There’ll still be two battle passes per season, but the switch to real money only is being scrapped.
You can see it coming a million light years away: A game developer announces something that its players are obviously going to be infuriated by, and then a week or two later posts a black jpg with white text that says, one way or another, ‘Oops! Our bad.’
So it has gone for Apex Legends, which today reversed the most unpopular aspect of the new battle pass structure it announced two weeks ago.
The changes were controversial for a couple reasons. The first complaint was that Apex will now get two smaller battle passes per season instead of one, effectively doubling the cost of each season’s premium tiers. That isn’t changing. The second complaint—the bit that is being reversed—was that premium battle pass tracks were no longer going to be obtainable with Apex Coins, a currency that can be earned in the battle passes themselves. Instead, direct $10 USD transactions were going to be the only way to unlock those premium tiers.
Today, Respawn announced that it’s scrapping the USD-only part of the plan.
