Over the past week or so, many Apex Legends fans have called for Respawn Entertainment to enact an “Operation Health” season. It’s based on something that happened in Rainbow Six Siege, where essentially instead of any new content, a season was dedicated to bug fixes and the like in-game. Indeed, the call within the Apex Legends community came alongside the recent Evolution event, where players reported major troubles for servers, bugs, and more.
It took Apex Legends a couple of days to fix these issues, which resulted in the Ranked Split being extended. Instead of the current split ending when it should have, players got a little bit more time before the Apex Games moved to Kings Canyon (which is happening on September 28). If nothing else, these really pushed the idea that Apex Legends needs an ‘Operation Health’ season, but it doesn’t seem like it would work.
Respawn Entertainment Director of Communications Ryan Rigney recently responded to one of these calls, ultimately explaining that “game dev simply doesn’t work this way.” Rigney goes on to make a comparison to Age of Empires, stating that devs aren’t just general villagers who could be “moved from ‘content creation’ to ‘ bug fixing.” In other words, while it may sound good on paper and like something Apex Legends could benefit from, it’s not a realistic way to view game development.
Of course, this begs the question of how it worked in games like Rainbow Six Siege, which Rigney also addressed in his response by calling it a “great marketing stunt.” Rigney also explains that something similar happened with PUBG, where a bug-fixing campaign called “Fix PUBG” took place about three years ago. Rigney worked on it, highlighting his expertise on the matter and proving his point that these campaigns aren't really effective.
As such, players shouldn’t expect Respawn Entertainment to end its content creation to lead a “bug fixing” campaign like past games. Fans should be aware, though, that this doesn’t mean Respawn Entertainment isn’t looking into fixing issues with the game, just as it is with the Titanfall games. Nonetheless, complex problems take time to fix, and everything in game development is a complex problem.
It remains to be seen what sort of content and bug fixes come in the next few weeks, as well as in the launch of Apex Legends season 11, but Respawn is working on them.
There are still reports of new events in the current Apex Legends season, like one based on Bloodhound, and season 11 leaks have seemingly already started. Many fans think they’ve found evidence that Apex Legends will add a new tropical map next season, but as with everything, fans will just have to wait and see.
Apex Legends is available now for PC, PS4, Switch, and Xbox One. Mobile, PS5, and Xbox Series X versions are in development.
Source: Dexerto