Apex Prestige

Thousands of platinums don't mean what they used to. When someone can earn 50 platinums in a weekend by stacking shovelware across regions, the number stops meaning anything. Leaderboards fill with accounts that optimized for quantity, not quality. New hunters look at the top 100 and think: why bother?

ApexTrophies exists because difficulty should matter.

The Two Lanes

ApexTrophies runs two parallel systems.

The Apex Leaderboard is for hunters who earned their place. No shovelware. No exploits. No shortcuts. Your trophies are weighted by how rare the game's platinum is. A 2% platinum game counts for more than a 70% platinum game. This is the prestige lane.

The All Leaderboard is for everyone. Raw volume. No multipliers, no ranks. Just total points. This is the data lane.

You're in one or the other. The Apex leaderboard is where status lives.

Eligibility

Apex eligibility is binary. You're either in or you're not.

If your account contains trophies from games designed to inflate stats (shovelware, exploit stacks, region spam) you're not eligible for the Apex leaderboard. This isn't a punishment. It's a category. You still have a full profile, full stats, full customization. You're just not competing for prestige.

The line is intentional. One shovelware trophy is enough. We don't negotiate thresholds or make exceptions. The rule is simple so it can't be gamed.

The goal isn't to judge how anyone plays. It's to protect what the Apex leaderboard represents.

If you want Apex eligibility, you know what to do.

Why Elitism?

Because prestige only means something when it's exclusive.

A rank that anyone can achieve isn't a rank. It's participation. The Apex leaderboard is hard to get on because that's what makes it worth being on. Hunters who grind difficult platinums deserve to compete against other hunters who did the same, not against accounts that optimized for the path of least resistance.

This isn't about shaming anyone. Play however you want. Stack whatever you want. Your profile still works. Your stats still count. You're just in a different lane.

But if you want to be on the board that matters, the one people screenshot, the one that means something, you have to earn it the hard way. That's the point.

The Philosophy

ApexTrophies is built on one belief: difficulty should be rewarded.

Not time spent. Not money spent. Not regional exploits. Difficulty.

A hunter with 50 hard platinums should outrank a hunter with 500 easy ones. A 1% platinum should feel different than a 60% platinum. Progress should mean something.

We're not trying to be the biggest trophy tracker. We're trying to be the one that respects the grind.