Congratulation ! Season 16 of Apex Legends got off to a great start, with players welcoming a number of long-requested changes, improvements, and new features, such as TDM and a Firing Range update.
Among the novelties, a collection event has also been launched to celebrate the fourth anniversary of the game, which originally released in February 2019. Even so, players seem to have been unhappy that a new legend was not added this season, but the first issues of Steam gamers. are a good sign.
A large number of new players are coming to Apex Legends
According to player count data for Apex Legends, which is currently only available on Steam, on February 15, the day after the new season launched, Apex hit a peak player count of 609,000 as of 2 p.m. GMT.
The previous maximum player count was 510,000, reached in August 2022, at the start of Season 14, which had dropped slightly thereafter to resume now. This number may increase further throughout the day and week, and there may also be another spike over the next weekend when more players have time available to play.
This is clearly a strong positive sign for the game, especially after a few setbacks the series has suffered, such as the upcoming removal of the mobile version of the game, which will be fully shut down, and plans for an Apex experience for a single player, which were also dropped midway through development.
Recurrence there EA They expect this to be a continued upward trend, not just a short-lived spike, not to mention that another even older game, CS:GO, also hit its peak of new players this month. -ci, despite its launch more than 10 years ago.