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2 years ago

What made YOU quit apex?

For the people that quit or barely play anymore but still visit this sub what was the reason you dropped off from the game? CM - this post was created by another account

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aim_with_my_eye

2 years ago

I don't know what to mention first...

Amount of blatant cheaters&toxic leavers not being addressed?
Ranked and matchmaking systems, getting worse and punishing solo queuers more with each new iteration?
Balance problems with almost every new legend(or their rework, hi, Seer)?
Server issues - noregs, delay spikes, "rubber band" (sometimes abused by cheaters)?
Or the main thing, uniting and surpassing all of it - because of EA not giving a sh*t and never considering threads like this one? QoL features, being prioritized before more crucial issues(example: new firing range, but you still can't find your ex-teammate to properly report)? Nice opportunity to be banned for reason not mentioned by any paragraph of ToS(which is being daily broken by EA itself), and ruin your entire Origin-linked games? Hypocrisy, greed, inconsictency?
You get forced to have pride badge in your inventory, to listen lesbian flirting ingame, but can't call person a gay(though he is). They tell you by loading screen tips that Apex is team-based game, but never punish leavers. They make you pay for comfort ironsights and then take it away "for balance", like, 2 years later(instead of acknowledgment that standard ironsights is terrible).

lowpush3v1rolle
2 years ago
What made me quit after 6000 hours?
- Getting traded after every 1v1 kill or chased down by 2 teammates while low hp.
- Getting rushed down by a squad of 3 and killed, not being able to get 1v1
- No modes where you can play without relying on a team what so ever
What else bothered me during but not enough to quit?
- Skill based matchmaking in CASUAL based just on actual aiming skill and that follows only the top player in the team, not the average of the squad. If you want to play with people your own level instead of random, isnt that what RANKED is for? It is a bad experience every time pretty much unless I play with 3 other people that also are equally skilled, and those are pretty hard to find with 6k hours in the game.
- Hitbox and escape skill nerfs for Wraith, Pathfinder etc.
- Not dealing with oppressive no-skill weapons that can oneshot like PK for months and months when everyone in the community knew it was making the game less skillful and complained about it.
- Aim assist and crossplay staying in the game (not really bothered me its just stupid)
- Knowing how many is using hacks to even out the odds against getting rushed down by many (that you cant see or hear because of bad audio), or recoil hacks to make it fair mnk vs controller etc. And playing on a 35k kill account, not being able to do any of that without losing my account myself, so basically playing at a disadvantage but cheaters never really bothered me in the game tbh. From what Ive heard; 70% of active players uses some kind of performance enhancing software or hardware.
- Balancing weapons to weaken the ones that require skill and practice and strenghtening the ones that require no skill or aim to utilize to the point that skill becomes obselete.
- Getting no love in northern EU for servers that provide good ping.
- Making the ranking system all about placement, then changing it for the better in season 3 just to make it more placement again.
- Having to rat around after your teammates die for up to 20 minutes every game, then losing all the RP you saved right as you drop next game.
- Getting punched out using masters divetrail by squads of 3 that decide to land on you and force a 3v1 fight where you cant use your aim.
- Buying a 4090 to upgrade my system and not getting better FPS than I had on a 400 dollar card from 2020.
- Not being able to impress any of my friends with my skills at any point, and the forced team modes as the only option always making me look and feel bad.