While Respawn Entertainment’s Apex Legends continues to thrive, so much so that the developer opened up a dedicated studio over in Vancouver, metrics for the game’s performance illustrates the hype that surrounds the 2019-released battle royale. With the launch of Season 9 – Legacy, player activity spiked to all-time highs. Additionally, the title officially grossed more than $1 billion in generated revenue.
It wasn’t until the following financial report by Electronic Arts that the firm pressed the projected number of users swelled beyond 13 million concurrent players then. At that time Electronic Arts reassured its plans for a mobile release of the game would be met with a launch by the year’s end. However, it was uncertain if it was intended for the financial year or calendar year at the time.
From Electronic Arts once more, the firm continues to celebrate the success of Apex Legends as it now tallies impressive numbers for the game. This time, Apex Legends Season 9 – Legacy & Season 10 – Emergence both contributed to record-high player activity on par to the likes of Season 1.
Apex Legends continues to grow as one of the top franchises in the industry – a brand new IP that has scaled to more than 100 million players and is closing in on $1 billion in net bookings annually. Season 9 and Season 10 each respectively set new marks for the highest active players since Season 1, and Q2 was the biggest quarter of in-game spending in Apex that we’ve had to date.
Wilson adds, “Apex is moving from strength to strength, and we will add to that when we bring Apex Legends to mobile platforms later this year.” As noted in his statement, user spending on virtual currency/items also breaks expectations. Electronic Arts CFO Blake Jorgenson remarks on the matter.
“Apex Legends net bookings were up over 150% year on year. There was some benefit from having two collection events this quarter, but even so, the underlying growth rate is clearly extremely strong. Apex has delivered over $1.6 billion in net bookings life to date, and we’re well ahead of our expectations for the year.”
For anticipated plans on the future of Apex Legends, support for the latest Xbox & PlayStation is still underway. The developer pressed that it is aiming to deliver a 120Hz mode for the game on newer hardware at a later date. You can read the full report by heading here.
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Source: Electronic Arts
