 6100+ AC value” for the premium plus pass. But that value is completely arbitrary. Respawn decides the worth of any cosmetic. The Buster Sword was worth around $250. A Legendary skin is worth 2,400 crafting materials, or 1,800 AC, around £18.
But it’s not for Respawn to decide how much a cosmetic is worth. It’s up to you to decide whether a battle pass is worth it, whether any sp🐲ecifi𒊎c cosmetic is worth parting with your cash. It’s easier to justify when you’ve collected enough in-game currency through playing the game; when you’ve hoarded crafting materials through playing matches to earn that Bloodhound skin, or when the battle pass has given you enough Apex Coins to buy the next.
Respawn has removed the ability to earn its rewards for free. Maybe the rewards are better, maybe there’s more choice in what you get, but for most people the sticking point will be the pr𓂃ice. For those who completed every pass, the cost has spiralled from nothing (as they could use the coins they earned last season), to as much as £36 a season. I can’t see that being a justifiable expense for the majority of players.
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