People sign on to the ladder to play the setting they like or vs an enemy at the top level on a setting they want to practice.
Forced map pool = no one gets what they want.
The big lie is that by not forcing variety that the variety players will have to wait longer. In reality the variety players play a bunch of people who are bad at variety or only play 1 op civ on the imbalanced "variety" map. While the single mapped focused players are forced to play vs mediocre variety players on their setting that only know 1-2 playstyles on their particular map (for us arabia players its the Mayan 100 games in a row guys). NO ONE WINS
What happens to the ladder? Single map / competitive players leave while the variety players keep playing vs weaker and weaker opponents and get ego boosted.
How does it end? Our overlords squeeze the viewer base Microsoftly until they can't take our money anymore with dlc's or ad sales.
Voobly certainly had its problems but atleast they didn't take all freedom away from the players to play on the ladder. People will wait longer to get what they want but they will leave if forced to wait for something they dont want.
Forced map pool = no one gets what they want.
The big lie is that by not forcing variety that the variety players will have to wait longer. In reality the variety players play a bunch of people who are bad at variety or only play 1 op civ on the imbalanced "variety" map. While the single mapped focused players are forced to play vs mediocre variety players on their setting that only know 1-2 playstyles on their particular map (for us arabia players its the Mayan 100 games in a row guys). NO ONE WINS
What happens to the ladder? Single map / competitive players leave while the variety players keep playing vs weaker and weaker opponents and get ego boosted.
How does it end? Our overlords squeeze the viewer base Microsoftly until they can't take our money anymore with dlc's or ad sales.
Voobly certainly had its problems but atleast they didn't take all freedom away from the players to play on the ladder. People will wait longer to get what they want but they will leave if forced to wait for something they dont want.