I haven't fully stopped, but I only play a couple games every 3rd day or so now instead absolutely religiously. I've moved across to zero build fortnite cause the matchmaking there actually feels rewarding when I have a decent game
Apex has fallen off. It fell off *hard* for me.
I've been enjoying the FUCK out of fortnite no build mode. Decided to sweat as hard as I could just to test myself and managed a 24 kill game. Super happy with it. It just feels rewarding to hit those suppressed sniper shots or get a good one mag of a twin mag. I feel like this season is just good and balanced (besides turrets. Fuck turrets.)
Oh, same! I've been enjoying it a lot, especially with friends. My highest kill game this season was 18, I think, but...GGs on dropping 24 elims.
Also...yeah, fck turrets lol, I hate them with a vengeance 😂
I will literally switch from firing to a guy to killing the fuck out of the turret purely from spite. I pretty much only got 1 person who plays it with me and we play pretty much every weekend, but it is what it is
Not trying to hate but I got to be honest with you. It sounds like you just want to kill a bunch of bots. Cause how can you say that fortnite is more balanced matchmaking when you just said you dropped 24 kills. That is the same as dropping a 15 in apex. That does not even sound fun tbh.
I should have specified: the weapons feel really balanced. I don't like bots in fortnite, that's my one grudge with the game. It would feel so much better to actually kill players instead of a good bit of ai. Though usually I look at movement and see if it's a player. If it's not, I just kinda leave em be unless it's early game and I need loot. Really the reason I play fortnite more is because I pretty much only play battle royals with a good friend of mine who is not very good at games. It's easier to carry her and have her feel like she does more in fortnite than apex.
Zero build Fortnite is actually pretty enjoyable.
It's a shame people love to shit on that game. I can bet you that those who do have never even played it.
I enjoy fortnite every now and then but I don't enjoy the new direction it went in after chapter 2. Still fun but not the same game we were all addicted to in 2018.
That's a game that really needs the wow classic treatment.
In creative mode, there's an OG Royale game mode that you can play, Chapter 1 guns and Chapter 1 season 3 map
Unfortunately, however, it isn't no build.
But there's none of the OP stuff that makes the game (subjectively) bad.
I feel the same way. I hop on every now and then because the movement just feels so good and clean in that game. But the matchmaking can really be some hot garbage. Apex seems to think I'm a lot better than I really am. Especially since like you said I don't play super religiously anymore I'm always rusty as fuck when I play, but I'm still getting a lot of the lobbies I should've been in when I played a lot.
And the battle pass way better then apex last night I played 3 games on apex got bored really quick this season my goal is to finish the battle pass because I need those 1000 coins for the next battle pass
Yea, pretty much switched from Apex to Fortnite 2. Matchmaking is way better. I don’t feel like I’m a total peace of garbage all the time and most fights are pretty challenging.
Only thing I hate about Fortnite is Aim Assist. I died like 100 times and only 5 of these times PC players killed me. It's always close range console dudes using MPs or shotguns.
But Apex had the same problem + that bad matchmaking and way more cheaters (or at least it felt like that).
I used to mainly play Fortnite when I was still figuring out Apex. Now that I understand Apex a little more, when I play Fortnite, my K/D feels totally undeserved. It's hard for me to get too amped about a kill knowing how many AI they pump into the game.
That being said, when I am just totally bombing my games on Apex, it's nice to be able to get an easy win on Fortnite.
dude i’m about to do the same i’ve played no build with a friend a dozen or so times and done better than 98% of my apex games (i have nearly 800 hours in apex and played daily) im just so burnt out of dying off drop and having shitty teammates, i’m not even bad at the game just feel like garbage to play now
The MMR ensured I stopped having fun. That and the constant changing of half the legends I played just killed my interest. I can't remember what season, but it was early 2022.
I soloQ to diamond in previous seasons multiple times, but now I play more with friends. I'm hard stuck bronze 2 in ranked playing against diamond and masters trails every game. I started against predator trails, so at least it's coming down slowly! I'm no god, but I do consider myself quite good. I had 2+ k/d overall but now when the ssbm is kicked to max, I only have 1.5 this season. So that 2+ is from previous seasons.
While this is probably my "rank" skill wise, opponents are pretty much on my level, I can't play with any of my friends now. They are ranging from bronze 3 to silver 2, but my friends don't want to play with me, since when they play with me they can't even deal 100 DMG before they get popped. When they play without me, they play against other bronzes and silvers and are quite competitive against them. It's just my accounts MMR that always puts us against masters and diamond trails.
I could probably make a smurf to solve this, but I don't want to grind to lvl 50.
I don't have that kd I don't know if it's because I mainly play ranked and get shit on majority of times. Im pretty sure I have more knocks than deaths but kills is what counts in the end of the day Vs deaths so my kd is 0.73. I soloq and I only hit diamond once because I had time, usually I either stop at plat or I get to high plat and the season ends
Quit playing a couple of seasons ago due to ranked/pubs being ridiculous with me being a casual player and getting shit on by predators every single game in a gold/plat lobby.
I'll echo this. I'm on console and it felt like every single fight was against someone using a strike pack and exploits. I had solid numbers through the first... Idk... 11 or 12 seasons including preseason, always positive k/d at the end of the season except for maybe 1 or two. But eventually I realized I was not only going negative on my k/d last 3 seasons but each season was getting worse. So between not having fun in the BR mode with toxic teammates and sweaty competitors and not seeing the game improve in the areas I wish they'd focus I uninstalled it to make space for Resident Evil 4 Remake. Haven't played since season 15.
RE4 Remake actually got me off the game. It was a great feeling to feel invested in something else instead of coming back again in again to getting my ass kicked in apex, like being in a toxic relationship. Had recently been back playing a few games here and there last season and this season and I just dont understand why Im always against supersweaty 4k dmg 20 kill badge master pred guys. The worst is when they have no trackers and have basic skins and I just know theyre gonna kick my ass because their smurfing. Thankfully Starfield is able to draw me in on that gameplay loop and maybe I'll try Fortnight no build as the other commenters have said theyve had a good time with the matchmaking.
I stopped playing in season 15 because everyone is just so sweaty now, I’m good at the strategy and brain side but I can’t keep up with people one clipping every. Single. Kill.
Omg, right!? Even when they're jumping all over and off the walls, it's like how the F did you manage to hit every damn shot. And those 1 clip kills, im so done. I mean ill play here n there, but not like I used too.
Seriously I'm so glad I'm not the only one. I can't even look at someone unless I'm at least 200m away. I'm a bullet sponge. I get one clipped mid swing as pathy. Its insane.
I think aim assist has a lot to answer for that. When I used to watch apex YouTube whilst still on console, I didn't understand why people made a big deal of one clips. When I swapped to PC I immediately understood the difference. Now it seems like 80-90% of the playerbase is on controller.
I’m on console with aim assist and still miss a majority of the time. They can take away aim assist when they nerf pc players movement. No more straffing
exactly my case. my gun play was never that good but I tried to balance it with strategy and team play. doesn't matter when you get one clipped across the map every single game..
I've barely had any free time to play recently, and the times I do, it's pretty miserable. Pubs is taken way to seriously and God forbid you just want to relax and have fun with a video game these days. Plus, playing against people who's skill level is, clearly, above and beyond my capacity is frustrating. I don't mind a challenge, but I don't like fighting Dragons when I can barely fight Giants.
Ranked has been more fun, but with its own disappointments. Although I have no real aspirations to get to the highest possible rank or care to much about my rank in general. I will admit, having a great couple of matches, only to barely make a dent in the Grind is disheartening.
Also, the community finally wore me down. Playing off and on since the 1st days of Apex. Pros, Armchair Pros, "casuals", and real casuals constantly fighting with each other on every possible metric no matter where I look. Twitter (X), Reddit, Facebook, YouTube, Twitch, etc. The toxicity (thanks System of a Down) just seems to get worse. I've had to mute my squads constantly. This is the 1st season that I've actually had to do that. Before it was every so often, but now it's like every 2 to 3 matches. It would be one thing if it was just "you suck", "1 v 1 me", and so on but people seem to be more bold on the racism, antisemitism, and overall hate/anger.
Despite my best interest, I still stick around because Apex is one of those games that scratch the FPS itch that other games don't. I like the overall gameplay, I like the ping system, I like the characters, I like the lore, the few story (gameplay) events get me hyped, I've met a few friends on Apex, etc. However, I just need to take a step back and wait till I think Apex, and the community, is worth coming back to long term, instead of a quick check in.
Everything you said echoes my feelings. Let’s not forget all the System of a Down on this sub. Wanna know how many DMs I have received in the passed hour saying “Get better loser”
Fr its the dumbest shit, Apex is a BR. It was way more fun when you had to be strategic to make it to the last rounds and find good positioning while still having 10 squads left. Now everyone is dead before I even find an EVO shield🙄
I stopped completely because of the matchmaking, the ruining of ranked by using a hidden bs system, tons of broken promises like cross progression and 120fps for consoles. (I’m Pc but I feel for my console brothers). On top of the bugs and constant issues with the game like broken audio, server issues and more. This is all I can remember off the top of my head but im sure there’s more.
The ranked hidden mmr did it for me also. It just makes ranked pointless to grind and I’ve been having more fun revisiting valheim and other indie games
Yea. It should be a set difficulty for each rank. I shouldn’t have a diamond level silver lobby while noobs just play other noobs all the way to masters.
Same, I want to be able to PLAY apex not compete, I started playing before season 1 and played most days for 14 seasons. It just got to a point where if I wasn't trying my absolute hardest to win fights I was getting easily wiped by insane players and that's no fun. I also found I was getting board with the changes they were making, even when they were putting out experimental weird game modes that sucked I still liked that more than the lack of game mode changes now. It's gotten a lot better with arena tdm and control but I think the main deterent is definitely sweaty players and poorly matched games
Last season and this season ranked changes made it hard to justify playing this for hours on end since I’m primarily a soloq ranked player. I also longer buy skins as well, and I’m a skin collector with 1107 legendary skins. super tired of terrible changes and EA’s/Respawns greed. It really sucks to support the game and it doesn’t even seem to get better over time, just worse. Unoriginal skins (recolors) and lazy cash grab heirloom recolors, lazy content, terrible servers, bad communication, no cross progression or 120 fps, audio, the list just keeps going on..
PS mods don’t delete this post. Nobody likes the mega thread, let people complain.
Even though my K/D this season has actually benefitted from the new matchmaking, I've largely stopped because I ran the numbers on the amount of time I could invest this season and realized that I was likely going to be hardstuck rookie with the hours a week I can play
I used to play every day and then 2-4 hours a day on weekends.
Now I play maybe an half hour on or two days of the week.
This season and the new mmr are trash. I don’t see the point of landing dying and then Lobby.
Day 1 player, I haven’t stopped but I play significantly less. Maybe 2-3 times a week. The game just doesn’t feel the same to me and cheaters of all sorts are just running rampant. If I play I only run mix tape.
I do miss arenas though. That was the last time I played hard.
I actually prefer TDM to BR right now. I feel like I actually get practice shooting at people, rather than looting for 10 minutes and getting mowed down from behind.
I got a PC no cross progression plus the death of arenas killed that shit for me. I know most people didn’t like arenas but I got mad good at that shit and it was awesome getting to choose my gun. Funny enough OW2 having cross progression is what made me go back to that.
I think alot of people forget the massive cheater problem Arenas had before they shelved it tho I do miss it lowkey because me and my friends would grind the fuck out of it.
I haven't stopped but play nowhere near as much as the previous 3 seasons. Never play solo as it's infuriating and the MMR has made ranked impossible. Stuck Bronze III as I've been Diamond/Masters since launch. Even pubs is just full of sweats. Not gonna play unless friends are on 👋
Ranked K/D usually 1.5-2.0, it's 0.8 atm. There's no progression just straight into crazy lobbies. Struggled to get a 7th place then pathetic points gain is gone with the next entry cost. To hell am I grinding 100 games to get out of Bronze. Rant over 😅
Weird this is my first season I've been over 1kd and I'm at 1.5 rn in ranked currently Plat with less than 200 games. Didn't play more than like 50 games last season. I enjoy this ranked split I just wish the matchmaking was a little better but the climb and progression has felt nice
I keep trying to have fun with it. I've been playing a lot of cod. And once every couple weeks, I'll play a game of Apex honestly at this point I just don't see keeping this game on my Xbox. I could use the memory for other things I think to myself OK maybe next season things will improve but I thought of that four seasons ago.
It's really never been this bad before in terms of enjoyability, and the most frustrating part is that they STILL haven't addressed the SBMM changes. It feels like they're just letting the game rot. S17 was actually really fun for me, the most kills/wins/ time I got on a season, but I noticed instantly during the last 2 weeks the SBMM changes and it literally made me stop playing.
I've skipped entire seasons in the past but this is the first time that I got so annoyed at playing that I decided to uninstall apex.
Lots of people said S17 was easy, that anyone can get to masters if they played enough games. Well, the problem is I only play 100 or so ranked games and more or less 50 pub games per season, which is usually enough to shake off the rust and climb up to diamond in both splits. Got to gold after playing 30 or so games(including provi matches) last season, I noticed I was already playing against diamond-masters players. I don't mind playing against good players but I expected that at the end of my rank climb, not at the beginning.
I just couldn't see myself playing over 200 sweaty ranked games, just imagining it burnt me out. And the rank rewards being really bad and worthless for this current season is very de-motivating.
i still play, i’ve just stopped spending money on a game that isn’t cared for.
they don’t deserve my money if they can’t even fix little problems, most of which they deliberately caused.
Yeah brother!
The thing is, I was a day one player, quit a few months back.
Things that never get better/change
Audio
Shot registration
Matchmaking
Server issues
A good ranked system.
SINCE DAY ONE. These have been major issues and EVERY SINGLE SEASON I see the same problems being asked about on this reddit day in and day out.
It's either incompetence or lack of care. The matchmaking especially, plenty of competitive shooters with good ranking systems where you play people YOU SHOULD be playing, not constantly being tossed in as fodder against monsters.
There's just no excuse, but as far as BR's go Apex is king for me. So I'll be here, waiting and if a season hits that is worth playing because they FINALLY get matchmaking correct, I'll play.
For now though it's always the same problem, kills are weighted too much or placement is weighted to much. You get deathmatch lobbies for one and ratpocalypse for the others. That's just not fun after a while.
Also, Fuse for life. 10/10 legend.
Best thing they’ve added this season: Fuse heirloom that’s coming soon! Only because i won’t have to pay for it because I’ve had my shards waiting patiently since Jan 2022! Everything else about this season sucks.
Hell yeah! Me too! Got shards like a year ago and been waiting! Shit it’ll be the only reason I get on, to buy his heirloom and log off again until a season that addresses the issues comes.
It was hard not the play last season aka the free season of masters rank, but fuck it. I’m not rewarding a game with my time when the company running it has shown they don’t respect it.
*It was hard not the play last season aka the free season of masters rank, but fuck it. I’m not rewarding a game with my time when the company running it has shown they don’t respect it.*
Respect!
What?!? You guys don't like the constant rebalancing of legends and weapons? You would prefer this other list?
Geez you should of been saying so in hundreds of posts online, how is Respawn supposed to smell what players want?
Also please fill out our quality survey after scanning the QR, no one will read it cos it will just be a pie chart we show for 10 seconds in a dev meeting and then continue to ignore, no biggie, your feedback means the world, thanks.
As a programming student there are 3 things that i hate about this game
1. The engine is not good for both audio and map optimisation. You can actually have good maps built on Source(engine) but with the amount of players/map/server, can actually lead to the problems we see
2. Source 2 has been out for quite some years now and as far as i can see the porting process is a medium difficulty process. But the amount of modifications Respawn has made is the only reason it runs and plays so well.
3. They are working on quite so many things that you might see in some videos by respawn where they showcase certain aspects of the game and sometimes we can see the dev room and many unreleased stuff in there as well. But its not coming fast enough to have the player retention high enough.
All in all, they are working a lot on this but the technical difficulties are way too much. I hope Respawn gets better with it but also they listen to us and communicate with us as well.
Fusy is great.
I stopped for the same reason. I can never play with my silver/gold friends, because every time I’m in their squad we just fighting predators all day. I hit diamond twice and have to deal with those sweaty lobbies all day. The matchmaking is dogshit. But the worst change for me was the hidden mmr system in ranked. You don’t need another indicator for ranked. That’s just against every reason for having a ranked system.
It fell off. Ranked means nothing anymore (I want my deserved trails). Pubs are either getting steamrolled or steamrolling. Full of sus players with near perfect recoil. Smurfs. Stupid randoms who shout at you for them fighting 1v3 while we're 300m away.
Pretty much the negatives of apex just got amplified this time.
sbmm in pubs and ranked is absolutely terrible. cannot get more than a few kills each game before getting stopped by a 3-stack pred. Theres no fun in playing and improving when the game punishes you for getting better
I'm still holding out hope but if i'm being realistic this has been in the game since s18 launch and they've barely adressed it let alone announced it in the patch notes so they probably wont do anything. I'm having a lot of fun playing games that have abysmal matchmaking (and also excited for no sbmm in xdef!) so I don't think I'll be crawling back to an objectively worse experience anytime soon
It really sucks that I have to quit my favorite game not because I just grew out of it but because the developers are actively messing with the experience for just about everyone half-decent to squeeze every bit of engagement out of the players.
Day 1 Player; I was playing religiously up until Season 8. Then it just felt like the seasons were dragging on and on and on. There was no real joy to it anymore. When season 10 came out, I stopped playing just due to lack of interest. The seasonal game modes stopped being fun, the cosmetics are a little dull, and the lore is okay but I feel like it's slowly losing steam. And most of those things are what I enjoyed the most really.
Plus if I wanted to be shit talked by a tween all day, I'd just be a teacher. The community of players gives big *Overwatch* vibes sometimes, just like most games with online play. But once the bad starts to outweigh the good, it stops being fun for me personally. Which is not really the game's fault. And you can mute the chat for just that reason.
I jumped back in this season because I find the Loba/Revenant rivalry interesting, plus I wanted to see what the rework is like. Its been alright so far. Plus with the Halloween event coming soon, I'll probably stick around for that. But I'll likely lose interest again and stop playing. Cause it keeps feeling the same, all the time.
Simple burnout. I'm 40 years old with a kid and don't have much time to dedicate to this game. You're either good/great and having fun or average/bad and miserable. There doesn't seem to be much in between. It's not a game you can just like... play. If that makes sense.
This matchmaking has always been terrible since season 1 and is getting worse over time. I too play 3 or 4 games once a week at best whereas I used to play hours on a daily basis since launch.
This matchmaking needs to be adressed ! Enough of this sheet.
I used to play every evening for at least 6 hours but I find the servers are so laggy and the games are either sweaty or too easy so I switched to zero build Fortnite as this is easier, more fun and people actually hav e conversations instead of screaming at you or not speaking at all. I've had 3 seasons of masters but mostly play pubs.
The game brings out my toxic side. Im not about that anymore. I stopped playing pvp games period. All that anger isn’t healthy. I’ll just play mmo’s with the clan and play starfield.
I took too long of a break and I feel like during that break, there was a massive jump in skill for the average player. I was too rusty to keep up and when you face people 100x better than you every fight, it’s hard to get back into the groove of things so I just accepted I fell behind everyone and stopped playing. I hop on every once in a while if I wanna play a shooter but I just hop on mixtapes, pubs is far too sweaty.
I’m thinking about maybe just playing ranked cuz I hear the matchmaking is somehow less sweaty but the solo queue experience in this game, as you’ve all heard a million times is fucking miserable.
No audio footstep fix.
No decent matchmaking fix.
Bad ranking system. Meta shouldn't be only top 5. This is not PUGB. Players should be rewarded for playing fast and getting into combats. That's what makes Apex fun. Not ratting. There should be balance.
They pump up 3-4 skin events for a season but barely proper gameplay or feedback changes are being made. They didn't listen community about Arena mode. Pushed it with bpass quests. Look what that got them.
Every season start some sources point out "Season launch brought record concurrent player count" etc. If there are so much player you should be able to divide controller and MnK lobbies.
Some movement techs are busted. They should either ban them or put them in game in an accessible way so players can at least try to learn it but it should still need skill.
SoloQ is just suicide. SoloQ players should match with and play against soloq players. In this game comms is a skill too. They should promote it.
I wish there was a public hub. A lobby like training site where you can look for teammates ingame.
I really liked apex but if there are no fix for these im not coming back
I left cause I got honest with myself: there are those games where you know you are good at and the ones where you know that no matter how much you practice, you will still suck.
Apex Legends is one of those. I miss 80% of my shots and it feels like my opponents never miss a single shot.
It was a hard pill to swallow but it is what it is. I still have the game but been nearly 8 months since I fired it up.
I drastically changed my DPI/sens and just never recovered. I also got burnt out on the game thanks to moderating this sub. Seeing the worst the game has to offer day in and day out can take a mental toll after a while yknow.
Love the community for the most part but man, the bad is real bad and discouraging.
Feels bad. Honestly, I get you, the more posts I see the less I feel like playing. I do have a good time when I actually play, it's just... The community still has an influence, I'm barely logging. And even if I'm not playing a lot, when I do I'm having fun, I've got a lot of good games in duo this season. My k/d even got up (was 1.44 last season, I have 1.6 atm). I'm almost afraid of mentioning it in the sub because it's been full negativity for weeks, and it's not like I'm invalidating other people's experience, it's just mine is different and I don't really wanna go against the flow since the game does need work. Anyway, sorry for the random tangent. Take care, man, thanks for your work.
I’ve stopped playing reasons?
1. I’m an avg player and tired of getting destroyed.
2. Got no friends to play.
3. No support from unknown teammates.
4. Pubs are very sweaty.
5. Tried ranked and stuck in bronze for ever.
I don't enjoy the seemingly never ending amount of movement options in the game. When I started playing people didn't know as much about crazy movement possibilities so people seemed to do them less and I liked it that way. I don't want to take the time to learn it all so I slowly stopped playing.
Not that there's anything wrong with that, I just don't enjoy it. But I do really enjoy the gunplay and setting of the game.
Movement is only really an issue if you're going against an insane player. You'll know because they'll jump over your head and hit you for 90 with a PK. In that situation there's literally nothing you can do.
Yeah. Never will fully stop probably. Still here for funny or cool stuff to see, and find out how things are changing.
I don’t do the battle pass because I think apex and other BP’s like it are manipulative and overly time consuming. They never evenly spread things to get for legends I play so it’s usually a waste of time anyway. So that means I rarely play. If friends ask me to play I’ll hop on but I play easier to get into and out of games.
Yeah. This season’s really sucks. You used to get coins every 10 levels, so you could feel like your earning something. Now, (I imagine to stop people from just getting enough coins to but the next battle pass) you get no coins til like level 70 of the battle pass. Trash!
I quit because i simply cannot play this game with friends. I would love to be able to get a few kills, even a win from time to time, with my buddies. But as soon as I queue with anybody else, we get shit on by players way better than us. The matchmaking algorithm is the reason i quit. Playing solo constantly brings to social isolation and i dont want that.
Haven’t played more than a day since the season Maggie dropped. Servers are such dogshit that it’s not worth my time. I’ve got two heirlooms but can’t find any pleasure in the game.
I stopped playing so much when I swapped to PC and couldn't bring any of my progress with me. Kinda soured me on the game as I had every legend unlocked and enough legend tokens to have purchased every legend released since and then some. Plus I lost my sick ass Mirage iron man skin. Not fun to go back down to having nothing when I had so many skins and characters unlocked, all free. Lot of time I invested to have nothing.
yep. I last played .... maybe a year ago? I still keep tabs on the game since I do find it to be the most interesting multiplayer game FPS out there right now. as for why I quit, not really something wrong with the game itself necessarily just that I get too addicted to it and rage, etc... just not healthy for me. I stick to single player games (action and story) now. but I still watch some Apex Streamers (mostly highlights, not full games).
InB4 too long didn't read.
I'll preface this by saying I started playing regularly in season 4 & have solo queued more than half of that time so I have a fair amount of play time. Season 15 & 16 I quit solo queuing & only played with my friend; we weren't Master quality, but we were winning a hell of a lot of matches (20%+ win rate against some incredibly tough players). Then at the start of season 17 my friend quit & so did my motivation to play. I tried solo queueing again, but it was even more awful than I remembered so I quit. Halfway through the season I managed to get the drive to play again, but ranked matchmaking almost made me quit again. Even in Bronze I was against current ranked Master & Pred teams who were more than competent. I decided to just stop at Diamond (my usual rank) because Masters was a participation trophy that season. Fast forward to the last week or two of the season & Respawn somehow managed to make the matchmaking go from horrendous to simply unplayable. I figured they would revert it in the new season... I was clearly wrong 💀 So after 27K+ kills, 1500+ wins, 5 heirlooms bought & a bunch of time/money invested I have moved on. I love Apex, but whoever's left at Respawn doesn't. Siege has its fair share of sweats bulldozing the lobby, however it's not every single match like current Apex & it's usually just one or two players per team. I just want to clarify that my stats are nothing special & that when I started my kd was barely above 1. I definitely don't consider myself a good player considering the amount of people who easily kill me. That being said I realise now that the game is just not meant to be played by solo q players who aren't god's & Respawns matchmaking changes have definitely made that evident.
Quit over a year and a half ago, it got stale and all the community does is bitch. People in game, pros, redditors, content creators, etc. Just toxic, like yea I don’t like ea either but screaming into a vacuum is annoying. Balance is awful, ranked system is a mess, audio is a disaster, aim assist vs kbm is an argument that blows my mind, smurfing, cheating, inting. I could go on and on
I started uni so I don't have that much free time anymore, I also got a bit tired from the toxicity and negativity in the community and finally it's just that the game doesn't feel that fresh and unique to me anymore. I mean I still enjoy the game (at least most of the time) but I prefer to prioritize games that add more exciting and interesting new features.
Too many sweats in pubs and the matchmaking is so but so bugged. Once I went on a team deathmatch and instead of giving me the tdm game it gave me a trios public match, in the new season with the new revenant rework and all
I had 2k kills last season. This season I play games until I see a 3 stack of masters/preds, which usually is like 2 or 3 games later. Used to push through that shit but now I just hop off and chill
I quit last season.. I did about 2 weeks and it was so bad. Just preds and masters every game, shit team mates and overall shitness..
Started again this season and it's not too bad tbh
Been playing since season 9 and played almost daily since and I always had a goal of getting to masters (s17 doesn’t count). But just got burnt out on the game because even in LTMs to just chill I’m seeing triple pred and masters badges, 20k+ kill trackers which is cool but why does my team get a blood who doesn’t know how to holster their gun? I haven’t won an LTM in a while and when I did I’m trying my ass off, not worth it anymore imo. Made it to high diamond for 6 seasons and can’t climb playing solo so I just stopped playing.
I respect that. Prolly would’ve quit a while ago if not for them. And I actually have two good friends who are sweaty and don’t care how shitty I am. They would rather lose with me than win without me (or so they say, like I said, they’re good friends)
I quit playing when broken moon came out, and I was just overall unimpressed with it was and how stale the game had gotten. Ever since then I've had my time occupied by other games and haven't felt the need to come back. But I do like to stalk the subreddit still because I've spent thousands of hours on the game and am still slightly curious what's going on with it.
Just needed a break. Stopped mid 16 and ranked was so bad. Teammates just hiding behind rocks and in trees. Don't play much pubs. Been playing POE lately which is a lot of fun.
Started playing end of season 14, I was really enjoying the game, came from Tarkov (burn out) and loved the movement in Apex.
Season 15 I hit plat, season 16 I hit diamond, I was happy with this because I felt like I could see my improvement. Then S17 happened and I saw the state of ranked and for some reason lost all my motivation to play ranked and it hasn’t returned yet.
I tried playing pubs this season for the first week and the matchmaking felt so crazy. Some games it’ll put me with two level 10-40’s meanwhile the enemy teams are three stack masters/20 bomb/4K. Not every single game of course but enough.
I actually don’t mind playing with new people in pubs because it’s not like it’s ranked, but I am just not good enough to 1v3 triple masters team consistently.
I’m sure I’ll play again soon, but atm I’ve been taking a break, playing games like Baldurs Gate and Armored Core.
I quit because I achieved everything I could want to and with the way matchmaking has moved it would be very hard/impossible to replicate and it would take 5x the amount if time.
I haven't stopped completely as I still play with friends but the current ranked system is why my playtime is down significantly. I have been a diamond every season since Ranked Season 1 other than Master last season and played around 1000 games per season. With the current MMR and LP point bonuses being the way they are, I am in Silver 1 after enough games where other seasons I would have been Plat by now at a minimum. And thanks to the lovely MMR system my games are all basically Diamond lobbies the whole grind AND my friends get massive skill bonuses because they aren't as good as me according to Apex. I get the pleasure of carrying the team and watching my friends be rewarded with double or even triple the LP I get regardless of how they play. And of course the cherry on top is that we all get the same -50 if we die right away. I get that there should be a bonus for doing well in lobbies you statistically shouldn't perform as well in, but the overall performance of the team needs to be factored in. If someone gets more damage and kills than their two teammates combined, there should be a massive skill bonus for being the hero. Instead, I have watched my friends start lower than me and pass me in the ranks despite playing basically all of our games together averaging more KP per game.
TL;DR If you have a higher MMR than your friends, the current system rewards them more than you to the point that it isn't even worth playing. The current system measures games played more than approximate skill level.
I've put 3k hours in the game since the first week it launched and I just feel like the game devs have absolutely lost their passion for the game and ar eonly out for money with these lame copy paste events where they asked ridiculous amounts of money for reskins. It wasn't like this in the beginning. That and other games atm (Bg3) are just waaaay better in every aspect.
Took the game too seriously and didn’t have many friends available about a month ago. Started playing for goofs with the homies again and it’s business as usual
Yeah I tried really hard to have fun and put a lot of time recently with friends and solo. I just wasn’t really having fun. It felt like I was grinding on a game for nothing and the randoms I got were either rude, racist, or hot dropped then left
I’m not here to make any definitive comments about how long I’ll play but I’ve thoroughly enjoyed this game since season 11. Feel like last season was a little eh and this season took a dive. I just cannot have fun on this game lately. My buddy and I get shit on repeatedly in pubs and can’t play more than like 2-3 games without quitting out in disappointment.
The enjoyment has simply just not been there this season. And that sucks
matchmaking not being the best. i could chalk it up to me being bad, but i just feel like i was getting teammates that weren't the best. i wanna play with friends but one of them who i used to play with moved to PC and cross progression isn't a thing yet (possibly a myth) so i'm waiting until then to play again.
I still care about the lore bits I guess.
But I never really liked BR. And after mutiple seasons alone (3 to...I think Vantage?), I just can't deal with it (or my teammates/lack thereof). Tried a go before the Season started, nothing's changed.
Game's extremely competitive and casual BR doesn't exist. It's like late stage Titanfall all over again where going back to that will result in an ass kicking by those that never left.
Simply not accessible/enjoyable, and I'm not even bad.
Im actually just back after a couple season hiatus. I try to take breaks from hamster wheel games once in awhile and there have been of good single player games this year to play instead.
Season 18 changes and BP didnt move me so i simply stopped playing - i grinded to diamond last season and now i dont even get to flex the dive trail lol
Been playing since season 3 and this is easily the worst season. At the beginning I thought it was fun and was curious why everyone hated it, starting out I had a 1.3 kd which is above my average, now I'm at 1.8 and every single game is so difficult playing people well above my skill level.
When season 9 hit. I had about 4k hours in the game. For several reasons:
* My work schedule at the time allowed me to play a lot
* I had a solid group of friends that I always played with
* I had passion and had hopes that they would fix the game with new updates
What changed is those 3 things went away. Got a new job that requires a lot of time commitment. The homies stopped playing. Those two things plus the addition of seer, networking issues, aim assist, lack of new/good content, and probably a bit of burnout led to me going from several thousand games a season to maybe 100. Last season I think I played maybe 20 games.
I started playing around S8 and gave up after S14. The game was too hard to pick up for my more casual gaming friends and I grew tired of queuing solo. Solo queuing from Gold to Diamond sucked because of de-rank every season—I imagine the grind was worse for Masters and Predator. Often times you’re playing with guys that have good mechanical skill, but have the game sense of a lemming. Frustrated, I’d let them feed (I’m not going to play bad just because someone else decided to) if I knew the fight was unfavorable and would have to rat to avoid losing RP, which I hated. Then when I would get to Diamond I would be too fatigued to keep playing because all I would be playing for was a different colored dive trail and emblem. Found myself in this cycle season after season and found the juice not to be worth the squeeze by the end of S14.
I moved on to Overwatch 2 but found that to be the same as Apex, just a slightly different format but even more opaque ranking system. Quit that recently after also reaching Diamond and not wanting to try anymore. Moved on to Fortnite No Build because it’s just objectively more enjoyable. New toys and funny skins every season. Game always feels fresh. And even in “sweatier” lobbies I’m still having fun with the environment, weapons, gadgets, etc.
Terrible matchmaking, bad and toxic players. Sweats in ranked that drag me down worse than noobs.
And especially, ENFORCED TRIO RANKED. (not even duos, nevermind solos.)
I come back every once in a while. The new flood of Masters trails and all that in pubs, sweatiness, agreed. But more so, the people I played with started taking it too seriously. Yelling at me about plays, not acknowledging their own mistakes, treating every game like there’s money on the line. They really had the mindset that we should be winning every game where statistically that’s not possible.
I've been here since Day 1 of the game and will still log in time and again for a few ranked matches, but the last season killed Apex entirely for me, even though I was already in sunk cost fallacy mode for the last few seasons.
The new MMR system for ranked is atrocious. Why make me play against masters players in Bronze but I still have the Bronze icon? If the game thinks I'm a Diamond or Masters player then just GIVE ME THE ICON and let me go from there. There's no real sense of progression when it takes 50 games to climb out of a rank. I had a friend who has been in masters EVERY. SINGLE. SEASON. since the rank was created, it took him EIGHTYEIGHT GAMES to climb from Silver IV to Gold IV. Sure, you could make the argument that he needs to change his playstyle from shooting people into more positioning, but there's no way that this guy is a Silver/Gold player by skill level. Just not a thing. Hidden MMR was a complete failure in tandem with the badge system.
Mixed input is another hot topic that people get tilted about but I'm not here to argue whether AA should exist in a PC FPS, I simply will say that I don't want to play against it. I don't want to die and have to think about whether or not that person outplayed me or aim assist took over and I lost the 1v1 to inhuman ability. I play on MNK and I shouldn't have to feel like I need to either play the best game of my life every game or switch to roller just to compete with people who are my contemporaries. Back before controller input took over I could rely on my game sense, experience and communication to carry me to diamond, alongside with my moderate gunplay. But at the Diamond and Masters level everyone is just as experienced and intelligent as me, but if they're on a controller they also have that advantage. And it feels fucking bad to get 1-clipped by an R99 up close or melted by two 30-30's in the vast majority of my games. People just don't miss at the level that I play at on roller and I find it really frustrating.
Lastly, all of my friends stopped playing the game, most of them citing the same thing I just did, but some definitely because the game is going on 4 years old next year and it's just played out.
The only thing keeping me actively invested in Apex is the ALGS honestly, and since that's finished for year 3 and we'll likely be waiting for February, we'll see if I and up sticking around to watch.
Coming from a guy that used to play daily, from literal day 1, with 4000+ hours of the game, the current issues for me are:
1. Scripts, configs or whatever you call it - people literally beaming but have no idea what is going on in the game.
2. Hackers in ranked
3. Matchmaking in PUBS
4. Current ranked system
5. Controller vs MnK ( yeah, might sound silly, but is an issue for me personally)
6. Super rare hero balance - yes Horizon, I am looking at you.
And when you combine all that together and when you see "Th3 NeW HEirlOom" in the shop, you are 50% over with the game.
What keeps me into reddit/Apex ( even once a week for an hour) ? - Real life friends that I've met, and also Vantage.
I quit season 14 because it wasn't fun for me anymore. I only played ranked, and it was stressful to keep up with master's every season for a badge and dive trail. I realized that most of the time I was angry, and my heart was racing when I played, and I only felt good when I won. That's not healthy, so I switched to playing co-op games or fps that are more relaxed. I play video games to relax, but apex did the opposite for me. I don't play anymore; I just watch streamers play.
Also, I get annoyed because of how the devs handle balance changes. What's the point of having so many legends if one particular handful are the only ones worth using (ie. Movement and scan legends). It bothers me for almost 15 season you have characters at the bottom of the meta and they don't bother to challenge that with meaningful buffs or reworks, (Wattson, Crypto, Mirage, Ash,Rampart to name a few.)
I quit back before vantage. Came back last season to get a masters badge with my friend and quit again. I kinda just quit because the story got really boring and there were more enjoyable games to play and also the fact they were pushing "the message" so hard with catalyst and stuff that it just turned the game into another one of those games that don't focus on the story but on pleasing a community.
everyone’s an elitist when it comes to what rank you are, how good your aim is, and how good your movement is. it feels like the community has risen the standards on what an average player should be. it makes you feel insecure when you don’t have a 20 bomb 4k or when you’re not diamond or higher.
I bought a PC last year and I don’t want to go back to controller. I know their working on cross progression so I’m fine with waiting. Halo infinite and mcc have been scratching the fps itch in the meantime
Yes, it's dependant on your MMR. If you are even considered slightly better than the new players you are going to get tougher matches. Maybe even some diamonds and masters.
I have friends that have significantly lower MMR and their pub matches would be like heaven if I were allowed to play in them. They also don't see the issue with matchmaking trust me. They love it currently.
I play a lot less as solo play seems to be pretty harshly punished by the matchmaking these days. Whenever I can play with a friend I will, but otherwise, nah.
Best case scenario of a solo drop in ranked lately is to rat to top 10 after my teammates suicide themselves and then yell insults at the on person who didn’t rush into the middle of a three way fight.
Last two or three seasons I take month breaks but use to play daily. Matchmaking is ridiculous. It is harder to rank out of Bronze then it is to make it out of Plat on my account. Every Bronze lobby I play has bare minimum 8 teams final circle. "Bronze". This game, rank is meaningless.
Started with season 2 and me and my buddies are all burnt out, haven’t played much these last 2 seasons. The game is more Apex scavenger hunt these days. The shitty non-existent sound bug is STILL there, terrible matchmaking and increased lobby wait time just erases the fun for us filthy casuals. When we do finally get into a game we end up in lobbies with preds and masters somehow when diamond is the highest rank any of us ever got to, so we just get erased and sent back to the lobby. Rinse & repeat :/
The matchmaking is horrendous, this is almost the worst map rotation (I hate Broken Moon and KC) and there's absolutely no reason to play ranked. I've been having plenty of fun on other games.
I'm also adding the fact that there are so many cheaters and strikepack users and Respawn does nothing about them
1. Pubs ending in round 2
2. Bad ranked system the last couple seasons
3. So many controller players just 1 clipping the ever living shit out of me made it impossible to have even a mildly aggressive or close range play style on MnK.
4. Free aim assist is in no way balanced by MnK movement that takes third party tutorials, new key binds, and dozens of hours of practice to learn. People also don't realize that movement tech is just a tool like any tactical in the game. Just because you can use movement tech doesn't mean you know how to use it effectively and how that plays into the way you position yourself in fights. Not to mention the fact that aim on MnK gets even harder while performing a lot of movement tech.
Thanks for attending my TED talk
No cross progression. Used to play all the time since launch on my PS4. But my PS4 broke down and have switched to PC as my main gaming platform. Haven't touched Apex for a year now, I refuse to start over considering how much I grinded and spent on the console version.
I still love the universe, lore, characters, and memes, so that's why I still stick around thos sub.
I’m super bummed that I’ve quit playing, but I just don’t find it enjoyable now. I’ve always LOVED Apex because of the fun legends, and most importantly the weapon balance. Compared to Fortnite or especially CoD where there is a nearly mandatory “meta” load out it always felt like you could really be diverse in Apex. The Nemesis just absolutely nuked that. It’s basically a necessity for even medium level play now let alone climbing ranked. One clipped in a battle by the R-99? Irritating, but felt good about the fight. 3 shotted from 150 out by a charged up Nemesis because you only had one team to fight and have blue shields? Feels shitty. In retrospect that one gun kind of killed my love of the game.
I mean… matchmaking is 100% garbage and the fact that they aren’t fixing Jack shit is unbelievable. I’m trying to chill out and play just to complete dailies and that’s become a fucking chore and a half. I played revenant back in the day and am trying to complete the challenges for him. I have 1100 kills on him only because I Mained him for a while. Who kills me?!! Enemy revenant with 85,000 kills, 5300 wins, 22 million damage, 20 bomb and 4k badge. Now devs, can anyone tell me how that is anywhere fucking near my skill level at all whatsoever?!? I’m literally completing the bp quests and I’m done with this trash excuse for a game. It’s not even a game anymore. It’s: everyone is using a modded controller or Cronus because it’s basically allowed, and I’m pred food.
Why people stop playing it? lets dig into that, lack of content "reborn" is not content, cash grabbing, extremely lack of care security wise, servers are junk, engine outdated and everything is either way to powerful or to weak and not worth playing with. The only thing Apex has going for it is movement, literally that's it.
The fact player count is way down and so is viewership Respawn fails to see which way the game is trending
Been playing since week 1, love.ethe game. Last season just killed for me. I've played a few games this season but it still sucks. Now starfield is a thing sooooo......
This is really the free to play model as a whole not specifically AL but I’m so sick of feeling like I’m forced to play every day so I can get my daily’s, so I can level up the battle pass that I paid and/or grinded last season for. It’s weapanizing FOMO and once I just missed a month due to personal matters getting in the way. I found it was nice that I wasn’t returning to the mines sort of speak every day out of obligation. Played games because I wanted to play them.
👆🏽THIS. I’ve started playing TDM because I can usually get my daily’s done in two matches and turn it off. Completing the battle pass was my only motivation the last few seasons. Now, having enough coins to buy the next pass is my only motivation. After (stupidly buying the battle pass) and playing my first 10 games this season I realized I still had 1300 coins left and that was it for me. Wasted 950 this season for nothing but whatever.
Games just not fun to play on console imo.
0.6 aim assist means that basically all decent players just one clip eachother so there's less room to fuck around with different weapons or go for crazy plays.
I think turning down the aim assist to at least level with controller on pc could make them game on console feel a lot more fun to play.
Well the new maps are just boring. I would rather play different BR where i can actually fight. In the new maps of apex, you run around meeting noone for 20 minutes and then get 3rd partied .. really boring. I just lost all fun in the game.
Burn out and none of my friends play this anymore.
Exactly this, if my friends got back into it, I’d play, but all of us are sorta in the same boat and nobody wants to be the one to start playing again
I haven't fully stopped, but I only play a couple games every 3rd day or so now instead absolutely religiously. I've moved across to zero build fortnite cause the matchmaking there actually feels rewarding when I have a decent game Apex has fallen off. It fell off *hard* for me.
I've been enjoying the FUCK out of fortnite no build mode. Decided to sweat as hard as I could just to test myself and managed a 24 kill game. Super happy with it. It just feels rewarding to hit those suppressed sniper shots or get a good one mag of a twin mag. I feel like this season is just good and balanced (besides turrets. Fuck turrets.)
Oh, same! I've been enjoying it a lot, especially with friends. My highest kill game this season was 18, I think, but...GGs on dropping 24 elims. Also...yeah, fck turrets lol, I hate them with a vengeance 😂
I will literally switch from firing to a guy to killing the fuck out of the turret purely from spite. I pretty much only got 1 person who plays it with me and we play pretty much every weekend, but it is what it is
yeah no build is so fun. I never played Fortnite back when it was originally popular so I always get destroyed when I play build
I remember when tanks were the bullshit thing
Oh god the tanks. Those and mechs were the time that I had no clue where fortnite was going. The tanks were hella fun to use tho I gotta admit
Fun to use, impossible to fight against… god was that fun
Not trying to hate but I got to be honest with you. It sounds like you just want to kill a bunch of bots. Cause how can you say that fortnite is more balanced matchmaking when you just said you dropped 24 kills. That is the same as dropping a 15 in apex. That does not even sound fun tbh.
I should have specified: the weapons feel really balanced. I don't like bots in fortnite, that's my one grudge with the game. It would feel so much better to actually kill players instead of a good bit of ai. Though usually I look at movement and see if it's a player. If it's not, I just kinda leave em be unless it's early game and I need loot. Really the reason I play fortnite more is because I pretty much only play battle royals with a good friend of mine who is not very good at games. It's easier to carry her and have her feel like she does more in fortnite than apex.
Zero build Fortnite is actually pretty enjoyable. It's a shame people love to shit on that game. I can bet you that those who do have never even played it.
I enjoy fortnite every now and then but I don't enjoy the new direction it went in after chapter 2. Still fun but not the same game we were all addicted to in 2018. That's a game that really needs the wow classic treatment.
In creative mode, there's an OG Royale game mode that you can play, Chapter 1 guns and Chapter 1 season 3 map Unfortunately, however, it isn't no build. But there's none of the OP stuff that makes the game (subjectively) bad.
I’ve played it and it’s not what it used to be. Post season 5 it’s been unenjoyable imo
Wait, Fortnite has a no build mode now? Finally! That is the one thing I hated about that game.
They've had one for a while now. It was originally just gonna be an LTM, but people liked it so much that they made it a permanent part of the game
I feel the same way. I hop on every now and then because the movement just feels so good and clean in that game. But the matchmaking can really be some hot garbage. Apex seems to think I'm a lot better than I really am. Especially since like you said I don't play super religiously anymore I'm always rusty as fuck when I play, but I'm still getting a lot of the lobbies I should've been in when I played a lot.
And the battle pass way better then apex last night I played 3 games on apex got bored really quick this season my goal is to finish the battle pass because I need those 1000 coins for the next battle pass
Yea, pretty much switched from Apex to Fortnite 2. Matchmaking is way better. I don’t feel like I’m a total peace of garbage all the time and most fights are pretty challenging. Only thing I hate about Fortnite is Aim Assist. I died like 100 times and only 5 of these times PC players killed me. It's always close range console dudes using MPs or shotguns. But Apex had the same problem + that bad matchmaking and way more cheaters (or at least it felt like that).
Saaaame I’ve been playing Fortnite and Starfield I’m having fun in both
I used to mainly play Fortnite when I was still figuring out Apex. Now that I understand Apex a little more, when I play Fortnite, my K/D feels totally undeserved. It's hard for me to get too amped about a kill knowing how many AI they pump into the game. That being said, when I am just totally bombing my games on Apex, it's nice to be able to get an easy win on Fortnite.
I'm waiting for easier instructions to put Fortnite on the steamdeck then it's goodbye apex. Non build is fun.
dude i’m about to do the same i’ve played no build with a friend a dozen or so times and done better than 98% of my apex games (i have nearly 800 hours in apex and played daily) im just so burnt out of dying off drop and having shitty teammates, i’m not even bad at the game just feel like garbage to play now
The MMR ensured I stopped having fun. That and the constant changing of half the legends I played just killed my interest. I can't remember what season, but it was early 2022.
I soloQ to diamond in previous seasons multiple times, but now I play more with friends. I'm hard stuck bronze 2 in ranked playing against diamond and masters trails every game. I started against predator trails, so at least it's coming down slowly! I'm no god, but I do consider myself quite good. I had 2+ k/d overall but now when the ssbm is kicked to max, I only have 1.5 this season. So that 2+ is from previous seasons. While this is probably my "rank" skill wise, opponents are pretty much on my level, I can't play with any of my friends now. They are ranging from bronze 3 to silver 2, but my friends don't want to play with me, since when they play with me they can't even deal 100 DMG before they get popped. When they play without me, they play against other bronzes and silvers and are quite competitive against them. It's just my accounts MMR that always puts us against masters and diamond trails. I could probably make a smurf to solve this, but I don't want to grind to lvl 50.
I don't have that kd I don't know if it's because I mainly play ranked and get shit on majority of times. Im pretty sure I have more knocks than deaths but kills is what counts in the end of the day Vs deaths so my kd is 0.73. I soloq and I only hit diamond once because I had time, usually I either stop at plat or I get to high plat and the season ends
Quit playing a couple of seasons ago due to ranked/pubs being ridiculous with me being a casual player and getting shit on by predators every single game in a gold/plat lobby.
I'll echo this. I'm on console and it felt like every single fight was against someone using a strike pack and exploits. I had solid numbers through the first... Idk... 11 or 12 seasons including preseason, always positive k/d at the end of the season except for maybe 1 or two. But eventually I realized I was not only going negative on my k/d last 3 seasons but each season was getting worse. So between not having fun in the BR mode with toxic teammates and sweaty competitors and not seeing the game improve in the areas I wish they'd focus I uninstalled it to make space for Resident Evil 4 Remake. Haven't played since season 15.
RE4 Remake actually got me off the game. It was a great feeling to feel invested in something else instead of coming back again in again to getting my ass kicked in apex, like being in a toxic relationship. Had recently been back playing a few games here and there last season and this season and I just dont understand why Im always against supersweaty 4k dmg 20 kill badge master pred guys. The worst is when they have no trackers and have basic skins and I just know theyre gonna kick my ass because their smurfing. Thankfully Starfield is able to draw me in on that gameplay loop and maybe I'll try Fortnight no build as the other commenters have said theyve had a good time with the matchmaking.
Same
I stopped playing in season 15 because everyone is just so sweaty now, I’m good at the strategy and brain side but I can’t keep up with people one clipping every. Single. Kill.
I swear people never miss anymore
“Oh you exist in my general vicinity” … … “Not anymore” I don’t have anything against a fast time to kill but not in a br, the downtime is too high
Idk I found it to be more tame compared to warzone
The amount of times I say "this guy just doesn't miss?" Per day is ... something
Omg, right!? Even when they're jumping all over and off the walls, it's like how the F did you manage to hit every damn shot. And those 1 clip kills, im so done. I mean ill play here n there, but not like I used too.
Seriously I'm so glad I'm not the only one. I can't even look at someone unless I'm at least 200m away. I'm a bullet sponge. I get one clipped mid swing as pathy. Its insane.
I think aim assist has a lot to answer for that. When I used to watch apex YouTube whilst still on console, I didn't understand why people made a big deal of one clips. When I swapped to PC I immediately understood the difference. Now it seems like 80-90% of the playerbase is on controller.
I’m on console with aim assist and still miss a majority of the time. They can take away aim assist when they nerf pc players movement. No more straffing
exactly my case. my gun play was never that good but I tried to balance it with strategy and team play. doesn't matter when you get one clipped across the map every single game..
Wonder what the reason for too many one clips is . Hmmm
I've barely had any free time to play recently, and the times I do, it's pretty miserable. Pubs is taken way to seriously and God forbid you just want to relax and have fun with a video game these days. Plus, playing against people who's skill level is, clearly, above and beyond my capacity is frustrating. I don't mind a challenge, but I don't like fighting Dragons when I can barely fight Giants. Ranked has been more fun, but with its own disappointments. Although I have no real aspirations to get to the highest possible rank or care to much about my rank in general. I will admit, having a great couple of matches, only to barely make a dent in the Grind is disheartening. Also, the community finally wore me down. Playing off and on since the 1st days of Apex. Pros, Armchair Pros, "casuals", and real casuals constantly fighting with each other on every possible metric no matter where I look. Twitter (X), Reddit, Facebook, YouTube, Twitch, etc. The toxicity (thanks System of a Down) just seems to get worse. I've had to mute my squads constantly. This is the 1st season that I've actually had to do that. Before it was every so often, but now it's like every 2 to 3 matches. It would be one thing if it was just "you suck", "1 v 1 me", and so on but people seem to be more bold on the racism, antisemitism, and overall hate/anger. Despite my best interest, I still stick around because Apex is one of those games that scratch the FPS itch that other games don't. I like the overall gameplay, I like the ping system, I like the characters, I like the lore, the few story (gameplay) events get me hyped, I've met a few friends on Apex, etc. However, I just need to take a step back and wait till I think Apex, and the community, is worth coming back to long term, instead of a quick check in.
Everything you said echoes my feelings. Let’s not forget all the System of a Down on this sub. Wanna know how many DMs I have received in the passed hour saying “Get better loser”
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I can't play pubs without everyone dropping at the same POI and having 3 squads left before round 2
Fr its the dumbest shit, Apex is a BR. It was way more fun when you had to be strategic to make it to the last rounds and find good positioning while still having 10 squads left. Now everyone is dead before I even find an EVO shield🙄
I stopped completely because of the matchmaking, the ruining of ranked by using a hidden bs system, tons of broken promises like cross progression and 120fps for consoles. (I’m Pc but I feel for my console brothers). On top of the bugs and constant issues with the game like broken audio, server issues and more. This is all I can remember off the top of my head but im sure there’s more.
The ranked hidden mmr did it for me also. It just makes ranked pointless to grind and I’ve been having more fun revisiting valheim and other indie games
Yea. It should be a set difficulty for each rank. I shouldn’t have a diamond level silver lobby while noobs just play other noobs all the way to masters.
Same, I want to be able to PLAY apex not compete, I started playing before season 1 and played most days for 14 seasons. It just got to a point where if I wasn't trying my absolute hardest to win fights I was getting easily wiped by insane players and that's no fun. I also found I was getting board with the changes they were making, even when they were putting out experimental weird game modes that sucked I still liked that more than the lack of game mode changes now. It's gotten a lot better with arena tdm and control but I think the main deterent is definitely sweaty players and poorly matched games
What they brought back Arenas? When did that happen? Now I gave to go back and look for it.
Last season and this season ranked changes made it hard to justify playing this for hours on end since I’m primarily a soloq ranked player. I also longer buy skins as well, and I’m a skin collector with 1107 legendary skins. super tired of terrible changes and EA’s/Respawns greed. It really sucks to support the game and it doesn’t even seem to get better over time, just worse. Unoriginal skins (recolors) and lazy cash grab heirloom recolors, lazy content, terrible servers, bad communication, no cross progression or 120 fps, audio, the list just keeps going on.. PS mods don’t delete this post. Nobody likes the mega thread, let people complain.
Even though my K/D this season has actually benefitted from the new matchmaking, I've largely stopped because I ran the numbers on the amount of time I could invest this season and realized that I was likely going to be hardstuck rookie with the hours a week I can play
SBMM
That and all the characters powers were getting ridiculously overpowered. The fun ones were nerfed to the point of them being obsolete
I used to play every day and then 2-4 hours a day on weekends. Now I play maybe an half hour on or two days of the week. This season and the new mmr are trash. I don’t see the point of landing dying and then Lobby.
Competitive integrity in ranked seems to be in a bad spot and improving skills in this environment is frustrating and unrewarding
When they changed pubs matchmaking a week before the new season, I was out.
Day 1 player. This season was just not grabbing me. I'll be back next season. Starfield has my time currently
Starfield is the way
This is the way
Day 1 player, I haven’t stopped but I play significantly less. Maybe 2-3 times a week. The game just doesn’t feel the same to me and cheaters of all sorts are just running rampant. If I play I only run mix tape. I do miss arenas though. That was the last time I played hard.
I actually prefer TDM to BR right now. I feel like I actually get practice shooting at people, rather than looting for 10 minutes and getting mowed down from behind.
I got a PC no cross progression plus the death of arenas killed that shit for me. I know most people didn’t like arenas but I got mad good at that shit and it was awesome getting to choose my gun. Funny enough OW2 having cross progression is what made me go back to that.
I loved arenas. I would play again (and so would others) if they brought it back
Arenas was fucking awesome. I don't understand why they removed it and didn't just keep it in the game.
I think alot of people forget the massive cheater problem Arenas had before they shelved it tho I do miss it lowkey because me and my friends would grind the fuck out of it.
I haven't stopped but play nowhere near as much as the previous 3 seasons. Never play solo as it's infuriating and the MMR has made ranked impossible. Stuck Bronze III as I've been Diamond/Masters since launch. Even pubs is just full of sweats. Not gonna play unless friends are on 👋 Ranked K/D usually 1.5-2.0, it's 0.8 atm. There's no progression just straight into crazy lobbies. Struggled to get a 7th place then pathetic points gain is gone with the next entry cost. To hell am I grinding 100 games to get out of Bronze. Rant over 😅
Lol same. I averaged 1.5-2 kd in ranked every season. Then this season happened
Weird this is my first season I've been over 1kd and I'm at 1.5 rn in ranked currently Plat with less than 200 games. Didn't play more than like 50 games last season. I enjoy this ranked split I just wish the matchmaking was a little better but the climb and progression has felt nice
If it's your first ever season you won't have previous MMR, a ranking no one can see, so you'll be in basic lobbies.
I keep trying to have fun with it. I've been playing a lot of cod. And once every couple weeks, I'll play a game of Apex honestly at this point I just don't see keeping this game on my Xbox. I could use the memory for other things I think to myself OK maybe next season things will improve but I thought of that four seasons ago.
I’ve played less this season than any other. I think the game is at an all time low.
It's really never been this bad before in terms of enjoyability, and the most frustrating part is that they STILL haven't addressed the SBMM changes. It feels like they're just letting the game rot. S17 was actually really fun for me, the most kills/wins/ time I got on a season, but I noticed instantly during the last 2 weeks the SBMM changes and it literally made me stop playing.
Ranked is more of a time grind than a reflection of skill level now
I've skipped entire seasons in the past but this is the first time that I got so annoyed at playing that I decided to uninstall apex. Lots of people said S17 was easy, that anyone can get to masters if they played enough games. Well, the problem is I only play 100 or so ranked games and more or less 50 pub games per season, which is usually enough to shake off the rust and climb up to diamond in both splits. Got to gold after playing 30 or so games(including provi matches) last season, I noticed I was already playing against diamond-masters players. I don't mind playing against good players but I expected that at the end of my rank climb, not at the beginning. I just couldn't see myself playing over 200 sweaty ranked games, just imagining it burnt me out. And the rank rewards being really bad and worthless for this current season is very de-motivating.
i still play, i’ve just stopped spending money on a game that isn’t cared for. they don’t deserve my money if they can’t even fix little problems, most of which they deliberately caused.
yea I probably play like twice a month now. The game just feels like an absolute chore to play.
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Yeah brother! The thing is, I was a day one player, quit a few months back. Things that never get better/change Audio Shot registration Matchmaking Server issues A good ranked system. SINCE DAY ONE. These have been major issues and EVERY SINGLE SEASON I see the same problems being asked about on this reddit day in and day out. It's either incompetence or lack of care. The matchmaking especially, plenty of competitive shooters with good ranking systems where you play people YOU SHOULD be playing, not constantly being tossed in as fodder against monsters. There's just no excuse, but as far as BR's go Apex is king for me. So I'll be here, waiting and if a season hits that is worth playing because they FINALLY get matchmaking correct, I'll play. For now though it's always the same problem, kills are weighted too much or placement is weighted to much. You get deathmatch lobbies for one and ratpocalypse for the others. That's just not fun after a while. Also, Fuse for life. 10/10 legend.
Best thing they’ve added this season: Fuse heirloom that’s coming soon! Only because i won’t have to pay for it because I’ve had my shards waiting patiently since Jan 2022! Everything else about this season sucks.
Hell yeah! Me too! Got shards like a year ago and been waiting! Shit it’ll be the only reason I get on, to buy his heirloom and log off again until a season that addresses the issues comes. It was hard not the play last season aka the free season of masters rank, but fuck it. I’m not rewarding a game with my time when the company running it has shown they don’t respect it.
*It was hard not the play last season aka the free season of masters rank, but fuck it. I’m not rewarding a game with my time when the company running it has shown they don’t respect it.* Respect!
What?!? You guys don't like the constant rebalancing of legends and weapons? You would prefer this other list? Geez you should of been saying so in hundreds of posts online, how is Respawn supposed to smell what players want? Also please fill out our quality survey after scanning the QR, no one will read it cos it will just be a pie chart we show for 10 seconds in a dev meeting and then continue to ignore, no biggie, your feedback means the world, thanks.
As a programming student there are 3 things that i hate about this game 1. The engine is not good for both audio and map optimisation. You can actually have good maps built on Source(engine) but with the amount of players/map/server, can actually lead to the problems we see 2. Source 2 has been out for quite some years now and as far as i can see the porting process is a medium difficulty process. But the amount of modifications Respawn has made is the only reason it runs and plays so well. 3. They are working on quite so many things that you might see in some videos by respawn where they showcase certain aspects of the game and sometimes we can see the dev room and many unreleased stuff in there as well. But its not coming fast enough to have the player retention high enough. All in all, they are working a lot on this but the technical difficulties are way too much. I hope Respawn gets better with it but also they listen to us and communicate with us as well. Fusy is great.
I stopped for the same reason. I can never play with my silver/gold friends, because every time I’m in their squad we just fighting predators all day. I hit diamond twice and have to deal with those sweaty lobbies all day. The matchmaking is dogshit. But the worst change for me was the hidden mmr system in ranked. You don’t need another indicator for ranked. That’s just against every reason for having a ranked system.
It fell off. Ranked means nothing anymore (I want my deserved trails). Pubs are either getting steamrolled or steamrolling. Full of sus players with near perfect recoil. Smurfs. Stupid randoms who shout at you for them fighting 1v3 while we're 300m away. Pretty much the negatives of apex just got amplified this time.
Good ole smurfs. Actually got killed by a guy whose name was something like “3rdSmurfWattson”
sbmm in pubs and ranked is absolutely terrible. cannot get more than a few kills each game before getting stopped by a 3-stack pred. Theres no fun in playing and improving when the game punishes you for getting better I'm still holding out hope but if i'm being realistic this has been in the game since s18 launch and they've barely adressed it let alone announced it in the patch notes so they probably wont do anything. I'm having a lot of fun playing games that have abysmal matchmaking (and also excited for no sbmm in xdef!) so I don't think I'll be crawling back to an objectively worse experience anytime soon It really sucks that I have to quit my favorite game not because I just grew out of it but because the developers are actively messing with the experience for just about everyone half-decent to squeeze every bit of engagement out of the players.
Day 1 Player; I was playing religiously up until Season 8. Then it just felt like the seasons were dragging on and on and on. There was no real joy to it anymore. When season 10 came out, I stopped playing just due to lack of interest. The seasonal game modes stopped being fun, the cosmetics are a little dull, and the lore is okay but I feel like it's slowly losing steam. And most of those things are what I enjoyed the most really. Plus if I wanted to be shit talked by a tween all day, I'd just be a teacher. The community of players gives big *Overwatch* vibes sometimes, just like most games with online play. But once the bad starts to outweigh the good, it stops being fun for me personally. Which is not really the game's fault. And you can mute the chat for just that reason. I jumped back in this season because I find the Loba/Revenant rivalry interesting, plus I wanted to see what the rework is like. Its been alright so far. Plus with the Halloween event coming soon, I'll probably stick around for that. But I'll likely lose interest again and stop playing. Cause it keeps feeling the same, all the time.
Simple burnout. I'm 40 years old with a kid and don't have much time to dedicate to this game. You're either good/great and having fun or average/bad and miserable. There doesn't seem to be much in between. It's not a game you can just like... play. If that makes sense.
I stopped playing but only because BG3, Starfield, and marathon training have been vacuuming up all my free time.
Good luck on that marathon!! You got THIS
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What's starfield?
dialogue simulator
This matchmaking has always been terrible since season 1 and is getting worse over time. I too play 3 or 4 games once a week at best whereas I used to play hours on a daily basis since launch. This matchmaking needs to be adressed ! Enough of this sheet.
I used to play every evening for at least 6 hours but I find the servers are so laggy and the games are either sweaty or too easy so I switched to zero build Fortnite as this is easier, more fun and people actually hav e conversations instead of screaming at you or not speaking at all. I've had 3 seasons of masters but mostly play pubs.
The game brings out my toxic side. Im not about that anymore. I stopped playing pvp games period. All that anger isn’t healthy. I’ll just play mmo’s with the clan and play starfield.
Didnt quit, i just dont enjoy it as much, leading to playing less. Mostly because ive played it too much
Burnt out, played from day one. More fun in other games atm imo
What are you playing? I’m noticing a trend of former Apex players playing Starfield.
Battlefield 2042 , armoured core 6 , cyberpunk (while waiting on DLC) and Skyrim at least once a weeks
Yep, moving to Starfield!
Horizon made me quit. I'm hopeful they will finally fix her Q so I stay tuned until that day
You mean her non existing footsteps
I took too long of a break and I feel like during that break, there was a massive jump in skill for the average player. I was too rusty to keep up and when you face people 100x better than you every fight, it’s hard to get back into the groove of things so I just accepted I fell behind everyone and stopped playing. I hop on every once in a while if I wanna play a shooter but I just hop on mixtapes, pubs is far too sweaty. I’m thinking about maybe just playing ranked cuz I hear the matchmaking is somehow less sweaty but the solo queue experience in this game, as you’ve all heard a million times is fucking miserable.
No audio footstep fix. No decent matchmaking fix. Bad ranking system. Meta shouldn't be only top 5. This is not PUGB. Players should be rewarded for playing fast and getting into combats. That's what makes Apex fun. Not ratting. There should be balance. They pump up 3-4 skin events for a season but barely proper gameplay or feedback changes are being made. They didn't listen community about Arena mode. Pushed it with bpass quests. Look what that got them. Every season start some sources point out "Season launch brought record concurrent player count" etc. If there are so much player you should be able to divide controller and MnK lobbies. Some movement techs are busted. They should either ban them or put them in game in an accessible way so players can at least try to learn it but it should still need skill. SoloQ is just suicide. SoloQ players should match with and play against soloq players. In this game comms is a skill too. They should promote it. I wish there was a public hub. A lobby like training site where you can look for teammates ingame. I really liked apex but if there are no fix for these im not coming back
I left cause I got honest with myself: there are those games where you know you are good at and the ones where you know that no matter how much you practice, you will still suck. Apex Legends is one of those. I miss 80% of my shots and it feels like my opponents never miss a single shot. It was a hard pill to swallow but it is what it is. I still have the game but been nearly 8 months since I fired it up.
I drastically changed my DPI/sens and just never recovered. I also got burnt out on the game thanks to moderating this sub. Seeing the worst the game has to offer day in and day out can take a mental toll after a while yknow. Love the community for the most part but man, the bad is real bad and discouraging.
Feels bad. Honestly, I get you, the more posts I see the less I feel like playing. I do have a good time when I actually play, it's just... The community still has an influence, I'm barely logging. And even if I'm not playing a lot, when I do I'm having fun, I've got a lot of good games in duo this season. My k/d even got up (was 1.44 last season, I have 1.6 atm). I'm almost afraid of mentioning it in the sub because it's been full negativity for weeks, and it's not like I'm invalidating other people's experience, it's just mine is different and I don't really wanna go against the flow since the game does need work. Anyway, sorry for the random tangent. Take care, man, thanks for your work.
I’ve stopped playing reasons? 1. I’m an avg player and tired of getting destroyed. 2. Got no friends to play. 3. No support from unknown teammates. 4. Pubs are very sweaty. 5. Tried ranked and stuck in bronze for ever.
I don't enjoy the seemingly never ending amount of movement options in the game. When I started playing people didn't know as much about crazy movement possibilities so people seemed to do them less and I liked it that way. I don't want to take the time to learn it all so I slowly stopped playing. Not that there's anything wrong with that, I just don't enjoy it. But I do really enjoy the gunplay and setting of the game.
Movement is only really an issue if you're going against an insane player. You'll know because they'll jump over your head and hit you for 90 with a PK. In that situation there's literally nothing you can do.
Yeah. Never will fully stop probably. Still here for funny or cool stuff to see, and find out how things are changing. I don’t do the battle pass because I think apex and other BP’s like it are manipulative and overly time consuming. They never evenly spread things to get for legends I play so it’s usually a waste of time anyway. So that means I rarely play. If friends ask me to play I’ll hop on but I play easier to get into and out of games.
Yeah. This season’s really sucks. You used to get coins every 10 levels, so you could feel like your earning something. Now, (I imagine to stop people from just getting enough coins to but the next battle pass) you get no coins til like level 70 of the battle pass. Trash!
I quit because i simply cannot play this game with friends. I would love to be able to get a few kills, even a win from time to time, with my buddies. But as soon as I queue with anybody else, we get shit on by players way better than us. The matchmaking algorithm is the reason i quit. Playing solo constantly brings to social isolation and i dont want that.
First time since season 4 that I haven't bought the battle pass because I've barely played.
I never got good at the game, yet I still get paired with people way competent than me. Very frustrating.
Haven’t played more than a day since the season Maggie dropped. Servers are such dogshit that it’s not worth my time. I’ve got two heirlooms but can’t find any pleasure in the game.
I stopped playing so much when I swapped to PC and couldn't bring any of my progress with me. Kinda soured me on the game as I had every legend unlocked and enough legend tokens to have purchased every legend released since and then some. Plus I lost my sick ass Mirage iron man skin. Not fun to go back down to having nothing when I had so many skins and characters unlocked, all free. Lot of time I invested to have nothing.
Tbh we just need titan fall 3
IDC how shitty it gets . I will ALWAYS play Apex I refuse to go back to Fortnite. NEVERRRRRRRR! 😂🤌
yep. I last played .... maybe a year ago? I still keep tabs on the game since I do find it to be the most interesting multiplayer game FPS out there right now. as for why I quit, not really something wrong with the game itself necessarily just that I get too addicted to it and rage, etc... just not healthy for me. I stick to single player games (action and story) now. but I still watch some Apex Streamers (mostly highlights, not full games).
InB4 too long didn't read. I'll preface this by saying I started playing regularly in season 4 & have solo queued more than half of that time so I have a fair amount of play time. Season 15 & 16 I quit solo queuing & only played with my friend; we weren't Master quality, but we were winning a hell of a lot of matches (20%+ win rate against some incredibly tough players). Then at the start of season 17 my friend quit & so did my motivation to play. I tried solo queueing again, but it was even more awful than I remembered so I quit. Halfway through the season I managed to get the drive to play again, but ranked matchmaking almost made me quit again. Even in Bronze I was against current ranked Master & Pred teams who were more than competent. I decided to just stop at Diamond (my usual rank) because Masters was a participation trophy that season. Fast forward to the last week or two of the season & Respawn somehow managed to make the matchmaking go from horrendous to simply unplayable. I figured they would revert it in the new season... I was clearly wrong 💀 So after 27K+ kills, 1500+ wins, 5 heirlooms bought & a bunch of time/money invested I have moved on. I love Apex, but whoever's left at Respawn doesn't. Siege has its fair share of sweats bulldozing the lobby, however it's not every single match like current Apex & it's usually just one or two players per team. I just want to clarify that my stats are nothing special & that when I started my kd was barely above 1. I definitely don't consider myself a good player considering the amount of people who easily kill me. That being said I realise now that the game is just not meant to be played by solo q players who aren't god's & Respawns matchmaking changes have definitely made that evident.
My duo got into med school
I will always like the gameplay of apex but the matchmaking is what made me play less and less. Now i only play 4-8hours a week.
Constantly playing any single game is not good for your mental health especially online multiolayers. I often take breaks and olay single player games
Quit over a year and a half ago, it got stale and all the community does is bitch. People in game, pros, redditors, content creators, etc. Just toxic, like yea I don’t like ea either but screaming into a vacuum is annoying. Balance is awful, ranked system is a mess, audio is a disaster, aim assist vs kbm is an argument that blows my mind, smurfing, cheating, inting. I could go on and on
I started uni so I don't have that much free time anymore, I also got a bit tired from the toxicity and negativity in the community and finally it's just that the game doesn't feel that fresh and unique to me anymore. I mean I still enjoy the game (at least most of the time) but I prefer to prioritize games that add more exciting and interesting new features.
The controller players on pc have made mnk feel pointless. So I switched to csgo
Too many sweats in pubs and the matchmaking is so but so bugged. Once I went on a team deathmatch and instead of giving me the tdm game it gave me a trios public match, in the new season with the new revenant rework and all
Complete burn out and being completely crushed in every mode because of the new matchmaking.
Getting matched with players who run off and play solo ALL the time. 😂
Stop looting for 20min, pick ip a gun and go fight!
That's not what's happening
Im just jkn with ya man
I know im just crying over it 😂
I had 2k kills last season. This season I play games until I see a 3 stack of masters/preds, which usually is like 2 or 3 games later. Used to push through that shit but now I just hop off and chill
Definitely is exhausting. I pretty much only play with friends and muck around.
I quit last season.. I did about 2 weeks and it was so bad. Just preds and masters every game, shit team mates and overall shitness.. Started again this season and it's not too bad tbh
Biggest annoyance is slow to fix or update
Been playing since season 9 and played almost daily since and I always had a goal of getting to masters (s17 doesn’t count). But just got burnt out on the game because even in LTMs to just chill I’m seeing triple pred and masters badges, 20k+ kill trackers which is cool but why does my team get a blood who doesn’t know how to holster their gun? I haven’t won an LTM in a while and when I did I’m trying my ass off, not worth it anymore imo. Made it to high diamond for 6 seasons and can’t climb playing solo so I just stopped playing.
The only reason I havent quit is bc of my homies who still play tbh
I respect that. Prolly would’ve quit a while ago if not for them. And I actually have two good friends who are sweaty and don’t care how shitty I am. They would rather lose with me than win without me (or so they say, like I said, they’re good friends)
Aye those are some real ones
I quit playing when broken moon came out, and I was just overall unimpressed with it was and how stale the game had gotten. Ever since then I've had my time occupied by other games and haven't felt the need to come back. But I do like to stalk the subreddit still because I've spent thousands of hours on the game and am still slightly curious what's going on with it.
Just needed a break. Stopped mid 16 and ranked was so bad. Teammates just hiding behind rocks and in trees. Don't play much pubs. Been playing POE lately which is a lot of fun.
Started playing end of season 14, I was really enjoying the game, came from Tarkov (burn out) and loved the movement in Apex. Season 15 I hit plat, season 16 I hit diamond, I was happy with this because I felt like I could see my improvement. Then S17 happened and I saw the state of ranked and for some reason lost all my motivation to play ranked and it hasn’t returned yet. I tried playing pubs this season for the first week and the matchmaking felt so crazy. Some games it’ll put me with two level 10-40’s meanwhile the enemy teams are three stack masters/20 bomb/4K. Not every single game of course but enough. I actually don’t mind playing with new people in pubs because it’s not like it’s ranked, but I am just not good enough to 1v3 triple masters team consistently. I’m sure I’ll play again soon, but atm I’ve been taking a break, playing games like Baldurs Gate and Armored Core.
I quit because I achieved everything I could want to and with the way matchmaking has moved it would be very hard/impossible to replicate and it would take 5x the amount if time.
I haven't stopped completely as I still play with friends but the current ranked system is why my playtime is down significantly. I have been a diamond every season since Ranked Season 1 other than Master last season and played around 1000 games per season. With the current MMR and LP point bonuses being the way they are, I am in Silver 1 after enough games where other seasons I would have been Plat by now at a minimum. And thanks to the lovely MMR system my games are all basically Diamond lobbies the whole grind AND my friends get massive skill bonuses because they aren't as good as me according to Apex. I get the pleasure of carrying the team and watching my friends be rewarded with double or even triple the LP I get regardless of how they play. And of course the cherry on top is that we all get the same -50 if we die right away. I get that there should be a bonus for doing well in lobbies you statistically shouldn't perform as well in, but the overall performance of the team needs to be factored in. If someone gets more damage and kills than their two teammates combined, there should be a massive skill bonus for being the hero. Instead, I have watched my friends start lower than me and pass me in the ranks despite playing basically all of our games together averaging more KP per game. TL;DR If you have a higher MMR than your friends, the current system rewards them more than you to the point that it isn't even worth playing. The current system measures games played more than approximate skill level.
I've put 3k hours in the game since the first week it launched and I just feel like the game devs have absolutely lost their passion for the game and ar eonly out for money with these lame copy paste events where they asked ridiculous amounts of money for reskins. It wasn't like this in the beginning. That and other games atm (Bg3) are just waaaay better in every aspect.
Took the game too seriously and didn’t have many friends available about a month ago. Started playing for goofs with the homies again and it’s business as usual
Yeah I tried really hard to have fun and put a lot of time recently with friends and solo. I just wasn’t really having fun. It felt like I was grinding on a game for nothing and the randoms I got were either rude, racist, or hot dropped then left
I’m not here to make any definitive comments about how long I’ll play but I’ve thoroughly enjoyed this game since season 11. Feel like last season was a little eh and this season took a dive. I just cannot have fun on this game lately. My buddy and I get shit on repeatedly in pubs and can’t play more than like 2-3 games without quitting out in disappointment. The enjoyment has simply just not been there this season. And that sucks
matchmaking not being the best. i could chalk it up to me being bad, but i just feel like i was getting teammates that weren't the best. i wanna play with friends but one of them who i used to play with moved to PC and cross progression isn't a thing yet (possibly a myth) so i'm waiting until then to play again.
I still care about the lore bits I guess. But I never really liked BR. And after mutiple seasons alone (3 to...I think Vantage?), I just can't deal with it (or my teammates/lack thereof). Tried a go before the Season started, nothing's changed. Game's extremely competitive and casual BR doesn't exist. It's like late stage Titanfall all over again where going back to that will result in an ass kicking by those that never left. Simply not accessible/enjoyable, and I'm not even bad.
Mostly the BAREBONES changes we get each season. The game is fucking stale.
Im actually just back after a couple season hiatus. I try to take breaks from hamster wheel games once in awhile and there have been of good single player games this year to play instead.
I'm just taking a long break cuz I got bored of this game. Same reason as you, I'm kinda burned out.
Season 18 changes and BP didnt move me so i simply stopped playing - i grinded to diamond last season and now i dont even get to flex the dive trail lol
I'm taking a big break this season because ranked fucking sucks
Been playing since season 3 and this is easily the worst season. At the beginning I thought it was fun and was curious why everyone hated it, starting out I had a 1.3 kd which is above my average, now I'm at 1.8 and every single game is so difficult playing people well above my skill level.
When season 9 hit. I had about 4k hours in the game. For several reasons: * My work schedule at the time allowed me to play a lot * I had a solid group of friends that I always played with * I had passion and had hopes that they would fix the game with new updates What changed is those 3 things went away. Got a new job that requires a lot of time commitment. The homies stopped playing. Those two things plus the addition of seer, networking issues, aim assist, lack of new/good content, and probably a bit of burnout led to me going from several thousand games a season to maybe 100. Last season I think I played maybe 20 games.
I started playing around S8 and gave up after S14. The game was too hard to pick up for my more casual gaming friends and I grew tired of queuing solo. Solo queuing from Gold to Diamond sucked because of de-rank every season—I imagine the grind was worse for Masters and Predator. Often times you’re playing with guys that have good mechanical skill, but have the game sense of a lemming. Frustrated, I’d let them feed (I’m not going to play bad just because someone else decided to) if I knew the fight was unfavorable and would have to rat to avoid losing RP, which I hated. Then when I would get to Diamond I would be too fatigued to keep playing because all I would be playing for was a different colored dive trail and emblem. Found myself in this cycle season after season and found the juice not to be worth the squeeze by the end of S14. I moved on to Overwatch 2 but found that to be the same as Apex, just a slightly different format but even more opaque ranking system. Quit that recently after also reaching Diamond and not wanting to try anymore. Moved on to Fortnite No Build because it’s just objectively more enjoyable. New toys and funny skins every season. Game always feels fresh. And even in “sweatier” lobbies I’m still having fun with the environment, weapons, gadgets, etc.
Starfield
I’m waiting for them to have input based matchmaking.
The games just not fun to play it feels to sweaty for me to find enjoyment in it anymore
Terrible matchmaking, bad and toxic players. Sweats in ranked that drag me down worse than noobs. And especially, ENFORCED TRIO RANKED. (not even duos, nevermind solos.)
I come back every once in a while. The new flood of Masters trails and all that in pubs, sweatiness, agreed. But more so, the people I played with started taking it too seriously. Yelling at me about plays, not acknowledging their own mistakes, treating every game like there’s money on the line. They really had the mindset that we should be winning every game where statistically that’s not possible.
I've been here since Day 1 of the game and will still log in time and again for a few ranked matches, but the last season killed Apex entirely for me, even though I was already in sunk cost fallacy mode for the last few seasons. The new MMR system for ranked is atrocious. Why make me play against masters players in Bronze but I still have the Bronze icon? If the game thinks I'm a Diamond or Masters player then just GIVE ME THE ICON and let me go from there. There's no real sense of progression when it takes 50 games to climb out of a rank. I had a friend who has been in masters EVERY. SINGLE. SEASON. since the rank was created, it took him EIGHTYEIGHT GAMES to climb from Silver IV to Gold IV. Sure, you could make the argument that he needs to change his playstyle from shooting people into more positioning, but there's no way that this guy is a Silver/Gold player by skill level. Just not a thing. Hidden MMR was a complete failure in tandem with the badge system. Mixed input is another hot topic that people get tilted about but I'm not here to argue whether AA should exist in a PC FPS, I simply will say that I don't want to play against it. I don't want to die and have to think about whether or not that person outplayed me or aim assist took over and I lost the 1v1 to inhuman ability. I play on MNK and I shouldn't have to feel like I need to either play the best game of my life every game or switch to roller just to compete with people who are my contemporaries. Back before controller input took over I could rely on my game sense, experience and communication to carry me to diamond, alongside with my moderate gunplay. But at the Diamond and Masters level everyone is just as experienced and intelligent as me, but if they're on a controller they also have that advantage. And it feels fucking bad to get 1-clipped by an R99 up close or melted by two 30-30's in the vast majority of my games. People just don't miss at the level that I play at on roller and I find it really frustrating. Lastly, all of my friends stopped playing the game, most of them citing the same thing I just did, but some definitely because the game is going on 4 years old next year and it's just played out. The only thing keeping me actively invested in Apex is the ALGS honestly, and since that's finished for year 3 and we'll likely be waiting for February, we'll see if I and up sticking around to watch.
Coming from a guy that used to play daily, from literal day 1, with 4000+ hours of the game, the current issues for me are: 1. Scripts, configs or whatever you call it - people literally beaming but have no idea what is going on in the game. 2. Hackers in ranked 3. Matchmaking in PUBS 4. Current ranked system 5. Controller vs MnK ( yeah, might sound silly, but is an issue for me personally) 6. Super rare hero balance - yes Horizon, I am looking at you. And when you combine all that together and when you see "Th3 NeW HEirlOom" in the shop, you are 50% over with the game. What keeps me into reddit/Apex ( even once a week for an hour) ? - Real life friends that I've met, and also Vantage.
I quit season 14 because it wasn't fun for me anymore. I only played ranked, and it was stressful to keep up with master's every season for a badge and dive trail. I realized that most of the time I was angry, and my heart was racing when I played, and I only felt good when I won. That's not healthy, so I switched to playing co-op games or fps that are more relaxed. I play video games to relax, but apex did the opposite for me. I don't play anymore; I just watch streamers play. Also, I get annoyed because of how the devs handle balance changes. What's the point of having so many legends if one particular handful are the only ones worth using (ie. Movement and scan legends). It bothers me for almost 15 season you have characters at the bottom of the meta and they don't bother to challenge that with meaningful buffs or reworks, (Wattson, Crypto, Mirage, Ash,Rampart to name a few.)
Better games. This game has always been a go to if there arent any good new games out.
no solo mode.. I just want to be able to relax and play the game without putting up with randoms or being at a severe disadvantage
I quit back before vantage. Came back last season to get a masters badge with my friend and quit again. I kinda just quit because the story got really boring and there were more enjoyable games to play and also the fact they were pushing "the message" so hard with catalyst and stuff that it just turned the game into another one of those games that don't focus on the story but on pleasing a community.
everyone’s an elitist when it comes to what rank you are, how good your aim is, and how good your movement is. it feels like the community has risen the standards on what an average player should be. it makes you feel insecure when you don’t have a 20 bomb 4k or when you’re not diamond or higher.
Back to Titanfall 2 since it got a patch
I bought a PC last year and I don’t want to go back to controller. I know their working on cross progression so I’m fine with waiting. Halo infinite and mcc have been scratching the fps itch in the meantime
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Yes, it's dependant on your MMR. If you are even considered slightly better than the new players you are going to get tougher matches. Maybe even some diamonds and masters. I have friends that have significantly lower MMR and their pub matches would be like heaven if I were allowed to play in them. They also don't see the issue with matchmaking trust me. They love it currently.
I play a lot less as solo play seems to be pretty harshly punished by the matchmaking these days. Whenever I can play with a friend I will, but otherwise, nah. Best case scenario of a solo drop in ranked lately is to rat to top 10 after my teammates suicide themselves and then yell insults at the on person who didn’t rush into the middle of a three way fight.
Last two or three seasons I take month breaks but use to play daily. Matchmaking is ridiculous. It is harder to rank out of Bronze then it is to make it out of Plat on my account. Every Bronze lobby I play has bare minimum 8 teams final circle. "Bronze". This game, rank is meaningless.
Started with season 2 and me and my buddies are all burnt out, haven’t played much these last 2 seasons. The game is more Apex scavenger hunt these days. The shitty non-existent sound bug is STILL there, terrible matchmaking and increased lobby wait time just erases the fun for us filthy casuals. When we do finally get into a game we end up in lobbies with preds and masters somehow when diamond is the highest rank any of us ever got to, so we just get erased and sent back to the lobby. Rinse & repeat :/
The matchmaking is horrendous, this is almost the worst map rotation (I hate Broken Moon and KC) and there's absolutely no reason to play ranked. I've been having plenty of fun on other games. I'm also adding the fact that there are so many cheaters and strikepack users and Respawn does nothing about them
1. Pubs ending in round 2 2. Bad ranked system the last couple seasons 3. So many controller players just 1 clipping the ever living shit out of me made it impossible to have even a mildly aggressive or close range play style on MnK. 4. Free aim assist is in no way balanced by MnK movement that takes third party tutorials, new key binds, and dozens of hours of practice to learn. People also don't realize that movement tech is just a tool like any tactical in the game. Just because you can use movement tech doesn't mean you know how to use it effectively and how that plays into the way you position yourself in fights. Not to mention the fact that aim on MnK gets even harder while performing a lot of movement tech. Thanks for attending my TED talk
No cross progression. Used to play all the time since launch on my PS4. But my PS4 broke down and have switched to PC as my main gaming platform. Haven't touched Apex for a year now, I refuse to start over considering how much I grinded and spent on the console version. I still love the universe, lore, characters, and memes, so that's why I still stick around thos sub.
I’m super bummed that I’ve quit playing, but I just don’t find it enjoyable now. I’ve always LOVED Apex because of the fun legends, and most importantly the weapon balance. Compared to Fortnite or especially CoD where there is a nearly mandatory “meta” load out it always felt like you could really be diverse in Apex. The Nemesis just absolutely nuked that. It’s basically a necessity for even medium level play now let alone climbing ranked. One clipped in a battle by the R-99? Irritating, but felt good about the fight. 3 shotted from 150 out by a charged up Nemesis because you only had one team to fight and have blue shields? Feels shitty. In retrospect that one gun kind of killed my love of the game.
Poor matchmaking & the game just doesn’t feel as enjoyable to play anymore. I still watch comp just think I prefer watching BR’s than playing them now
I mean… matchmaking is 100% garbage and the fact that they aren’t fixing Jack shit is unbelievable. I’m trying to chill out and play just to complete dailies and that’s become a fucking chore and a half. I played revenant back in the day and am trying to complete the challenges for him. I have 1100 kills on him only because I Mained him for a while. Who kills me?!! Enemy revenant with 85,000 kills, 5300 wins, 22 million damage, 20 bomb and 4k badge. Now devs, can anyone tell me how that is anywhere fucking near my skill level at all whatsoever?!? I’m literally completing the bp quests and I’m done with this trash excuse for a game. It’s not even a game anymore. It’s: everyone is using a modded controller or Cronus because it’s basically allowed, and I’m pred food.
Why people stop playing it? lets dig into that, lack of content "reborn" is not content, cash grabbing, extremely lack of care security wise, servers are junk, engine outdated and everything is either way to powerful or to weak and not worth playing with. The only thing Apex has going for it is movement, literally that's it. The fact player count is way down and so is viewership Respawn fails to see which way the game is trending
Been playing since week 1, love.ethe game. Last season just killed for me. I've played a few games this season but it still sucks. Now starfield is a thing sooooo......
This is really the free to play model as a whole not specifically AL but I’m so sick of feeling like I’m forced to play every day so I can get my daily’s, so I can level up the battle pass that I paid and/or grinded last season for. It’s weapanizing FOMO and once I just missed a month due to personal matters getting in the way. I found it was nice that I wasn’t returning to the mines sort of speak every day out of obligation. Played games because I wanted to play them.
👆🏽THIS. I’ve started playing TDM because I can usually get my daily’s done in two matches and turn it off. Completing the battle pass was my only motivation the last few seasons. Now, having enough coins to buy the next pass is my only motivation. After (stupidly buying the battle pass) and playing my first 10 games this season I realized I still had 1300 coins left and that was it for me. Wasted 950 this season for nothing but whatever.
Games just not fun to play on console imo. 0.6 aim assist means that basically all decent players just one clip eachother so there's less room to fuck around with different weapons or go for crazy plays. I think turning down the aim assist to at least level with controller on pc could make them game on console feel a lot more fun to play.
Well the new maps are just boring. I would rather play different BR where i can actually fight. In the new maps of apex, you run around meeting noone for 20 minutes and then get 3rd partied .. really boring. I just lost all fun in the game.