I’m day 1 player and stopped playing bc cheaters such as aim bot, configs, teaming, etc… and matchmaking. I come back a year later and guess what the same shi is happening you know I thought maybe yo...
Grind for masters is nearly impossible without cheating, going against masters and pred contantly while in d4 with bbraindead teamates soloq is not enjoyable take the matchmaking back to the way yall had introduced it nobody wants to play with these preds make them wait 10 minutes who cares
Unfortunately Apex has so few and far between good streamers / ranked grinders that stream, in many cases those are pros that pushing their ideas back might lead to massive fan base decline (percentage wise).
I feel like if Hal would stop streaming like 1/3 of all Apex money spending fanboys/fangirls would switch to other game.
Plus as you can see from this thread alone - people are complaining YET still playing this game...that is just a sign to EA that even if experience is bad, people still play and spend money on the game. There is not intention for them to do anything really.
Unfortunately to implement changes you have to be hard on your stance i.e. like me - I said I will grind out season 25 battle pass and quit asap and I did so:
Not sure why people keep getting into the game knowing all of the issues:
cheaters in Plat+ lobbies basically in every game
matchmaking that feeds Plat and sometimes even Gold to Preds/Masters
numerous bugs along the way that are big ones e.g. disconnecting and getting ranked game quit penalty
Logically you either don't play or you just accept that Apex is now combo of this great game mechanics and idea with all the smelly stuff as a package and just play with that mindset "oh, I got killed by a hacker again...no big deal", "oh game crashed during my best game of they day...no worries there will be more games like this", "I play this game "for fun", result is secondary" and so on.
Meanwhile I found myself in a great community of Valorant that actually have low elo teams present and active = no more soloqing. And when I don't want to be 100% locked in -> Deadlock seems to be a good place to be to just run and gun.
I hope to get back to fixed Apex one day but I am afraid that will never happen or Apex 2 or whatever we call it will have such a high hardware requirements that it will be unplayable until I upgrade my PC (given current situation and outlook in consumer market = that will not happen in 2026 :D).
Best of luck to you all still grinding for whatever unknown reason :)