For the first time since the launch of Apex Legends, it has gone out of the top ten list of the highest grossing PC games, we have this information from the SuperData a market research agent owned by Nielsen.
Last month, Apex Legends generated 24 million dollars in revenue, it was a 74% drop since the revenue report in February (the launch month of the game). In February the digital revenue of the game was 92 million dollars (posted by the publisher of the game). This sales figure is for both console and PC versions of the game.
The drop
Apex Legends had an amazing start which Superdata said to be the best start ever for a free-to-play game. But the game of Respawn Entertainment is no longer in any top ten list either PC or Console.
In fact, the PC revenue of Apex Legends in April is even lower than Division 2, Sekiro, and CS: GO. LoL topped the list as the highest grossing game in April.
Mirroring the revenue drop of Apex Legends is the drop in the interest of the game on Twitch: in May Apex has only around 20,000 viewers, 10 times less than 200,000 viewers back in February.
The reasons
Behind this drastic drop, there are many reasons. One particular reason was the offered cosmetics and the 10 dollars Battle Pass which have received a not very welcoming reaction from the players. Moreover, the company has been working on solving a number of glitches and patches vs cheaters. Which in turn leads to more updates in shorter frequency, one of the culprits for the decline.
In addition, Respawn is not releasing updates for Apex at the same quality with Fortnite, the developer has confirmed this. They do that mostly to avoid burnout and crunch for the dev team. But low-quality updates are surely another reason for the decline.
However, Season 2 of the game is coming up. Hopefully, this new season could get the game out of this decline.