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flakeeey0304's avatar
2 years ago

EA confirms Apex is dying

This is the second time I believe that EA has said Apex has underperformed financially (first time was January this year). Respawn/EA continue to prove they're out of touch with the community & don't understand why they're not making as much money: firstly the majority of the community do not want recolour events & yet surprise surprise we're getting another one at the start of next season. When we do get original skins they're mostly terrible nowadays: I can count on one hand the amount of good skins the past 2 years. They also keep releasing holosprays & ground emotes in collection events that players mostly don't use. I know we have always gotten epics in events, but I don't know anyone who is happy to buy the epic skins in events (people only buy them for the heirloom etc); banner frames/poses & skydive emotes are great/fine, terrible epic skins are not. Not only are we getting a reworked legend, rather than a new one there seems to be no map change, despite all the teasers for Storm Point this season. Not that I think it would have made much of a difference changing POIs that are out the way because it would still be a terrible map, but the lack of effort is telling. The last few seasons & the coming one have definitely proven they're not willing to put in the effort to improve maps, quality of life, cosmetics & most importantly player retention. They won't have a community of players if they keep making bad decisions e.g this season's ranked & the fact skydive trails are being removed as ranked rewards next season. I have been wanting more skydive emotes/ set trackers for legends who only have one or none & yet for some reason Pathfinder is getting another one. So Pathfinder will be on something like seven or eight sets of trackers, whilst Newcastle, Catalyst & Ballistic have none. Not only that, but Mirage hasn't had a skydive emote since season 4, 14 seasons ago!!! 

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  • r1ggedgame's avatar
    r1ggedgame
    Seasoned Ace
    2 years ago

    Imho Respawn/EA did everything in their power to make the community fed up with the Game.
    1. Matchmaking ... wasnt perfect from the start,  but at least in 2019/2020 it was halfway ok , only to get worse with every change they did (eg. Crossplay, "new MM")
    Pairing up seasoned players with bloody newbs might fill the servers fast, but those teams wont be functional in any way and the rate of early leavers  skyrocketed bcs of that "noble price" worthy decision. I personally know a lot of solo q people that loved the game but quit bcs of the horsecrap uncompetitive MM.
    Also reading those phony blogposts explaining how it should work (aka the infamous bucket theory) resemble  in no way the real world experience. 
    Any random approach would have given better results.
    2. Aim assisted crossplay ... also a thing that only works in the minds of a developer but doesnt stand a real world test as we saw in the everlasting discussions about it.
    we read so many times : "we are looking into it" but nothing happend since 11 Seasons ... fool me once.
    3. Allowing players to connect to other regions even their ping being way to high for any decent delaged netcode to work properly resulting in those fancy magic bullets, insta kills (200dmg in under 1sec) and quite some no-regs.
    4. The general lack of transparency ... why cant we know the our MMR ? 
    5. The still ongoing audio issues.
    ah and i forgot the stupid loot distribution ... opening 4 cargo boxes without getting any weapon is the best way to make people quit.
    throwing weapons on the map that nobody wants to play in mases also doesnt result in them being picked up anyway ... but people just leaving the game.
    hell who likes to drop on a spot where you can only find 5 stupid charge rifles for a close range fight ?

  • TTZ_Dipsy's avatar
    TTZ_Dipsy
    Legend
    2 years ago

    Even if the game was to disappear tomorrow, 18 seasons for a game that released out of nowhere is pretty good in my book

  • @E9ine_AC how do you know that you are the only pc player. I can only see what my teammates have, but not the other 56 people.
    As far as I know there is no serverlist, or lobby list to look at during a match
  • E9ine_AC's avatar
    E9ine_AC
    Hero+
    2 years ago
    @II-LAZZARUS-II Perhaps you missed the entire conversation. Where a lot of us notice a difference in mixtape lobbies.

    How do I know who or what platform im facing? When your death recaps the entire game does not show a single pc user shooting you but instead console icons.
  • I love Apex and can't find another game to play that keeps me entertained...

    I've also spent a lot - I have a stack of heirlooms etc...

    But I made a decision not to spend another cent on Apex until they start dealing with cheaters properly AND change SBMM.

    Right now, it's so obvious that many people are using wall hacks. They prefire all the time and if you spectate them, they run from enemy to enemy in a direct line. It's so obvious that's what they're using and yet they are everywhere in my games.

    SBMM puts me in lobbies with people way above my skill level and cheaters. Even when I'm 3 stacked with people who had to be carried into platinum rank (my highest is Diamond).

    While I'm at it, WTF is with this strafe jumping BS. Apex got rid of bunny hops, which were far less broken than this strafe jumping. It's just another issue ignored by a game company that doesn't care about its customer base.

    No more $$ from me.

  • HappyHourSumwur's avatar
    HappyHourSumwur
    Seasoned Ace
    2 years ago
    @r1ggedgame

    That is a pretty comprehensive list of Respawn's failings, IMO. The only thing I think it is missing is their unwillingness or inability to do anything about smurfs and cheaters.

    Your #4, general lack of transparency, is probably the thing that bugs me the most. They tell us next to nothing about what their plans are and if they are actually doing anything. An occasional blog post that feels like something just to shut us up is all we get.
  • r1ggedgame's avatar
    r1ggedgame
    Seasoned Ace
    2 years ago
    @HappyHourSumwur most annoying stuff atm in regards of cheats is the amount of people using macros ... most of the people using them dont even think of it as cheating.
  • All games die in the end just something happens people move to other games get bored of BR or trash ballance or the inster leavers soon as they get downed cause there ego gets hurt

  • Ricardo8863's avatar
    Ricardo8863
    1 year ago

    And u cant forget ,we have a lot but a lot players how lose there full progress becuase cross platform and EA just dont care or try help about that , they just put her * away saying this is because unliked and link EA accounts , i know a lot people with 4,5,6 years playing this game and spen money and when this system for crossplatform come they lose everything , EA and all platform just care about money, because if some of this guys was a streamer or youtuber they give then everything , thats why Apex is losing players! 

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