Apex Legends’ Steam Review Score Plummets In The Wake Of New Battle Pass Changes

Apex Legends‘ Steam page has been inundated with negative user reviews following the announcement that Season 22 will feature two battle passes. Prior to the July 8 announcement, the game was earning roughly 150 to 300 negative user reviews (and a similar amount of positive user reviews) daily. But in the days following the announcement of the battle pass changes, the game has earned a total of 35,035 negative reviews, dropping its score for the month of July to “overwhelmingly negative.” Only 1,997 of the user reviews posted since July 8 are positive.

Starting with Season 1: Wild Frontier (which launched in March 2019), Apex’s battle passes have stuck to an unchanging recipe. Each season has featured a new battle pass with 110 levels of cosmetics and in-game currency for players to unlock after purchase. Previously, Apex’s seasonal battle passes cost 950 Apex Coins ($9.50 USD) each, though players could spend 2,800 AC ($28 USD) to automatically unlock the first 25 levels of the battle pass. But starting in Season 22, Respawn will be releasing two 60-level battle passes per season, with the first battle pass launching alongside the new season, and the second arriving at the season’s midpoint.

Additionally, there’s been a price change: Each battle pass will now cost $10 USD ($20 USD for the upgraded version), and battle passes will no longer be available to purchase with Apex Coins, a change that players are especially displeased with. Previously, each battle pass included enough Apex Coins to purchase the next season’s battle pass, meaning that once players purchased and completed a single battle pass, the next season’s pass would effectively be available for free, provided they didn’t spend their Apex Coins on something else.

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