From Game of the Year to getting shut down - why has Apex Legends Mobile become a failure?

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Respawn Entertainment and Electronic Arts, the developers and publishers of Apex Legends Mobile, respectively, revealed yesterday that the Titanfall-based game would cease functioning and officially shut down on May 1st, 2023. Fans of the title did not take the news very well, and now, questions have been raised about why the game was being shut down and about the future of the popular title.

Apex Legends Mobile is an online multiplayer battle royale shooter that is playable on multiple platforms, including PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X/S, Microsoft Windows, Nintendo Switch, Android, and iOS. However, the game has now lost a major platform, and after 3 months, fans won't be able to play the mobile version on Android and iOS devices.

This is even though Apex Legends Mobile won an award for the "Best Overall Game" on Google Play Store in 2022. The PC and console editions had already established a powerful presence in the battle royale genre, and there were similar levels of expectations for the mobile edition to shine like its counterparts from other platforms.

The news of the game being shut down was also followed by another unfortunate news from EA again, where it was announced that the development of Battlefield Mobile was being ceased, which upset fans of the Battlefield series who've been looking forward to the mobile version's release.

Respawn Entertainment and EA took to Twitter to announce that they were sunsetting the game yesterday. According to their tweets, it was primarily because the developers could not maintain the high-quality gaming experience and content that the players deserved.

The development team came to an understanding that they could not maintain or improve the quality and