Apex players call for strike, ‘No Apex August,’ in response to bug-riddled servers

Season 13 of Apex Legends has been struggling to garner positive sentiment among the wider Apex community in the face of slow patches and unaddressed bugs. With the recent release of the Summer Sundown sale and player perception believing developer Respawn is putting greater focus on the game’s premium cosmetics over bug-fixing patches, frustrated Apex players are calling for a boycott.

The movement first started gaining traction on Reddit and has since spread into the wider online community. Clips of server desync and damage failing to register against opponents have been topping the Apex Legends subreddit for the past week, culminating in posts suggesting that players should go on strike in August and attempt to push for change through a sizeable dip in player counts.