I don’t know if its just me seeing this or not, but it almost looks like Blizzard did a soft-patch to the Map Vote selections. It used to be you’d see a variety of modes appear. Now, multiple times in the span of an hour or so of playing, I’m seeing tons of “Flashpoint/Clash/Push” combos with nothing else to pick from.
I’m sure internal data suggested people were voting against them consistently, so I’m almost wondering if their solution was to basically force a selection so that you have no choice but to vote for one of the new modes.
It just seems odd that they’re coming up much more frequently than they did even a few days ago. 3x over so far, with my last one being Flash Point, Flash Point, Clash (Someone quit the lobby so we didn’t have to play it fortunately).
Why continue to try to force picks that people, overall, don’t have a big interest in playing?
From my experience, there’s been too many times where I have to choose from 3 maps of the same mode. Imo this shouldn’t happen at all, there should always be 3 different modes. XD
Its been my experience quite a bit today. Prior to today, the choices would be a varied mix, but there’d almost always be a Control, Hybrid, or Escort style map in the lineup to choose from.
Lately it seems like there isn’t even that and that they’re pushing the new modes a bit harder.
I was constantly getting 3 Escort maps as the 3 randomized choices, as if the system knew I hated this game mode :p…
I had to quit once too, when I wanted to check if 6v6 and Mystery Heroes had map bans too (they do, unfortunately) and when I saw once again 3 Escort maps to choose from, I quit for the very first time in my Overwatch career (didn’t know this would cancel the match, though, I just learned it from you).
I was like “Well, I can leave once for every 15 or 20 games played, I’m using my joker this time”.
Not to lose the “minority of players” that don’t like to play Escort and Hybrid only !
If what you say is true, the OW team can’t afford to lose us apparently !
Times are hard and I guess they can’t lose active players that like the diversity of the game and that don’t have alt accounts (players that have many alt accounts indirectly “cheat” on the amount of active players for Blizzard’s data).
Good to know devs did something sensible this season.
I’m pretty much only playing stadium, so I only hop into normal modes with map voting on Tuesday evening with some friends for a couple of hours for the weekly reset, so I’m not even in the map voting modes that much, yet I’m still seeing it at least once or twice every time I play qp. XD
It is your least most recently played maps with some randomness. So if you haven’t played those modes recently, it makes sense for them to pop up more.
Only enough for my friends to earn the weekly challenge for completing 27 games, but wins grant double progress so I’d guess around 20 games or so, we do 6v6 OQ qp
Is that true? That’s a pretty counterproductive way to do it. It should be pure random all the time.
Skewing it like that won’t give them any real data on what maps people like. And “forcing” us into a set of maps that by demonstration people don’t like feels disingenuous and manipulative.
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it’s a flashpoint map right?