I'm graveyarding it for outside reasons, I had full intentions to get this going and rank it and have a blast with this map, but that's not allowed
It's really disappointing that I was able to rank 3 other songs just like this one without any issue, but now this one suddenly sparks an issue.
I'm extremely saddened, honestly.
Actually, let me change that wording for a bit. It's upsetting that because I had so many difficulties from different people on this map, that this map happened to be seen and apparently is so much worse than every other map I've created, to the point where frank and disdainful remarks had to be put into play because of it. It's honestly embarrassing.
I can't believe that, in quote, this is what is actually believed, if anything.
Loctav wrote:
a staff member is supposed to be a representation of the game. This is not quality, and it is a shame to see such a thing attempt to make it to rank. It is basically a "fuck you to all the mappers out there who toil endlessly to have their (arguably better) maps ranked, we are staff members, we can do whatever we want!".
This wasn't an attempt to be that map. In the slightest. In fact, it was the complete opposite. It was an effort to try out different difficulty settings across the highest diffs in order to change up what's currently being mapped and seen for maps all around. If anything this map was more of a message that people should dare to be different and try out different styles/map difficulties in order to shake up the mapping community a bit and change the "regular" in order to go back to more creative mapping.
However, this was apparently seen as a ploy to just use staff powers to get maps ranked faster than other maps that deserve it.
I apologize to anybody who felt that way; it was absolutely not that. It's a shame to see that our mapping in this regard is suddenly diminished and looked down upon because of the "staff member" regard.
Like fine, you can say my diffs have all of the quality issues in the world and that's fine, but there's literally no reason that everybody else on the set should have to suffer as well.
I'm graveyarding this for various reasons, but one of them being that I don't really like how this was treated as a map. As much as many different people enjoyed the map and I recieved MANY different highlights/pms in and out of the game regarding congratulations and how much they liked the map, apparently the "haters" to put it frankly got the best of it.
I'll still be mapping, but I guess this is the end of my soundcloud mapping for good.
Have a good one to anybody reading this.