Apex Legends dev Respawn admits it messed up Iron Crown

Respawn screwed up. Apex Legends has a new event called Iron Crown that introduces a number of exciting cosmetics. But one problem: The business model to acquire many of those items has, once again, outraged fans. Now Respawn is admitting its mistake, and it’s promising to improve how you can acquire Iron Crown items.

The core problem that many Apex players have with Iron Crown is the sheer intimidation of the math. As part of the event, you could get 24 unlockable packs with set items — in other words, these are not randomized lootboxes. But you only get two of those packs for free. You can then unlock the rest in order, but you need to spend 700 Apex Coins ($7) to unlock each successive box. If an item you want is in box 24, too bad. You need to spend $154 to get it. Of course, you could try to get the items from lootboxes instead, but the odds suggest you will likely have to spend a significant amount of money to get anything in particular.