If you're not a full squad you play a man down?
Like seriously? What's the point?
After we got our rank, 2 games where we were 1 teammate down and we still lost points on both of them?
Why even keep this game mode if you're not even gonna take care of it?
Just get rid of this mode and introduce a rotating mode instead so people can have fun if they're burnt out with BR
I’m gonna get flak for this again but arenas is a failed attempt by Respawn to get some of that Valorant hype when it came out. They even double downed on it with a rank mode. It’s a flawed mode since the legends are designed for BR like Ash who doesn’t have a passive ability in arenas because there are no death boxes.
In my opinion, let pubs arenas stay for those who love the style of the mode but replace ranked arenas with another mode like Control. Why do we even have to remove rank? Because Respawn doesn’t want to separate the playerbase as much as possible. This was their reasoning why we don’t have a permanent LTM and why the previous LTMs were takeovers and not a separate mode.
They haven’t released any numbers on how many really play this mode but I'm certain that’s it’s way lower now. Just look at the diminishing complaints about it in here, reddit and twitter. People tried it and stopped playing after getting frustrated.
Respawn really did their best to push this mode to the community when they implemented arena flash events and arenas exclusive weekly/daily challenges. I suggest reusing the arena maps for other LTMs. To be honest, I’m not interested in BR LTMs anymore.
@Daze623I tried griding ranked Arenas two seasons ago, and never tried again. I hitted Diamond and it was ridiculous matchmaking, literaly I was having teammates that where either unranked, or silver or gold and playing against masters/preds 3 stacks. And somehow if I won I would get like "+15 points" only, so I decided to stop there and never look back.
Edit: Worst part was if I somehow got a nice teammate, and I wanted to play again with him, I wasn't able because he was more than 2 ranks below me, just ridiculous.
@Cheese9Man I believe this chart proofs your point even further, almost 70% of the playerbase is unraked in ranked arenas, that means they didn't even bother on playing 5 games to get to a rank xd
Source: https://apexlegendsstatus.com/game-stats/ranked-distribution
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