So...that this is considered a big deal issue shows how wrong Respawn's head is at.
If you're a game company and don't know who pays your bills, and you hand off your game design input to a small group of people who like a certain thing, but it ticks off the greater mass of people who pay your bills, you're going to get what happened to Overwatch.
Basically, Respawn, right now, is kissing the rear end of it's pro-players and streamers. What they are advising and complaining about is not bad for them, but it's at least questionable if it is good for the masses who play the game. A going theory is that if you listen to the people who seem to 'know most' about your game, the game is better for everyone. But Pro players and streamers do not necessarily give input that is good for everyone.
Gold shields are a sort of dumb, but fun, game add for us casual mobs. Just like big Kraber damage and a lot of other things. It was already nerfed into taking so long as to be pretty useless, but I can tell you right now, NEAR NOBODY cares about this question in regular play. Nobody's career is getting broken, or even making a few dollars less because Gold shields 'won' a match. Probably, you know, there's a core game problem that's bigger, that results in gold shields being a problem, but nah, let's talk about Gold Shields like they are ruining this game.
Respawn has its head straight up where the sun don't shine right now, and that this is topical shows that. I do not care, nor will I ever care, about gold shields, other than they are a good time....every like 100 games. Streamers and pros need games like Apex, Apex does not need to cater to this small, albeit sometimes entertaining, group of people. They will live, and learn to live with, what they already have been, and they will adjust or be gone. It's not going to be an issue, there will always be pros and streamers if your game is good enough.
But if Respawn keeps throwing its input into things that make this game less fun for the majority who play it, they won't have money or pros or streamers. I'm not saying the issue is the ranked system, or nerfing gold shields, or krabers specifically. But I am saying that any issue, if it is spoiling it for the mass of players, is going to cost Respawn what they value most - regular players and money.
And if you think that gameplay was Respawns concern over money when they made this game, hehheh, I have a bridge to sell you.
