Greed Is Destroying Apex

[@Grrt]

Reupload because the youtube content ID system is broken and falsely claimed audio :)

[@RevenantMain1]

Clearly just uploading the runescape soundtrack unedited for ad revenue Dirty behaviour Garret

[@Grrt]

@@RevenantMain1 It was actually some random youtube channel claiming the PVZ theme tune was theirs :(

[@RevenantMain1]

@@Grrt Jesus christ I insta clicked the notification and didn’t even reach the PvZ section before the video was taken down Truly a KZbin moment

[@master_kev1]

This battle pass change is not a bad change but I'll only explain if you are down to listen otherwise I'm not gonna have a meaningless conversation here but I have actual evidence it's better

[@Pianohnonono]

We have to buy two battle passes.

[@iesdise]

-Imagine going to the supermarket to buy chocolate candy. -You don't need candy to live, but you enjoy candy. -The cashier brings out 8 boxes and tells you, that only one of the boxes is a chocolate candy, rest is candy you don't like. -Than the cashier tells you, that if you pay X dollars, you get a random box. -On top of it all, the cashier tells you, that if you buy all 8 boxes (7 of them useless to you), you will get the best chocolate candy out there, BUT ONLY THIS WEEK. Would you keep going to this place? *This is how respawn is treating you.*

[@samflores3255]

This is the best example of seen to explain the skin buying issues

[@_Lis25]

Stealing that comment for the future 👍

[@mat-hu5ys]

Great metaphore dud you come up with it yourself?

[@RevenantMain1]

@@iesdise perfect analogy

[@houdhini11]

What people do not realize is some people are wired to gamble. They feel good getting that 1 box of chocolate knowing that 7 other boxes taste like shit.

[@VideoGameHaven]

The game has seemingly entered the infamous death spiral. Less people play it thus less people are spending money in the shops causing Respawn to cash grab even more which ends up driving more people away.

[@doomslayer_spyrofan3943]

Crazy right

[@lavellbass5505]

U can hear the anger in his voice

[@Marco___v]

Ik that’s the saddest part

[@ReFLexX_ii]

Let him keep cookin 🔥

[@Evl_Banks]

i couldnt

[@Grrt]

Bro I'm just genuinely disappointed with all of this. I genuinely cannot bring myself to make a normal apex video because it feels like I'd just be pretending to enjoy it

[@lavellbass5505]

@@Grrt I respect that

[@statixfear]

This is called conditioning. EA and Respawn are slowly introducing these systems, over time, anticipating and calculating the impact of backlash, then either making really minor adjustments to then say "we listened to the community" or to just full send it and tank the negative PR... bc we all know that it's still a net positive for their bottom line, at the end of the day.

[@guldi3]

Sadly you are absolutely right. That's how we got to AAA Games costing full price and have micro transactions. Something gamers would have never accepted 15 years ago.

[@l-l]

What we've seen over the past 10 years in the industry is this: companies pushing the bar on monetization and if there's backlash, they back down a bit but not all the way. Then people feel like they were listened to and praise the companies choice. But they repeat this over and over. Right now we are seeing mobile game levels of manipulative design being forced into triple a games.

[@Nero_TheCookieWeirdoo]

I think Respawn has to do whatever EA tells them to do because EA is their publishers

[@vamirinoon]

what I hate the most is that apex players dont complain enough about all of this and just like you said it conditions some to make it think like this is all fair

[@l-l]

@@vamirinoon This is definitely not just an Apex player-base problem. Complacency is everywhere and the newer generation of gamers is questioning it even less.

[@RevenantMain1]

Respawn: “We have heard the community and promise to never do a gambling event ever again” EA: “Did somebody say *gambling events?”*

[@BiggusDiggusCockus_Rex]

🫡😔

[@Tnargav]

You don't like "surprise" mechanic?

[@Ierasedmyname]

If only EA didn’t exist in apex

[@knoctrnl]

​@@Ierasedmyname can't spell Apex without it 🤷‍♂️

[@Ierasedmyname]

@@knoctrnl Px legends sounds fine 😂

[@mattd824]

My favorite thing in games is taking a break for a year or two, then on revisiting the game there are now a bunch of new, bolted-on currency systems that have been reworked, modified or removed multiple times.

[@maybefork7767]

That's so real it's actually depressing lol. I've literally been playing online competitive shooters for 2/3 of my life at this point, that is the only genre of game I find myself crawling back to time and time again. And seeing every game I love being fucked into the ground by executives that belong in a guillotine instead of an office chair hurts my soul. TF2, Overwatch, Apex, Fortnite and whatever else. It's awful.

[@AncientRepublic]

Dont forget , they dont update old prestige skins with sky dives trails, they introduce new recolors heirloom with finishers but dont update wraith and Revenant with heirloom recolor finisher

[@OzzyAusborn]

Yeah that’s actually insane to me, how tf do the older ones STILL not have a trail, they just don’t care lmao

[@big.gib.4L]

​@xGalloglas everybody NEEDS to stop playing so that these dogshit, braindead devs will learn a lesson!

[@splinterray9300]

they won't give finishers to heirloom recolors, cause they had banner frames, the new one's don't have it. They just changed the stuff that comes with recolors. It's a bad change, since we have another finisher in prestige skins, but that's how it is

[@Doveman777]

​@splinterray9300 uhh ???? My octane recolor came with a frame and finisher so idk what you're on about

[@splinterray9300]

@@Doveman777 my bad, not frame - newer recolors don't have emote, like wraith have this training dummy that she hits with her kunai, and revenant have those skulls flying around him, while octane and crypto have new finisher (which is uselles if you have prestige skin who also have finisher)

[@bottlecapsyt]

I mean.... The pilots are always looking for new recruits. Hop on Titanfall 2 everyone?

[@tirefish]

Protocol 4: Get more people on Titanfall 2

[@Lazarqy]

yes.

[@Lyheroes]

I've already been doing this for a whole year.

[@uddstar]

It went downhill the moment they added universal hierlooms

[@El_chara]

@lilyyy8911 Ah yes because the 500 dollar melee was not always made for money

[@Juggs009]

What? The $400 for a literal box wasn't a sign enough?

[@aceofaces1506]

I’d argue it really started with prestige skins

[@pwpqwq7648]

It started when they introduced the very first $500 heirloom. Like c'mon, who actually pays that much for a meele? Games like Valorant or CS:GO have the same thing for much less

[@eli-yk7hq]

@@aceofaces1506yea

[@3DCommando]

When Apex launched on steam in 2020 it was in the low 90s in positive reviews, today it has 69% mixed. Nice.

[@jigglynorris2559]

This video needs to start trending. He broke everything down to an absolute T.

[@savonic2112]

💯

[@AzzyXIII]

Glad someone finally made a video in detail on the progression of monetisation in apex becuase people seem to forget about things like the iron crown event and respawn know that which is why it always gets worse and they just stay quiet about it... hopefully now the community realise how scummy and predatory the monetisation in apex is and will finally take a stand

[@noraneka]

Before I feel like apex devs cared about the players base. They used to have devs stream and it was nice to keep us in the loop of what’s going on , but now it’s all gone :(

[@s9saiyajin]

Devs are not the ones who make these decisions...

[@amundflakkenberg]

Devs dont make this, its EA and the monetization "department". Devs make the gameplay

[@s9saiyajin]

@@amundflakkenberg exactly

[@XaxyHatesR6]

same thing fortnite did

[@DustinWoods-p4x]

If respawn could cut ties with EA that would be great.

[@kokoreall9911]

I just came back to my old favorite battle royale, just to discover that is dying, how beautiful.

[@Anarcaeful]

6:30 Dont forget that firsst heirloom recolour was half price in coins and crafting. I thought it would have set a precedence for recolour events in the future but no straight back to full price

[@sirsqueeps4742]

The Anniversary events were also half price for crafting only iirc

[@Badd.G]

*EA Board discussing the next event:* “Lets try to rip them off again and see how many still fall for it”

[@ASAP_Fenix]

At the end of the day I don’t give a f about battle passes,skins, trails, badges, heirlooms, trackers, stickers, etc. I care about the gameplay, game health + ranked. Which is obviously what respawn cares the least about.

[@Schrods327]

The game is on an engine from almost 20 years ago, it literally can't be updated properly which is why bugs have been there since day 1; it was a huge f up on their part to do this. The game is just a huge mess at this point.

[@NikeyMiniyuh]

@@Schrods327Well to be honest they need to do something at this point, apex 2.0 or anything because this is not going to work anymore. Technology is getting so advanced so no wonder hacking an old engine is so easy

[@possibass]

The issue is that people know how to hack Source for 20 years now. However, it is never impossible to rework anything in any game engine. It is not sur that reworking their Source-based engine would take more time and money than migrating to a new engine that no one knows how to use at respawn / EA. The only engine they may switch to is Frostbite as it is Ea's property.

[@splinterray9300]

nor Respawn, EA

[@presidentbruh401]

​@@NikeyMiniyuhThey can't release a new version of the game because then they won't be allowed to get away with all these shitty scams. That's why overwatch had to remove lootboxes when they released ow2. Even though it's functionally the same game, being "new" means it can't skirt past things like lootboxes being illegal, or "discounted" bundles which were never at full price and don't let you individually buy items.

[@EzraPrescott]

I still find this so hard to believe as a Titanfall veteran that this is the same studio that used to sell prime Titans skins for $5, nose art packs were $4, camo packs were $3 and elite weapons skins that were $5 that give you 1 extra merit to you an your teammates and a chance to get double XP back in Titanfall 2. It’s disappointing to see the studio that I held such high standards for to turn out like this.

[@telvanniis]

its just annoying because for like 17 seasons, from like season 3 all the way until like season 19 when the gacha stuff started, they had a mostly alright monetization system. they're just suddenly changing it into this weird cash grab gacha stuff and it sucks. it's so greedy all of the sudden for no reason.

[@VjRj84]

Of course there is a reason, silly. Most noobs got enough coins now to buy the battlepass from the free 100 coins at the start of a battlepass, so naturally they changed it because...greed.

[@elel9640]

😂 I played from S3-S18ish also. For me, the writing had been on the wall for years. My frustration at that time was mostly with the MM, glad I wasn't around for the last year or so. So is my mental health 😂

[@SixJayy]

Wtf is gacha

[@Misterlguana]

​@SixJayy I believe the term originates from Japanese gachapon machines, which are little capsule toy machines like you might see in a mall. It's mainly used for games like Genshin Impact where you essentially gamble for random characters, but I'm not sure about the Apex usage, as I haven't played in a few years

[@eebbaa5560]

it’s not for no reason. it’s because the game is dying and this is its death rattle. they’re just trying to get as much money as they can before they abandon ship

[@BROKEW]

i cannot express enough how much i respect you as a content creator for these videos, it show how much you like the game and want it to live and succeed in a healthy way (even tho EA puts a lot of effort to end it.)

[@Kronos3600]

Comunity: what prompted you to make such a controversial change to the battle pass? Respawn: *voice of Mr. Crabbs* I like money.

[@GormlessMinger]

Remember, alot of these changes are happening because of E.A, while Respawn still plays a part in it we all know what type of company E.A is and what they've done to other smaller companies they've bought out

[@ICY-HURR]

Yeah E.A are the O.G blood suckers. They’ve been bleeding their customers dry everywhere they go. They give you a taste of what you want and lure you into a position to convince you spending the money is a great idea.

[@themadafaka0340]

Titanfall 3 was cancelled for this btw

[@gungriffonbr]

based

[@chipskylark6837]

No it wasn't. Apex was being made and hinted at in Titan fall 2. They never planned on making titan fall 3. Go learn something

[@oppastoppa6377]

@@chipskylark6837bro thx u everyone needs to check the facts instead of bashing apex

[@chipskylark6837]

@@oppastoppa6377 shit is so annoying

[@patchedart]

One thing I find funny no one brings up is the random addition of the Crypto Heirloom recolor, just dropped in the store. And what it strange is they gave him NO new animations with it. So it's probably why it didn't go in an event. It didn't have the same perceived value as the other recolors.

[@Mr_Tensai]

But like why..Why Crypto..Why insta dropped in the Mythic Shop..They say a finisher is hard to make and takes a lot of time but makes one for a random recolor that randomly dropped in the Mythic Shop..Like WTF..

[@triplewave5214]

⁠​⁠@@Mr_Tensaiit’s all a cost saving measure. Making a fully fledged finisher is simply more expensive than changing the RGB values. When it comes to game development something being ‘hard’ or ‘impossible to code’ is just doublespeak for it nit being cost-effective. If I remember correctly, original WoW devs said that coding the ability to swap factions is impossible due to the way the code was structured. Yet when they started bleeding copious amounts of players that functionality suddenly became a possibility.

[@crypticjadee]

I mean cryptos already has a lot of animations vs wraith or any older legend

[@larssonk22]

Monoco yachts are expensive to maintain bro - Andrew Wilson EA CEO (probably)

[@Bernapla]

Greed is destroying every game in general

[@ForeverMirinBrah]

valorant?

[@ddwalker3744]

Games like wsrzone, Apex, fortnite, there free games, if people don't want to buy anything they do t have too

[@ReFLexX_ii]

EA Gluttony to micro transactions

[@Ecdemaniac]

@@ddwalker3744it's different when apex is being so openly greedy and have shown they would rather make money instead of fixing their game

[@balexhtx]

@@ForeverMirinBrahValorant may be mad expensive but they don’t try and fuckover the players by monetizing every single thing.

[@OP-rb8oi]

One thing I'll never forget is how the first anniversary event we got 24 reskins and heirloom shards while today half of the anniversary items are banners and holosprays completely not worth it

[@careyanderson6567]

Its funny how the first music instantly put me on edge. I felt like I was about to lose all my loot.

[@lauren3032]

Its a free game! You can continue to play with out buying the extra stuff! Im okay with paying if that means we can get better servers.

[@kimberly4275]

I remember that s1 Battlepass. Basic is putting it lightly

[@FlumptyDumpty]

It all started with the heirloom recolors.

[@catalyst6264]

I’m curious what happened at respawn, they were doing everything right, then suddenly you can see the huge shift from final fantasy event, and now it’s been downhill constantly

[@ShockinglyAverageApex]

I didn't even start playing Apex until s16, I'm truly upset that I never got to experience peak Apex and just have to watch a game that I've grown to love plummet to the ground. I spend more time in the range than I do in actual games now

[@o0oGhsto0o]

You're better off that way. Unlike us players who started preseason you haven't had to suffer constant disappointment.

[@triplewave5214]

The peaks were always surrounded by massive droughts. And sadly nothing can last forever.

[@meme_aids]

​@@o0oGhsto0oI remember the pre-season days. There was so much potential to be had, and of course Respawn squanders the opportunity.

[@yokaihorizon2931]

@@o0oGhsto0odude for real, playing this game for 5 years and seeing how it’s changed the community is insane to me. The joy and hype lasted long enough, then the moments where it peaked. And now it doesn’t feel good to even boot the game.

[@ActiveGamingUK]

why? all the cosmetic bullshit has no effect on the game. Just play it for free and enjoy it

[@CDeity]

Ive been an apex fan since Season 0. I remember hearing about the game and being so hype. I was naive, and unaware of the repeated punches to my gut I'd get from the developers I put in such high regard.

[@AlterMain1]

The outrage is much needed, hopefully this will FINALLY convince EA to fucking do something to help the game

[@moffettRL2727]

They're intentionally killing it to force players to other titles, to spend money there of course.

[@Fakhori.M]

they dont care about u what so ever, its a scam store, not even a fair transaction, u pay, u get wt u want and u are happy with it, they wanna scam u all the way and give u nothing, they wish they wont even give u those pixels, skins, even that, they hate to give it to u, they just want ur money FOR NOTHING so EA would rather kill the game than actually give u something in return FOR REAL

[@craftboy338]

Sadly, they do not care. EA couldn't possibly care less about their public opinion, just as long as the money keeps rolling in.

[@EliteElk221]

IT WON'T DO ANYTHING BECAUSE PEOPLE WILL STILL BUY THIS CRAP!!!!! PEOPLE STILL BUY IT NO MATTER WHAT!!! THATS WHY WE WILL STILL SEE THIS BS FOR YEARS BEFORE APEX IS ABANDONED TO HACKERS!

[@jerardthebacon]

Why would they change something they know absolute suckers are going to buy?

[@landontucker5436]

Not the runescape soundtrack 😂😂😂 love it

[@KA1RUU]

I feel like you should've mentioned the ALGS Team Shop store where all they added were the banner frames for the participating teams and reused old skins just so they could call it a bundle

[@lukaskavalek5591]

Props for Runescape/Rust music :D

[@_machello_8510]

Man apex is strait up cooked

[@Dat-Boi-Camoja]

I quit

[@savonic2112]

I appreciate this video. Thank you. Its spot on. 💯 end of an era😢

[@ccurtonizea2883]

Thank you Apex and Garet for the wonderful time I have spent on this game and community but the greed and mishandling of the game has grown too much for a casual like me. I'd rather enjoy watching Pros play ALGS than to scream at my screen because a shite with cheats 1 mag headshotted me across the map. This channel kept me up to date from leaks to changes to events. Im gonna migrate to a game where the community matters. Rock and Stone ⛏. Goodbye from a silent viewer

[@Totally.not.Tarkus]

Honestly I love both deep rock and apex but the trick with apex is ONLY PLAY WITH CLOSE FRIENDS that is all I hope you love whatever game you end up dumping hours in

[@jackwoff959]

i have around 100 days played on apex played since the first week of release up until around season 11 and since then apex has never felt the same, i miss the game i love

[@MrHuNTeR_exe]

I'll tell you all a secret EA dont know. It's easy to increase your price when your product is good.

[@whoneedbag5264]

I really appreciate you speaking out on this as much as you have been. Wish more creators were like you !

[@GrzegorzSobkowicz]

7:26 I wonder if that was some sort of test for splitting battle pass in two.

[@Dmitry-cx1bw]

That what EA doing all the time. They are always trying to find that edge between monetization of everything and quality of life. They just experimenting with players to find that spot, where they can pump out all the money from players

[@nicolasbolas2247]

I remember hopping into the game for the first time in a while during the buster sword event and randomly getting one in the first pack I opened. My friend who was also playing was extremely pissed. Haven't played the game since

[@AncientRepublic]

In the past , they create recolor skins for we players can buy with red coins , but now they create recolor skins for drain our wallets, in the past create stats trackers, now they dont care, etc i give up of this , they dont update old prestige skins with sky, dives trails , i love arenas , duos and they take from the game , they see we players save the crafiting matirials for buy nice skins from events , they just create a way to create events and make sure we cant buy with crafting materials 😢 its sad , i have around 2500 hours , around 700 legenderys , im very disapoiting with the game ,

[@mufeet]

Boss, our game is dying, and players are losing their trust in us and we're losing a lot of money. What should we do? -Wait, say that last part? ...We're losing money? -Dear god... look, just increase the price of literally everything and the suckers will buy it. In fact, add a new curreny and dont let players buy the battlepass with the coins those greedy bastards hoard to get the battle pass free every season.

[@gilbertogutierrez1605]

ngl once i done with this season battle pass, im going to take a photo and flip the screen off and tag ea and apex in a tweet and be like im not coming back lol

[@IconKK]

damn i’m sure they gonna miss you

[@yasirusandun9892]

​@@IconKK they gonna miss considerable amounts

[@gilby_6543]

​@@yasirusandun9892they'll miss your money and that's it

[@tfulookingat8312]

Damn, such a bad boy

[@Evl_Banks]

if you're gonna stop playing, why even finish the current battle pass?

[@dejaystudios7408]

They are missing out on having a daily or 42hr shop with new Emotes,Skydive Emptes, banners,finishers. Apex also needs to evolve

[@Lr_Rahim]

If I had a dollar for every time I was nickel and dimed by EA I wouldn't be worrying about being nickel and dimed

[@rebrandftw]

greed isn't just destroying apex. it already ruined it ages ago! :(

[@Kendog81]

Honestly at this point I may as well give my kids,beers and cigars as there old enough to gamble awesome

[@prodbydavis]

the og rust music getting me nervous, i thought i was about to lose my m249

[@Naokaaa]

Atleast queue-ing up isn't behind a pay wall.

[@meme_aids]

Give it a year

[@Dmitry-cx1bw]

Buy Apex+ Membership for faster queue-ing!

[@weirdeurasianboy8091]

​@@Dmitry-cx1bw Pay 14.99 a month to get guaranteed good teammates 😂

[@Klutch_it]

Wish they did the same event for the reactive flatline skin by allowing us to grind over the course of the season, but instead of a reactive skin, it would be heirloom shards. This would bring back a lot of people. There are over 20 heirlooms if you count skins, they can give one heirloom shards away by having us grind in game.

[@spicynips8466]

"Hey we're working on this really cool thing that the players are gonna love, it doesn't eat their wallet!" "Scrap it."

[@hayden1990lmjm]

The deathbox in the ff event can only be used if you use the sword. So the heirloom that came after with all the tiers cant use that and the deathbox from last event thats pure greed. It should be two separate things in the menu. And wraith still dont have a dive trail

[@diamondmasteredal]

Gonna be honest this season had felt dryer than a desert

[@fuq0ff]

lmao people been saying this season 4

[@dronzer007]

5:00 That was the best part. I got heirloom shards and choose the Bangalore heirloom. And two months later I got heirloom shards back to back from a single pack.( I thought it was a bug so I immediately bought 2 heirlooms)

[@TheGoldenApex]

I’m so sad omgggg I can’t believe this is happening to apex😭😭😭 But also nice video garret your awesome!!!❤️❤️❤️🐐🐐🐐🔥🔥🔥 (seriously I really loved this video and the style of it!)

[@augy.]

just don't buy skins, easy

[@ZylSuckss]

Fr

[@british_fellow-yo9gz]

You say this like people who play apex have restraint

[@DaesoTheOne]

Literally jus don't get the heirloom and play for free or buy one battlepass and roll it over. People are actual chumps if they contribute to the downfall of this game.

[@desmond6133]

Other things to consider - Lack of Fixes -Audio has been bugged since almost S2 - Lack of Content - I Remember the days where there was interactive teasers, heirlooms, characters - i'm sorry but skins aren't gonna cut it THATS NOT CONTENT - Ranked - One shouldnt be ranking on "Playing More" it should be reflective on performance - Ranked - Dive Trails or where the rewards for the ranking up = lackluster doing ranked - Hackers - the uncontrollable state of hackers in this game has rose like a rocket flying to the sky (I've also heard that EA keep hackers on cos they will spend money on the game) + Ease of Cheating + some of them getting around bans somehow

[@why-ge7cr]

the dive trail change wasn't needed, now ranked rewards are awful

[@lolahahaa1376]

Nah I liked it cause a lot of us were able to get them without being forced to play ranked for them

[@why-ge7cr]

@@lolahahaa1376 I get what you saying but those where like the ultimate status symbol and now it's just a cash grab thing

[@eli8585]

@@lolahahaa1376 Exactly instead of working for the trail you just throw money at respawn that mindset is part of the problem

[@lolahahaa1376]

@@eli8585 no it’s not , not everyone wants to grind ranked. A lot of the player base doesn’t play ranked like that. You can literally get them for free with heirloom shards.

[@eli8585]

@@lolahahaa1376 "not eveveryone wants to grind ranked" so youre just proving my point again lol by saying that youre showing that when you dont to play the game the company can just sell you a shortcut and youll buy it, also arent heirloom shards the extremely rare currency that people dump hundreds into the game just for a CHANCE to acquire them?

[@captaingecko8676]

I feel like the reason prestige skins don’t evolve in game is because the actual character model evolves unlike the reactive weapons where it basically just puts more smoke and moves its parts faster. It would probably be pretty difficult to change the physical character model randomly in game whenever you hit a certain dmg number and would definitely look weird if anyone you’re fighting just suddenly changed character models. Probably would make balancing a little weird too because the “bald wraith” that’s killing everyone now has a helmet and is a different color

[@Soya_56]

it just feels like EA/Respawn know the game is getting kinda old so they just wanna milk out the maximum out the game and just let it die to focus their team on new games

[@somacringe9637]

I’m gonna be real, I stopped playing apex after they released vantage, they showed that they don’t really care about balance or server issues so why would I care if they don’t? All they worry about is how much money they can get out of the playerbase.

[@jsmith5479]

Me and my friend joke about how many different types of ingame currencies there are on pubg. It seems apex now wants in on the joke.

[@themcknox]

Players: -we want higher tick rate -balance controller aim assist -more fair events -better character balancing Respawn: - lol sticker on battery

[@Lordxzamasu]

Really wish the final fantasy stuff would come back 😞

[@pie0328]

this runescape remix goes hard asf

[@lolahahaa1376]

I liked the dive trail change tbh. You’re guaranteed heirloom shards after 500 packs and you can get them from leveling up. Unless you’re flat out impatient and spend money to buy the packs because you need it right away. Also, not everyone wants to grind ranked for multiple reasons . Unless you have a premade squad (which a lot of people don’t) grinding ranked is a nightmare. You might get lucky once in a while and get a decent teammate, gaining a few rp, but the next match you end up loosing it cause you get paired up with some 9 year old and a new player. On top of that, a lot of people have full time jobs/classes and don’t have the time or energy to put up with all of that. Why would someone want to deal with all that to get a temporary dive trail that gets taken away after a season, when you can spend free heirloom shards and get it for free(plus the free ones look a lot more unique, compared to the bland ones that came with ranked rewards)

[@T-Squeezy23]

Apex has been destroyed for awhile, it just took awhile for everyone to see it.

[@GurenSan]

You know a game is dying when they put more effort on monetization than dealing with cheating.

[@_noigbdot]

As a causal player I don’t have time to grind a battle TWICE! in one season. Apex been fun but it’s time to give it a rest

[@Tearing_Urchin57]

I’ve noticed this waaaay long ago. But I only started to stop playing around season 10. Played a bit but kinda got bored..11 I would play for about a few months into it. 12 I played even less and 13 I played for about a week and haven’t gone back since.

[@ZuperZombi-9870]

Whenever I get stickers, they look cool at first, so I put them onto all of my healing items but I never notice them in-game. It's pretty disappointing

[@RuinerXP100]

A thing that might have saved this idea would be if you bought the full season BP you would unlock all current and future legends. Some people find that sort of deal worth it. But not as they are doing it only unlocking them for the ongoing season thats pure greed.

[@chrispeete4231]

Now That First Descendant is out, I haven’t even thought about Apex.

[@FatJesus123456789]

Crazy seeing this game after not playing for several years, started in preseason and stopped and played for a bit with rampart. Game has taken a huge 180 lol

[@locosword3985]

“Blizzard is being greedy! Overwatch 2 is bad!” Apex Fans:

[@diegoleal2304]

I used to occasionally buy Apex packs because I wanted to support the game. Because of that, I now have a lot of crafting materials, and that was fine with me. It felt like Apex was saying, 'Okay, you're supporting us, so here’s this currency that you can exchange for items later.' (even if it's worth less) But EA (or Respawn) are trying to make the crafting materials as useless as possible, so I’m not spending any more money on Apex until I use up all my crafting materials.

[@zoldiewastakenwastaken]

Pre-season and season 1 truly were the golden era of Apex

[@DreadCore_]

S1? Nah that's when they really fumbled, it wasn't until S2 that the game got its footing and became clear it had staying power.

[@Xanderman-ll2vs]

This game killed the Titan fall universe

[@XUM4N]

I stopped playing season 12-13, the only items coming to the store were re-releases and recolors even back then. Can’t imagine it got better.

[@SeanyBoyyyyyyyy]

It's so funny gathering all of those red apex coins all these years just to never really get anything to spend them on...

[@dynastyking1411]

Runescape theme eh respect 😂

[@TRVPHAUS]

the runescape music lmao

[@khan_da3526]

I`ve been playing apex since day 1 of the release. This was my favorite game for years until i started to play less and less after season 10, and I finally dropped it in season 12. I could not understand at the time why I did that, but now I see. My favorite game became just a cosmetic shop with some gameplay in it. Instead of gameplay events (like story mode is s5), we were getting just more overpriced cosmetics, until the game finally became non stop byuing events line. Throughout the whole history, I spent only 10$ when the first bp was released.

[@bread6235]

the old school runescape track in the background doe

[@LikeToBeBossy]

The only way to change this is if we work together as a community. Don’t spend money on apex. Don’t play the game. Keep asking them on ever social media. And hopefully, more big streamers/content creators will speak out.

[@SilentTownOfEchoes]

Greed is destroying all capitalistic Businesses. Its not just happening in Apex, and its being Pushed Heavily. What these companies realize now, is that its their game,and no one can say anything about it because who is to stand in their way? even then everything IRL is getting even more expensive, this is just Capitalism at its finest.

[@consolegamingisdead1365]

What are you talking about? Like they just realized it's their game and they can do what they want? No you just realized it.

[@DaesoTheOne]

EA has never once cared about this game. They've been slowly monetizing more and more of this game. Eventually it'll probably be like overwatch in that you can't buy skins at all without spending real money.

[@kornelius9811]

Man I miss launch Apex Legends :(

[@cia7966]

I remember playing this game from day one up until season 13 2000+ hours later and still the game has not been better than season 3

[@xalix86]

i like that rust music in background for apex video :D

[@-goodwin]

Damn, I was in love with APEX, I played from season 7 (Horizon was added) until the end of season 19 (Final Fintasy Event). I remember the old collection events and how many cool cosmetics we made with the boys. The whole economy was to save crafting materials until the next gathering event and craft 1-2 skins. But the more new seasons began, the less cosmetics we received. So after season 19 we all left APEX. I was thinking about going back until I saw news about a new double battle pass that can only be purchased with money. The decision of EA managers over Respawn developers is simply sad.

[@NerdyNinja2417]

I sense a lot of hate coming from the developers for their community. I genuinely think they hate everyone that plays their game. And I feel like they're trying to make us miserable because they're miserable.

[@FatPigeon-6]

The devs have been petty since day 1 basically.

[@NerdyNinja2417]

@@FatPigeon-6 I mean I'm not surprised

[@JeniOrtegiOfi6el]

Still better than League of Legends, where the battle pass is every month priced at 15$ dollars and capsule-timed events for +200$ dollars.

[@TeddBall]

I started in s2 and let me tell you the older seasons never disappoint appoint me compared to now

[@thehuntingparty8707]

The RuneScape music hits hard.