Apex Legends Mobile was released in May 2022 as the handheld version of the immensely popular BR title. Its initial announcement and release had a lot of excitement and hype. However, just under a year later, the game is no longer available on the application stores. Here’s the story of what happened to Apex Legends Mobile.
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With the immense successes of games PUBG Mobile, Free Fire, and CoD Mobile, EA was quick to jump on the bandwagon with a mobile version of Apex Legends. The ambitious BR title was being built from the ground-up for mobile devices.
However, after its initial release, the game was riddled with a lot of bugs and optimization issues — likely due to a hurried release. This made it hard for the title to pull players away from its competitors. While these were later fixed throughout 2022, the game couldn’t come close to the popularity of PUBG Mobile and Free Fire.
EA later announced in early 2023 that the game would be shutting down on May 1, 2023. At the time, the company had said that this was because the game had fallen short of its bar for “quality, quantity, and cadence.”
It’s unclear what this meant exactly. First of all, while Apex Mobile wasn’t performing well, the game was only around for under a year. The title had a lot of potential if the game was marketed correctly.
Instead, EA chose to shut it down completely.
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Apex Legends Mobile is gone for good – or is it? In the Q3 FY23 Quarterly Results, EA’s CEO, Andrew Wilson, said that the company could bring a “reimagined and connected” Apex Mobile experience in the future.
It’s unclear what this meant exactly. Since then, the company hasn’t mentioned anything else about the game. Only time will tell if players will ever get to experience Apex on mobile again.
However, Apex Legends Mobile’s failure has set an example for other game developers. Activision with Warzone Mobile, Ubisoft with Rainbow Six Mobile, and Tencent with Honor of Kings are all taking their due time to address optimization and bug fixes before a global release. These developers have realized the importance on capitalizing on the early hype for the game. Thus, they are ensuring that they deliver a completed product to the masses.
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Please. Bring Apex Mobile Back. I am Poor in the United States of America and the only way I could play apex was on My Mobile Phone. I played every single day since the day I downloaded Apex Legends Mobile. Now there is a void in my Heart that I am missing. I can watch everyone else play Apex but I can not. Please I beg to bring the mobile version of apex back the same exact version. It was getting better and better and the. They sunset the game
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I Know there is A Lot of Others in the South America/India and elsewhere around the world that would Love it’s Original Version of Apex Mobile back to play.
The game was really good. I used to bang that game out like crazy and now it’s gone, the game should come back
I had completely dropped CODM to play ALM for nothing. All the grinding, for nothing. For with this hyper hero garbage