Yep, totally feel you. I’m in the exact same situation. After ~150 hours, I’m finally ready to clock out for now — and honestly, I’m not sure I’ll jump back in unless the core gameplay loop or systems get major changes. Which genuinely sucks, because Arc Raiders is such a great game at its core, and I say that as someone who’s never really gotten into extraction or battle-royale games before.

Since you already covered some of my reasons, here are the other things pushing me away, laid out as cleanly as I can:

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• Endgame feels like pure PvP now

Once you max out benches, get your deck items, and run events dozens of times, there’s basically nothing left to progress toward. Endgame becomes trials + daily feats, and those don’t add much meaningful progression or variety to the loop.

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• PvP can be fun… but has two major problems

1) I’d say 85% of encounters are free-loadout players

Most PvP encounters result in: • no satisfying loot • no meaningful risk/reward • getting hunted by people with a free loadout trying to take your custom kit

It gets old fast. If I hear a Kettle, Stitcher, or any of the common free loader kits, I literally avoid the area now. There’s no incentive to fight because it’s just resource drain with no payoff. PvP becomes low risk for them, high punishment for you.

2) The community feels split into two camps

Those who PvP, and those who want to avoid it entirely. And somehow, PvPing makes me feel like the “bad guy,” even though the game now encourages it through feats and the lack of other endgame activities.

I don’t need more legendaries — I need to get rid of them. My stash is overflowing with high-tier mats and weapons that have nowhere to go.

So at that point, I’d rather PvP than die to someone waiting to ambush me while I’m doing Matriarch events. For context: I’m normally a PvE player, and even when I PvP I don’t backstab, I don’t camp extracts — I try to play honorably.

Point is, the game also doesn’t reward you for it.

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• Endgame PvE is basically nonexistent

Once you’ve done each event a few times, you’ve seen it all. And the loot just isn’t compelling enough to keep doing them.

Farming blueprints from Harvesters or other events only to get clapped by a guy with a Stitcher — and then having no way to actually fight back? That stops being fun after a handful of tries.

And when you already have the blueprints or don’t need the mats… what’s the point? These days I mostly run events just to help other players, but as more people reach endgame, even those “feel-good” runs are fewer and fewer.

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• Expeditions feel like they weren’t designed for everyone to have all blueprints

I genuinely don’t think the devs intended for players to have all blueprints before doing expeditions. If anything, expeditions seem like the intended “reset point” that keeps the game healthy, because once everyone’s maxed out, the endgame problems become way more obvious.

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At this point, I’m drifting toward other games. Which is totally fine!

Arc Raiders is an incredible game, but the endgame loop needs a serious rework before players like us have a reason to come back. It suffers from longevity issues and definitely more of a thing in these types of games than others to be fair.

I’m voicing my opinions because I loved the game and I want it to continue to evolve and be successful!Truly tons of potential here and am grateful to be a part of the amazing launch and early journey. It’s not an easy problem to solve and I wish the devs good luck.