The player count is rising not declining, Apex has now more players than at launch..

Although they’re not all active at the same time, so it’s less concurrent players (because the game is no longer “new” and the new-hype is gone, but wait for season 4 or revenant to come out and watch) yet the amount of people playing the game is definitely more than ever.

Many games use different dirty strategies to keep the hype (shorter battle pass, small incremental updates instead of big ones...etc) But apex is straightforward and the battle pass is fair, you can actually get all the rewards (which are nice rewards btw) without spending your whole time on the game...

I find the game very entertaining regardless of SBMM (Respawn change that pls)

I used to play Fortnite and PUBG and they are no where close to Apex to me and i think to a lot of people