The ship already has a bunch of holes in it and it can’t be fixed because there are sharks (EA) that won’t allow the crew members (Respawn) to fix those holes
Wrong. Shareholders decide everything and you're not doing anything to tell them you're not happy with the product. How's the player count doing? Fine? Have fun with the zero changes you'll be seeing.
I honestly think that respawn are just using ea as an excuse to why they aren’t allowed to do shit lol it’s their game they should just say fuck ea and do what they want
There have been really fun games modes back in the day. For example: “Dummies Big Day” , “Gold Rush Duos” , “Armed & Dangerous” , “Third person mode” , “Apex Elite queue”. I don’t know why they don’t bring these back.
Season 3 Grand Soiree was the shit. Those were really the best of times in Apex, everything was still fresh and they were doing new things on a consistent basis.
What's crazy is I have 6.5k hours on apex, and with all the recent "bad things" I realized I haven't logged in in over 2 weeks, honestly I think its best if they put the game out of its misery before it gets worse
Honestly, it's better that way. Only 2k from me, but I have gotten into other hobbies and even better games. Apex seems like a tough addiction to break off from, but you start to be thankful when you're finally done with the game.
You know I also haven't played since I got out of school It's almost been a month since my semester ended and I haven't opened the game I got like 500 hours not as much as you but I only played out of habit not because I genuinely enjoyed the game
That's seriously what sucks dude, I have similar hours if not more and I've been here since day 1. They have had so so so many chances to fix things and add better things and/or content but they just havent yk. I love the game and I'm a die hard fan but like it's on its last leg
I never recognize Apex as a Titanfall universe spinoff. Titanfall is a gritty sci-fi masterpiece, well Apex is just a randomass juvenile sci-fi Fortnite.😅
As a casual player I do not understand why they don't make Solos, Duos, Trios, Quads all permanent modes. Sometimes I just want to hop on and have a chill time by myself in solo's and sometimes my friend/s are on and we can play duo/trios or quads. I just don't understand why every single mode has to be limited. Then respawn will say "but your queue times" maybe if they had variations in gameplay in their game it would attract more players to play instead of bleeding out slowly.
The #1 reason video game companies don't make permanent modes in multiplayer games like Apex anymore is because they're worried about splitting their player base up over these different modes and not having enough to make them run efficiently. It's like you said, "but your queue times" is the excuse they mask it with, when the reality is there's just not enough people playing their game for them to feel comfortable leaving those modes in year round That's why Fortnite doesn't ever do that shit with limiting solos/duos/trios/quads (as far as I'm aware) since they've always got a ridiculous amount of people playing there's no reason to feel pressured into artificially funneling your player base in a certain direction
@@TheDXJC56 Not only that, but the matchmaking would be even more horribly balanced due to the more split playerbase. It's bad enough already with everyone in the same player pool.
@@TheDXJC56 fortnite have the 4 modes and the other game modes, still impressive they have a good player base in the 4, i mainly play solo though seems like there is a lot of people in most modes, the mode who have least players is 400, BR modes have 40k and above, trios have 200k and above most of the time, also rank is separate for construction and no construction, it divides player base though it makes the game fun for different markets, Fortnite was the same as apex some seasons ago
For reference, 2023 had the highest average and highest peak player counts for apex (since the steam launch). 2024 has the lowest. We are hitting all times lows since the steam launch which was initially slow as people were still on origin. We can easily say 2024 has been the worst year for apex ever.
@@smithwesson666 Nah that's not what broke it. What broke it wasn't any one thing, it was the continuous abuse/ignoring of the community, as you said. I didn't leave because it did one specific thing that pissed me off. I left because of the complete stagnation. If the Battle Pass was atrocious, but the game itself was a ton of fun with balanced matchmaking and good Ranked rewards, I'd play it anyway and wouldn't care about the Battle Pass system because I'd be playing enough to casually complete it every time anyway. Same goes for most people I think.
@@TheStraightestWhitest I agree cheaters and them not doing anything noticeable about them made me quit along with events just being for skin releases and balancing being slow and unfun
@@TheStraightestWhitest For me it was the extreme support meta with no sense of balancing. Only made worse with this update where they just gave support MORE buffs rather than nerfs, it's like they asked what the worst possible balancing update they could do is, and maybe it was on purpose because higher ups aren't listening to them, so bleed apex dry by making the game unplayable
But it is dying. Or rather, it's almost dead already. Even longtime legends of the game like HisWattson left recently. I quit a while ago. This game is an unhealthy mess that disrespects its players, which is a true shame since it's probably the only competitive shooter I've ever enjoyed.
@goofygoodpasture8511 I agree. But when you put a full flatline mag point blank into someone with a sword and it does like 40 damage, then with the press of a button he says "let us talk to god" and mid air he's beating you worse than your dad, it's not fun man
yehm though it was really fun to play with, in that season i had a lot of fun despite hating the sword, the sword wasnt balanced though it wasnt hard to use neither
this season has somehow sucked even more than the last couple of seasons. 90% of it has been recycled content stretched to the point where it doesn't matter anymore. it's so sad
I dont understand why this game cant have all 4 modes in the game at all times like if people wanna play modes like solos, duos or quads why are they constantly taking these modes in and out its so annoying
They don't wanna split up their queues anymore than they already do. The more spread out the playerbase is, the longer it takes to get a match which will be more likely to have bad matchmaking. People already complain about the game's sbmm; imagine if it were even worse.
@NefertitiAphrodite Nope. Respawn debunked this years ago. They have complete creative control. EA legally can't change a damn thing. They're purely distributors of the game, meaning they get a yearly percentage of what the game makes, and nothing more. They have zero say. Even the prices of the in game cosmetics are exclusively up to Respawn to decide.
@@TheStraightestWhitestI suggest looking into what publishers have control of. Are you saying every game published by EA is just coincidentally trying to get into everyone’s pockets becuase that’s just what the developers want?
@@TheStraightestWhitestYou can also tell by creators for respawn being hired by EA, not respawn. This is why HisWattson was sent a C&D by EA not respawn when he tried using a private server
Honestly the healthiest choice I made was leaving Apex. FOMO mentality hit me hard with this game more than others, and I was 20+ boxes in when to that Ballistic skin... I regret every purchase I made with this game.
For me it was the matchmaking. Its no secret that the game decides which matches you are gonna win and which ones you are gonna lose. I was a casual player, around level 400 with a decent overall K.D (1.29 more or less) , Istg most lobbies I played on where full of preds and masters 3 stacks IN PUBS, while I get paired with levels 47 or other people within my skill gap. It got to the point where I needed to play with a 3 stack myself cause there was no other way for me to play the game without getting rolled. This combined with the ever increasing skill cap, meta changes and absurd movment mechanics being discovered (it was a long time ago, around season 15 when I left) meant that I had to grind the game like it was a 9 to 5 job just to keep up. This sucked any enjoymebt of the game, and for what I've seen it remains the same till this day, only with more cheaters.
They even do that to me in mixtape. I always end up on teams with people getting 0 kills and 400 damage while the other team is just steamrolling everything. I can't figure out how that always happens.
Same. Me and my friends took a year break from apex. Our first couple matches we played were the best times we ever had. We were matched against players of our skill level. But after the fourth match it was back to 3 stacks of masters. So the game could put us in games of our skill bracket, if they wanted to, but instead, tried to get us hooked on the game again and lure us into becoming fodder for players way better then us.
@@yahootube90the matchmaking does that on purpose so you, the work horse, can carry trash players like me to an empty meaningless victory. Everyone looses ✌️
The main issue for me is the constant collection events trying to steal money out of your pockets for cosmetics, if it’s an “event” then where is the content for me to enjoy
I recently jumped into a mixtape after 2 weeks off. I crossed habitat to find 8 bots standing at spawn. Two of them auto jumping backwards. At least 2 bots on my team standing in the water off the cliff. This game is dead. This was on playstation. Rip.
ah, they match you with bots during the first 24 hours, later is sweaty lobbies, hiswattson said that if he stopped playing the game he will be match against bots and later with sweaty lobbies as usual and it wont stop
the one thing that always made me come back to the game was to finish the battle pass, and because the seasons were longer I had more of a break before coming back so the game felt slightly more fresh. now, the seasons are so short that I get like a month break and the game is still ass so I don’t even want to play to finish the pass anymore
i Started playing on February 2019, then i stopped playing 2 years later, reason? Boring maps, Skins, tryhards, no fun. They are lazy for everything and they want our money, even Fortnite has much better things unlike this sh1t.
Speaking to therapist: "You see, it all started when they nerfed Seer but thought a guy with an unlimited amount of AOE grenades every 20 seconds was fine..."
Apex balancing in a nutshell was 0 playtesting and the community being too stubborn to try new characters when they dropped. Then we find out how stupid the character designs were MONTHS after the character was added.
@@Chris-dy1cb i mean if characters werent too hard to learn people would try others, path, conduit, bangalore and lifeline are the easiest to play with, rest are complex and a challenge for some though most dont have time to learn a new legend, casual players want something easy to learn and play after all we are there for fun not to be competitive, proplayers are different and have the time to learn mechanics after all they are pay for do that, most used legends are path, bangalore and lifeline, those are the easiest to play with, bangalore didnt need a nerf in the first place, wraith also got a nerf, conduit got a hard nerf making her kit weak, conduit didnt even need a nerd to begin with, assault or skirmisher could kill her easy, lifeline rework should be a kit instead of whole rework, horizon got nerfed so badly
1:27 a good and bad thing about Apex being our fictional future is ANYthing real or fictional (memes, Final Fantasy, modern cultural annoyances, etc) CAN be put into Apex and it usually doesn't go against the lore. The Internet is forever (maybe) and fictional future pilots and legends can be influenced by them. RIP Apex Linux.
I left the game after the battle pass changes, the new premium tier and rhat it only lasts for 45 days was the sign that I needed to leave the game. Now I live stress free and with more money in my wallet, thank you Respawn, I'll be present at your funeral.
I personally feel like something shifted years ago when exclusivity was thrown out the window. There is nothing to grind for anymore for the casual player. The whole game centers around cosmetics and badges + trackers.
What went wrong, here, I'll show you as someone who has experience with dying games for over 25 years: Lack of variety in gameplay; Population getting old where only veterans keep playing which in turn keeps new players away because they're getting stomped (fixed by removing all current maps and adding new randomized maps with random POIs, so vets can't rotate properly and don't know the terrain before they get there, similar to what a noob experiences every match now); Balance choices that favor one playstyle above all, that is rush and do damage, holding defensive positions with Caustic + Wattson in a 2 door building like back in season 1-2 is no longer possible, as all buildings are now huge, with many access points and all the legends that could hold a point got gutted; same for snipers, there's so much random clutter and lack of overwatch/sniping nests that the sniper playstyle is dead as well, which lead to the ultra high mobility legends we have nowadays being meta (fixed by adding more small buildings that are easily defended if you play defensive legends, and fixed by straight up removing mobility skills from all legends bar a few that are unwieldy/slow/huge giveway you're using them, Path's grapple, Valk flying, Wraith Ult, those can stay, anything else pretty much has to go) Weapon balance favoring full auto guns because of the homogenised maps (no small buildings, random cover everywhere on the maps), resulting in stale loadouts, because rifles are good at long range, medium range where they excel and short range as well, so why use anything else when the map is built around rifles, which turns the gameplay even more stale. It's so easy fix if they stop listening to people that have no idea how to make games FUN. First they listened to streamers that forced them to make shit map choices and to remove the defensive playstyle, then they listened to casuals and console players who complained about snipers, removing that gameplay style in order to make full auto weapons better because that is where aimbot... I mean aim assist works best, resulting in them gutting their own game making it less fun with each update.
I agree 100% with map layout randomization. I'm 10 years into Rust (which still has 4x the players of apex) and every fresh wipe feels like new all over again.
When that city map came out i swear everything just fell and crashed. Map was buns, the mods buns, the skins lazy, my pc all of a sudden couldnt run the crappy map, guns didnt feel right, and just everything cost money and im just so sad and miss old apex...
If I had to rate Apex Legends as a whole during 2024 it would get a 5/10 The first season being the anniversary is always the best season because of how generous they were to us. But with them introducing milestone events are the dumbest most greediest thing they introduced to the game. If this game is going to survive 2025 they need to remove the milestones from the game. Universal heirlooms are fine but the Katar is absolutely ugly and has no place in the game. I miss legend specific heirlooms and last time I checked Octane had a baseball bat on the mobile version of apex. So that means no law against a legend having more than 1 special heirloom to them. I want my apex back but it needs to change or it’s sink or swim and now hearing that the devs actually cared and EA hates that I hope the people at EA eat shat and piss rocks.
It went to shit when the cheating counter measures stopped. I was able to join several cheat discords. I play on console and there's one that's exclusive for console. 70,000 active users. That's like 85% of the entire console playerbase globally. I'm good. Enjoy apex. And, don't worry guys, for CoD, it's actually worse.
I feel it would've been fair to add in the fact that 120fps was added to next gen consoles, it kept me on the game for a lot longer and I'm sure it was the same for many others
The year started off super strong. Final fantasy and anniversary were both really good, every season should be like the anniversary season, with something to grind towards and come back for all season apart from the battlepass
I remember being so excited for Revenant...all the lore and buildup had me soooooo excited. I also remember the valk mini movies and I felt thrilled and "kid on Christmas morning" to start playing. Give us the trailers...and the lore. Make us excited again!
Its incredibly obvious how little effort they put into the game at this point. Even something as simple as the animations on the emotes which is some of the worst animating I've seen in a video game. EA just doesn't care and at the end of the day the game is just a cash cow to them which they want to milk dry.
Everyone who plays apex knows why its dying lol, they're releasing way less content compared to what we used to get, (just look at season 9's or season 11's content vs season 23's) and they're also not fixing the core issues the game has had since S0 like audio issues, server connection, tick rate, matchmaking, smurfing. The issues are all catching up to them because there's just not enough new content for people to look past the issues and play Apex over other games. Like, I can't imagine why anyone would hop on Apex over Rivals.
Arenas def needs to come back, but I've said it before and Ill say it again: it should be made into a 3 team mode, that way players get used to third parties. Perhaps the third team can be spawned in after the first shield break or knock on either team.
Loot boxes are gambling and should be restricted to 18+ rated games. In Fortnite Save the World Epic Games would show what was inside before you bought one and then changed from being able to buy with V-bucks and switched to X-ray tickets which could be earned by just playing the game.
Learned a long time ago that no matter how low a population gets on a multiplayer game there will ALWAYS be people that boot it up like its their 9-5 and play like their lives depend on it.
As someone who played through season 4 all the way to the season before Newcastle (i don't remember the numbers rn, i guess it was 11?), it's interesting to see what's going on with the game more recently, and I'm somehow not really impressed with all the predatory cash grabs given the game is publised by EA
this is kinda ironic tbh, like before removing arenas (which i rlly adored considering i was trash at the game) people kept hating on it, an when they announced mixtape, people kept saying mixtape gon be gas and shi, a few seasons go by, and they want arenas back, like come on man.
Respawn having heirlooms added to the game already had a slightly money hungry aspect to the game. But imo, adding heirloom recolors was the catalyst for apex dying, then adding prestige skins kinda confirmed it, but adding universal heirlooms was the final nail in the coffin. Whenever a normal heirloom event was put out, it felt like a actual event since they really only put one out every season. But now that we have recolors, prestige skins and universal heirlooms, EA doesnt give a damn about content and making the game fun and refreshing when players are finding it stale. And unfortunately the money hungry aspect of the game will still be the top priority to EA because we have the pros and apex influencers who will slap down 160 dollars the instant any new event comes out. But its not just those two categories, we can also blame the average players that were swooned into spending money on pixels you dont have a single ounce of ownership to.
It really started going downhill when they got rid of kings canyon and kept teasing the community with it instead of just keeping it in the game and rotating it all because they wanted to circle jerk themselves over worlds edge
Game slowly become a shop for skin character instead of actual gameplay. There's no evolve/update on gameplay or content, tbh is kinda boring play the same thing again and again.
I’m at the point where the only way I’ll come back to the game is if they add titanfall-related things. The only way to bring me back for more than a month is if they add jack cooper as a legend.
I think this is a misjudged analysis! You're making it seem like the game is dying because of cosmetics mostly and recycled ltms. I just think that for some people sure, but the majority? No this was just the straw that broke the camels back. Not the core issues. The matchmaking failing to be addressed properly, the lack of proper balanced gameplay innovations, how long has it been since we've seen a ranked overhaul? And the fact that they basically have relegated themselves to buffing one to two legends with strong changes making a tiny nerf to another and then calling it a day on gameplay changes makes the game feel extremely stale. At the end of the day if the gameplay and matchmaking felt good people would shrug off the events and other cosmetic stuff.
- bad monetization - really bad progression system - not enough content for a season - collection "events" are the worst thing that I ever seen in my entire life - lore is so bad - recent characters are ok - multiple problems with hacker - aggressive monetization system And more
them splittin the battlepass was the last straw for me. cutting it in half, and charging us 10$ for each half, along with half the time to complete it, meaning you HAVE to play every day or week to complete is ass. not to mention they didnt even give a new weapon in the second payed half. it was the same p20 skinned again. i would normally play this game and get to high diamond. havent played in months
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Nah im sorry everyone but the game went to shit when the cinematics start lookin like effortless disney movie
No bc I really noticed that, the animations started looking so cheap it was horrible
not entirely their fault but they should’ve went with a better studio tbh
Don't care, still having fun.
Ughh the slideshow cut scenes
are you an actual apex fan....a cinematic?
I dont ever feel like playing any game who's "event" is just paying between $80-$150 usd for skins
if you moved to japan region you pay way less, argetine is the cheapest, in north america region we pay triple the price
@@raufmeisterno we do not. We pay at most 20% more compared to Argentina and Japan. Your asspulls have to atleast be close bro
@@AzrealJ Still paying more, don't know why you're getting mad.
@@TheRandomLetsplays responding is not mad…
@@AzrealJwhy are people are so slow, literally just commenting will have people saying “chill it’s not that deep” 😭
Short answer : Money hungry. Pro players. Dev excuses. Broken promises. Bugs.
Ea isn't allowing the devs to make changes to the game
also : cheaters
Pros how? Respawn has the final say in everything, yall act like pros are the EA upper management/ceo😂
@@Aaronxxi exhibit 1: Hal complaint about AA, nerfed.
@@smithwesson666exhibit 1: gibby was ran in ALGS for 14+ seasons even though he was bottom 5 pick rate in both pubs and ranked.
The ship already has a bunch of holes in it and it can’t be fixed because there are sharks (EA) that won’t allow the crew members (Respawn) to fix those holes
Me when I’m 12 trying to make a witty analogy
@@Chris-dy1cb people seem to understand. Also do you like your own comments XD
Nice explanation
Wrong. Shareholders decide everything and you're not doing anything to tell them you're not happy with the product. How's the player count doing? Fine? Have fun with the zero changes you'll be seeing.
I honestly think that respawn are just using ea as an excuse to why they aren’t allowed to do shit lol it’s their game they should just say fuck ea and do what they want
There have been really fun games modes back in the day. For example: “Dummies Big Day” , “Gold Rush Duos” , “Armed & Dangerous” , “Third person mode” , “Apex Elite queue”. I don’t know why they don’t bring these back.
Season 3 Grand Soiree was the shit. Those were really the best of times in Apex, everything was still fresh and they were doing new things on a consistent basis.
What's crazy is I have 6.5k hours on apex, and with all the recent "bad things" I realized I haven't logged in in over 2 weeks, honestly I think its best if they put the game out of its misery before it gets worse
They’ll probably keep the servers open just like TF2
Honestly, it's better that way. Only 2k from me, but I have gotten into other hobbies and even better games.
Apex seems like a tough addiction to break off from, but you start to be thankful when you're finally done with the game.
You know I also haven't played since I got out of school
It's almost been a month since my semester ended and I haven't opened the game
I got like 500 hours not as much as you but I only played out of habit not because I genuinely enjoyed the game
That's seriously what sucks dude, I have similar hours if not more and I've been here since day 1. They have had so so so many chances to fix things and add better things and/or content but they just havent yk. I love the game and I'm a die hard fan but like it's on its last leg
i am at 5.5k hours, havent opened the game in a month, never been happier. delta force is awesome btw
Crazy how the milestone event was the starting mark for the downfall. Then they proceed to do a battle pass split lmaooooooo
Uninstalled Apex yesterday. So sad to see the titanfall universe tank and fall like this.
I never recognize Apex as a Titanfall universe spinoff. Titanfall is a gritty sci-fi masterpiece, well Apex is just a randomass juvenile sci-fi Fortnite.😅
They already ditched titanfall. If apex fails, which IS a direct TF universe spinoff btw, then there goes the titanfall universe completely.
Apex is more of a titan fall spinoff than it being a part of Titan fall
As a casual player I do not understand why they don't make Solos, Duos, Trios, Quads all permanent modes. Sometimes I just want to hop on and have a chill time by myself in solo's and sometimes my friend/s are on and we can play duo/trios or quads. I just don't understand why every single mode has to be limited. Then respawn will say "but your queue times" maybe if they had variations in gameplay in their game it would attract more players to play instead of bleeding out slowly.
The #1 reason video game companies don't make permanent modes in multiplayer games like Apex anymore is because they're worried about splitting their player base up over these different modes and not having enough to make them run efficiently. It's like you said, "but your queue times" is the excuse they mask it with, when the reality is there's just not enough people playing their game for them to feel comfortable leaving those modes in year round
That's why Fortnite doesn't ever do that shit with limiting solos/duos/trios/quads (as far as I'm aware) since they've always got a ridiculous amount of people playing there's no reason to feel pressured into artificially funneling your player base in a certain direction
@@TheDXJC56 Not only that, but the matchmaking would be even more horribly balanced due to the more split playerbase. It's bad enough already with everyone in the same player pool.
@@TheDXJC56 fortnite have the 4 modes and the other game modes, still impressive they have a good player base in the 4, i mainly play solo though seems like there is a lot of people in most modes, the mode who have least players is 400, BR modes have 40k and above, trios have 200k and above most of the time, also rank is separate for construction and no construction, it divides player base though it makes the game fun for different markets, Fortnite was the same as apex some seasons ago
I can't even play duos in Aus since Season 4 lmfao, I'm stuck with trios verse 3 stack preds every game.
For reference, 2023 had the highest average and highest peak player counts for apex (since the steam launch). 2024 has the lowest.
We are hitting all times lows since the steam launch which was initially slow as people were still on origin. We can easily say 2024 has been the worst year for apex ever.
That is what you get for ignoring the community. The straw broke when they reworked the battle pass.
@@smithwesson666 Nah that's not what broke it. What broke it wasn't any one thing, it was the continuous abuse/ignoring of the community, as you said. I didn't leave because it did one specific thing that pissed me off. I left because of the complete stagnation. If the Battle Pass was atrocious, but the game itself was a ton of fun with balanced matchmaking and good Ranked rewards, I'd play it anyway and wouldn't care about the Battle Pass system because I'd be playing enough to casually complete it every time anyway. Same goes for most people I think.
@@TheStraightestWhitest I agree cheaters and them not doing anything noticeable about them made me quit along with events just being for skin releases and balancing being slow and unfun
@@TheStraightestWhitest For me it was the extreme support meta with no sense of balancing. Only made worse with this update where they just gave support MORE buffs rather than nerfs, it's like they asked what the worst possible balancing update they could do is, and maybe it was on purpose because higher ups aren't listening to them, so bleed apex dry by making the game unplayable
That sword was NOT balanced 😭 Most annoying shit ever
Immersion was thrown out the window a long time ago. Ask yourself, "when did Apex lose that last bit of Titanfall energy?"
Somewhere around S6. Maybe even earlier, IMO.
They usually clutch up during anniversary seasons, I have some hope for content (coping)
Just play fornite or marvel
@@WillKing01 doing that now lol
Call me a EA meat rider all ya want. But I can’t switch up on my horizon mommi 😭😭😭😭 damn game
@@DJLegends apex just hasn’t been the same for years
Major dose of Copium. But I understand :/
1 year later and I’m glad to see if missed nothing at all since I quit.
Big facts
Me and my friends played a bit today for the first time in a year. It felt the same but worse
The games “collection events” were literally just digital stores.
These apex is dying videos are being milked
mf complains about apex being milked while he's making 10 apex dying videos perday and advertise stuff in it
Ik I might milk it too
What else can they talk about
Tbf there is nothing to talk about in apex
But it is dying. Or rather, it's almost dead already. Even longtime legends of the game like HisWattson left recently. I quit a while ago. This game is an unhealthy mess that disrespects its players, which is a true shame since it's probably the only competitive shooter I've ever enjoyed.
The sword wasn't balanced. Anyone who says differently just abused it.
This is true, but I do feel like there were enough of them around the map to make it at least a really fun mode
@goofygoodpasture8511 I agree. But when you put a full flatline mag point blank into someone with a sword and it does like 40 damage, then with the press of a button he says "let us talk to god" and mid air he's beating you worse than your dad, it's not fun man
It was fun, which is way more important.
yehm though it was really fun to play with, in that season i had a lot of fun despite hating the sword, the sword wasnt balanced though it wasnt hard to use neither
Hey what happend to apex?
Cosmetics💀
this season has somehow sucked even more than the last couple of seasons. 90% of it has been recycled content stretched to the point where it doesn't matter anymore. it's so sad
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I dont understand why this game cant have all 4 modes in the game at all times like if people wanna play modes like solos, duos or quads why are they constantly taking these modes in and out its so annoying
They don't wanna split up their queues anymore than they already do. The more spread out the playerbase is, the longer it takes to get a match which will be more likely to have bad matchmaking. People already complain about the game's sbmm; imagine if it were even worse.
I wish I had that same feeling I did when I first started playing😢
EA is what went wrong with Apex…
Respawn has exclusive creative control.
@@TheStraightestWhitestEA decides what gets implemented or not.
@NefertitiAphrodite Nope. Respawn debunked this years ago. They have complete creative control. EA legally can't change a damn thing. They're purely distributors of the game, meaning they get a yearly percentage of what the game makes, and nothing more. They have zero say. Even the prices of the in game cosmetics are exclusively up to Respawn to decide.
@@TheStraightestWhitestI suggest looking into what publishers have control of. Are you saying every game published by EA is just coincidentally trying to get into everyone’s pockets becuase that’s just what the developers want?
@@TheStraightestWhitestYou can also tell by creators for respawn being hired by EA, not respawn. This is why HisWattson was sent a C&D by EA not respawn when he tried using a private server
1:27 Jesus Christ they did Aerith dirty
Nah her outfit was matched into the horizon character 😂😂😂 they wasn't tryna remake her face
Gun meta. Nerfing smgs was the downfall
your pros and cons are based solely on the SKINS, that should say it all for this game.
Honestly the healthiest choice I made was leaving Apex. FOMO mentality hit me hard with this game more than others, and I was 20+ boxes in when to that Ballistic skin... I regret every purchase I made with this game.
For me it was the matchmaking. Its no secret that the game decides which matches you are gonna win and which ones you are gonna lose.
I was a casual player, around level 400 with a decent overall K.D (1.29 more or less) , Istg most lobbies I played on where full of preds and masters 3 stacks IN PUBS, while I get paired with levels 47 or other people within my skill gap. It got to the point where I needed to play with a 3 stack myself cause there was no other way for me to play the game without getting rolled.
This combined with the ever increasing skill cap, meta changes and absurd movment mechanics being discovered (it was a long time ago, around season 15 when I left) meant that I had to grind the game like it was a 9 to 5 job just to keep up. This sucked any enjoymebt of the game, and for what I've seen it remains the same till this day, only with more cheaters.
They even do that to me in mixtape. I always end up on teams with people getting 0 kills and 400 damage while the other team is just steamrolling everything. I can't figure out how that always happens.
@yahootube90 the matchmaking system is programmed to do that, its not only skill based
Same.
Me and my friends took a year break from apex.
Our first couple matches we played were the best times we ever had. We were matched against players of our skill level. But after the fourth match it was back to 3 stacks of masters.
So the game could put us in games of our skill bracket, if they wanted to, but instead, tried to get us hooked on the game again and lure us into becoming fodder for players way better then us.
@@yahootube90the matchmaking does that on purpose so you, the work horse, can carry trash players like me to an empty meaningless victory. Everyone looses ✌️
The main issue for me is the constant collection events trying to steal money out of your pockets for cosmetics, if it’s an “event” then where is the content for me to enjoy
I recently jumped into a mixtape after 2 weeks off. I crossed habitat to find 8 bots standing at spawn. Two of them auto jumping backwards. At least 2 bots on my team standing in the water off the cliff. This game is dead. This was on playstation. Rip.
ah, they match you with bots during the first 24 hours, later is sweaty lobbies, hiswattson said that if he stopped playing the game he will be match against bots and later with sweaty lobbies as usual and it wont stop
Btw, titanfall 1 and 2s multiplayer servers are still fighting!
the one thing that always made me come back to the game was to finish the battle pass, and because the seasons were longer I had more of a break before coming back so the game felt slightly more fresh. now, the seasons are so short that I get like a month break and the game is still ass so I don’t even want to play to finish the pass anymore
i Started playing on February 2019, then i stopped playing 2 years later, reason? Boring maps, Skins, tryhards, no fun. They are lazy for everything and they want our money, even Fortnite has much better things unlike this sh1t.
Because people using zen/xim 3 stacking playing like kills and win stats are all their life is dependent on didn’t do the main harm
EA, That's what went wrong
Speaking to therapist: "You see, it all started when they nerfed Seer but thought a guy with an unlimited amount of AOE grenades every 20 seconds was fine..."
Fuse? Also hate that mf...
Apex balancing in a nutshell was 0 playtesting and the community being too stubborn to try new characters when they dropped. Then we find out how stupid the character designs were MONTHS after the character was added.
@@Chris-dy1cb i mean if characters werent too hard to learn people would try others, path, conduit, bangalore and lifeline are the easiest to play with, rest are complex and a challenge for some though most dont have time to learn a new legend, casual players want something easy to learn and play after all we are there for fun not to be competitive, proplayers are different and have the time to learn mechanics after all they are pay for do that, most used legends are path, bangalore and lifeline, those are the easiest to play with, bangalore didnt need a nerf in the first place, wraith also got a nerf, conduit got a hard nerf making her kit weak, conduit didnt even need a nerd to begin with, assault or skirmisher could kill her easy, lifeline rework should be a kit instead of whole rework, horizon got nerfed so badly
Best thing I did was quit Apex last year.
I quit 2 years ago
EA doesn't sink ships, and they don't fix them. They just leave them floating and empty like ghost ships.
Imagine a video "what is wrong with game XYZ" and then 90% of the video is about cosmetics.
There's your problem!
1:27 a good and bad thing about Apex being our fictional future is ANYthing real or fictional (memes, Final Fantasy, modern cultural annoyances, etc) CAN be put into Apex and it usually doesn't go against the lore.
The Internet is forever (maybe) and fictional future pilots and legends can be influenced by them. RIP Apex Linux.
I left the game after the battle pass changes, the new premium tier and rhat it only lasts for 45 days was the sign that I needed to leave the game. Now I live stress free and with more money in my wallet, thank you Respawn, I'll be present at your funeral.
I personally feel like something shifted years ago when exclusivity was thrown out the window. There is nothing to grind for anymore for the casual player. The whole game centers around cosmetics and badges + trackers.
Imma go spend my money on The Finals, much better skins, way cheaper. Much more fair. It does not feels like they disrespect their player base!
What went wrong, here, I'll show you as someone who has experience with dying games for over 25 years:
Lack of variety in gameplay;
Population getting old where only veterans keep playing which in turn keeps new players away because they're getting stomped (fixed by removing all current maps and adding new randomized maps with random POIs, so vets can't rotate properly and don't know the terrain before they get there, similar to what a noob experiences every match now);
Balance choices that favor one playstyle above all, that is rush and do damage, holding defensive positions with Caustic + Wattson in a 2 door building like back in season 1-2 is no longer possible, as all buildings are now huge, with many access points and all the legends that could hold a point got gutted; same for snipers, there's so much random clutter and lack of overwatch/sniping nests that the sniper playstyle is dead as well, which lead to the ultra high mobility legends we have nowadays being meta (fixed by adding more small buildings that are easily defended if you play defensive legends, and fixed by straight up removing mobility skills from all legends bar a few that are unwieldy/slow/huge giveway you're using them, Path's grapple, Valk flying, Wraith Ult, those can stay, anything else pretty much has to go)
Weapon balance favoring full auto guns because of the homogenised maps (no small buildings, random cover everywhere on the maps), resulting in stale loadouts, because rifles are good at long range, medium range where they excel and short range as well, so why use anything else when the map is built around rifles, which turns the gameplay even more stale.
It's so easy fix if they stop listening to people that have no idea how to make games FUN. First they listened to streamers that forced them to make shit map choices and to remove the defensive playstyle, then they listened to casuals and console players who complained about snipers, removing that gameplay style in order to make full auto weapons better because that is where aimbot... I mean aim assist works best, resulting in them gutting their own game making it less fun with each update.
“Ultra rush meta” in a full support meta its wild lol
I agree 100% with map layout randomization. I'm 10 years into Rust (which still has 4x the players of apex) and every fresh wipe feels like new all over again.
When that city map came out i swear everything just fell and crashed. Map was buns, the mods buns, the skins lazy, my pc all of a sudden couldnt run the crappy map, guns didnt feel right, and just everything cost money and im just so sad and miss old apex...
I'ma say this I believe it's mm. I'm plat 2 rn and every game is preds and masters or 50k kill on a single legend and it's crazy.
If I had to rate Apex Legends as a whole during 2024 it would get a 5/10
The first season being the anniversary is always the best season because of how generous they were to us.
But with them introducing milestone events are the dumbest most greediest thing they introduced to the game. If this game is going to survive 2025 they need to remove the milestones from the game.
Universal heirlooms are fine but the Katar is absolutely ugly and has no place in the game. I miss legend specific heirlooms and last time I checked Octane had a baseball bat on the mobile version of apex.
So that means no law against a legend having more than 1 special heirloom to them.
I want my apex back but it needs to change or it’s sink or swim and now hearing that the devs actually cared and EA hates that I hope the people at EA eat shat and piss rocks.
It went to shit when the cheating counter measures stopped. I was able to join several cheat discords. I play on console and there's one that's exclusive for console. 70,000 active users. That's like 85% of the entire console playerbase globally. I'm good. Enjoy apex.
And, don't worry guys, for CoD, it's actually worse.
This video could have been summed up with one word: everything
Halloween was so lackluster compared to last years
I feel it would've been fair to add in the fact that 120fps was added to next gen consoles, it kept me on the game for a lot longer and I'm sure it was the same for many others
The fact that the hunted game mode would have been perfect for a vantage heirloom💔
MESSAGE!
The void reckening event forgot Newcastle Heirloom
One word: CHEATERS
ALGS tournament was hacked that’s how much of a problem it is. Not fun to get a good game wrecked my a bunch of cheaters and often
Funny that they banned SteamOS users to play and… still have the cheating problem because it’s not the SteamOS flaw, its EA flaw
Started this game in season 10,I have NEVER seen 99% of the old skydive emote in the store, just a bunch of weird decisions lol
The year started off super strong. Final fantasy and anniversary were both really good, every season should be like the anniversary season, with something to grind towards and come back for all season apart from the battlepass
I remember being so excited for Revenant...all the lore and buildup had me soooooo excited. I also remember the valk mini movies and I felt thrilled and "kid on Christmas morning" to start playing. Give us the trailers...and the lore. Make us excited again!
There were some great things this year, legend perks, broken moon rework, e district, a couple solid LTMs.
i feel like they added more ways to spend money than actual changes to the game this year
Its incredibly obvious how little effort they put into the game at this point. Even something as simple as the animations on the emotes which is some of the worst animating I've seen in a video game. EA just doesn't care and at the end of the day the game is just a cash cow to them which they want to milk dry.
EA has already said many times that they do not care about Apex Legends dying and they would rather it to happen
Saying a recolor isnt bad is craaaaazy apex fan work
Everyone who plays apex knows why its dying lol, they're releasing way less content compared to what we used to get, (just look at season 9's or season 11's content vs season 23's) and they're also not fixing the core issues the game has had since S0 like audio issues, server connection, tick rate, matchmaking, smurfing. The issues are all catching up to them because there's just not enough new content for people to look past the issues and play Apex over other games. Like, I can't imagine why anyone would hop on Apex over Rivals.
Cos Marvels is an easy game and a self report that you suck at Apex
@@cubbian grow up kid
@@AussieOzborne git gud, li'l bro
@@cubbian you couldn’t be more brain ded if you tried, don’t drop out of school
@@AussieOzborne Keep yapping li'l bro. It won't improve your KD
I quit for a week and it's been 2 years huh. Time does fly like the way apex dies
Not respawns fault, its ea’s they dont want respawn to do more than they already are because they want to spend less and make lots
Bro didn't mention duos removal. That's why literally everyone I know quit personally.
Brother wtf is going on with these ads I’ve had 3 unskipable ads wtf is going on why are there ads every 2 minutes bro come on
They easily could’ve made the upgrades worth legend token instead of making a completely new currency which is sad
Arenas def needs to come back, but I've said it before and Ill say it again: it should be made into a 3 team mode, that way players get used to third parties. Perhaps the third team can be spawned in after the first shield break or knock on either team.
Loot boxes are gambling and should be restricted to 18+ rated games. In Fortnite Save the World Epic Games would show what was inside before you bought one and then changed from being able to buy with V-bucks and switched to X-ray tickets which could be earned by just playing the game.
I gave up when the "story" revolved around to 3 seasons straight of a boring love triangle and that was the focus instead of dealing w/ cheaters.
I am actually retuning to apex after a break cuz the sweats are leaving
Yep they all leaving into pubs 😅 pubs are sweaty asf and ranked is lot easier now
@FAKKER_rap even pubs is easy now for me (I have a 1000 hours in this game) so I don't have much competition
Learned a long time ago that no matter how low a population gets on a multiplayer game there will ALWAYS be people that boot it up like its their 9-5 and play like their lives depend on it.
@@Chris-dy1cb bf4 from 2014 still has 800 to 4000 ppl playing it only on pc
I feel like milestone events should only be there for universal heirlooms that way its a gamble since you can use it on any legend.
As someone who played through season 4 all the way to the season before Newcastle (i don't remember the numbers rn, i guess it was 11?), it's interesting to see what's going on with the game more recently, and I'm somehow not really impressed with all the predatory cash grabs given the game is publised by EA
Recolored LTMs shouldn't exist in a game that has a community this big, but here we are.
this is kinda ironic tbh, like before removing arenas (which i rlly adored considering i was trash at the game) people kept hating on it, an when they announced mixtape, people kept saying mixtape gon be gas and shi, a few seasons go by, and they want arenas back, like come on man.
6:10 it wasnt QUITE removed, you could still buy it with in-game even currency you got from doing quest in the event shop
Respawn having heirlooms added to the game already had a slightly money hungry aspect to the game. But imo, adding heirloom recolors was the catalyst for apex dying, then adding prestige skins kinda confirmed it, but adding universal heirlooms was the final nail in the coffin.
Whenever a normal heirloom event was put out, it felt like a actual event since they really only put one out every season. But now that we have recolors, prestige skins and universal heirlooms, EA doesnt give a damn about content and making the game fun and refreshing when players are finding it stale. And unfortunately the money hungry aspect of the game will still be the top priority to EA because we have the pros and apex influencers who will slap down 160 dollars the instant any new event comes out. But its not just those two categories, we can also blame the average players that were swooned into spending money on pixels you dont have a single ounce of ownership to.
The only thing I know of Apex in 2024 is that they once again defiled the dead body of Titanfall to try and boost its numbers.
Arenas needs to come back
I lost my entire account trying to get that reactive flatline man
Those Final Fantasy skins were so ugly that it became a laughing stock to the japanese apex community
It got a Woke-fication. 😂
It really started going downhill when they got rid of kings canyon and kept teasing the community with it instead of just keeping it in the game and rotating it all because they wanted to circle jerk themselves over worlds edge
Game slowly become a shop for skin character instead of actual gameplay. There's no evolve/update on gameplay or content, tbh is kinda boring play the same thing again and again.
I’m at the point where the only way I’ll come back to the game is if they add titanfall-related things. The only way to bring me back for more than a month is if they add jack cooper as a legend.
Honestly, despite all of its flaws, I hope apex never goes away
Yes yes yes ... This game is almost dead. Devs need to just concord this game.
They already did. Woke shit everywhere. Nobody says anything because they don't want to lose access or sponsors.
its the BP change for me that broked the camels back.
I watch more "Apex is dead videos," than playing it.
Everything.
I think this is a misjudged analysis! You're making it seem like the game is dying because of cosmetics mostly and recycled ltms. I just think that for some people sure, but the majority? No this was just the straw that broke the camels back. Not the core issues. The matchmaking failing to be addressed properly, the lack of proper balanced gameplay innovations, how long has it been since we've seen a ranked overhaul? And the fact that they basically have relegated themselves to buffing one to two legends with strong changes making a tiny nerf to another and then calling it a day on gameplay changes makes the game feel extremely stale. At the end of the day if the gameplay and matchmaking felt good people would shrug off the events and other cosmetic stuff.
I gave up on this game and I know theres no reviving it and will soon die. So now I just play a game that gave me ptsd when hearing Maximum Pulse
So glad I jumped the Apex ship to Fortnite a couple years ago lol
- bad monetization
- really bad progression system
- not enough content for a season
- collection "events" are the worst thing that I ever seen in my entire life
- lore is so bad
- recent characters are ok
- multiple problems with hacker
- aggressive monetization system
And more
buster sword? that looks more like a buster knife or dagger, why is that so small?
R.I.P. Apex Legends Linux support. I might have played the game here and there if it would still be here...
I hit diamond last split and haven't played since. I got heirloom shards, but I can't get the raptor's claw yet because its in store...
them splittin the battlepass was the last straw for me. cutting it in half, and charging us 10$ for each half, along with half the time to complete it, meaning you HAVE to play every day or week to complete is ass. not to mention they didnt even give a new weapon in the second payed half. it was the same p20 skinned again. i would normally play this game and get to high diamond. havent played in months
EA 100% is gonna milk apex for every drop it’ll give, and once it catches fire they’re just gonna dip.