{"id":102801,"date":"2019-10-30T16:52:46","date_gmt":"2019-10-30T16:52:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pockettactics.com\/articles\/apex-legends-mobile\/"},"modified":"2019-10-30T16:52:46","modified_gmt":"2019-10-30T16:52:46","slug":"fortnite-competitor-apex-legends-is-coming-to-mobile","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2019\/10\/30\/fortnite-competitor-apex-legends-is-coming-to-mobile\/","title":{"rendered":"Fortnite-competitor Apex Legends is coming to mobile"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/fortnite-competitor-apex-legends-is-coming-to-mobile.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p>It seems EA is going through a period of introspection at the moment. Not only are their games now returning to Steam (starting with the new <em>Star Wars<\/em> game), they\u2019re also not even doing a <em>Battlefield<\/em> game next year.&nbsp;Lots of news regarding their recent earnings call have been surfacing around the web, and normally it wouldn\u2019t apply to us as EA\u2019s track record on mobile hasn\u2019t been amazing&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230; except they\u2019ve now decided to bring <em>Apex Legends<\/em> to mobile.<\/p>\n<p>[youtube https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=UMJb_mkqynU?controls=0]<\/p>\n<p>What is <em>Apex Legends<\/em>? It\u2019s basically <em>Fortnite<\/em>, except it&#8217;s made by someone else (the dev team who made <em>Titanfall<\/em>, if that matters). It\u2019s actually done really well for itself in terms of carving out its own slice of the&nbsp; Battle Royale Pie that\u2019s basically defined 2019, and it now seems to be one of EA\u2019s most lucrative properties.<\/p>\n<p>Andrew Wilson, EA\u2019s CEO, confirmed during the earnings call that they\u2019re going to focus more on live-service games, and that <em>Apex Legends<\/em> specifically is going to become a long-term franchise for them, and that includes taking the game to <em>\u201cmobile, new platforms and new geographies.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Blake Jorgensen, the CFO and COO for EA, was a little more specific. They\u2019re looking at doing this new roll-out in the 2021 \u2018fiscal\u2019 year, which actually starts on October 1st, 2020. That means we should hopefully see <em>Apex Legends<\/em> on Mobile towards the end of next year.<\/p>\n<p>Whether that means just iOS, or iOS and Android is anybody\u2019s guess, but <em>Fortnite<\/em>\u2019s done very well for itself on mobile platforms so there\u2019s no reason why <em>Apex<\/em> shouldn\u2019t do the same.. As far as free-to-play games go, Battle Royales are actually incredibly tame &#8211; the action and core mechanics are all free, and it\u2019s mainly just about buying avatar skins to express yourself.<\/p>\n<p><em>I don\u2019t expect we\u2019ll hear more on this for a while, but if there is any new information we\u2019ll keep you informed.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It seems EA is going through a period of introspection at the moment. Not only are their games now returning to Steam (starting with the new Star Wars game), they\u2019re also not even doing a Battlefield game next year.&nbsp;Lots of news regarding their recent earnings call have been surfacing around the web, and normally it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":102802,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[70],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-102801","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mobile-game-releases"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102801","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102801"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102801\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/102802"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}