Why Apex Legends has kept me playing for 500 hours

Striking a perfect balance between friction and flow, could this battle royale hit be the perfect shooter game?That’s it. I have now played Apex Legends for over 500 hours. The online multiplayer shooter, developed by Californian studio Respawn Entertainment and released in February 2019, has been my obsession all year, seeing off a variety of pretenders from Doom Eternal to Animal Crossing: New Horizons.To the casual observer, there’s nothing remarkable about it. Set in a science-fi