Apex Legends came out two hours late so a developer could finalise his daughter's adoption

3 years 6 months ago

Perfect Strangers

It turns out when Apex Legends came out last year, Respawn released it a couple of hours later than planned. This wasn’t down to server issues or last-minute bugs, though. The battle royale’s launch was pushed back by two hours because the studio’s former lead programmer had a court appointment to finalise his daughter’s adoption on the very same morning.

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Imogen Beckhelling