EA confirms Apex is dying

I've spent the less time playing Apex in S16 & S17 than any other season & haven't played ranked since S10 so I don't believe the lower player count (record lows according to several Youtubers) is the fault of the *-up over ranked changes per se.In my reducing Apex playtime I pretty much junked playing BR mode about 3 seasons ago because of the terrible matchmaking (& I speak as a solo queuer),rampant cheating & the numerous bugs/performance issues & stuck to playing Arenas & LTM modes.Even this season when I've dabbled in BR just when I think my gaming experience in this mode cannot get any worse it does & then some & if anything things have gotten worse. If I'm honest the without Arenas,LTMs & Mixtape I think that Apex could be in a bit of trouble.Content is key with most multiplayers & it took Apex devs a while to realise that the game isn't going to solely survive on just BR mode alone.

Even if I go days without playing Apex I always like listening to the rumour-mill & various news stories of what's happening to the game going forward & the general consensus I get is that I'm not really happy with what's happening with the game at present & going forward.Brand new maps in the game was always a slow process (annually) & according to reports it's going to get even slower & instead just more tinkering around the edges of existing maps (just blow up Broken Moon & start again).No new weapons since like forever & instead of new character in the game every season/other season just re-workings of existing characters just isn't going to expand the player-base or even keep existing players entertained for long.

Have you got a source for that? 

@BallisticMVPI am sure somewhere stats may show it being lower. We went from an average 400k masters most seasons to nearly what 1.6m now? This indicates more players. Even if you go by current masters there is 1.6 million master ranks. This is 1.6 million players while some may be alts as well this is still a very very large number of players.

That 1.6m is for 1 single rank. Imagine rookie, gold, plat, diamond, pred. This 1.6m figure is greatly increased once adding those in.

So I will not say the game is dying despite what stat some company thinks they have correct. When pure numbers are there to be seen. Not everyone uses steam.

Then lets add in big games dropping Diablo 4 being a recent one where a ton of all gaming populations shifted over to until they was bored with it or still remain there. All game releases pull players from their typical normal games.