 Hello, this is born from one of that TV and today. I want to talk about a pex Legends you may have heard about this game over the past week I kind of snuck up on us and it's been quite an amazing story just to watch from the outside and Actually, it's been quite amazing to play from the inside as well I want to talk about why I think a pex legends has been a success so far from the guys over at respawn entertainment If you don't know who respawn entertainment is they made the games Titanfall and Titanfall 2 and they're going to be working on the Star Wars title later This year I believe and they're former developers the founders are former Developers and I guess you can call them former executives From Infinity Ward back in the Call of Duty modern warfare days So if you play Call of Duty 4 and you enjoyed it you can thank those guys So a pex legends why is it is it a success? Well number one There was no marketing and I'm a firm believer that a lot of gamer perceptions are formed and molded by expectations This game had no marketing. Nobody knew it was coming. There was no pre Campaign or anything like that. So it was just kind of like throwing at us And we had like little no little to no time to respond or even expect anything So we came in with zero expectations. Nobody expected You know, we just knew it was going to be a battle royale game and that was it So we're coming in with no little to no expectations You know, it kind of gives you a clean slate. You're like, wow I can actually assess and you know determine what this game is Based on nothing and a lot of a lot of gamers gave it a fair shake because of that It was like no no kind of attitude and no kind of you know mindset coming in So it was a blink slate in terms of expectations and on top of that this particular game Really Really surprised everybody because there was no early access no alpha no beta When they surprised us they surprised us with the full game Completely released and not only that the game has a fleshed out Timeline of everything that's going to be coming out. It has a roadmap already So we're not used to this as gamers. So this was a pleasant surprise So number one they got up to a good start good first impressions Mean a whole lot in this industry Another reason why the game is successful is because of the movement as fast paced is exciting They dumbed down the titanfall movement a little bit There's a lot less wall running and the speed has been toned down But I imagine this was done for balancing reasons And I got to say from from all the All the expectations and you know all the all the feedback we've been getting the balance has been fairly well received And there's lots and lots of action. There's very little downtime Also, the looting system is very very reminiscent of pubg which I think actually got looting correct in terms of a balleroy out game Everything is easy to read big colors big icons and a lot of You could tell there was a lot of testing in terms of of user experience and usability because It's easy to catch on to this. There's not a lot of a learning curve involved And I want to talk about the elephant in the room that everybody In their grandmother every article I've come across and every tweet I've seen is the communication their communication Features and apex legends. I think is what one of the biggest Biggest features that separates it from his competition Uh apex legends has a contextual ping system that you've seen In other games, you know, there's games like uh league of legends and dota 2 where you ping on something and depending on what you're Pinging you'll get a contextual You know message or an audible signal, you know shooters in the past have kind of tried to do things like this I think battlefield with their comma rows Trying to give orders to do this and do that Holding down q and getting their wheel to do things they've tried to do that and it's been, you know, okay But if you play battlefield, you know that players generally don't use it And it just sits there and a lot of the comma rows things that they've done Have been neglected apex legends came in with this innovative new system. I think it's a really refresh or uh, I just say refreshing take On a common ping system that we've seen in MOBAs If you ping an item on the ground Unless your teammate know where it is and it shows up on the minimap sounds very simple, but it's very powerful If you ping an item in your inventory such as a gun, you can request ammo for that You can ping an area over there and say hey, I think the enemy has been there Or you can just hit a button real fast to say enemy spotted over here You get all these visual and audible. It's very important to denote that you get visible and you get audible responses Based on those pings Now, why is this so great? How do you think this may have happened? Well respawn spent an entire month with no voice comms To test this they turned off their mics and they tested this system to make sure it worked And I can tell you straight up that it did it is one of the best systems in the game Now given that the game is a 3v3. I'm sorry a three person squad only there is no solo A lot of players are are represent other, you know, they're They're a little bit hesitant to jump into the game because they don't like team-based games because in general Team-based games can be very toxic Why are why are these games toxic because gamers in general have a tough time communicating All it takes is one or two bad experiences for gamers to either become toxic or just shut down completely For example, you may see an enemy over there and you may say Hey, there's a guy over there by this and nobody listens to you and that enemy kills everybody So nobody listened to you. So you're like, okay. I'm just not going to bother to call it out again Or you know, you you you get so fed up and you become that person that says, hey There's somebody over there and you don't give them all the full information and you're thinking to yourself Well, they probably weren't going to kill them anyway and your teammates are like, you could tell us where it is So there's all this frustration that leads to this toxic Miscommunication, which is a big problem in team-based games today that drive a lot of players away They're like, I'm just gonna solo There's been a weird thing that happened in apex legends People are actually responding positively to team-based games in public groups with strangers I've seen many many comments on twitch about players saying, hey, I've got like three wins today with a public group With randoms. Now, when do you hit that in any other game? Hey, I had a good experience with randoms It's kind of rare. So apex legends has Solved one of the biggest issues I think With online gaming and team-based gameplay because I love objective-based gameplay I love team-based gameplay and this is a class-based shooter This is a class-based shooter that has mixed in with the battle royale genre not a new concept But a refreshing innovative concept. So those are my reasons why I think apex legends. This is just the beginning I got a lot to say about this game, but I'm cutting it short This is why I think apex legends is a successful game They did so many things right and they made very little mistakes and gamers are picking up that and they're accepting it And they're actually gonna run with it right now on twitch. Let me look real quick I'm gonna give you guys a snapshot on twitch. There are how many people watching apex legends There are 348,000 people watching apex legends and it's been going up It's crazy. This is born from one of that tv apex legends If you haven't tried it, it's free to play on origin right now You can download it give it a try even if you don't like team-based games You'll be very surprised at how much you enjoy yourself. Have a good day everybody