Players are mistakenly paying for Apex Construct, thinking it's Apex Legends

[onetheycallEric]

Facepalm: Players, primarily in China, are mistakenly paying $30 for Apex Construct, thinking it's Apex Legends, the latest phenomenon in free-to-play battle royale games. This has led to Apex Construct getting a lot of inadvertent attention, and review bombing.

Apex Legends is the latest in battle royale shooters to disrupt the genre, gaining over a million players in less than eight hours, and attracting more than 25 million players in its first week. However, it would seem its popularity has come with a side-effect, one of mistaken identity.

Apex Construct, a VR title that launched in March 2018, has seen its Steam pageviews surge by 4,000 percent since Apex Legends launched. Additionally, the sales for Apex Construct have totaled more in a week than all of 2018, all presumably because of the similarity between the two names -- they even share similar logos. Interestingly, players are willing to pay $30 for what they assume is Apex Legends, a free-to-play game.

This was a point Fast Travel Games communications manager, Andreas Juliusson, brought up in a Reddit post: "Since the launch of Apex Legends on Feb 4, visits to our store page on Steam has increased with over 4000% - and Legends isn't even available on Steam at all, it's an EA Origin exclusive! What makes it even weirder is that we sold more units of Apex Construct in China the last seven days than during ALL of 2018 - apparently people are prepared to buy what they think is Apex Legends for $29.99, even thought it's a free-to-play title... Most likely these units will be refunded, but our books look pretty good at the moment ;-)"

While this is indeed an interesting story, and Fast Travel Games appear to be taking it in good spirit, there has been one adverse after effect in that players are leaving negative reviews on Steam because the game isn't Apex Legends. Juliusson states that the Steam community is looking into the matter currently, and cites "massive misunderstandings going on."

You can download Apex Legends here free of charge, and read some reviews as well.

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[Lionvibez]

Lmao how are you dumb enough to pay $30 for a free to play game then review bomb it when the error was 100% you.

 

[JaredTheDragon]

Lmao how are you dumb enough to play $30 for a free to play game then review bomb it when the error was 100% you.

It would appear the phenomenon isn't isolated to the free-range dumb, that we so often see here in the States.

 

[texasrattler]

Lmao how are you dumb enough to play $30 for a free to play game then review bomb it when the error was 100% you.

Leave it to the Chinese to mess up then blame the game.
Seriously though, this is a new kind of being dumb. A pet rock has more sense.

 

[psycros]

"Since the launch of Apex Legends on Feb 4, visits to our store page on Steam has increased with over 4000% - and Legends isn't even available on Steam at all, it's an EA Origin exclusive!"

Then why does it even have a Steam page? Why would Steam drive traffic to a competitor? Something smells.

 

[QuantumPhysics]

I remember how the kids were so stupid that they sent their parents to buy "Grand Theft Auto EYE VEE" (IV)

So when GTA:V was released they needed to print "five" under the numeral.

 

[mongeese]

"Since the launch of Apex Legends on Feb 4, visits to our store page on Steam has increased with over 4000% - and Legends isn't even available on Steam at all, it's an EA Origin exclusive!"

Then why does it even have a Steam page? Why would Steam drive traffic to a competitor? Something smells.

The steam page is for Apex Construct, Legends does not have a steam page.

 

[psycros]

"Since the launch of Apex Legends on Feb 4, visits to our store page on Steam has increased with over 4000% - and Legends isn't even available on Steam at all, it's an EA Origin exclusive!"

Then why does it even have a Steam page? Why would Steam drive traffic to a competitor? Something smells.

The steam page is for Apex Construct, Legends does not have a steam page.

Oooh, I see, TS messed up the quote.

 

[Puiu]

Lmao how are you dumb enough to play $30 for a free to play game then review bomb it when the error was 100% you.

Leave it to the Chinese to mess up then blame the game.
Seriously though, this is a new kind of being dumb. A pet rock has more sense.

But I love my pet rock! (

 

[Capaill]

But I love my pet rock! (

And your pet rock loves you

 

[Capaill]

Oooh, I see, TS messed up the quote.

I think it's correct. Apex Construct said:
"Since the launch of Apex Legends on Feb 4, visits to our [Apex Construct's] store page on Steam has increased with over 4000% - and Legends isn't even available on Steam at all, it's an EA Origin exclusive!"

 

[Bp968]

So people too lazy or stupid to spend 30 seconds reading the description blow 30$ and than get angry that they were too stupid and lazy to read the description blame it on someone else?

Checks out. Sounds pretty normal to me.