First off,
This season is by far the worst I have ever played and BY FAR the easiest. Please start firing people who make these decisions. You are massively ruining your own game.
Secondly,
Stop waiting for a full season to end to make changes. Bring back splits. You will lose your player base if you keep waiting full seasons. Congrats im in masters which is a joke this season and now playing others games. Pat yourself on the back.
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It literally is the worst season ever.... a list of changes?? Every single player that plays ranked in Apex knows the ranking system is a literal joke this season. Kills matter 0%. You can rat your way to Predator.... I don't need a list they've been exposed by the pros. Nice try.
Major Mid-season changes are still made as far I'm aware, the Dressed-to-Kill event brought a decent amount of changes with them.
I believe they are using this season to lay some groundwork so they can release a lot of changes in the next season, which makes it logical for this season to kind of flop as it's just a base for what's coming.
I don't think that making ranked changes mid-season would be that great though, as this would actively change what players have been working for, thus messing up their rewards.
It's only fair to let ranked changes run through an entire season, unless something in the system is completely broken.
Though whether or not something is "broken" is pretty much subjective, so that's kinda hard to decide.
The season is definitely not great, though keep in mind that a part of this drop was to be expected.
A few seasons ago the game hit the highest player peak and well, it's not really always that easy to keep the highest peak of the game.
Currently it's shifting between the average players for it's lifespan and a bit below that, though I think we'll need roughly another month of statistics to see how it'll actually go.
This is also just the playcount for Steam, so it doesn't really say a lot about the overall playerbase as players could switch platforms and so forth.
This sample isn't random though, this only includes the Steam playerbase so it's not really going to be that accurate.
We don't even know if these players moved to a different platform or of they left, so these are 2 factors that would contribute to it becoming more of an assumption than a statistical probability.
The playerbase had roughly a 46% increase on the Steam platform, which resulted in them hitting a new all time peak in the game.
It's not possible to constantly keep the highest player peak, especially in the current stage of the game where it's unlikely to hit new heights like that.
Statistically it's expected for the game to settle at the average for it's lifetime, as those players typically come due to a specific thing, which could become dull after a while or because they played the game as a one-off thing.
Even deducting the recent % of player losses, with the previous all-time peak it would still result in a net-positive.
24 hour peaks are still pretty much average and not that bad honestly.
You can't realistically keep everyone happy with a game, compromises are made and so forth.
This current season seems like it's more used to lay some groundwork, so it's pretty much expected that players would also drop with something like this.
If they were aware that they couldn't keep the peak amount of players then this was a great decision, because they knew the playercount would drop either way, so they used it to make a season to lay some groundwork so they can make some good changes in the next season.
If the playerbase continues to drop in the next season then it would definitely be time to ring some alarm bells, though if it settles then it isn't that problematic.
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