STOP Killing Apex Legends. 5 Simple Fixes for Healthy Monetisation

[@HFA_official]

Forgot to mention Voice Quips, which almoust no one never uses, because they suck, but they coul be a very fun taunt's that players would gladly use in a game

[@voodyepike8644]

I completely agree with you. But the developers' careless attitude won't bring me back to the game, because they won't fix all the points. It seems to me that in order to bring players back to the game, you need to give out free relic shards (as an example: Dota 2, they gave people a free choice of Arcana and people came back) and bring back the old version of the game, taking into account the new good things that are now available.

[@HFA_official]

Money will do the job, that's the best pressure instrument for them. No point of do much when business is working, but when it's dropping they can't ignore that and forced to react to make it profitable again. Free stuff won't back people, if game is unpleasant to play - nothing free won't change people minds

[@Dreadnor92]

Can totally agree, but would like to add few takes from casual, that had been spamming Apex in s3 and s7 and was playing way less since then. The main one, when the game is a forced duty instead of fun activity, there is 0 reason to buy smth in game: 1. No new fun hop-ups(like Anvil, doubletap, unnerfed hammerpoint, select-fire on both, shattercaps), no fun weapons, except Akimbo(where is a crossbow?, new pistols?). Approache to make everything "balanced" had brought 0 balance, but made a lot of weapons dull: L-star, Alternator, Prowler, 30-30, Rampage, Scout, Chargerifle, Wingman, all of them are a shade of fun weapon now. 2. Can't agree more about maps and map design, all those design, like in purple bubble on lunar map, it's horrendous. If Ea cant make normal maps nowadays, just let us play old Kings Canyon and World's Edge from time to time. Those looks like towns, where people can live, not some random amount of plastic boxes. 3. While i'm being quite competitive in other pvp games, there is no reason to push ranked in Apex for years, it has absolutely bad sweaty taste with 0 rewards to even struggle for. I have my permanent trail from s3, 0 point to catch a carrot on a stick, that would be taken away in few months, a badge is not a reward at all. 4. And that battlepass changes... Last 2 seasons were first time in 5 years, when i cbaed to finish the bp, same carrot with a stick, when people left with 0 free days till the end of the season. Log every day without exceptions and you still would have only few free days until it's gone. 5. With such amount of cosmetics, its also 0 point to buy smth. There are so many of it and mass of it is so tasteless that at one point you realise, that you no longer care about collecting. So no wonder that everything snowballed to the point when there are so little people playing => profits drastically drops.

[@HFA_official]

I don't know about how fun was Anvil and Scatter Caps, last one especially worthless cuz can't compete with shotguns, and if it can't - why do it even exist? But i really missing beam mode on Havoc. All marksman category is dull, to me it's a dumpster where they put all guns that they can't fix, and the Crossbow that you want has a very high chances of getting there aswell. Hope one day they make somth with weapons that they can operate only at their optimal range, somth like damage drop off if you're shooting too far, then marksmans can rule at mid range, especially if they do somth with scopes, somth like 1x only SMG, 2-3 times AR's, 4-6 - Marksman and 6-10x for Sniper rifles, or better just put fixed scopes at marksman and snipers so use upclose gonna be rly hard, and buff them to a point that at their working range they gonna erase you as fast as SMG or AR at it's working range. And totally nerf hipfire for sniper rifles so it gonna be only weapon for range. And we finally come to rock-paper-scissor scenario with Shotgun/SMG-AR-Sniper, that you can't be effective at all ranges and always will be suffer in some cases, to me - that's fair

[@Dreadnor92]

@@HFA_official Probably you are right, but anvil and caps on 30-30 and bow, offered some variety and flexability in games, now Ea seems like they dont like anything instead of close combat meta and specific guns. Sniping changes in general were controversial imo. Some guns became meh, some lose the potential, like, playing the game with longbow, but switching it to heavy mid/close weapon on later circles.

[@TheShulaya]

Absolutely the whole balance came down to the convenience of cybersport players and whiners listening to them. I still wonder how you always ran with a Spitfire, from the very first season, recorded videos like "That same machine gunner", and everyone around said that the spitfire was a weak and useless cannon. Then the Spitfire was slightly nerfed a few times. And only after that, the cybersport players began to whine that Spitfire was an imba, that it should be nerfed. And it's the same with havoc. No one even paid attention to it, although it was always the strongest gun. All changes for cybersport make apex very slow and boring. I want to play OG apex, but with new guns, new legends , survive items. I just want funny stuff in apex, not boring ALGS stuff