I... Don't think the battle pass is fixed.

@Cabowse

Even if your mock up is correct, I still feel that the old system was better. Not perfect, but better. And the reason I think that is pretty simple:

A lot of people need that "burst" to even complete their passes, because of things like work or school or family activities or whatever. Some people can only play Friday, Saturday, and Sunday. In the old system, that was 3 days to rank up XP (with BP levels starting as low as 9K), enough time to get the 5 and 10 Daily Challenge BP levels, and do some challenges for more XP/levels. You could "burst" through your pass in your free time and then do whatever you needed to do in terms of life commitments and still feel like you are rewarded for your time and effort that you're capable of putting into the game.

This system does *NOT* do that. This system requires *daily* participation for *hours* just to keep your head above water. And, if you don't live and breathe Apex Legends, you're just screwed. If you do not have the time to dedicate to this game, everyday, then you are forced to buy levels, never finish it, or just ignore the pass completely.

This pass only works for the more "hardcore" Apex players that either do it for work (streamers and YTers) or have a lot of free time to just sit down and play a game for hours and hours a day. That is not the case for a lot of people, and is probably not the case for most people that play this game, as "the casuals" usually make up a large chunk of games, like this.

So, yeah, personally I feel that this current BP design stinks for the reason I mentioned above. And I say this as someone who can dedicate the time needed to finish this pass, as is. But, I understand not everyone can.

Also, personally, while I *can* dedicate the insane amount of time that the BP demands, I really don't *want* to. It's a grind fest that feels unrewarding and far from engaging. If anything, the current BP system makes me not want to play *at all*, not play it *more* as Respawn hopes I will. Which was supposedly their intent for the Battle Pass changes, in the first place. Well, sorry, but that was a big swing and a miss, in my opinion.

They either need to go back to the old system (which still wasn't perfect) or they need to make some drastic changes to this one. Because, even with shaving off 5K per Star, this BP system still feels grindy as Hell. Here's hoping those "challenge changes" they talked about coming next week are actually good and make this all feel a lot better. Fingers crossed and all that.

(Lastly, I should mention that I say all this, not because I hate the game, but rather because I love it, at its core. As I have said in other threads/comments: this is the *ONLY* Battle Royale game I've actually enjoyed and I want to keep on enjoying it. But, things like the S7 BP system make that really hard to do. So, I hope some big changes for it are coming soon. Because I really do not want to play the game with its current system)