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Renegade_Prime8
4 years ago

My thoughts of the direction of Apex

I said this before I am going to say it again. They will kill their own game

I do believe that Respawn is a great team when it comes to stories, lore, and game mechanics they are brilliant, but they have no clue how to maintain multiplayer game and that shows it by only listening to content creators and "pros"

Every season there is something what brought negativity but this seasons change regarding to the ranked changes was a huge problem.

The second problem is the community, PVP, ImerialHal and the rest of the brady bunch, kept yapping about "we need an AGLS style ranked system" what happened? all of their fans started to repeat the same BS on twitter towards the devs, now that we have it, and the so called "pros" who wanted it, majority of them hate it and it is always like this "we want this, we want that", "aaaahhh now that we got it, it's not really a good idea after all" 

The third is Respawn, they keep forcing their ideas on players, and this season it shows, you can't force a completely different playstyle on players, because "we think this is healthy for the game" really? I know this has been brought up a lot of times, solos, we never gonna get it, but you guys thought adding a no-fill so we can go against 3 stacks and solo preds and masters in duos is a good idea

I know one thing, I have drastically cut my playtime down now, because, I genuinely lost faith in this game, and I have a feeling that after season 15 this game is done.

Don't know how much of an affect is Warzone 2 is going to put on Apex, but there is a chance 

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  • lilbabyjoe69's avatar
    lilbabyjoe69
    Rising Adventurer
    4 years ago
    @hayhor Majority being the people on this forum and your personal friends? The majority of players are not people on this forum complaining about ranked. The population here complaining is a small percentage of the actual players playing the game. The majority is just playing the game.
  • hayhor's avatar
    hayhor
    Hero
    4 years ago
    @lilbabyjoe69 The data on the ranked sites says play is down. People on this forum, people on redit, content creators. The majority is negative. Some have moved to pubs and it's obvious seeing the lobbies. But some won't play pubs so they won't play.
  • lilbabyjoe69's avatar
    lilbabyjoe69
    Rising Adventurer
    4 years ago
    @hayhor Go look at the steam charts for daily users. Unless you’re freaking out about a .32% decrease over 30 days, there are bigger things to be concerned about.
  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
    4 years ago

    @KelRiever 

    @KelRiever wrote:

    What certain pros said at the beginning of Season 13 wasn't necessarily wrong from where they sat, but what was fundamentally wrong was that they thought what was good for them was good for everyone, and it is simply not.  They live in a demented world where they make money from video games.  Most people do not, and in fact pay money for video games.  They need Apex to succeed or some other game...we do not.

    Ranked mode was never bush league for pros. Never, ever, ever.  It was a way for regular people to participate in something more competitive and supposedly serious.  In no game, however, was it ever so serious that it wasn't a hobby. In other words, I hate to say it, but Ranked players ARE casual players, just less 'casual' than their pug counterparts.  You only change that when what you do starts paying you to do it, like getting accepted on a pro team or earning enough streaming to make your living or significantly supplementing your income.

    Of course, with Apex, Ranked mode also became the mode with a penalty for quitting.  It didn't stop, but perceptively it helped so even more casual player played ranked to try to play Apex more like it was supposed to be.

    None of that solved any core game problems, or fixed quitting, but this answer with Ranked the way it is now, skewed through the eyes of those who need Apex to have a career, has certainly forgotten that.  Two things Respawn and Pros have in common...they need casual players to play and even pay to play, or what they do doesn't matter anymore. And when they forget that, whether because of arrogance, self fed belief systems or whatever other reason, they screw up the thing for everybody.  Casuals more than them, sure, but them too if you haven't started noticing they're changing their tune.  They should shut up about bad players and start realizing its bad players who pay their damn bills.


    Well said!

    @hayhor 

    The majority of players I play with don't care about Ranked at all, that's the real issue. Just straight up do not care about participating in the Ranked mode. I started playing Apex Legends on release because of its simplistic movement based around a good running and/ or looking graphics engine. It feels great, while looking great.

    Once the online personalities started marketing Apex Legends, Respawn allowed them to become too much involved in its design thereafter, and it's been causing a misdirection of why and/ or how the majority play the title ever sense.

    Most streamers and/ or online personalities know about upcoming Legends and/ or items and they use their influence to nudge small adjustments that would benefit them more, then directly thinking how it would affect everyone as a whole in the Apex legends community.

    That's the issue I have. Influence should be taken from the players where the majority of the cash is coming from, not people who make money from the title.

    @DankToliet 

    I don't have hope after playing Halo Infinite. The game didn't look good, while also using heavy resources. I also don't consider Halo to be a true FPS, being the aim down sight is quite odd in my opinion. I honestly don't think Halo could be a BR being the core gameplay is based around heavy aim assist and/ or bullet magnetism.