Come celebrate Season 2 by devouring some data about cat-based aerial warfare, mode popularity, and regional ban rates. Bring curiosity and a snack, because data analyst Ben Trautman is bringing the charts!
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Fix broken matchmaking first and NERF Sierra!
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But you have room to imagine.
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Look at this graaaph! 
If you aren’t a hardcore Wuyang enthusiast, you may not have even noticed this fix.
I banned Wuyang once and won 
Coincidence?
It’s crazy how the power level does not need to change for a strong change in the ban rate. It’s more a cultural thing.
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So no data for anyone else jus the stupid cat?, literally no one care for her anymore give us more in-depth information​
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Cat based aerial warfare I like the sound of that!
Please bring back leaderboard live spectate!
Meow!
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Awesome data! What’s not awesome is how myself and many other OG players haven’t gotten 10, 7 or even 5 year rewards!!! Please fix, or at least acknowledge it as an issue again, it’s not fixed!!!
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delete hero bans so people can actually play cat.
i like that you have this much data proving hero bans ABSOLUTELY RUIN ALL NEW HERO LAUNCHES, but you just don’t care and treat it as a GOOD thing lol
you also have PROOF that map voting has RUINED map variety, and you still DON’T CARE and still think THAT IT’S A GOOD THING?
you had the perfect map system that was personalized to each player and removed maps you have played recently, and you RUINED it with this garbage that has made the game SOOOOO BOOOORING because we only see the EXACT SAME MAPS AND MODES OVER AND OVER
delete hero bans. delete map voting. focus on the game, not gimmicks that make it WORSE.
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I’m curious if cat+bastion is the issue why ban cat and not bastion who is annoying without the cat?
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Interesting how they didn’t touch on console ban data. Probably because it’s wildly different than PC data due Ximmers dominating high tier console competitive. Cat was a non factor on console due to omnipresent hitscans with a Mercy pocket locking down competitive play.
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Remove Sierra from the game. In-Game lore can show that she became a pacifist and decided to give up her gun and become a Doctor or something.
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The only proof there is to see is that some maps or modes are more popular than others.
Map votes merely give them the data to determine what needs fixing, all for the larger goal of increasing map variety.
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I like that there’s a cat-head in the cat-graph.
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What would you consider good matchmaking? Is it where everyone has the same MMR or exact competitive ranking? Because you’d still get one-sided games frequently even if you played with 9 clones of yourself. That’s how the game works.
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it is mathematically impossible for a voting system to be more varied than “random, minus the last few maps you have played on”
there’s no debate on that. mathematically, ANY kind of voting or ANY system that is not “random, minus maps you played on recently”, is LESS variety. this is math, there is no “all opinions are valid” here.
random, by definition, is the MOST varied any system can be (especially when you add “minus your most recently played maps”).
therefore you cannot claim that the goal is increasing map variety, it is clearly to reduce it, or else we would have stuck with random maps.
because hero bans are stooopid
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Yeah, theres no fixing on how much variability OW has. Players can’t perform the same every game, different heroes/playstyles each plays. Matchmaking only account whats your mmr, not if you’re tilted.
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Being able to not be stuck playing against OP and or annoying heroes each game is an improvement. Also being able to ban the meta adds to more hero variety, which is a good thing. You just play high ban rate heroes, so it affects you more than most players. Who also can play multiple heroes if others are banned.
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check out these stats for 2 systems that shouldnt even be in the game… 
also, please indulge me blizz…whats the random map options PR when escort/hybrid maps are/arent present
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I will amend a little what I said for better clarity.
Maps being of better quality enables more varied voting. Without voting, the devs would have no idea which maps are unpopular, unless they dug through thousands of posts across different platforms to find what players have to say.
I’d much rather have the option to vote for 20 good reworked maps, than to be randomly forced to play 20 mid-bad ones.
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From their data, we can assume for most players random is picked more when there is no payload options, and less when there is. For high ranks the opposite since payload are the least voted modes.
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