@reconzeroYeah, I don't see it that way. I think it's a bit unhealthy with how you're viewing it to be honest. I get that feeling, I've been there too, but I think you should maybe try to reassess that a bit. That's a lot of anger towards something that I personally feel like you're over estimating.
For us regular mortals, going through the ranks, the games feel pretty similar until you start to reach the end of Gold and start playing Plat matches. There's this small window that makes the game fun.
The real issue is game design. When you make something competitive, many have to lose in order for a few to be champs. It's a toxic environment over time. Games have to be built from the ground up to be competitive and have a huge pool of players to sustain, like CSGO. Apex will probably never be that game, but it has the potential to be something far more fun in my opinion.
I'm going to fight for a way to make gaming fun for myself. I don't care what anyone else thinks anymore. I will NOT cheat, but if it means making new accounts to get some good matches, so be it. The games I get in Bronze through Silver are typically way harder than Gold or Plat matches. It's crazy how bad my teammates will be, legit players, versus the enemy teams. The game has a cheater problem. Most FPS games do now days. Or the people that aren't cheating no-life and practice in aim trainers all day.
The competitive online multiplayer culture that's been formed around these games is the issue in my opinion. Make games about going on missions with friends, explore the map. Finding cool stuff, then extract is the future. This esport thing needs to f-off already. I want to hangout, in a multiplayer game, with my friends, and not stress out, or completely defeated feeling when these opponents feel impossible because they cheat or just completely no-life a game. We need to cultivate more casual players, or they exist, but give them reason to play multiplayer games.
I really do get the frustration, but lets aim that towards the real problem. It's upper management forcing the devs to make horrible decisions for short term gains. There's trying to make a profit and sustain, and then there's pure greed. Which sucks the ever living passion out of everything. That's what EA does. That's the issue. Developers need room to breath in order to create.
I have to agree with Recon on this one.
You say this - " It's a mental thing to try something completely different on an account you don't care about the stats."
When you make this comment, you are doing so in a manner which seems to speak for everyone. Even if the above statement is the very reason you make alt accounts - that is one thing. If you think that everyone and their grandma that makes alt accounts, including the hundreds if not thousands that have upwards to 30 accounts of more for Apex is doing so for the same reasons as you state you are - you are sadly, sadly mistaken. (You are giving to much credit to humanity on this front)
When a new player or a low level player is going up against top players on alt accounts... everyone says the same thing - "Well its ok, because the MM will place that smurf account at its proper level (as you so put it - "sooner than later.") - As if to say to that new player going up against a top player getting absolutely smashed to oblivion, that is ok, just take it cause the guy will be in the proper lobbies eventually. Just that is absolute garbage in my opinion. Now... with how many alt accounts exist in Apex, that poor noob, will face that over and over and over again as a new player trying to learn, expecting to be matched against similar skilled combatants as half the player base if not more most likely are using alt accounts. Is that fair to the new player to have to endure that constantly so players can have fun? Do the grind? To try something different? For content or clout. To practice trick plays and so on?
When you say its not nearly as a big deal... you are speaking for your point of view... not the player base. And maybe to you its ok, but if you have been playing Apex for years maybe you dont understand. The game was a different beast back then. As a new player now, Apex is really hard to learn, even more so with the constant alt accounts you will be facing off against consistently as they stomp you as they are passing through. I would guess many would disagree with your statement - "its not nearly as a big deal." - This is subjective.
If their was only one player in a blue moon doing this, it wouldn't be so bad once in awhile to have happen to you... but with the amount of players making and using them, it happens constantly, far too often... that is when it becomes a problem and destroys the ability for the MM to do its job properly.
You also stated - "The games I get in Bronze through Silver are typically way harder than Gold or Plat matches."
I hope you realize, a huge reason why this is... the over abundance of alt accounts. Most of the bronze and silver and gold lobbies are players much better than that on new accounts plundering and pillaging their way through the ranks. Many once the plundering slows down and the matches become their equal - new account and the cycle begins again. I'm not saying that is the only reason why ranked at lower levels is as bad as it is at the moment and has been for many seasons now - but it certainly contributes to the problem and causes terrible gaming experiences for the majority. But heh, as long as we all fight for a way to make gaming fun for ourselves, and don't care what anyone thinks... than all good I guess. Its just too bad that fun you are chasing after has to come at the expense of many many others.
wow, someone who actually understands the problem...
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