An investigation into why the leaked Apex Legends ALGS esports skins never made it to the battle royale's in-game shop has appeared online and it seems that the onus is on publisher EA and developer Respawn Entertainment - not the esports organisations themselves. From what we know, it sounds like discussions between EA, Respawn Entertainment, and the organisations were shut down just weeks before the ALGS esports skins were due to be available in Apex Legends.
Delving into why Apex Legends' ALGS esports organisation-based skins, which you can see in this September 2022 leak from 'Hypermyst' here, never made it to the item shop, Digiday journalist Billy Studholme was able to uncover that "EA shut down talks of esports revenue-sharing from in-game item sales" in September 2022, "according to email correspondence to executives at two of the esports [organisations] that were involved with talks with EA".
Despite the skins themselves seemingly ready to go, as the leaks suggest, Studholme's findings seem to suggest that their apparent disappearance is the result of EA and Respawn Entertainment's refusal to meet the ALGS esports organisation's terms when it came to revenue-sharing - something that provides a vital source of income for organisations. And, since this deal fell apart, a number of the ALGS' top organisations have "left the esports title for good".
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