The other thermometer for the impact of Apex Legends in the gamer community is Twitch. On the Amazon-owned video streaming platform, the EA title has been a huge success in its premiere.
In those first 48 hours, the new battle royale had garnered more than 300,000 viewers. That figure far exceeds that achieved in its premiere by Fortnite. In fact, he doubled it. The Epic title in its day added about 130,000 viewers in that same time.
Apex Legends has also surpassed the initial audience of other recently released video games such as Resident Evil 2 (25,600 viewers) or Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 (6,200).
In more than one video game, when celebrating a victory, our alter ego sticks a dance. Those of Fortnite are famous because the other famous soccer player imitates them on the playing field to celebrate a goal. Of course, the dances better be original, because otherwise a complaint may fall.
Fortnite has already happened and that is what those responsible for Forza Horizon 4 want to avoid. According to Variety, the Playground Games studio has withdrawn a couple of celebration dances from its game. They are popularly known as The Carlton and The Floss.
Players have noticed. The dances have disappeared from the content of the Series 5 update. But Playground has not said anything about it. There is no record of any complaint, but it is clear that the study has preferred to prevent rather than cure.
We said that Epic Games has already happened with the dances of Fortnite. And it has happened again. Now the lawsuit comes from the mother of the creator of Orange Justice. Rachel McCumbers says her son created the dance and uploaded it to the Internet.
Later, she says, after doing the popular dance, her son began to undergo "extreme" cyberbulling. In any case it is important to remember that in this case, with this dance, Epic did not earn money because it was part of the free content of a battle pass.
Before this last complaint, in December, Alfonso Ribeiro, who played Carlton Banks in the series 'The Prince of Bel-Air', sued Epic because they have used the dance that made him famous in the series. Alfonso affirms that the dance, known as fresh emote, has its copyrights as a result of using it in the well-known series from the 90s.
Just two days later, another lawsuit. This time by Russell Horning, better known as the boy with the backpack, who achieved international fame with his peculiar dance during a performance by Katy Perry, to the rhythm of Swish Swish. Dubbed Floss, it consists of a quick movement of the arms while moving the hips from side to side.
