After all, an EA shooter inspires the players

The house blessing is likely to be a little lopsided at EA at the moment: the Battlefield guarantee of success is weakening and the FIFA name debacle is also causing unrest. But at least one shooter is currently shining enormously. Apex Legends is now earning a big record on Steam.

Apex Legends: Steam player counts are at a peak

Popped out of the ground in 2019, the battle royale shooter from EA is doing just fine three years later.

Because with the May 10th started 13th season Apex Legends can surpass itself again. The shooter breaks its own player record on Steam. have to launch 412,556 simultaneous players grabbed the mouse and keyboard and fought for their survival in the arenas.

The new season is going well

So the new Saviors season seems to be going down well with the players. With the start also have one fresh legend – Newcastle – and changes to the ranking system and the Stormpoint map have been made.

The technical performance at the launch of the 13th season also played well into Apex’s hands for the player record. Because in contrast to the past and the start of the 12th season, the shooter fans met this time stable servers.

Most recently, Apex Legends broke its own Steam record in February. At that time roamed about 393,000 players through the arenas (source: SteamDB).

The current record is really impressive, but it doesn’t reflect the entire player base of the shooter. Because these are only game ends on a platform.

If you do the math Players on the consoles and EA’s own platform Origin added, the actual figure is likely to be much higher.

And Apex is also doing well financially: In a recent report, EA states that since the release it has received income from two billion dollars to have generated with the shooter. In the future, the company would like to turn over around one billion per year. The growing number of players will definitely support this ambitious goal (source: EA).

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