i just had a game, 2 maps i really enjoy and 1 map thats kinda bad, the majority of votes went on the good maps, bad map had 2 votes (it was 6vs6 so 12 votes total) and it landed on the trash map anyways. im so done with this scam, i straight up left the match after voting was done. this system is so incredibly trash. it is so incredibly demoralizing that you see your fav map, most people pick your fav map and then haha you dont get to play your fav map because the system randomly picked something else.
is there any gamemode in overwatch that doesnt have this trash map system? otherwise im just not playing overwatch for now.
edit: since a lot of people seem to be misunderstanding: what im trying to say is that its annoying that if 9/10 people vote map A and 1 person vote map B and then it lands on map B.
somehow me complaining that getting a map only 1 person voted for when litterally everyone else voted for the other map is being understood as ââso youâre mad you didnt get the map you likeââ its not about the map. iâll happily play any map if theres a majority for it. its just annoying that the game gives 1 person what they want over 9 people. can you at least make it a 2 minimum limit?
I agree; ironically, for different reasons, as I think that every vote counting and having a shot at deciding the outcome is the only redeeming aspect of this feature.
That doesnât make sense because without map voting you might still have got a trash map. You just wouldnât have known.
Worse is the new pattern of trolling where someone waits until the last second, sees which map has no votes, votes for that one and then it gets picked. Some of these people then type in chat to gloat about how they made everyone play the trash map.
They need a minimum 2 votes for a map to be considered (which wouldnât have helped in your case, but would help in a lot of these trolling cases).
This is literally how it worked before. Nothing has changed except you can significantly improve your odds of playing the map you want. Literally nothing about this system is worse than before, but youâre still mad.
im mad because of the effect that its frustrating that you have the odds set up to be 90% in your favor, you get excited and then boom it lands on the remaining 10%. and for something thats only 10% it seems to be hitting that 10% alot more than⌠well 10%.
âSeemsâ is the key word here. Thereâs something called âfrequency bias/illusionâ and this phenomenon is at play here, unless you believe that Blizzard purposefully rigged this roulette of theirs to fall on low percentage outcome more often becauseâŚ
So, instead of just getting that trash map at random and being forced to play it, youâre angry because there existed people who wanted to play it and youâre mad you didnât get youâre way.
I find the map voting so incredibly inconsistent. The first day I got to play SO MANY payload maps, it was incredible. The second and third day, not so much, and way more instances of payload/hybrid not even being an option to pick.
There are an insane amount of situations where the voting lands on maps with fewer or just one vote that Iâm forced to wonder what the statistics really are here. It happens so frequently it feels like the majority almost doesnât matter majority of the time, ironically.
Iâm all for people voting for what they want and trying to keep things fair, but it seems like they didnât (and still donât) take their community into consideration. 1) stop exclusively making maps for gamemodes people donât care for. Please listen to the communityâs love for payload/hybrid and actually do something with that instead 2) the amount of people who pick a map purely to troll. Not always, of course, but it happens a lot.
technically no. under a random map i think i got the most maps in pretty equal amounts. now with this system its route 66, busan, dorado and then those maps again and again. sometimes other maps. but ive seen those 3 at least 5 times each and i havent seen a single circuit royale. the reason i get annoyed isnt because of the map, its because of this fake democracy where 9 out of 10 vote for map A and somehow we end up playing map B. thats whats frustrating, not the map itself
You mean other popular maps that arenât Kingâs Row? So youâre playing good maps more?
Wow thatâs crazy. And actually sounds less random. And kind of like you were just in one of the lobbies that didnât win the majority vote.
Think of how many games are going on at once. Choosing maps. They are also picking maps with majority votes. You just happened to be in a lobby that didnât have that luck. And the next 3 matches where majority wins? You do nothing with that (probably because you like the maps less)
Thatâs because itâs not a democracy. The votes represent the ratio of chance. You canât implement majority rules or a bunch of people will never get to play maps they like anymore. This system is designed to cater to the majority while not just completely ignoring everyone else. Itâs honestly probably one of the fairest ways they could do map voting.
Unfortunately this is not true.
Had countless games yesterday where a map with one vote won.
It is far less tilting being given a random awful map by blizzard than it is having 9 people vote one map, 1 person voting another, only to have that 1 person map win.