It's crazy how you actively just skip over the point. Sotarks has actively hurt osu by making the meta revolve around unenjoyable, unremarkable and pp-exploiting maps. As a player who used to enjoy watching my rank go up as I improve, it eventually made me quit the game because of how the system I used to enjoy was being exploited and squeezed for its every last point.
The mapping scene has not recovered. The average map is still incredibly short and jumpy, and many players who used to enjoy the pre-monstrata, pre-sotarks era of playing just straight up quit (like I did) or had to seriously wonder if the game was worth playing.
From a purely analytical standpoint, sotarks as a mapper has only hurt the game. His entire "career" has been filled to the brim with situations exactly like this. "Don't play map" is really crazy to say when he's entirely shifted the mapping culture in every way except positively. I'll say it again, the mapping scene has not and will never recover from the damage he's done on my once-favorite game. I'm far from a negative person, but its really hard to have anything come to my head other than spite every single time sotarks shows up in a way like this. Good riddance.
there are hundreds of maps that arent browiec, sotarks or anything like those every month, wtf are you crying about just play those and ignore those you dont like, how hard can that be? nobody is forcing you to play a sotarks map and if you care about ranking you can just get better at other skillsets than pp jumps to rank up. The ranked section has nothing to recover from because it was never hurt, its only getting better and better over time.
I wonder if you actually read the things I type, or if there is even a reason for me to type at all. Reread my original comment and understand how sotarks has negatively impacted the mapping meta, and how "just don't play map" or ''pls enjoy game'' is an incredibly nearsighted and dishonest argument.
For me as a post-monstrata era of playing I kinda like it tbh, but I do understand what pre-monstrata pre-sotarks era feels like about this map. From lots of mapping drama I've seen, I think its actually so hard to make map that all the players from all generation likes it, there will always be one generation of players who doesn't like this map as it's mapping concept looks unpleasant to their mapping meta. I'm sure i don't need any examples in order to understand
The problem here is not only do pre-monstrata, pre-sotarks players dislike this map, it was a map built to disrespect the community even after all of the shit sotarks has done. Sotarks acting like the victim in the community he changed for the worse is... bad judgement at best and mental illness at worst.
I do understand what you're saying though, and I think it's a good take that different generations are going to enjoy maps differently. I think some of you new guys really miss out on a lot of the older, super insanely creative maps :P
The problem here is not only do pre-monstrata, pre-sotarks players dislike this map, it was a map built to disrespect the community even after all of the shit sotarks has done. Sotarks acting like the victim in the community he changed for the worse is... bad judgement at best and mental illness at worst.
I do understand what you're saying though, and I think it's a good take that different generations are going to enjoy maps differently. I think some of you new guys really miss out on a lot of the older, super insanely creative maps :P