Amazing update!
Just wanted to say this update is so much fun. Dropship change, ranked, all of it. Hats off!
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Is there anyone left who still streams this game? Are there any Apex creators left anywhere?
The only new players this game attracts anymore are old players firing up new accounts to beat the matchmaker. But what the dev is doing with Wildcard is test-bedding features that they think will make the game feel new to old players. Because we all signed up six years ago... so that we could wait six years for the game to evolve into something we want to play. Because apparently it wasn't already that six years ago. You know, when it had millions upon millions of genuinely new players, not just the same old tired 100k cycling endlessly through one new secondary after another.
You know, sarcasm aside, they're probably right. Gamers have the attention spans of toddlers and if they've said anything in a unified voice it's that they want a faster game that's more forgiving. That's another way of saying that they don't have the patience for an eighteen minute match, and they most certainly don't want kills or deaths to have any real meaning. They just want endless gunplay uninterrupted by re-queues and lobbies. Hello, Wildcard. The thing is... all they had to do was go play Halo or Call of Duty or Valor or Counter Strike or literally any one of a dozen other games with small maps, small teams, and a kill count. I've said it before and I'll say it again: Why are there so many people playing battle royale games when they don't like multi-team pile ups, looting, waiting, strategizing, planning, or executing methodically and with patience, or basically anything that makes battle royale different from an arena shooter?
Wildcard isn't replacing ranked or even pubs, it's just an added game mode. So I don't get why there's hate directed at it. It's been perceived as positive overwhelmingly.
And ranked was just a kill race before but now you can play zone and do very well, it's far more akin to algs, which is the goal for a competitive mode. I've been a day 1 player and I am welcoming all these changes with open arms.
Sure there could be a better mixtape playlist, but I'm happy with wildcard because I know there will be changes to it and they'll keep it interesting.
Why not just enjoy the changes now and play the game mode that is similar to your goals?
I do play the modes that suit me best, but that doesn't mean I'm completely unwilling to look at anything new they put out there. I look at it and I don't like what I see. I think it's great if other people are getting something out of it, but that doesn't make it immune to criticism.
"And ranked was just a kill race before but now you can play zone and do very well..." How quickly people forget the camping fiasco of season 14 ranked when the only thing that carried any weight at all was placement. It's just the pendulum swing back again. Which I'm all for if other people are enjoying it, but if the outcry of season 14 was anything to go by then they're probably not. And I also reserve the right to crap all over pre-set drops. I'm not saying they have no purpose. I'm saying they were implemented to stop idiots from idioting. For the rest of us they're a poke in the eye.
And that's the entire direction of the game in a nutshell: dumb it down for lazy, stupid, short attention span players. And basically robbing it of its battle royale identity in the process. That identity isn't gone completely but the writing is on the wall for anyone to see. Come back in five seasons and the game may well be unrecognizable.
