- Season 13 ranked changes were introduced and then quickly reverted
- Diamond 1 and up being the only players pulled into masters pred matchmaking was introduced and taken away the next split
- Drop Zone was introduced and taken away later.
I truly believe there are devs behind the scenes pushing for more competitive changes. But I also believe the casual player base negatively reacts to these changes and I assume play ranked less. Someone behind the scenes gets spooked by this and reverts the changes.
Apex has unfortunately done this for so long that I truly believe Ranked is a lost cause. The casual player base will continue to react negatively to these changes because they dont know what makes comp end games fun. They have never felt that rush. They dont care to improve. They just want to run around fight each other and get a reward for it.
This is just my theory but regardless sad that instead of pushing the COMPETITIVE mode to be more COMPETITIVE we continue to make it Pubs with a badge
Ranked update in Season 28:
• Drop Zone has been removed from Ranked
• Ranked matches return to the drop ship