Apex Legends Casuals Think Pros Are Ruining The Game

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As one side of the player base points fingers at the other like that one Spider-Man meme, it appears that lower-ranked players are teaming up against higher-ranked ones to get them outta the match as soon as possible. In a YouTube video by Apex Legends content creator Inqo, you can see Inqo being hunted by multiple players for simply being an Apex Predator, the game’s highest rank. The dead giveaway for everyone in any given match is the fiery dive trail pros leave behind as they freefall, a cosmetic item you only get by reaching the rank of Diamond, Master, or Apex Predator. As soon as Inqo landed, they’re instantly chased and executed by a bunch of other rival players who all teabag Inqo’s corpse in celebration, illustrating just how much these casuals can’t stand pros.

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Inqo, who’s competed at the annual Apex Legends Global Series esports tournament in years past and has “hit Predator rank in multiple seasons,” told Kotaku over Twitter DMs that while the current state of matchmaking in public games is fine, the same can’t be said for ranked right now.

“The matchmaking for ranked right now is horrible though and is the reason I’m not playing. As a pred [Predator] you will be put into plat [Platinum] and Diamond lobbies which is wild, and should not be happening. If I am pred I enjoy the challenge and do not want to be versing plats every game. I don’t think either pros or casuals are ruining apex, but casuals seem to blame every bad update on pros. Regarding self-res removing (very happy it’s gone) a lot of casuals simply didn’t understand that it ruined end-game lobbies in high rank. And it was the fact that their squad would still be alive after killing all three that made it broken in the end-game. Not that fact that they could be self-rezzing. Same thing with the Kraber nerf, every pro only wanted it gone from competitive lobbies only! We didn’t want a nerf, we just wanted it gone. And casuals don’t seem to understand that.”

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Kotaku has reached out to Respawn Entertainment for comment.

This isn’t the first time casual and pro Apex Legends players have blamed each other for supposedly ruining the game. The heated debate sparked last summer as posts from casuals across social media, from Reddit to publisher EA’s forums, decried the influence pros have. Even T-Pain said streamers like FaZe Clan co-owner Nicholas “Nickmercs” Kolcheff were tainting casuals’ experience.

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