Apex Legends Reaches 10 Million Players, 1 Million Concurrent Player Count

Apex Legends has become one of the most popular games, despite only be around 1 week old. Leaked and revealed last week Respawn Entertainment's free-to-play battle royale title has soared in player count, now reaching 10 million players and 1 million concurrent.

[Jin_Sakai]

“Apex Legends Reaches 10 Million Players, 1 Million Concurrent Player Count”

Congrats to Respawn. They did an amazing job and launching the game out of nowhere worked.

This is how you do a Battle Royale game. The ping system is one of the best systems ever. It really helps your team out.

[spicelicka]

That's the craziest part. The amount of money they saved on marketing was probably as much as the game's budget itself.

[OCEANGROWNKUSH]

Apex couldnt have come out at a better time... fortnite/pubg is so played out, blackout is still fresh but there seemed to be a lull in the market. Whether or not they can sustain these number, only time will tell

[badz149]

IF they keep this up and EA keep their hands off it for the most part other than collecting revenue from it, maybe we can finally see something making Epic shakes in their boots

[kevnb]

They should send some of these guys over to dice to help them fix their netcode.

[Christopher]

Or perhaps at least fix sight issues when people lay on their backs.

[Majin-vegeta]

They're stil working on that and visibility in general

[excaliburps]

Ouch! That's harsh. Haha!

[Majin-vegeta]

https://mobile.twitter.com/...

[tdogg06051991]

The game is great but it's the promotion mixed with Good game mechanics that pushed this game to the top. EA threw a lot of money since day 1 on promotion with Sony and Microsoft. They also have continuous factoids and interviews to keep promoting this game through a lot of venues. A great game can do wonders with great promotion.

[djl3485]

What promotion? It was literally announced and released the same day.

[tdogg06051991]

This was posted and plastered all over PlayStation Facebook and Microsofts Facebook. Now only that they continue to drip feed random facts like lgbtq characters, working on it for the past two years etc.

[gangsta_red]

Looks like the BR genre isn't too crowded as a lot of people thought.

Great decision from Respawn to make a game like this.

[DrumBeat]

Congratulations Respawn. Here's a great BR game that I've played; a game that EA had no hand in, and it's competing with the big boys of BR. Hats off. I always liked Respawn.

I'm not a big fan of BR games but I could recognize the quality as I played it. Quality that could only come from the original IW team.

[JackBNimble]

You don't think EA is going to profit off this? They own Respawn.

[neocores8055]

Thats not what he said idiot. You should really re-read what he said. SLOWLY

[MasterCornholio]

@Neo

I honestly don’t believe that EA had no influence over the game.

[JackBNimble]

How long does it take to develop a game? I guess Respawn just has alot of free time.
Of course EA is behind this , after all this is EA we're talking about

[AK91]

Ugh did this just save EA?

[annoyedgamer]

It was literally released a few days ago... Wait 2 months then do a count.

[Marioraider18]

Complaining just to complain

[gamer9]

Naw, i would agree with that. Except i'd say wait 3 weeks then do a count...

[2pacalypsenow]

In 2019 in a market full of Battle Royale's, that's not really impressive for a free game.

[BizarroUltraman]

like your comment.... ouch! haha

[gangsta_red]

Full? In relation to what exacty? So Respawn should make a FPS game....in a market filled with FPS games.

How about a SP game...in a market filled with SP games.

I know...how about a hula hoop game on an abacus adding machine, there's an untapped market ready for pillaging.

[2pacalypsenow]

They can make whatever they want. 10 million people trying a “Free” game with 1 million active is not impressive for an established IP.

Disagree all you want.

What’s next? Activion releases a Free COD battle royale that has 15 million people downloading it and y’all are gonna be shocked too? Lol guess y’all drool when BR is mentioned.

[boing1]

It's not an established IP. COD is established IP.

[2pacalypsenow]

Titanfall is not an established IP?

[2pacalypsenow]

Lol.

Made by Respawn, Published by EA and in the TitanFall universe.

"iT's nOt rElAteD tO tITaNfAlL"

Lol please.. Just stop responding and go play the game.

[boing1]

Why are you suddenly talking about Titanfall??? It has nothing to do with Apex Legends when it comes to establishing IP. They said it's a Titanfall universe because they obviously recycled most of the assets from it. That's it. Easy explanation. Show me where in Apex Legends I can find any mentions about Titanfall, because maybe I missed it.

[Christopher]

Do you know how many F2P Indie games would kill for these numbers when they can't even get 10% of those players?

[2pacalypsenow]

All of them would.

[Weeblordbad]

Listen I know you're slow, but you can't say a game has the power of an established IP behind it when it's not first glance obvious it's related to Titanfall. Again, maybe just admit you're stupid and move on?

[2pacalypsenow]

“I kNoW yOu’Re sLoW”

What else you got? Keep the insults coming, your intellect is seeping through your comments’

[Nodoze]

Actually it is quite fun. Not really a fan of this genre, but I have played this quite a bit since launch. Cannot explain it. Hoping we get some additional legends soon.

The gun play is great. Love the look. LOVE the armor break/impact animations. It is ADDICTIVE.

[Majin-vegeta]

https://www.google.com/amp/...

[Ghostbob]

Didn't H1Z1 do 10 million within a few months on ps4?

[neocores8055]

It did 10mil in 2weeks not months

[blackblades]

What is this, just came out of the blue. Hope this doesnt become another fortnite.

[Jin_Sakai]

I can’t stand Fortnite. Soon as you pull the trigger someone instantly builds an apartment complex.

[badz149]

Avengers Tower

[Artemidorus]

It's a good game just can see it becoming stale if they don't provide different game modes.

Communication tools are brilliant.

[FunPhl40]

I do not think thats too good actually. You have only been out a week, yes 10 million sounds good but the concurrent player count, not saying its bad 1 million is good but should be higher if 10 million people downloaded this game a week ago.

[neocores8055]

Its been out for 3 days and it reached 1mil concurrent faster then fortnite has and reached 10mil in the same 3 day time period. and 1 million on is no where near bad lol 90% of multiplayer never even hit over 500k but you should really know your facts before you speak stupid

[Weeblordbad]

The spin in this thread to downplay the achievement has been pretty funny.

[FunPhl40]

10 million people downloaded it because its free.

[dragonopt1]

I actually really like this game. The different classes is pretty cool and the gun play is fun. Didn’t think I’d like the “ping” system but it works well considering a lot of people have mics just don’t want to communicate lol.

[tonyjames404]

It's a great game that warrants everyone's attention who is a BR player. One of the best BR games by far

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[salmonade]

Well good on them and congrats. Well done guys.

[blacktiger]

everyone is talking about ping like they never seen before. Bad Company 2 had ping! It became one of the best fps game ever made

[Weeblordbad]

It's the contextual nature of the ping, it's not just a spotting tool.

[Dreamcatcher45]

GoW and Spiderman made 10 million. Not impressive since this is free

[DerekTweed]

This has been out for 3 days and spiderman hasn't reached 10 million yet. 9 million in november is the latest info I've seen.

[shadowraiden]

Spiderman hasnt reached 10 million and Spiderman took months same with GoW.

[MetroidFREAK21]

I hope they can maintain this when cross play eventually hits later in the year. Congrats to Respawn!

[JEECE]

If this keeps up, the launch out of nowhere is going to look genius. If they had announced this months in advance, it would have gotten slammed for being another MT-laden BR. I'm sure I would have been among those criticizing it.

[BlackDoomAx]

Now please add/fix servers.

[pyroxxx]

A. Ping system
B. Really fast machmaking
C. Possibility to revive downed comrades & even respawn them
D. Decent gunplay

Game Is really good.

[NextGenCeo]

I try PubG and i don't like it. I try Fortnite and I don't like! But this game i don't know how but pushing me to play with my squad and that's why it's getting funny and some time's harder. First time i like some kind of F2P game. It is weird for me :)

(Esl guy so sorry for English)

[cell989]

Respawn made Call OF Duty, Titan Fall. These guys know FPSs. I knew it would be good

[SegaGamer]

Looks like crap to me. I don't understand the appeal of these Battle Royale games.

[fonduktoe]

Really great game but if BR games aren't your thing to each his own. Maybe don't bother commenting on their articles?

[TheOnlyMastrx]

I enjoy Fortnite more than PUBG or Blackout. But this game is on another level. It's taken me almost entirely away from Fortnite. If you are reading this comment and haven't tried out Apex Legends yet, start the download, its that good.