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Ubisoft is Developing a New Battle Royale Heavily Inspired by Apex Legends (insider-gaming.com)
submitted 2 months ago by neme@lemm.ee to c/games@sh.itjust.works
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[–] KoboldCoterie@pawb.social 28 points 2 months ago

[–] VivianRixia@piefed.social 17 points 2 months ago (2 children)

One source said on the project, “I think the goal is to capitalize on the player count of Apex dropping and them [Ubisoft higher-ups] thinking there’s room in the market for another hero Battle Royale.”

Ah yes, if I'm getting bored of Apex Legends, that means what I want is to instead join another game that is exactly like it.

[–] Codilingus@sh.itjust.works 8 points 2 months ago

I have a friend who played a TON of Apex on console, and spent nearly $1000 on it. He moved to PC gaming, and Apex promised cross platform skins soon™. They finally do it, years later, and fuck it up. He lost all his skins, his account was basically wiped of all things he spent $ on. They refuse to help him.

He'd play an Apex clone for sure, but probably not one from Ubisoft.

Anidotal, I know.

[–] warmaster@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

But wait, you'll be able to climb towers to unlock Ubipoints. If you grind for a year, you'll be able to redeem them for a different colored costume.

[–] ieatpwns@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

Pride and accomplishment baybeee

[–] simple@lemm.ee 12 points 2 months ago (1 children)

They learned nothing from their last few blunders, huh. They already had a battle royale called Hyperscape that flopped.

[–] Kualdir@feddit.nl 3 points 2 months ago

Omg the 5 pixel wide character BR? What a flop that was

[–] renegadespork@lemmy.jelliefrontier.net 9 points 2 months ago

Just in time to ride the hype wave. Maybe they’ll release a MOBA next.

[–] hal_5700X@sh.itjust.works 6 points 2 months ago

Look, it's the new we have Apex Legends at home.

[–] CaptainBasculin@lemmy.bascul.in 2 points 2 months ago

I loved XDefiant, and I used to play a lot of Apex. Hope they can succeed with it, because I'd absolutely play an Apex without any ties to EA.