Season 26 has so much wrong with it!!!

Been playing Apex and only Apex for 6 years. And I have never felt as little joy with it as I do now.

If you offered me Apex, years 2-4, at $20 a month, I would lock in that deal faster than Octane stim stick in a cheetah. And the people who made that game, must have been literally amazing. 

What has Apex lost this last 1-2 years? Balance.

Important criticism: making everything overpowered does not make a competitive game balanced. And if a competitive game can't be balanced it becomes a joke. 

My advice, my desire, trim the fat, make Apex lean again. Get rid of all the unnecessary and bad additions to the game.

Power ups? No. Cross class abilities? Absolutely not. Leveling tree? Arguably how things started going wrong. Seasons/events that made 20bomb, 4k, and Master badges all completely obsolete? Us fans worked so so hard to get those. Fire and blacklist whomever allowed that to happen.

Players should be able to see a character, hear their weapons, and thus know EXACTLY what they are up against. And their badges should be affirmation, not a joke.

Did the decision makers change pre Season 17?  What even happened! People who couldn't pass Plat got Masters badges!?

And what cruel person with a support fettish thought to make support class so strong that not using them ment giving up winning all together?! Why doesnt Mirage fly? he literally does everything else. 

And this ranked spawning in fixed zones? If I had been training 6 months for a tournament with crazy money on the line then sure. But it's not the case, and that change sucks the fun out of the 1st 10-15 minutes of gameplay, as I cannot land in my favorite zones, nor plan how I want to approach the match, nor explore. It's just a buzz kill. 

Then I get pounced on by a team where every other person can double dash, jump insane distances, instantly rez their teammates. 

It's awful, it's all awful.  But more than that is sad, because Apex was a great game that has been so poorly cared for that I don't believe it will ever recover. Like watching some famous actor implode their career.

... I suppose this is what happens when you make additions to a game every few months, that eventually you brake something that was perfect.