From his stream right now who is number 8 pred in the world also playing with FunFPS who is number 6 pred in the world. Both say this seasons ranked is by far the worse ranked season they have ever played. Between the que times on NA and being forced to play tokyo just for ques and running into non stop cheaters they have expressed how horrible ranked state is right now. I also agree that ranked is just crap show. I myself have seen many cheaters who are highly suspect and dont even hide it. Now if some your top players in the world express the state of ranked is a cheatfest is this enough for the company to actually take action? This season is by far the worse ive seen with cheaters myself.

@E9ine_ACI'm getting burnt on the Mastiff. If they don't do something about come Season 9 I'm going to sit out Season 9. It's getting old..I think the most frustrating part about it, it works flawlessly for some.. but others it has major hit registration issue.

@E9ine_AC But queue times should be better as they are allowing more preds. Plus theyve been banning people. 😜

@pastaclownBoth the free-to-play 'Apex Legends' and single-player 'Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order' helped boost earnings for the company. Electronic Arts saw a bump in total net revenue and net income over its full fiscal year 2020 from 2019, up $5.5 billion and $3 billion, respectively.Imagine 5.5 billion and only very very few combating cheaters. This is the problem with the industry. Makes money cares none of player experience. There is enough revenue there to hire 100 thousand people and still not put a dent in that cash flow from 2 games alone that are none the less free to play.

@Cheese9Man Pred and masters lobbies queue times are a totally different thing tho. Watch a streamer once. It takes at least 10 minutes to find a match. I imagine right now being late night it is even worse tho. I dont get the NA people who play and stream really late.

@E9ine_AC why is Hideouts seemingly the only person banning people? You'd think they'd have an entire corporate Twitter account that people could tweet to, with multiple people all working to ban cheaters. Hiring people is a costly endeavor, but like, the game makes a ton of money anyway (plus charging 18 bucks per skin) so it's not like it'd be a waste.

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19 Replies

hayhor
Hero
5 years ago
@E9ine_AC But queue times should be better as they are allowing more preds. Plus theyve been banning people. 😜
Cheese9Man
5 years ago
I have no problems in queue times in consoles and the matchmaking has been great so far (Gold II). As for cheaters, I don't notice any or their number is too small to notice on the console lobbies. So far enjoying S8 except for the usual laggy servers and kinda missing the other maps already.
hayhor
Hero
5 years ago
@Cheese9Man Pred and masters lobbies queue times are a totally different thing tho. Watch a streamer once. It takes at least 10 minutes to find a match. I imagine right now being late night it is even worse tho. I dont get the NA people who play and stream really late.
E9ine_AC
Hero+
5 years ago
@hayhor If by banning people you mean pretty much 1 person combating all cheaters out of 100k + players. I guess. I do like they are trying dont get me wrong. But when a post is made saying ohh i banned 250 tonight i can only sit here and think. What about the other 10's of thousands? 1 man doing the job of 100+. The results just will not be enough. Just too many players and with apex only having around 117 emoplyees as you can imagine it will not change there just isnt the man power.
pastaclown
5 years ago
@E9ine_AC why is Hideouts seemingly the only person banning people? You'd think they'd have an entire corporate Twitter account that people could tweet to, with multiple people all working to ban cheaters. Hiring people is a costly endeavor, but like, the game makes a ton of money anyway (plus charging 18 bucks per skin) so it's not like it'd be a waste.
E9ine_AC
Hero+
5 years ago
@pastaclownBoth the free-to-play 'Apex Legends' and single-player 'Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order' helped boost earnings for the company. Electronic Arts saw a bump in total net revenue and net income over its full fiscal year 2020 from 2019, up $5.5 billion and $3 billion, respectively.

Imagine 5.5 billion and only very very few combating cheaters. This is the problem with the industry. Makes money cares none of player experience. There is enough revenue there to hire 100 thousand people and still not put a dent in that cash flow from 2 games alone that are none the less free to play.
matzesingt
5 years ago
@hayhor Well that’s a normal thing in every game but it seems like in apex it’s a huge deal cuz preds are spoiled... plat and diamonds should not show up in pred lobby’s at all... one of the reasons I quit the game is cuz I ran into full lobby’s of 3 stack preds while I were a high dia/low master solo player
And it didn’t happen rarely, it happend every f game and that’s not acceptable at all
matzesingt
5 years ago
@E9ine_ACThe % of preds using macros is out of control, just saw recently sweet using the new 50 50 thing and It was blatantly obvious what was happening there...the difference between Someone like aceu or lyric compared to 95% of preds is so massive when it comes to mechanics, yet the recoil is on point 😉
Lord_Scorpion34
Legend
5 years ago
@E9ine_AC Imagine making billions of dollars & also not having stable servers LMAO!
DarthValtrex
Hero (Retired)
5 years ago
@E9ine_ACI'm getting burnt on the Mastiff. If they don't do something about come Season 9 I'm going to sit out Season 9. It's getting old..

I think the most frustrating part about it, it works flawlessly for some.. but others it has major hit registration issue.