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Apex Legends has officially overtaken Warzone and Fortnite as the most popular battle royale game on Twitch this week, and Nickmercs couldn’t be happier.
Apex Legends had a big resurgence this year, sparked by huge streamers like Nickmercs, TimTheTatman, Dr Disrespect and more stepping away from the Warzone hackers to give Apex another shot. But now, Apex Legends has beaten both Warzone and Fortnite to become the most popular battle royale game on Twitch, over 2 years after the game’s release.
Nickmercs was certainly a big reason for Apex’s soaring popularity, with the game being featured in his recent $50,000 MFAM Gauntlet, and with TimTheTatman and Cloakzy talking on stream about how Nick was addicted to Apex Legends at this point. But consistent hacking problems in Warzone, and Fortnite’s continued decline, along with the interest in Call Of Duty:Vanguard multiplayer, all helped push Apex Legends to the top of Twitch battle royales.
So is Apex Legends on top to stay, or will Warzone reclaim the crown on Twitch once the new map drops in December..or maybe a game like Battlefield 2042 will come along this friday and poach players? With all those dates rapidly approaching, we will find out very shortly.
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There is nothing like the movement in Apex. It is so smooth, been playing CoD the past week but still sneak on Apex for a few ranked games each night. Its so addicting.
Is it Bc NickMercs viewership and COD amidst a new Warzone season?
Apex is really in top form right now, season 11 has been very successful
Haven’t played since Loba was introduced but seeing Apex get recognition is awesome 👏
It’s only up because Tim isn’t on Twitch
Lol all the warzone streamers are playing vanguard to grind weapons. In couple of weeks warzone will take back over
3month lifespan for any game, lot of the OG's or some of the streamers that are loving it will stick around
I just love it when I get the notification that says "Someone has liked your comment" or "Someone has subscribed!" It makes my day😀.!!
When are they gonna realize that the big Streamers have the power to make or break a game.
I don't think it has to do with Apex being the best right now. What's bad is that fortnite and CoD have fallen off so hard that apex is our last resort. Apex is the game that feels like the devs dont even play their own game or they have very few people working on it in general. It's been over 2 years since this game came out and it still faces Day 1 problems. Another example is the moving-banner-bug that would make your game crash. That lasted what? 2 weeks? Say what you want about fortnite and CoD but they wouldve patched that shit within 24 hours. Just my opinion though
The REAL Reason Apex is doing better among streamers is DIRECTLY BECAUSE of all the RAMPANT CHEATING going on in Warzone currently/still. When you have an 80% chance of coming across cheaters, it pretty much kills the vibe for many of us and turns us off to the product. Apex is amazing, but Warzone is the most realistic, best functioning/moving game ever so it's a crying shame it's PLAGUED with soooo many rampant boldfaced scumbag cheaters!!!
My boys and I switched to Rebirth because there are so many fewer cheaters, but there are still enough of them that there's approximately a 60% chance you'll run into cheaters.
APEX seems to have their Anit-Cheat working extremely well so the fun factor of the title lives on. I find the movement a wee bit cartoony and hokey by comparison, but it's a GORGEOUS game and I love watching my 12-year old son play it. I'm slowly working my way to becoming efficient in it, but there's still a slight learning curve I'm trying to get past.
Being popular on twitch and actual player base are two different things
apex has the ugliest skins I have ever seen in a game. not saying they're all ugly as a few are borderline amazing, but 95% of apex skins are polished turds.
WHEN ARE THEY GOING TO OFFER K/M Support for Apex ON CONSOLES??!?!?
I bought my son a Xim and it won't recognize his wireless K/M so I have to buy wired ones??!?!? WTF??!?!?
Seeing as Vanguard was just released, more are venturing to MP over Warzone
more apeeeeex thank you hunter
Could be the vanguard release alot more players are on the camo grind instead
Fuck battle royals over saturated games full of cheaters
Apex is so shit to watch, no once can deny that . Fun to play yourself though
Pokémon unite is better
Fuck apex everyone is just on vanguard grinding
It makes sense Warzone has fallen in views because mostly everyone transitioned to multiplayer on vanguard, leveling up guns before integration, and camo grind. Once the integration happens, I’m sure the numbers will jump again
Just tells me there’s 100,000+ idiots out there because that game is garbage
We are officially back on the good timeline 🥲
Wish I had more apex squadmates. Where’s the go to discord to link up??
The fact that people who dont play Apex anymore still praise it is proof of how well crafted it is
Apex is the better game. I'm glad the keyboard and mouse player base is large enough in Apex that we can get all kbm lobbies. Cross play competitive does not make sense.
4:10 I wouldn't have guessed Hunter is a Loba main
Apex suck
But as soon as vanguard hits warzone won’t all the streamers just go back ? Raising its numbers
They all running to different games when Cod drop this map they going to run right back and run the Battle royale scene
What does this Twitch stat means? More people watch Apex then Warzone on Twitch?
Just watched one of Shrouds videos from 2019 where someone asks him if apex would ever be better than fortnite and he said “there is nothing apex can do to become the #1 BR, it’s impossible” How the tide has turned lol
I love all the people who say "Fortnite is dead". Yet, it was still number 7 after four and a half years.
1 2 3 qay
Loba
none of the big warzone streamers are playing it right now there all on vanguard
Apex is so ass tho the only reason people are playing is bc of people like nick mercs before the streamers starting playing, it was dead. People are delusional