Season 16. I would suggest playing arenas this season before the next season drops.
This thread is long so I may have said this before, but I don't mind that Arenas exists. I mean, the more game modes, the better, as far as I'm concerned. And the BR format, to me, needs to be moved away from, sorry. It's fun but my personal preference is for something actually more fair, which BR really isn't...it's 20 teams with ridiculous random drops of loot. Always fun. Serious? Not so much. And Arenas, frankly, is WAY better as a competitive format in that regard.
However, I don't like that if there's going to be limited space in game modes, that it sits there like a massive millstone, when there are formats like Control and Gun Run which are both more popular and better, far as I can tell. If Control were permanent, I think it would be better, overall.
I think Respawn is hung up on it because they put a bunch of work into it. Cynically speaking, I don't see Respawn as one of the good companies for taking corrections...they're rather bad at it, really. So I just ignore Arenas mostly, and maybe I play it once in a blue moon, because its eh okay. I like buying my gear and working with a small group.
But I'd rather be playing Control. Like, by a lot.
