Once the players submitted their clips to the Apex official Twitter, another video was posted with the phrase, “You submitted your clips; now it’s our turn to answer. What rank did we rate your plays?” It showcased an assorted lot of players’ gameplay moments with a rank slapped on it by the devs themselves, or at least the implication, a bit of fun community outreach to really engage with their player base.
The replies were like an open invitation to every person who has ever had the slightest grievance against Apex in the last few years to start coming out with their concerns. The video itself was almost an afterthought. The real show was the comment section, which very quickly transformed into a sprawling and unwieldy catalogue of demands, grievances, and widespread confusion over the inner workings of the game.
Immediately, this spirit and up-display-name NAPFlame 😈🃏 comes out swinging: “@PlayApex No wonder the ranked system is inflated and make it easier.” No hello, no, ‘cool video’; just straight into the ranked system is messed up. They weren’t the only one, though. Another user, Prem_Dans_L’Armoire, expressed the very question on the lips of most of us: “@PlayApex Why are these silver better than my random diamond teammates?” Which is honestly quite the mood-killer. The ranked experience can feel so inconsistent at times; having Silber-level plays throwing down the gauntlet only helps to underscore that strange feeling.
It then goes full Caustic. No conversation about Apex would be complete without someone grabbing the Toxic Trapper. JollySmokeEater continued: “@PlayApex Give caustic his passive back. It literally is the character. He should never take damage in gas. You guys nerfed him harder than you buffed him…” followed later by KendrickFlinn on the same thread: “Is it true they removed Caustic taking damage from enemy Caustic gas in the last patch?” So a mini-forum opens up for one legend’s balancing issues right under the tweet.
And the requests kept coming. Ehlven wanted season trackers for legends eliminated. Allaan00 just wanted a way to craft the bat heirloom. And then there was the eternal, all-time classic from slushhpuppyy: “@PlayApex hi devs! fix the games audio pls!” That is one thing that all Apex players agree on, regardless of their rank or main: audio needs some serious love.
But not all comments were trash either! ENVY requested some good vibes ‘@PlayApex keep doing these, these r fun to watch,’ and FoxJupi asked if there will be more videos because they wanted to see their own submitted clip. So the community actually appreciates the effort put in, even if the immediate conversation begins going down other avenues.
Now, it’s about to get spicy. voduch98 gave a clear rating, ‘@PlayApex Apex needs new devs for legend balance and design. Over the years they’ve added so many stupid things nobody asked for and now the game is unbearable.’ Oof. Definitely shows the split in the community between those who are enjoying the core gameplay and those who have lost track of what the meta is supposed to be.
Wait. It sounds like I was about to say something along those lines, right? Oh, back to the video. The actual reason for the tweet. It’s definitely a very good idea. The devs were given an opportunity themselves to rate the clips, adding a sort of official, cheeky twist to the whole “clip culture” that develops around games like Apex. It’s that direct player-to-creators line. And yet hilariously, this direct communication immediately gets hijacked for everything except talking about the clips. It’s like calling the help desk and immediately asking about the weather.
One of the better comments was from GunslingerTrance: “@PlayApex Are you guys ranking their main accounts or the smurf ones?” This is a very good question to be asked, especially with the smurfing debate on the rise in competitive shooters. Do they consider ranks when rating the plays, or is it just an assessment of the mechanical merit? This tweet doesn’t make it clear.
And then random, somewhat irrelevant, impromptu technical questions got thrown in as well, like TheOG_FuseMain23’s “@PlayApex What was the update for ps5 about today?” See where I’m going with this? That single tweet literally became the storage site for every single thought being thrown out by the Apex community at this very moment.
It’s kind of funny. I mean, you post a little lighthearted, missing-community kind of video, and you get the perfect, unerring snapshot of what the player-base is actually thinking about. It’s really not about the video. It’s about the state of the game. Ranked system, legend balancings, audio issues, missing features are what occupy people’s thoughts right now. The video is just there to crack the floodgates open.
So yeah, the Apex devs were clearly just trying to have some fun rating plays, and the entire community responded with a State of the Game. It’s wild. A bit all over the place. But most importantly, it is reality. If you want to know what the people of Apex really cared about at the time, scroll through the replies to that tweet. The clip rankings were fabulous; the real show was all in the comments. Typical as ever.
