Apex Legends hits lowest participant depend in years as Season 22 disappoints

Apex Legends has dipped beneath 100k common gamers on Steam, its lowest common participant depend since 2021. Although a brand new map and dual-wield weapons have been added in Season 22, the sport’s newest content material drop hasn’t caught the touchdown.

In all equity to Apex, it’s nonetheless one of the vital well-liked video games on Steam and has day by day participant depend peaks near 200k gamers. It’s nonetheless an enormous recreation with a participant base most video games may solely want for.

Nonetheless, it’s not possible to not discover a downward trending participant depend for Apex Legends, one which hasn’t stopped regardless of the sport nonetheless getting substantial content material updates with every season.

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Taking a look at participant depend tendencies, Season 20 was truly an enormous resurgence for the sport each by way of peak and concurrent gamers. Season 21 saved it alive in Could 2024, nevertheless it fell off rapidly and noticed a drastically decreased common and peak participant depend in comparison with S20.

Season 22 has hit a brand new low level at lower than 100k common gamers and 249k peak gamers. That is virtually half of what Apex’s peak was in February 2024, and it marks a transparent decline in curiosity for the sport.

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Alter can create portals on the battlefield.

This might come all the way down to plenty of components. Season 21‘s new character, Alter, hasn’t precisely been a success. She’s acquired one of many lowest play charges within the recreation with talents that rely closely on speaking along with her teammates, making her a questionable solo queue choose and an unpopular Legend.

The twin Mozambiques have additionally been some extent of controversy, with the devs not nerfing the weapon for weeks regardless of the akimbo shotguns completely dominating the meta.

Apex Legends might want to do one thing particular in Season 23 to win gamers again and cease this downward spiral if it desires to stay one of many world’s hottest battle royales.