Apex Legends<\/a> game. Rather than using exploits to win ranked lobby games, the hackers outright disabled matchmaking for everybody and placed messages in the game urging players to “Save Titanfall”.<\/p>\nRespawn developers eventually managed to resolve the issue and resumed regular functionality and matchmaking in the game. Unfortunately, however, some developers were targeted on social media by toxic fans and subjected to massive backlash and harassment. This included Principal Animator, Moy Parra, who later quit social media altogether.<\/p>\n
Apex Legends animator harassed by toxic fans<\/h2>\n
Understandably, fans were upset when global matchmaking was affected by the hack. This also swiftly spurred the #SaveApexRanked hashtag that trended on Twitter. Nobody could find games and Respawn were, for a while at least, down on their knees. Some developers were at the brunt of the massive public outcry and some “fans” even proceeded to harass the devs online.<\/p>\n
Moy Parra was especially targeted by the abuse and subsequently tweeted that he was quitting social media for the time being. “Taking a vacation from Twitter for the first time ever y’all take care”, he said. We also definitely don’t blame him, some of the comments were absolutely disgusting and we won’t be sharing them here.<\/p>\n