May 2019
Sitting here at level 90 on the battlepass struggling to even finish it because all of my friends have stopped playing a long time ago, so all of those battlepass 'rewards' that give you bonus XP for playing with friends have just stood in my way and actually make it much harder for me to progress since its taking up levels. I get it, someone needed to have exactly "100" rewards in an attempt to make the battlepass enticing, but its just such a bore. I actually much more fun on my secondary account before I bought the battlepass even though it was out, at this point I just want to finish it to get what I paid for and stop playing Apex for the foreseeable future.
The wingman has been nerfed into the ground, it stands no chance against a havoc at this point, you took away its accuracy, both ADS and hipfire it seems like, and with a reduced mag its just not worth picking up. To me the wingman really made this game great, but my friends who have stopped playing wanted it to be nerfed a long time ago. Well I guess they got what they wanted and now the wingman is garbage. Nerfing it made them mildly happy for a tiny bit but they don't even play the game at this point. I know this won't be the experience for others who still play and enjoy the wingman nerf, but from my perspective it just seems like all the changes you made to appease my friends complaining have done nothing and you are making changes for the wrong target audience.
I just feel like this game has gone the way of Destiny 1 for me again, where they just nerfed every single gun into the ground and vanilla destiny was better than destiny after a bunch of patches, at least for me anyways since I'm decent with the wingman / handcannon type weapons, except now they suck and can't hit anything predictably.
The worst part of the entire game is the reward system. You have sort of an exponential curve of less and less rewards the higher you level up. You are literally giving players incentive to not level up and quit the game. And once you reach max level you are rewarded with the gift of being able to never get any rewards for leveling ever. I reached level 100 with like 500 crafting metals and I couldn't even craft the one item I wanted. 20 dollars for everything in the store is absolutely ridiculous. You expect every single cosmetic to sell for $20 dollars and its just stupid, I bought the wraith deal because it came with 2 skins which almost makes it bearable but I'm done making purchases at the shop, my pockets aren't deep but I ain't broke either. There just isn't anyone or anything pulling me into this game anymore.
Oh and one more thing, I abused the +twitch_prime_somethingsomething launch option switch people were talking about to see what rewards I would get. Nothing spectacular. You spend all that effort to correct the database mess up and take everyones free rewards away and even note the people who did it for future reference. Well guess what I bought the twitch prime deal after you fixed everything and it's completely messed up, it didn't give me 5 loot boxes whatsoever, so it resulted in me having to bug a lot of poor support people and get a refund from Amazon. Still left me with the Omega Pathfinder skin, so I guess all that effort you spent was for nothing. Maybe you can pay someone to edit the database and take that off my account and waste even of people's time and money. So instead of Twitch getting money from people who abused this mess up, you actually costed them lost sales and additional costs for both Amazon and Twitch support time.