It's only downhill from here for Apex

The changes coming to Apex Legends in this next season just solidify that. A gun no one wants or even asked for, an uneeded melee based character to "spice" things up. Last but not least, new changes to the ranked mode which will most certainly damage it further. 

Let's be honest the player count has gone recently, you can tell by queue times alone. Which lead to more smurfs, which keeps new players from staying, and drives away lower ranked players. 

Adding this new Master rank and putting a rank restriction on who you can queue with will damage the game as a whole even further. (this would've been a good idea, if you had it back in season 1. It's too late now, to the point where it's a bad idea).

Why? Simple, smurfs. 

The queue times for high ranked players is so long they either can't play or they get put against people as low as Plats and Golds. Adding these new restrictions will only further increase queue times. So if high ranked players want to even play, they'll eventually need to play on a smurf account. Which will do what I've stated above. Smurfs are unhealthy for every game they're in. 

A smurf account is an account purposefully kept at a lower rank, either for easier games, or in Apex's case, to get lower queue times. Feel the need to specify this as quite a few of you seem to be ignorant to what a smurf account is. 

It's only downhill from here, there is just no hope for the game anymore. It's been proven over the years by almost every game that's gone through similar changes. It's too late, you should've focused on fixing the game instead of adding all these unnecessary changes throughout the games lifespan. Priorities should've been in order from the beginning, but whatever. 

What a waste.