Apex badly needs new game modes

@ShadoWawker 

With all the wrong numbers 55 mil downloads means absolutely nothing the number you need to use is 2.5 mil concurrent players so let’s say solo takes half useing your bs again that takes squad down to 1.25 mil players which during off times people will now be waiting for games and being thrown into games with higher pings wich happens in everything but fortnite and at this point fortnite is still much higher in concurrent players so your argument is incorrect and would know this if you ever played pubg when there concurrent was over 2 mil if you were in any server other than na and eur there was wait times weekday afternoons and weekend mornings and you still had a chance to be thrown somewhere else with high ping cause there was not region lock

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@ShadoWawker wrote:

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@DukeOfSquirtles thank you for bringing up something other than "THIS IS A TEAM GAME OH MY GOD SOLOS WILL RUIN IT"

On the issue of splitting the playerbase unfortunately this reason is not good either. Now if this were a small indie game with a population of 10,000 players i would totally agree. 

Its not. Apex has over 55 million (probably a lot more by now) players so the splitting playerbase argument is invalid

Lets say as an example half of all players migrate over and play only solo, you still have at least 27.5 million left in squads, a substantial amount which in reality would likely be much higher than that

Look at any other battle royale game fortnite pubg blackout etc. Why arent they worried about splitting the playerbase? Why do they all have more than one mode? 

Blackout and firestorm have way less players than apex, yet firestorm has 2 modes (about to add a third) and blackout has 4 modes, in addition to all the modes in regular multiplayer that both games have

So how would you explain the idea that splitting the playerbase was not an issue in these games yet will become one in apex?

It wont be an issue, solos must be added in asap

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Well you can take into consideration PUBG, granted it's still not as large as apex but still has a large audience or did, they had squads, duos, and solo. Not to mention they had TPP and FPP which already causes a rift in everything as a whole but then they went and did individual map selection which in turn only split things up more in terms of certain maps becoming a lot less popular to play thus making queue times longer.

So while it might not make a huge split in playerbase they might want to avoid it all together.

One of the key factors also is that other br games, like say fortnite, don't have special abilities to characters, every character is the same in terms of having no abilities only cosmetic changes. Blackout was the same if I recall? Only played one or two games of blackout, firestorm same thing, it even says when you start up in firestorm that class specific advantages have been turned off. So for apex, it becomes difficult because every legend has their own abilities and advantages.

Which of course they can go the route of firestorm and disable any and all legend specific abilities. 

But then it becomes just another br by doing that, the fun of having different abilities and different play styles gets taken away. And that's what makes this game fun and different.