For the whales, freeloaders and developers

Hmm, I actually find the model used by Apex way less predatory than in many other games.The skins are optional, they don't boost the power of a legend or the XP, some don't even seem to belong to the Titanfall universe or add interesting details to the history or personality of the legends.The game doesn't push the expensive cosmetics in my view that often, so I don't feel pushed to buy stuff to get rid of the annoyance. In a match, I have the same chance wearing the default skin as a player who owns every legendary item and bought each battlepass.

Apex is 99.9% about reflexes, skills, tactics, in a game like this is unusual to focus many resources on cosmetics, while such high level of noise regarding them is a little bit unusual / unexpected.

That's why there's only a limited number of high level skins and not a very big range in prices. Also, if they'd have nice looking skins for 5-10$, those 20$ ones wouldn't sell, because they need to bring more than shinier details to justify spending those extra 10$ I've started a topic with ideas to put more value in these cosmetics here: https://answers.ea.com/t5/Creators-Corner/Ideas-to-improve-the-weight-of-the-cosmetics-in-the-game/td-p/8135907/jump-to/first-unread-message

What is wrong though is the gambling aspect. In a freemium game, it's nice to get surprised by receiving a legendary item, next to the currencies and other resources that drop from that box which you usually also need to advance in that game. In Apex, most players care about the best skin for what they main, the rest is pretty useless and paying a large amount for useless stuff is absolutely bad. Buying the skin that you want, even with a higher than average cost, would've been much more appropriate in this case. Or an exclusiveevent pass, why not.