Reminiscing the OG days of Apex

Season 4 was great, Season 5 pretty good.  I think it's when Horizon showed up that things started going downhill, but Olympus was great so it was hard to tell. People used to hate Olympus, I remember that, and initial Horizon was broke until she got nerfed.  

Seer sucked.  I think that was the end, but it took Valkyrie, who was OP for so long, to really lock in.  Again, hard to tell because she's fun to play, but she was super OP.  It wasn't just that, though, it was that Respawn simply started ignoring all the damage they were doing by adding scan meta and vertical meta.  You don't add Seer, and Valkyrie, and Ash, without buffing certain defense characters.  It's really terrible, imo, because I believe there were things that could have been done to keep it going.

Storm Point is, and was hated.  I still like that map.  But it shows me, too, what people were asking to see...basically a really small level where people could Octane, and Path and Valkyrie their way to twitch fun. Nobody likes using strategy, it seems, or map movement, or picking fights.  A 'good' game is one where you don't really think at all, just hold down the forward move and fire button :P.

I'm not super worried, the Ranked thing was the straw that did it.  I've relegated Apex to not worth being that serious about, and I will have my fun regardless of how much pro input keeps trying to ruin it.  Stopped watching streaming videos, and other things to improve play, I'm now just messing around.

It used to be pretty great, though, I agree.  I remember when I looked forward to what was coming next.