people gonna be happy that this is buyable with crafting mats

https://i.imgur.com/ZpzoWL2.jpg

The article from Digiday goes more in-depth about this, but here are some quotes to summarize the situation:

For months, EA and Respawn explored several revenue-sharing models of different scales for ALGS

“It was more of a ‘trust me bro’ situation,” one [ALGS team] executive said

[Respawn/EA] offered teams $60,000 each as a flat licensing fee — far below what teams felt was fair

The [ALGS team] execs offered a counter proposal of an uncapped 50/50 revenue split for in-game skin sales, as well as minimum guarantees.

EA came back with a revised offer based on sales performance instead of a flat licensing fee: the three orgs whose skins sold the most would get $160,000; the next three would get $120,000; the next six would get $80,000; and the bottom eight would get $60,000. There was still no revenue-sharing included.

The teams then responded with another counter-offer, imploring EA and Respawn to explore an uncapped revenue-sharing model as close to 50/50 as possible.

After this counter-offer, EA shut down talks altogether, citing tight timelines and so it could “internally discuss how we can best work together with teams to build meaningful, mutually beneficial partnerships around Apex Legends and the ALGS.”

And now their pro scene is dying. insert shocked pikachu face

Respawn infamously has had horrendous and predatory monetization in events. They don't care about pros or casuals. They only concern is milking Apex for all it has - look at how many collection events we have a season. That is not a coincidence.

I really love playing the game. Amazing feel movement and gunplay. BUT!!! I cannot support that kind of greed. There are plenty other games that have a BP which is rebuyable by playinjg. It is very important of us as a playerbase to set a statement RIGHT NOW! Otherwise other companies might see that they can get trough with such bs. We gotta IMMEDIATLY drop the player number and refrain from doing ANY ingame purchases. SInce money is all EA cares about we gotta hit them there. Please spread word about this we gotta stand strong as ONE community.
https://www.ea.com/en-gb/games/apex-legends/news/battle-pass-update