The Worst Season in Apex History
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,
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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.
@XHelperZ Could you please hand me your pink glasses man ?
Playerbase dropped by 17% in June… this season is a disaster, in July the playerbase will probably drop by another 20%.
Playerbase dropped by 17% in June… this season is a disaster, in July the playerbase will probably drop by another 20%.
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.
- @XHelperZ Well but that’s how statistics work, you take a big enough sample and you take that as the overall drop %
So we can expect that the overall playerbase dropped by that 17%
And I don’t really care about the prior peak, if the playerbase drops by almost 20% in a single month then there is a problem, especially considering that the trend seem to continue to atleast next season wich is another month.
Why should it be expected for the playerbase to drop like this ? If they would do the right decisions the game would grow and not drop.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.
@XHelperZLol do you understand how dumb you look by making excuses for this ranked season? It’s awful and everyone knows it. When you get people constantly NOT playing (not shooting their gun, just sitting on a rock) because it’s easier to rank that way then there is no defense.
Move on buddyIt's a biased sample as it only includes a part of the playerbase.
You can say the playcount for Steam is decreasing though that doesn't say anything for the entire playerbase.
PC players being more committed than Console players seems like it would be more of an assumption as there isn't any exact proof to back that up.
Don't get me wrong, I agree that this season definitely is one of the worse ones, though it's a bit to early to say that the playcount is decreasing due to their choices.
I'm not making any excuses for it at all.
I've heard from plenty of players that they've been enjoying the ranked changes.
Doesn't mean it's not flawed at all, there are definitely a lot of things they have to make.
I do agree that this season isn't that great, though as I mentioned previously, I believe that this season is more intended to lay groundwork for improvement.
You can't exactly make a gigantic overhaul of the system and expect it to go well, so it's best to allocate a season for such changes.
Not confirmed of course, though that would mean that this season was pretty much intended to flop so they could work with different things in the future.
Not 100% flawed though as some players have mentioned that they like the changes, though a lot of tweaks are in place so this system will function normally.
It's already confirmed there will be ranked changes in the next season, so feedback has been heard and hopefully the next season will bring a much better system.
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