Respawn Entertainment officially announced its award-winning mobile game, Apex Legends Mobile, will no longer be playable starting May 1st. This is just short of its one-year release date. The announcement came over Twitter, with a link to a Q&A on EA’s website.
This news comes as a surprise given Apex Legends Mobile’s popularity. It earned $5 million during its initial launch week, and stole both App Store Awards and Google Play’s Best of 2022 awards. Respawn was rather vague in their tweet, but the Q&A clears a few questions up.
“Following a strong start, the content pipeline for Apex Legends Mobile has begun to fall short of that bar for quality, quantity, and cadence,” the publisher states. “It is for this reason, after months of working with our development partner, that we have made the mutual decision to sunset our mobile game.”
Respawn recently pushed back the launch of Season 4 by over a month, confusing fans. However, seeing the mobile game completely shuttered–and so soon after launch–was quite a shock.
“In terms of what players can expect from here, today marks the beginning of a ninety (90) day window before we sunset the game,” the statement on the website continues. As of today, all real-money in-app purchases will be removed (IE you can no longer buy Syndicate Coins), and the game itself will be removed from the App Store and Google Play Store, making it unavailable for download. Any Syndicate Gold players currently own can be spent until operations are ceased on May 1 at 4 PM PDT, when the game will shut down in all regions.”
The statement added no refunds will be given, and all in-game content will no longer be able to be accessed by May 1st. In-game currency can still be used until the game goes offline. Despite this announcement, Respawn reassured players this has no ties to the PC and console versions of Apex.
EA also confirmed during a recent earning report that Battlefield Mobile has been canceled, while Star Wars Jedi: Survivor will be delayed by a month.
