The Downfall Of Heirlooms 

Universal heirlooms are definitely a flop for me, the whole point of heirlooms are how they fit the character and have a whole bunch of personality.

the fact they cancelled making a newcastle heirloom for that shitty universal artifact made me kinda upset

Next I hope for the downfall of EA

There’s no fucking way. I can’t believe mad Maggie isn’t gonna get her heirloom. It has me suicidal rn

I was ignorant to think universal heirlooms would be rare and tied into a cool cross-over, like Final Fantasy was, I got the Buster Sword to tide me over until Vantage gets her personal heirloom. Now I’m realizing that the game will probably die before the circle back to that. So disappointed…

“Would you quit apex for 2 months for free shards” Ahem YES

Looking back it just makes me sad the community as a whole didn't fight back harder even after the first event because no other F2P game seems to make you pay over 200 bucks an event potentially just to collect everything. It's such a scam

New Players: I got red shards Og Players: ***sad***

I kinda blame the community itself for not realizing it sooner it would’ve been bad

They’re gonna have to give me back my 5 years worth of ranked badges before I redownload this game

I don't understand how they fail to realize how much more money they'd make if they made heirlooms more affordable for the playerbase. If it's less expensive then more people would want to buy it, it'd generate more trust/respect from players, and that would generate much more money in the long term. But no, they chase the short term financial gain and lose out on both player respect AND money. That's what being blinded by greed does to these companies. It makes them oblivious to the better solution because all they understand is "Higher number is better!"

The video shuold be called "Respawn fucks up several times in a row"

They basically stopped at the season 11 character ash it’s so sad seeing the game go down this path they’re literally telling us that they don’t care about the game. They only want to make as much money as they can with universal heirlooms.

This is just bullshit.. Basically Heirloom shards are useless for a part of the community, that will grow overtime..So don't say "Oh only the low picked legends won't get one" cuz even the future legends won't get one..In other words..Respawn can release a banger of legend that has 3rd highest pickrate but it will never get his/her legend based heirloom and that will be fucked up..Universal Heirlooms or Artifacts are ok if they where the free version and u can spend money to costumize them like a pre legend heirloom thingy but not smth to overcome/overshadow the legend based heirloom bc cmon now u can't say the big sword and this Katar are better than many legend based heirlooms bc both of us know ur lying..🤷

Spending money over virtual shards to unlock virtual skins in a game is such a dystopic idea. And thanls to EA, it's real. Not leaving anytime soon.

I really doubt that legend heirlooms will stop. They're releasing new legends at a much slower pace, so they'll eventually catch up to where every legend gets an heirloom weapon + skin... they are probably just trying to spread out the time a bit with the universal heirloom and upgrades.

As a Crypto main, I would've considered getting the heirloom just for the finisher, if the finisher was better. Default finisher: Asset Procurement - He grabs a USB like thing from the downed fellow, which has information which Crypto wants, he takes it, and then he's gone. The legendary finisher: Grab the downed fellow, have his drone scan the fellow for all their worth, while he's looking around to make sure no one's sneaking up on him, knocks him out and leaves. "Heirloom" finisher: "Heirloom - A memento of legacy" - Grab a blade that's fractured into pieces, assemble it, start "floating"/"jumping" while t-pose horizonal slash them (WHILE SPINNING MIND YOU). - It has nothing related to Crypto except the blade. The previous 2 finishers where all to "gather information" and just "knock out" - the "heirloom" finisher is not there for information, Crypto knows you're guilty, and he's there for the kill. But what does he do? An unassembled blade, slow kill, ineffective kill, no urgency or desperation from a fugitive, no caution, no rage against his assailant - just an expressionless ineffective kill. It just felt so disappointing. Bloodhound at least used technology, that which went against their principles from their youth, and combined new ways and the old ways of the hunter. Bangalore had an intimidating presence with brutal "Going in for the kill" with effortless execution, worthy of that of a soldier. Caustic with the unholy abomination of poison corroding flesh and bone to a mere sludge, fitting for toxic trapper. Valkyrie bringing a storm of blades to skewer the down foe with impunity. (Fitting if you know Valkyrie from nordic mythology, since they were battlemaidens (although this may be me missremembering popfiction and mythology) Revenant grabbing your soul and pulling it into his shadow realm. (Hella metal, if I was revenant main I'd get it for sure, shame I'm Crypto all the way) Loba finally getting some actual claws fitting for her, (although imo disappointing), she stabs the foes up close and personal and makes them disintegrate. She really robbed them of everything they had. Meanwhile Crypto: Wonky horizontal spin slash attack while floating/jumping. Of course it's a little bit unfair to compare 15 mythic skins to merely 1 finisher, but it's only mythic finishers that I can compare with

Funny how one of the last actual good heirlooms had “Hope Lives” on it and then they started to get worse.LIES

Recolors of heirloom are worth less instead of release new recolors they just had to make em level up to new color just like prestige skins

i've played almost every day since season 4 and I have one heirloom. every battle pass, every collection event, at least 100 dollars on packs....and I still have just one. lmao

I hate how INCONSISTENT apex is If they want to add things, they shouldn't complete cancel or leave unfinished other things (like the heirlooms for characters that do not have one yet, how some prestige skins and heirlooms have certain features that the others do not have, making some of them look like they have less value)

Im a day one/season 0 player and still to this day, i dont have an heirloom for any legend whatsoever

I haven't played the games in months, I never payed attention to the new updates to the game so when cross progression happened, I got all my heirlooms but I had duplicate heirlooms so I lost that money and I also lost 80,000 kills because I logged into my pc account not my PlayStation account. That killed my motivation for the game and I haven't touched it since. I got burned by Respawn and now I don't buy in game items or skins anymore.

The smartest thing they could do is drop all the remaining legends heirlooms at once, and release new legends with their looms, and just do periodic collection events for shards.

Literally everyone with the thematic events "Wow these are actually great! They should do them more often!" Respawn: "They loved it! Scrap that shit!"

I played Season 1, 2 and 3 and the most crazy thing you can have back then were the Wraith Knifes. Now I came back to Season 20 and it feels nothing special any more tbh.

I just got heirlooms shards yesterday and got so excited cause I was thinking I’ll save em up to get blood hounds recolour… but we all know that’s not happening so I just ended up getting wraiths, now I got 3 🎉 but uni heirlooms are whack af tbh

i have stop getting mythic melee weapons ever since they introduced character mythics

as someone who has only recently picked up the game after dropping it in season 4. the current state of heirlooms baffles me. there's so many and it feels less like a fun side thing to get rarely and more like a way to show you spend tons of money

Been playing this game since 2020 and yet no heirloom I have over a 1000hours on this game yet no heirloom Apex just doesn’t award the grind Reason I even moved to Warzone cause of they award the grind

i got heirloom shards for the first time yesterday and i accidentally bought the wrong heirloom. don’t ask me how💀

The thing that put me off heirlooms was the fact that I had opened upwards of 300 packs from just levelling up, never spent a penny on packs. Not a single heirloom in sight, my friend spent money on 100 packs and got 2, I refuse to believe that paid packs dont have increased heirloom odds, all I ever wanted was Caustics hammer and I never got it, now I dont even have the game installed because I stopped caring

They can do whatever they want with cosmetics. Character heirlooms are great, but the target market is limited. Universal heirlooms are for everyone and if you dont want do do the collection events that are fine too since they are rng and expensive. the new materials for them seem cool since now you can get them along with the reactive skins using the currancy, but we dont know how much that will cost. I think they format the seasonal challenges for the flatline is meant for engagement along with the battle pass with a plus of earning the skins for a heavy discount to being free though playing. We are able to play the game for free. if you cant afford it then thats tough. Riot has been doing more stuff for the whales to make them feel more separated from the free to play/ small spenders. they had a 500 dollar jhin recolor you got from grab bags similar to how this current event is going.

I bought the anniversary heirloom shards that first year it was added, and I’ve pulled heirlooms shards twice since then

it went wrong when they started releasing recolors of heirlooms after the community said no more recolors in event skin.... i knew it was over when i saw people with the wraith recolor heirloom. they could've just updated animations and colors for free, but here we are at deathbox skins.

What mostly bugs me is i have wraiths recolour kunai and prestige, but they don't seem to want to give the older mythic items love, i just want the dive and to swap out the emote for a finisher. sadly this wont happen

I am surprised you didn't mention the peacekeeper recoulour from that collection

I’ve only bought 2 of the heirlooms I own out of 6 total, the rest, randomly from 500 loot box openings and random shard drops, I’m really lucky compared to most people I play with but I’ve invested hundreds in cosmetics and I’m pretty selective to what I spend my money on in game purchases nowadays, EA already got too much of my money over the years, I haven’t spent any real money on Apex for well over a year and it’s gonna continue on this trend

can’t stop hyper focusing on the PvZ music

THE PLANT VS ZOMBIES SONG

I genuinely to this day believe that heirlooms didnt only not fit the character but didnt feel that much valuable after they released the third heirloom like with the first and second that is wraith which was there since even before season 1 and blood hound they were so good and detailed that felt like it has to be with that said character but what really made people realize the downfall is after the purchasable heirloom that can be equipped with every legend the coblat knife and that giant Guts sword

4:25 I deadass had to rewind to make sure I heard that right

Is it possible that after the problem in season 8, I can't no more get ready for the game and I always have to go to the main menu?

Since they added classes I feel like they could add class specific heirlooms if they wanted to keep doing the universal heirlooms but still it kinda sucks

Most of the history of heirlooms exists before EA bought out respawn. Now all we get are overpriced universal heirlooms. New Castle was going to get his heirloom next but they trashed the work

Wait is the cobolt thing limited aswell?

people could not resist the buster sword which sadly makes sense. this dagger though is trash and hopefully its as bad as the pk mythic skin

the PK recolor was the most egregious heirloom for sure

Wait I just realized that after I bought out the s8 collection event with the heirloom shards it reset my pack count and I got more heirloom shards 17 packs later😭

Wish I could refund my Wraith heirloom for another one, got it back when it was the only one :(

If the new universal heirlooms were more obtainable than regular heirlooms, and ran supplementary to legend specific heirlooms, I would probably like them. Instead, they are less obtainable and less interesting at the same time. The fact that one of them was already fomo'd and is just impossible to ever obtain again really doesn't paint the best picture of the new attitude towards these cosmetics going forward.

So, if I get the cobalt katar in an event pack, is my heirloom bad luck protection reset to 0 ?

sadest thing still no compensation for the reset server bug and also wraith skin quest still 0/6 first 3 missing until now

I have that stupid axe, it forced me to get it via loot box prior to heirloom shards.

In my head, Heirlooms should never have cost $160 at the get go and people insisting on buying it still created this mess. I feel like if your gonna have universal heirlooms, they need to be significantly cheaper for me to feel incentivized to buy. Like $30-40, maybe $50 MAX

Will we still be able to get heirloom shards and spend them on previous heirlooms and prestige skins though????

in season 8 i lost heirloom shards for no reason, but i think it was because of the crash. ( i had 150 before they gave everybody free shards)

Kinda irritating how many mythics are released and how many there currently are without increasing the drop rate. Even just a little increase.

as someone who doesn’t play apex I do not know how the community is not up in arms about literally the most basic cosmetics being monetized this is insane. Imagine seeing this video in like 2012

Random heirloom shards in apex packs is one of the best things in the game. I got mine around season 9 I think. But it’s really crap I have played since week 1 and have only gotten 1 random heirloom. Are people still getting them? Every 500 apex packs like it was originally? It’s too late now but I wish they would have heirloom grants based on number of kills or wins with a legend. Even if you had to pay a reasonable price to access it lol no way that would happen.

I’ve been dreading this moment. This really pisses me off because they made an octane heirloom recolor a few weeks ago when they could have released another characters heirloom like mad Maggie or Newcastle. Really pisses me off how lame respawn and ea are.

and I'd like to remind you, that EA DOES NOT CARE. I had issues with shards...I opened shards 2 times, right as server crashes happened. OK, I didn't get them - talk with support. Great. Back then there was live support and I kid you not, they escalated the issue both instances many many times. Turns out, server crash happened before they got recognised, buuuut it didn't stop there. Because the first time it bugged, it reset the counter. So I opened my first permanent heirloom that I still own on pack 700+ . So, now I have 1 instead of 3 :)

Im still waiting the updated the old prestige skins with sky dives trails 😢

So what happened to those skins that would change the legends character select screen animation?? I think that detective pathfinder skin is so rad why Don't they do that for all prestige skins?

Make a video to of that they still didn released the new bloodhound heirloom anitmations i want them to know.

I stopped playing during one of the christmas train events because I couldn’t get into apex for months and never knew I could get free heirlooms

they just need to make simple weapons and have them A LOT cheaper. like if they had a cool katana or something, i'm sure people would buy it and use it. and then it doesn't take anything away from the heirlooms

Its very bad for wraith recolor heirloom dont have finisher😢 and have a old prestige skins without a sky dive trail , i think its unfair

Thank God I got my heirloom shards in the free packs. And then like 20 packs later I got more shards. I was a day one player without an heirloom for like 14 seasons and getting them almost back to back kinda made up for it

how did you not mention that we still dont have the caustic door smash animation

I still dont get why first 4 prestige skins have no dive trail added on them yet. They are not cheeper, why do they offer less

As someone who bought out the Secret Society event in a moment of weakness... Yeah I have serious regrets.

I played through all them and the only one I spent money on was the first anniversary event where it gave you shards at the end. I still think the pricing is egregious but at least I was able to choose which heirloom I wanted. Skins were trash too. Typical Ea recolors

Heirlooms have always been poop. They could have made heirlooms mean something (grind, level of skill etc.) but they will always be something you can either buy for an insane amount (collection events) or a damn drop from a loot box. Imagine they made heirlooms grindable rewards for legends. Shit would look different.

i really wanted the latest Maggie skin and unluckily even after 100 bucks i couldnt get so i stopped before i went too far

These events are never going to stop. Too many people bought into the FFVII one.

I remember buying the pathfinder heriloom back in season 3 ah good times

first step south was, prestige skins and removal of rank trials.

Can we also talk about the fact that they give us trail (when we jump at the start). And then they remove our trail like that for buisness reason ? I feel like it's so unfair to just remove something to your players like that

Every legend deserves an own unique heirloom

Wait so are dive trails still out of the game??

Still waiting for Mad Maggie, Newcastle, Vantage, Catalyst, Ballistic and Conduit to get their heirlooms.

Original heirlooms are always gonna be alive for me

I remember the days of wanting the wraith heirloom and winning the Pathfinder heirloom 😢

They don't want to put in the effort of an heirloom and a full event for characters with low pick rates, they won't get enough sales.

I was technically over level 1000 before prestige was a thing now I'm about to prestige again and still don't have an heirloom. I very much question the certain amount of packs and you get one, if I'm not over 500 packs opened I'd be surprised

As an OG player who has still yet to get heirloom shards despite having two accounts one on Xbox at level 460 and now on PC at around 200 I highly doubt I'm ever actually going to get one. I've opened over 500 packs, regardless of "account age" at some point you'd expect to get at least one heirloom. The fact of the matter is, unless you're paying hundreds of dollars a majority of the playerbase will NEVER see an heirloom. I rarely even get legendary items anymore, my last 30 packs and I've kept track in notepad have ALL been two whites/one blue, or two blues/one white. Even in the free event packs I don't even get legendary shit. It's all just straight purples. I'm tired of Apex, no crafting materials, shitty packs, no heirloom shards despite playing since 2019 on two different accounts I've basically given up getting cosmetics in this shitty ass game. I'm going back to titanfall after the new season of Apex releases. At least there I have all my cool cosmetics I unlocked through actual fucking skill, instead of RNG bullshit.

It all went wrong after Gaiden Cuz you could craft everything from that event

I used to buy every heirloom, no you couldn't give me the money to buy them... Used to be events every 4-5 months, now they're every other week

General rule of thumb never spend a penny on a game, at most a skin that you really like and stick with it, I bought a cool pathy skin at some point cost me about 10usd ish, which is about a normal price of a game in my country. I started playing when horizon first came out and immediately noticed that everything is outright expensive, and i couldn't understand why people are willing to buy these instead of other useful stuff irl. If you bought more than one heirlooms there is a problem, and you should stop.

1:19 i swear i had this pk skin (nad loads of other stuff) but it suddenly got deleted from my account 😭

I guess no one is playing the newer characters and so the heirloom sales were probably not great. Sucks for those that main those characters though.

as good as the re-color is, it started going downhill when wraith got it.

THE 3008 THEME IN THE BACKGROUND IS BEAUTIFUL💙💙

When I 1st played apex I also agreed that heirlooms sucked at that universal melees were better, but rn respawn/EA really have been stupid. It's good that they are focusing on universal melees but it is such a dick move to scrap and leave heirlooms.

It's quite simple; don't buy anything. Heirloom or not, i'm still gonna have my random squad immediately hot drop, 1v57, and promptly die then leave match. 10/10

Is no one going to talk about how that video was called “3 heirlooms in 39 packs”

I could tell the game was going downhill making these decisions. The biggest thing i hate is i was waiting forever for Respawn to add new skins and finishers to the game like they did way back in s4 or something so we could get in packs or craft but that was literally the only update they ever did that way. Since then everything has been event related and really dry. They don't reward the players enough tbh.

got my furst heirloom today after 460 packs and 2k hours 🥰

Bro is that plants vs zombies music in the background?