APEX Legends surpasses 25 million players, over 2 million concurrent players peak

To put the numbers in perspective, Fortnite, one of the titans of the battle royale genre, and indeed the gaming world, took two weeks to exceed 10 million downloads. Users select a player character and are dropped into a sandbox environment, where they have to scavenge materials and battle other players to survive. More than 25 million players have now tried Apex Legends, Respawn's Vince Zampella announced in a blog post.

The incredible performance saw the trio kill over 66% of players in the lobby, an incredible feat considering the size of the map, and the unlikeliness that every player in the game lands in a similar area.

Four days ago, Respawn stated that its free to play title had surpassed over 10 million players and had breached 1 million concurrent players. Tfue in particular has been a constant victim of stream snipers, and as he explains in the video, is nearly never able to play a regular game of Fortnite anymore.

Speaking to Game Informer, Layden said: "We got to that place in Fortnite and it seems to be going reasonably well, from what I can tell". As a new Battle Royale, it is pulling in insane numbers on both Twitch and in general.

Shares experienced a delayed reaction since the February 4 launch, which came with little fanfare.

Apex Legends will then introduce cross-play for all at a later date but can not afford to miss this opportunity.

Player counts aren't the only signs of Apex Legends' success.

There's always 99 problems to worry about while playing in a battle royale game, but Apex's loot system isn't one.

Later on the call, he also talked a bit more about mobile too: "We are looking at how to take the game to mobile and cross-play over time, and I also expect that this game will have tremendous value in Asia, and we're in conversations about that". But more choice is usually a good thing, especially when Apex Legends is a tad bare at the moment.