I loved Apex Legends. I used to play it every day for about 4-6 hours. I mean every * day.
My brothers also played. There were 4 of us, so we always had a full group + 1 to spare in case one of us was busy.
We all quit. Every single one of us. It's been about a year now. Do you know why we quit?
Hackers are why we quit. We got tired of constantly being on the cusp of winning, only to be shot through a wall, or headshot multiple times at extreme ranges, or have someone be able to duck and weave at inhuman speed to dodge while at the same time having pinpoint accuracy.
I predicted this hacker hell would never get better. So we quit. And I've never regretted it.
A year later? The problems have grown - and I know I saved myself and my family tons of wasted time and frustration by convincing them to move on. I wish I didn't have to do that.
Video games are like sports. If someone cheats in baseball or football or wrestling or boxing, they are banned and fined and shamed. On this forum, you can't even mention a name of a blatant cheater without being threatened by the admins. Yet games like Rainbow Six Siege announce bans on every active game at the time of the banning. Do you notice the two starkly different philosophies here?
Apex put all the responsibility on one dude, Hideouts, and expect that to work somehow. The issue is that EA doesn't want to spend money on a free to play game. They don't care about the player. They care about the bottom line. Even if everyone quit now, they've already made their billions. The financial incentive isn't there.
* EA. Quit the game, move on to a game developer that cares. If everyone gave as much money to Hell Let Loose or Rising Storm: Vietnam or Rainbow Six Siege, you'd have a hacker-free community that appreciates fairness and is way more balanced and team-oriented. But no, the real quality developers loses to Wal-Mart - style huge game companies like EA that don't give a * about us. They lie to us. Promise innovative new anti-cheats and hiring a team of people to stop cheating, while driving around in Lexus' on our dime. Because we liked that new skin for our favorite character.
I loved Apex, but the cheaters - and more importantly, the response (read: the lack of response) - broke me down. You lost 4 players, and we all spent like $200 on the game in cosmetics. I wish I could have that money back.
Sorry guys, I truly wish Apex Legends had all the cheaters removed. I'd be back in a heartbeat. But no, it is finished.
Community Manager
