Apex Legends Season 22 Battle Pass Will Now Require Players to Spend Real Money; Players Voice This Is the End of the Game

if you’re an Apex Legends player that buys each season’s Battle Pass, I think it’s best you sit down, as major changes are incoming, and we can’t say they’re for the better. The Apex Legends Season 22 Battle Pass will require players to spend real-world money to buy it, as EA has removed the option to buy it using Apex Coins earned from the previous season.

Here’s the tl;dr version of it:

We’re evolving the Apex Legends™ Battle Pass to improve your experience and progression goals:

• Battle Pass now available per split (was one per season)
  • Players can earn the first Premium BP during the first two weeks of Season 22
• Levels to obtain final key cosmetic items (ex. reactives) dropped to 60 per Battle Pass (was 110)
• Rewards from past Battle Passes that frequently weren’t being used have been removed
• Free Track rewards refreshed with the following available across each of the seasonal split’s BPs: 200 AC, 7 Apex Packs†, 1 complete Epic set, and more
• Premium Track rewards refreshed with the following available per Battle Pass: 2400 CM, 1300 AC, 10 Exotic Shards, various Apex Packs†, 1 Reactive and 1 Legendary Weapon skin, 2 Legendary and 3 Epic Legend skins, 7 Epic weapon skins, and more
  • Twice as many Crafting Materials across the season and 3 more Legendary/Epic Apex Packs† per Battle Pass compared to the old one
• New Premium+ offering with additional rewards per Battle Pass: 10 Levels, 2 Premium+ Legendary skin variants (exclusive for one year), 10 Exotic Shards, and ALL Legends playable for the duration of the Battle Pass
• Costs: $9.99 for Premium and $19.99 for Premium+* (was 950 AC for Premium, 2800 AC for the discontinued Premium Battle Pass Bundle)

As one can imagine, this did not go over well with players. Over on the game’s official subreddit, players have voiced their displeasure at EA’s change, with quite a number stating that they’re boycotting the Battle Pass (and even the game), with some even voicing that this is the end of Apex Legends.

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There’s more of that here, but you get the picture. Even on social media, players have commented in droves on how this is a shameless money-grab by publisher EA, and how they aren’t in favor of this change:

Do you want to kill the game?
Cuz this is how you kill the game

Don’t even bother releasing S22 this way
Revert it.

— DANNYonPC (@DANNYonPC) July 8, 2024

I’m usually positive but this is just disappointing. You have one of the best shooters at its core with an amazing community and yet you keep slowly killing it. For the people who still play your game even with the player count being the lowest since 2021, you are just punishing…

— FireDragon (FiFi) (@FireDragon) July 8, 2024

Do you want to kill the game?
Cuz this is how you kill the game

Don’t even bother releasing S22 this way
Revert it.

— DANNYonPC (@DANNYonPC) July 8, 2024

Do you want to kill the game?
Cuz this is how you kill the game

Don’t even bother releasing S22 this way
Revert it.

— DANNYonPC (@DANNYonPC) July 8, 2024

Do you want to kill the game?
Cuz this is how you kill the game

Don’t even bother releasing S22 this way
Revert it.

— DANNYonPC (@DANNYonPC) July 8, 2024

There’s a lot more of that as well but you get the idea, right? Will EA reverse this decision since it’s clearly not a popular one? Who knows. But hey, if EA can reverse the entire microtransaction plans for a game, they can certainly do this, right? From the looks of it, this decision seems to be made by EA, though we can’t be sure about that.

You can read more about the Battle Pass upcoming changes for Apex Legends here.

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