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@GBALL321 @ricklesauceur I agree with you @GBALL321 💯 I've been playing since day 1 but was really bad at video games at the time so I didn't play much until mid to end of season 3 and then I was ADDICTED. It was one of the best games I've ever tried and it was social, goofy, fun, and..

@GBALL321 @ricklesauceur I met some of my closest friends to this day in apex, literally my best friend I met in apex. However we all kinda stopped playing the last couple seasons and almost entirely this past season 14. The matchmaking was horrible beyond horrible. We're all not super good but

@GBALL321 @ricklesauceur But also not horrible at the game either. However the Smurf accounts in pubs and rank are out of hand, and in pubs its ALWAYS preds and masters destroying lobbies. In all modes I'm seeing this, pubs, arenas, ranked, and the LTMS. I completely

@GBALL321 @ricklesauceur We completely stopped playing ranked season 12, 13 and 14 cause the changes they made were so bad. I worked hard to get to plat finally season 11 that's how average of a player I am and almost everyone I play with is. But getting thrown into matches with diamonds, master's and

@GBALL321 @ricklesauceur Even press season 13 and 14 is ridiculous, I only stayed in gold season 12 cause I noticed the changes were horrible, then s.13 and 14 I was bronze again cause I played so little cause of the changes a total of 95 games combined for s.13 & 14 and now I'm back to bronze 4 lol and

@GBALL321 @ricklesauceur Preds not press oops

@GBALL321 @ricklesauceur And the few times i tried ranked this season, 7 out of 10 times if it's me alone or my friend and I together, we/I get teammates that are rookies then champion shows and they all have master and pred badges. It's laughable at this point. Honestly why the hell did they make rookie

@GBALL321 @ricklesauceur Its made no sense to any of us. But pubs which we prefer to play is just as bad mostly worse. This is the littlest I've ever played Apex in a season since I started day one and didn't know how to play lol. Ive even been playing games I thought I'd NEVER even try or like cause

@GBALL321 @ricklesauceur Of how much I loved apex and was loyal to the game. I like to have fun in games it shouldn't always be a stressful time or frustrating. I play cause real life is hard and it's nice to escape to another world. Ya I'll play competitive sometimes and really take it seriously but

@GBALL321 @ricklesauceur Video Games need to be fun. That’s kind of assumed? Cars need to drive, Boats need to float. Entertainment products need to entertain. Lol
Did you know the definition of entertain, entertainment, and fun are nearly the same? If you're play a game and it's not fun to you...

@GBALL321 @ricklesauceur then why are you playing it. and of course everyones vision of fun is different, it's all opinion but the majority of peoples posts I've read or talked to say almost the same thing every time. It's not fun anymore. It's not fun going into a match just to die right away to a

@GBALL321 @ricklesauceur player with such higher skill level than you. Video games need to be games first and foremost. The game part needs to be fun, not an acceptable chore to get through... It's supposed to be a hobby, at least it is for most players, the average players.

@GBALL321 @ricklesauceur And I get that a free game like apex needs to make money so a lot of changes they make in favor of the pro players, the streamers, etc however, I was throwing money at the game to support it constantly when I felt it was geared towards someone more average like me.

@GBALL321 @ricklesauceur I also stopped though cause it started to feel like the designs and cosmetics were rapidly going down hill. And the prices for the less rare items became laughable. So they just changed the label of the rarity and slapped a different price on it. A visually artistic person like

@GBALL321 @ricklesauceur myself noticed right away. And I'm not the only one. One of the driving factors behind successful video games are the in-game reward systems they use to keep players engaged. and I know you can't keep everyone happy, that's completely out of the question,

@GBALL321 @ricklesauceur but you don't have to make things worse by targeting just one specific kind of player. There needs to be a rework as an over all for this game in my opinion, one for the pros and one for is advantage players. The community for this game is wonderful,

@GBALL321 @ricklesauceur genuine people who love this game, and they have been screaming at the top of their lungs all over social media begging for changes for all these reasons, the sbmm, the rewards, the bugs, the audio, etc, if the apex community doesn't see some of these positive changes for,

@GBALL321 @ricklesauceur these every day casual players I don't see this game lasting and honestly, I'd be heart broken. So please start listening when someone that plays your game says it's not fun anymore.... That they keep dying over and over to better players etc, it's a big issue and,

@GBALL321 @ricklesauceur it's being ignored. And if a game ignores the people playing it, well there's really no more game anymore is there then? Aren't we the ones playing it? Common sense. ❤️

@GBALL321 @ricklesauceur Oh and one more thing, side note, HUGE thing that also made me nearly stop playing ENTIRELY this season, that ring change, it completely ruined the game, it doesn't stop 3rd parties, like it was described to be why it changed to damage more and start closing earlier...

@GBALL321 @ricklesauceur All it did was make playing nearly unbearable. And the majority of all the beautiful maps unplayable. You either can land with everyone in one spot and get lucky or die within minutes, or land to your favorite spots and spend the rest of the game with...

@GBALL321 @ricklesauceur A ridiculous amount of heals in your backpack (which shouldn't be necessary, if you even can hold them or find enough) to run from the ring the whole game, and then get ur butt pushed in by players gate keeping ring, or die from ring cause you landed with another team and..

@GBALL321 @ricklesauceur By the time you were done fighting, you couldn't loot enough or have time to heal so you die via ring. Its one of the worst changes I've ever seen. Isn't the whole point of a battle royal to be the last one standing, out of a large group of people?

@GBALL321 @ricklesauceur Hence why you get the most XP for lasting the longest, i.e. 1st, 3rd,5th placements. To be able to strategize, rotate, play as a team, and come out with a victory together whether you have 20 kills or 1. Not to dive into a spot with the entire lobby and the game lasts only 5mins.

@GBALL321 @ricklesauceur Sorry for the long rant, I'm done now, I never write this kind of thing but I couldn't resist voicing my opinions this time. Cause I really love Apex, thousands of ppl all ages around the world do, & to me that's really incredible, and I don't want to see this game fall apart. 🥰

@GBALL321 @ricklesauceur Thanks to devs, to design, to the actors behind the most adored video game characters, and to the #apexcommunity for everything possible for this game #ApexLegends cuz the last 3yrs brought much happiness to ppl, so despite the neg things, this game is a well loved achievement❤️

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