Change is coming to Apex Legends as soon as once more. However as an alternative of tweaking characters or offering new modes, Respawn is shifting how the battle royale’s battle go works within the recreation’s bigger ecosystem.
Starting with the upcoming Season 22, the three-month passes can solely be bought with real-world cash. Gamers may use in-game AC foreign money to purchase mentioned passes, however that course of will likely be phased out.
Additional complicating issues is that every Season will likely be break up into two battle passes. The primary Premium go will value $10 per half season, whereas the Premium+ go (which provides further in-game rewards) will likely be $20.
So except gamers follow the free observe, they could pay $20 or $40 for a full season. Per Respawn, the change was executed to make issues “extra approachable and real looking for our international participant group.”
To indicate what the change to its season passes will appear like, Respawn posted a graphic under displaying outdated and future rewards for the Free, Premium, and Premium+ tracks. Underneath the half-season change, gamers appear to get extra rewards for getting each passes than the unique “one per season” format.
Builders are altering their season passes, however to what finish?
Final 12 months, 2K took the same two-track season go method with NBA 2K24. Like with Apex, that recreation’s Professional and Corridor of Fame passes had been respectively $10 and $20, although it provided Professional gamers an opportunity to commerce up in the event that they forked over one other $10.
Earlier than that, Bungie bumped up the value of Future 2’s season passes from $10 to $12. This new change from Apex could additional sign a bigger shift to come back in how season passes are priced and in-game seasons grow to be structured.