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posted by Fnord666 on Saturday February 09 2019, @02:07PM   Printer-friendly
from the have-played-it-once dept.

Apex Legends Notches 10 Million Players in Three Days:

Electronic Arts may've(sic) found the next Fortnite.

The video game giant, known for its Battlefield war simulation games and upcoming Anthem action adventure title launching in two weeks, surprised the gaming world on Monday when it suddenly released a new game called Apex Legends. The title is free to download and offers a similar feel to Epic Games' Fortnite: Battle Royale, a free last-man-standing "battle royale" title that's become a cultural phenomenon since launching nearly two years ago. Both make their money by selling different looks for characters.

So far, EA says, more than 10 million people have played Apex Legends since it launched. "We hoped you'd love it as much as us, but never in our wildest dreams could we have expected the outpouring of support and positivity we've seen," wrote Vince Zampella, head of EA's Respawn Entertainment division, which made the popular Titanfall shooting game series and its spinoff Apex Legends. "We tested and tweaked. We argued and agreed. We got to a point where we felt some magic."

Apex Legends are... ancient ghost stories told around a campfire at night at a mountainop retreat?


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  • (Score: 2) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Sunday February 10 2019, @03:18PM (6 children)

    by MichaelDavidCrawford (2339) Subscriber Badge <mdcrawford@gmail.com> on Sunday February 10 2019, @03:18PM (#799124) Homepage Journal

    I'll turn fifty-five in two weeks, yet I still have to get Mom to pay my phone bill.

    That's what Open Source did to my livelidhood: the very finest job I ever had was at Working Software of Santa Cruz, a Mac Productivity Publisher.

    My very first app was just $9.95, but we really _did_ make it up in volume, so much so that there were a whole bunch of cheaper - not none better - knock-offs that all said "Works Just Like Last Resort!" They'd even print LR's icon on their product boxes!

    It was a keystroke recorder... for novelists who'd do stuff like shut off the power because something violent happened to their computer screen when they clicked in the wrong place, thereby bringing some other app into the foreground.

    We got hundreds of grateful letters, I personally got dozens of grateful calls, every last one of them for saving someone's book.

    A Mac User Editor _personally_ face-to-face thanked me for having captured his girl's steamy email to her other boyfriend, then went on to have Last Resort save the entire planet from destruction in a novel he wrote, because its dribble file - what Richard calls them - captured a vitally important password.

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  • (Score: 2) by c0lo on Sunday February 10 2019, @10:20PM (5 children)

    by c0lo (156) Subscriber Badge on Sunday February 10 2019, @10:20PM (#799249) Journal

    I'll turn fifty-five in two weeks, yet I still have to get Mom to pay my phone bill.

    While this is unfortunate, I doubt you are representative as a paying customer.

    That's what Open Source did to my livelidhood:

    Come on now. Tell me honestly to my face it was Open Source that ruined your life, I dare you.

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    • (Score: 2) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Sunday February 10 2019, @11:10PM (4 children)

      by MichaelDavidCrawford (2339) Subscriber Badge <mdcrawford@gmail.com> on Sunday February 10 2019, @11:10PM (#799264) Homepage Journal

      There is no way to make money on utility software.

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      • (Score: 2) by c0lo on Sunday February 10 2019, @11:47PM (3 children)

        by c0lo (156) Subscriber Badge on Sunday February 10 2019, @11:47PM (#799278) Journal

        Open Source Ruined My Life

        What do you expect? Being paid rent forever for a piece of software that is easy to replicate from scratch?
        If so, you're delusional. And that may have something more to do with your ruined life than open source software.

        There is no way to make money on utility software.

        So... exactly who's fault is that you try doing the impossible?

        Look, if I see an application that suits my needs, I'll try to replicate it (especially if I don't have the money to pay for it). - as open source if it is polished enough to not show how dirty my quick-and-dirty can be.
        Will you accuse me too that I (potentially) ruined your life?

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        • (Score: 2) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Monday February 11 2019, @01:29AM (2 children)

          by MichaelDavidCrawford (2339) Subscriber Badge <mdcrawford@gmail.com> on Monday February 11 2019, @01:29AM (#799313) Homepage Journal

          Try gEdit from the first few builds of Slackware that bundled it.

          I rest my case.

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          • (Score: 2) by c0lo on Monday February 11 2019, @02:12AM (1 child)

            by c0lo (156) Subscriber Badge on Monday February 11 2019, @02:12AM (#799328) Journal

            Try gEdit from the first few builds of Slackware that bundled it.

            And this is relevant to your mum-pays-my-phone-bills ... exactly how?
            You imagine that the maintainers of gEdit have a moral obligation to pay those bills instead?

            I rest my case.

            Rest whatever you want; if by this you mean: "I won the argument", I will also congratulate you, doesn't cost me anything.
            Just be aware nothing of the above will change your situation in regards with the bills - so you might as well concentrate on resting or winning something else.

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