I’m curious as to what the data looks like around Arenas.
“Splitting the playerbase” has always been something that the devs have wanted to be mindful of. Arenas has two modes and thus splits the playerbase more than a LTM.
Do you feel like Arenas is currently worth having as an extra two modes?
@Axs5626Sxa5001Arenas is for scrubs that want to run the same broken guns over and over
@Axs5626Sxa5001 I have no interest in arenas ranked and only usually play pub arenas to do daily or event challenges where necessary. But I like the idea of it when I do play it as an end game practice sinario, which I could well do with. 😃
On the other hand young tree loves both.
They have invested a lot already to this mode by making rank and continuing to make maps. Just reuse the maps for other modes. If the mobile version of apex has 6v6 modes, so can the main version of the game. They tried shoving it down our throats for seasons 9 and 10 but it’s clear that it didn’t click with most of the community.
With all the crying over third partying, no.
It is the game mode for people who only want 1 team vs the other fights.
I like Arenas. So does my kid. We probably play more than 50% or more of our time there. I started with Season 7, but barely touched the game till Arenas.
It's a better "basic training" then the Firing Range, and helps you get better at the game combat basics.
If anything, I think non-Ranked Arenas should be the only mode you can play until like level 50, just so people learn some basic fighting before trying to hot drop Fragment all the time.
One thing I have seen from this current LTM though, is that Arenas might be more interesting and less snowballing then now if they made a a 3 v 3 v 3 and updated the maps properly. Right now, who ultimately wins is usually determined by who can rush materials for the later rounds.
We only do unranked, so less of an issue.
What's more annoying than being put against "better" players (where unlike in BR we still have a fighting chance cause no RNG gear drops) is when we don't get our 3rd, and now the game penalizes us for dropping even after round 1 rather than letting us just drop and give them their win.
Instead, we're forced to get teabagged 3v2 because they are so proud to beat an outnumbered kid and his old man.
When it's not overflow and we see this, we've learned to just buy thermite grenades and drop them at our feet first thing. Deny them free kills annoys them more. On overflow we can just go swim in the lava.
No please no. Arena is the only mode I am decent at.
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