Experts explain why Apex Legends is ‘overrated’ and quickly loses its appeal

After analyzing key data on Twitch and Google, financial experts called Apex Legends “overrated” and predicted it was on the verge of leaving the casual gaming market.

Immediately after its launch on February 4, Apex Legends exploded with never-before-seen player and viewership numbers.

However, things are slowly going downhill and the experts at Seeking Alpha believe the trend will go down even further.

Worrying Twitch and Google Data

In today’s world, one of the most important indicators of a game’s success is its popularity on the online streaming platform Twitch: based on viewership.

The graph below shows how the average Apex Legends viewership has dropped dramatically since reaching nearly 400,000 viewers shortly after launch.

The chart becomes even more disturbing when you factor in the fact that publisher EA is also paying huge amounts of money to popular streamers like Tyler ‘Ninja’ Blevins to stream and promote Apex Legends.

As for Google, the same trend is happening in Apex Legends from early February to mid-April. Apex Legends search rates are now much less than before.

Players want more things in the game

Respawn Entertainment was heavily criticized for the lack of extra content in the Season 1 Battle Pass.

This problem brought the game to a halt, causing many popular streamers, such as Shroud and Dr.Disrespect, to consider whether to stream Apex anymore.

In addition, the game still has bugs, glitches, hacks. They lose fairness in the game and sometimes make you not want to play anymore.

Fortnite Battle Royale continues to dominate

When Apex Legends first launched, many people quickly dubbed it the “Fortnite Battle Royale Killer”. They predict it will surpass Epic Games’ golden goose to become the new battle royale throne.

Not only did this not happen, Epic also adopted some of Apex’s famous features, like the Ping system and the respawn mechanic – making opponents less unique than they were in the beginning.

According to official statistics, Apex Legends has only 10% of Google searches compared to Fortnite Battle Royale, and 20% of the viewership on Twitch. On YouTube, Apex scored only 4%, showing how strong Fortnite has risen.

Conclude…

So what does this mean for Apex Legends – the title many believe is the next battle royale craze?

According to Seeking Alpha, these numbers make it clear that Apex Legends “can’t compete with Fortnite”, and that “its value is actually much lower than it is now” (currently Apex Legends is defined $15 billion).

It seems that Seeking Alpha’s predictions agree with what everyone has been thinking for the past few weeks: Apex Legends’ weaknesses far outweigh the game’s strengths, and the game will soon become Fortnite’s shadow.

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