Respawn... you need to do SOMETHING right now.
I get that you have a sick vision for your game, I get that you worked long hours to make the game's design fulfill that vision, but at some point, even after nearly a year of release, it's necessary to adjust that vision to be congruent with the reality that random players cannot be expected to play a game as intended.
I just played for about 3 straight hours to max out my battle pass, and literally, and I really mean literally every game except 2 "teammates" drop too far from the other 2, die almost immediately, and leave.
Imagine playing for 3 hours, and only getting 2 playable games (and one of those 2 ended early anyway but at least my squaddies didn't quit).
Apparently you don't want to give solo's so we have a viable playable mode when we have no friends available, and apparently it's also completely acceptable for droves upon droves of players to drop, die, inta-quit and repeat process, every single day for close to a year and never face any kind of penalty or repercussion for repeatedly ruining the game for other players. Something that every title, for every major PvP genre does actually do (with success) like MOBA's.
Players in reality are not team oriented at all. On the contrary they decide 98 out of 100 times that because they game "ended" for them it's fine for them to arbitrarily end the game for you, on your behalf as well.
What fun is there to be had in a game, where your own performance is put all the way in the backseat of the bus, because whether or not you can succeed in the game or have any shot at winning a match is almost entirely dependant on your teammates not straight up deserting games.
Almost. Every. Single. Game. Ends. In. 1 minute. Due. To. Deserters!
It's time to stop letting random people dictate the experience a player has in this game. In their hands, the game is being thrown off a cliff. Add solo's so people have a game to play without friends available, and for the love of god stop letting people desert 95% of all games they enter with impunity.
When i max out the battlepass i'm gonna be soooooo happy I DON'T have to play this game anymore. That's how fed up i am with "teammates". I spend upwards of 750 euro on this game in less than a year, that's how much I loved this game, yet randoms are actually toxic enough to overshadow it. The friends I made playing also barely play anymore. And they're saying to me it's for exact same reasons.
And that's the status quo with your game right now, the very freeloaders you've mentioned on reddit who occasionally log on and do nothing but griefing the game for your true fans, who play almost every day, and spend money on the game have created such a sad state of affairs that your game's real cadre of players is deciding to leave. They're the loud yelling family at your restaurant who are bad for your business, and is making people leave.
When my BP hits level 110 i'm going to uninstall, by the current design, Apex is just a ticket to put me in a bad mood. I can just go play Fortnite to scratch the BR itch for now, and just hope that you guys wise up.
Peace out.
