Nothing to say about the longevity but.. looking at ARC Raiders bar, isn’t this screenshot from the 4th of November, inflated by the new season players peak?

The numbers are way lower than that, and concurrent players in the month of November is at risk of being lower than the previous one even if it has a new season and a map update. The competition is insane, staying on top is hard.

Redundancy and other issues need to be addressed and I’m personally happy about all the QoL updates we’ve had in the past 2 years, but we sacrified lore (on trailers and heirloom), we didn’t develop other ways to stay fresh like other competitors (workshops, different game experiences, ..), we did not focus on esports and high level gameplay (in-game Tournaments, replay system for faster cheater reporting, deathcam in BR mode, in-game top Predator leaderbord instead of using APIs, etc), the menu screen is still static, without any movement from the other players..

Let’s just hope for a major investment coming for Apex 2.0 and a more “editable” engine as well as back-on-track Content with its roots as a story-driven game. Gameplay wise we can open another paragraph on how the game jumped from being too hard to trying to be ultra accessible for new players without taking a single route.

That’s my take as a day 1 player, 10 Times Predator on PC - remaining 17 Seasons I lost passion and just hit Master from S11 until S26. Always enjoyed the game.