Hero Bans were implemented to keep the game feeling fresh and so we weren’t stuck to the same meta all the time in competitive. Even though it hasn’t been really implemented properly, it still technically does what it needs to do.
However banning a good portion of the already somewhat small map pool, makes the game feel repetitive and all it did was replace the monotony of being stuck in a certain meta, into being stuck into the same maps over and over again. There’s legitimately no reason map bans should be in a thing in the non-pro scene of Overwatch. It’s tiring getting Volskaya industries over and over again
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Not every map is competitively viable.
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It’s gotten to the point where I actually want to play on Paris!
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I understand taking a 1 or 2 maps out that need adjustments, but the current map pools only make competitive repetitive.
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they need to get rid of it asap
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Jeff Kaplan confirmed on reddit that this will be changed next season, though he didn’t say how exactly.
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Honestly I don’t get why they didn’t just copy paste the map bans from WoW PVP.
Let the player ban 3-4 maps at will and if players are grouped, the leader’s bans are active.
Then they would get actual information about what maps people actually hate, not just the rage filled ramblings of vocal minority on the forums.
map pools never made any sense with the small amount of maps available
Just keep Horizon and Paris out of the Playable Maps for Comp and I’m all in
Horizon is ok. Paris needs to be under construction or just delete it and pretend it was a crazy hallucination from Sigma.
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They should give us 4 random maps and the 12 players vote for the map they want
to OP: I personally believe that banning maps is perfectly fine and extremely healthy for Overwatch, and like hero bans, require no changes or removals.
so that everyone knows not all Dodos think alike, I should point out that I feel that neither hero bans nor map bans should be done in this game
i thought hero bans were supposed to chnage the meta at least temporarily. The bans this week have been so random though and the characters are not really in the meta like im so confused. Sounds like they just doing random ones now
Why is Jeff talking on reddit and not the forums?
Even though I don’t ranked or play even, much at all recently.
I’d agree, if it came with the caveat that the less desirable and not so viable maps get tweaked or would be looked at.
Larger amount of players, would be my guess and there’s nothing but toxicity on this forum. Reddit is more heavily moderated to my knowledge. 
Just my guess though…