Have you ever been sucked into the hype of a game, look it up online and realise you’re looking at something entirely different? No? Well apparently is does happen, at least according to PCGamer who reports that a game in China has seen a shocking spike of sales – just because of its name.
The VR title Apex Construct has been bringing home the bacon recently simply because it happens to share half a name with the insanely-popular battle royale game, Apex Legends.
Apex Construct, which released on Steam back in March of 2018, has sold more copies in China last week than it sold in the entirety of 2018.
Over on Reddit, Fast Travel Games communications manager Andreas Juliusson, posted about the phenomenon, saying: “As you are most likely aware, the free-to-play, Battle Royale game Apex Legends was released last week. Not only does the name resembles our own VR game Apex Construct, the logos are also strikingly similar (ours came first though!)
“Since the launch of Apex Legends on Feb 4, visits to our store page on Steam has increased with over 4000% – and Legends isn’t even available on Steam at all, it’s an EA Origin exclusive!
“What makes it even weirder is that we sold more units of Apex Construct in China the last seven days than during ALL of 2018 – apparently people are prepared to buy what they think is Apex Legends for $29.99, even thought it’s a free-to-play title… Most likely these units will be refunded, but our books look pretty good at the moment;-)”
Unfortunately, Juliusson added that the purchases are attracting “a lot of negative user reviews from Chinese buyers who feel they have been scammed…Fortunately the Steam Community team is looking into this right now. Somewhere, there are massive misunderstandings going on.”
If you accidentally paid $30 on Steam for a free-to-play battle royale that’s only on the EA Origin store, please don’t leave a bad review of the game.
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