Released in March 2022, Apex Legends Mobile, a highly popular and visually impressive battle royale video game, entered the mobile gaming market. However, the application was officially launched in May 2022. Regrettably, both Respawn Entertainment and EA, the game’s developers, have confirmed that Apex Legends Mobile will be globally discontinued later this year. Adding to the disappointment, EA also announced the cancellation of the development of Battlefield Mobile.
Despite the eventual setback, the initial launch of Apex Legends Mobile was highly successful, accomplishing various milestones. The mobile version faithfully replicates all the features, modes, and maps available in the PC and console versions. Moreover, developers introduced mobile-exclusive content, enhancing the gaming experience exclusively for the mobile user base
Within 8 months of its release, the game studio has now confirmed that it will be shutting down the mobile version of the Apex Legend to โmaintain high-quality experience and content that our players deserve.โ
Apex Legends Mobile Will Sunset on 1 May This Year
The business cited the closure as a “mutual decision” taken with its “development partner”; Apex Legends Mobile was created by Respawn and Tencent’s Lightspeed & Quantum Studios, which also handles the PUBG mobile version.
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Respawn claimed, “Following a strong start, the content pipeline for Apex Legends Mobile has begun to fall short of that bar for quality, quantity, and cadence. It is for this reason, after months of working with our development partner, that we have made the mutual decision to sunset our mobile game. Although disappointing, we are proud of the game we launched, are grateful for the support of the Apex Legends community, and are confident that this is the right decision for players.”
Apex Legends Mobile has a reputation for introducing adjustments to the main game that gamers would have liked to see, such as extra skills for current legends, new game modes, and a pair of mobile-exclusive legends, Fade and Rhapsody. Apex Legends Mobile has been awarded Best mobile game of the Year at the Playstore Best Awards 2022 and Best iPhone Game of the Year at the App Store Awards 2022.
Commencing today, the application will no longer facilitate the acquisition of any in-app purchases, and the company has announced the impending removal of the game from webstores. Players who presently possess any purchased items can utilize them until the global shutdown of the game on May 1, 2023. Any existing virtual currency balances within the game will be preserved in your account, permitting their use for in-game items until 4 PM PDT on May 1, 2023.
During the ninety-day sunset period, you can continue to enjoy all previously acquired in-game items and purchases.
EA has clearly confirmed that it will not provide any refund for the real-money purchases that a player has made. Apex Legends Mobile servers will close down globally on 1 May 2023 at 4 PM PDT.
EA is also halting development on its planned Battlefield mobile game, which it announced in April 2021. โAs the industry has evolved and our strategy to create a deeply connected Battlefield ecosystem has taken shape, we decided to pivot from the current direction to best deliver on our vision for the franchise and to meet the expectations of our players,โ EA wrote in a news post on its website.
The studio in the blog post claimed that it remains positive about โmobile as a platformโ and will โlook forward to new opportunities to serve players there in the future.โ
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