@MrGreenWithAGunIt was very hard indeed to decide which was the lesser evil, Revival or Ranked. In the end I chose to play ranked until the takeover ends. Except that now I can't because for some reason I'm locked out of ranked games with a message that says... I can't even remember what. Not a ban or anything, just some glitch that won't let me queue into ranked. The irony is almost too much to imagine.
On the subject of the Halo analogy, you're right. The game "evolves" and the original players are often left out in the cold wondering where their game went. I will always defend a developer's right to make changes, even when I don't like them, and even when I believe they're chasing new players at the cost of the old. Old players will not, after all, hang around forever. Whether the game drives them away or life pulls them away, the result is the same, and the dev absolutely has to find newer, younger players to replace those who age out or leave.
The things that drove me out of Halo: the double down on all team-based game play, the abandonment of most single player modes, and the ever twitchier game play in general.
The things that will drive me out of Apex one day, unless the dev does something: the cheating; the matchmaking which is atrocious at the beginning of every season, reasonable in the middle, and atrocious again at the end; the push to dumb down the game (three strikes, straight shot, revival), and the lack of a PvE game mode. On that last point, kudos to the dev for Bot Royale, but I hope they realize that what they released is just a first, tentative step. It needs a lot more work, bug fixes, options, and polish.
