If you cast your mind back to January of this year, Apex Legends hadn’t even been announced. Titanfall 2, Respawn’s previous title, had been a commercial flop – despite being one of this generation’s finest shooters. Within a month of launch, the game hit 50 million players – drawing them in with it’s unique squad-based mechanics and buttery smooth gunplay ripped almost entirely from Titanfall 2.<\/p>\n
There have been wobbles, of course – Season One’s battle pass notably felt like a box tick exercise rather than offering worthwhile content, but Apex Legends has remained almost top of the pile since launch. In fact, back in July it was reported that 8 – 10 million players still jump in every week.<\/p>\n
We say almost, because Fortnite has been top dog since displacing PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds all the way back in 2017. Epic’s free-to-play experiment certainly paid off, with the game reaching almost 11 million concurrent players during the Marshmello concert in February of this year (Apex Legends’ release month), but it’s now totally eclipsed that number with the launch of Chapter 2.<\/p>\n