Unpopular Opinion: adding Map Banning was a mistake

[Arash The Great]

look I know you're gonna call me out because "I'm wrong" but hear me out:
ever since they added map banning, players got lazy and they ban the worst maps (in their own opinion) and the fact that people don't even try out new reworks because they don't want to lose makes this situation even worse. like I'm tired of playing Oregon, Clubhouse, Villa, Coastline over and over.
plus lack of actual **NEW** maps makes everything worse and game itself repetitive AF

[Malarkey]

I think the mistake was limiting it to 3 choices. It should be the entire ranked pool.

[abalian]

Even with new maps, people would most likely ban them too as they haven't "learned" it yet. Villa's like the only non-vanilla map people don't automatically ban, and that's usually because there's another map worse than it in the choices.

[Lynx]

Completely agree! I literally havent played the rework of Skyscraper in ranked since its release.

[TwisterCat]

Publicado originalmente por Lynx:

Completely agree! I literally havent played the rework of Skyscraper in ranked since its release.

[Thesaintdog]

Publicado originalmente por Lynx:

Completely agree! I literally havent played the rework of Skyscraper in ranked since its release.

[Arash The Great]

Publicado originalmente por GameofThrows:

I think the mistake was limiting it to 3 choices. It should be the entire ranked pool.

neat idea!

[sergantuss]

at least we can see how much ppl love the rework versions of Scy and Park maps right?

[Copy & Cat]

People will never play anything but what they are confortable, so they want no risks, so no reason to play new maps = maps always banned and ranked is stale

[NIKFS]

Publicado originalmente por Too many masks:

People will never play anything but what they are confortable, so they want no risks, so no reason to play new maps = maps always banned and ranked is stale

probably, had some relatively high level played (i think 180?) in ranked a few days ago screaming at us to ban villa; which we didnt but i forgot what the worse two options were

result: screaming at us all match that he doesnt know this map and threw each round by suiciding because he didnt even wanna try; we still won but that guy is the perfect example of "i dont wanna learn so i ban instead" gone wrong

[Uncle Sam]

Publicado originalmente por Too many masks:

People will never play anything but what they are confortable, so they want no risks, so no reason to play new maps = maps always banned and ranked is stale

That sounds like CSGO players that only play Dust 2 / Inferno / Mirage over and over again. Which reminds me that a lot of CSGO, CoD, PUBG, Rust, Fortnite, etc type of players have migrated over here since year 2, when the game slowly started being mainstream.

[Copy & Cat]

Publicado originalmente por NIK_F_S:

Publicado originalmente por Too many masks:

People will never play anything but what they are confortable, so they want no risks, so no reason to play new maps = maps always banned and ranked is stale

probably, had some relatively high level played (i think 180?) in ranked a few days ago screaming at us to ban villa; which we didnt but i forgot what the worse two options were

result: screaming at us all match that he doesnt know this map and threw each round by suiciding because he didnt even wanna try; we still won but that guy is the perfect example of "i dont wanna learn so i ban instead" gone wrong

Didn't expect to hear such extreme example

[•.Mercury.•]

If some maps weren't so awful they wouldn't be banned so often.

[Thesaintdog]

Publicado originalmente por Dr. Sexy M.D.:

If some maps weren't so awful they wouldn't be banned so often.

thats why i only play 4 maps?
oregon
villa
clubhouse
consulate

[Always Raining]

Personally I would probably not play this game without map bans. Theme Park and Consulate are so incredibly boring to play.

[rogan]

Publicado originalmente por Arash The Great:

and they ban the worst maps (in their own opinion)

This is why it's great. Obviously, people don't want to play maps they don't like. I get you want some variety and I can relate to that, but if you like a map and the other 9 people in the server don't, that's just too bad for you man.

You can always play the full complement of horrible maps in casual I guess.