No longer a place for regular players

If the Titanfall 2 servers ever got some love, I would play Frontier Defense all the time and never bother you folks again.

If they added a cooperative PvE mode like Frontier Defense to Apex Legends, I would also never darken your BR matches with my terrible skills again.

Heck, if they would do proper SBMM over this EBMM crap, that alone would help, cause I would likely be put with the rest of my brethren what suck at the game.

They recently put SBMM into the Crucible in Destiny 2. Suddenly, paired with and against other people what suck, we can all get 7-10 kills and have a close fun match, instead of getting 1 kill, on accident, and getting stomped by players that laser your head with Ace of Spades the second you round a corner.

So, yeah, it's clearly this game's crappy matchmaking.

Here's another good video from Mokey exposing the MM system:

@Redmattgameyeah, I thought about that explanation by the TD of Apex as well. If players are dominant, why wouldn't they go pro or stream at least? Why would they just quit? I don't know where they get their information from and how old it is, because if you're very good at games these days, you could get paid for it.
I've mentioned separating solo q and stack lobbies before as well. I think it would work, but not sure if it would be feasible and worthwhile for Respawn to do. On the other hand, if they don't improve something, they will lose more players. There are a lot of people that are very unhappy about the current MM.
I'm with you on the tap strafing and other movement tricks being unfair. They weren't intended for the game, but rather exploits discovered accidentally. I'm pretty sure I'll get disagreements from MnK tap strafers for that last comment lol.  

@KelRiever Ironically, the Apex MM punishes people who play with their friends even if they are bad players. I am a below average player and play with two friends who are also fairly bad. We get destroyed by high ELO players, mostly in three stacks, when we queue together as a premade almost without fail. When I queue together with my buddy who is a masters player? Forget it. I literally -have- to solo Q to not have my KDR completely dumpstered by group matchmaking. My high skill bud has been coaching me this season via screen share. He keeps detailed stats. My KDR in those games is over 2, while my season KDR, including all those games with my friends, is .68.  I gave up playing with my high skill buddy on my main account.  I play on an alt, and my KRD there is, I believe, below .4.

To clarify, i love the game itself (10 Mio Dmg should say a lot). the movement and general mechanics are great, gfx and sound/music have appeal, maps are mostly very good, all ingredients for a Top AAA Title. But the Matchmaking System ...
@swift07that video tells me a lot about the how the devs see the game, they clearly dont understand that somebody coming back over and over again isnt necessarily enjoying the game, but hopes that one of the 100 matches he tries is actually good and enjoyable (im talking not about wins, only about games that kinda feels satisfying), big difference !
But the plain numbers of their statistics dont include whats driving the player to stay in the game.
From that statement it sounds like they want all to have a good time, but in fact they are tilting a lot of players.
Lower skilled players complain about sweaty lobbies and higher skilled players complain about teammates that arent up for the task.
Either way a very bad and toxic combination that only amplifies over time.
I get that they might act only in good faith ... but you all know whats the opposite of good : good intentions !
Being tight lipped about the System only fuels speculations and the given excuse that if they would declassify their system, people would try to "game" it, only tells me that the system has some major flaws.
Elo, Glicko ect. are all pretty much transparent and proven over a long period of time and it would be easy to spot if smb. would try to gain an advantage due to the transparency.
They also take those infamous EA patents as a shield, saying its not THAT system to silence everyone that mentions engagemend based matchmaking, but in fact they even tell it to your face that they use a system that is engagement optimized.
Its just not the EA one but their own implementation (otherwise they would need to pay EA big dollars, not the other way around ...).
I started to complain about this end 2020 and i forecasted a (excrement)show in the near future, ok took a while but now its cooking !
If they really want to make money with Apex till 2027, they have to act now and fast.
Otherwise it will just pile up, people get more angry and leave EA and Respawn Games for good on burned soil, only the lack of competing games on a similar lvl makes me still play Apex (sry to say that, but every other BR is inferior when it comes to the plain game mechanics)
Hell, even Top YTers now encourage people not to play/pay to bring change, bcs the Accounting only understands one language : The Almighty $$$.
And the Accounting sets the tone wether devs are allowed to work on the title and what should be done or not.
You can see that by the complaints about the cosmetics, they bring the cash. Somethings wrong with the cashcow, it gets fixed immediately, somethings wrong with the netcode/servers/matchmaking ... put it on the backburner until it adds up and causes the cashcow to take a hit.
They really need to talk with the main audience and not those ImperialHals, Timmys, you name it.
We saw it with other games (Diabotical), Devs listened mainly to pro players during the closed beta (which itself was a huge blast, great time enjoyed it a lot) changed things accordingly and lost most of the casuals weeks after release, now the games is pretty much dead.