Your post is very well summed up what i belive is alot of peoples thoughts right now.
I just stopped and uninstalled this game yesterday after having it installed since day one and played almost every single day since then.
Hit Diamond all seasons almost, with a total KD of 1.39.
I feel im pretty average leaning towards upper average sometimes, but i just cant take it anymore.
Yesterday we ran into multiple threestacked Master/pred teams EVERY game, i dont think we even got more than 1-2 kills per person totally in the whole evening. (Been like this all season)
Apparently SBMM thinks we should face theese people and get instakilled whole evening without it downrankning us.
But its enough now EA and Respwan have to fix this crap before i give this game a chance again, tired of all Greedy EA cashgrabs and putting zero of it back to the game.
Best BR ever made, could have been GOAT of all BRs with a development team and a publisher that gave a * about their playerbase.
Apex will go down the same route as Titanfall and BF and basically all other games/studios that EA touch..
I'm needing to pack up my pc in a few minutes so I'm not going to individually reply to everyone but you guys make good points as well, Titanfall 2 had a bunch of multiplayer game modes although I personally wasn't a fan of the Titans I loved the multiplayer modes that were Pilots vs Pilots and Apex should do something like that with the Arena Maps. Season 5 I believe had some single player quests that were kinda like a campaign "Broken Ghost" quests or whatever they were called I kinda wish they would of continued doing those or something like that in general but they shifted over to doing the comics instead but now that I think about it I don't even think they add the comics anymore either.
I was playing a ton of Rogue Company before I started Tower of Fantasy and i think Apex could benefit from that route as well, I'm not sure what style those games are called but it was basically game modes that were 4v4 or 6v6 and you had Team Death Match, King of the Hill, Strikeout which had limited respawns for each time, dodgeball where whenever someone died they would be in queue to respawn and if you got a kill your teammate would reenter the game until one of the 2 teams had no players left, and some other modes like demolition where you had to plant/defuse a bomb, etc thats how i think Apex's Arenas should of been from the start
Been meaning to share my latest "experiment" on here, but haven't got a chance to download my screenshots from my console yet. I opened a smurf account, named it "TESTSBMM", I wanted to see how the game reacts to noobs, and vice versa for the better players. Holy crap is all I'm going to say here.....hence for me, biggest factor pushing me away is SBMM.
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