@gum451I never even thought about it that way! That's an interesting take!
When I skimmed -- because I could care less about what Arenas haters thought -- Reddit forums of why people didn't like Arenas, a lot of people brought up their experiences of having played with the same people over and over again ( which was rarely my experience by the way ), implying that the Arenas community was too small.
But maybe you're right and I got it wrong. Maybe Respawn saw that Arenas was TOO popular, to where it was seducing their players away from their Battle Royale mode!
I just wish they gave an explanation as to why they removed the mode. It was masterfully crafted. How could they not see that?
Well, I'm not sure if it was necessarily because it was exceptionally popular, but because it was splitting the player base just barely enough that it was resulting in longer queue times for BR and a lot of people were complaining about long queues. I'm pretty sure they did mention the cause for removal in some patch notes a while back. Still, I remember thinking the reasons presented didn't qualify its complete removal. It really was very well crafted, you could tell that whoever developed it put a lot of work into it, I hope Respawn doesn't let it go to waste.
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