The thing is that mapsets potentially contest for Ranked once hitting Qualified. Therefore, the rule is in place to avoid having aforementioned content bloat *in the fresh Ranked section*. As long as there is the possibility that the same song congests the Ranked queue while keeping other content out of Ranked, this rule must persist. Sure you could say that there is a general oversaturation of certain content, but when something hits Ranked, osu! basically "releases new playable content to its playerbase". And now imagine this content is .. always the same? Because the queue for the *other stuff* to hit Ranked is clogged up with the 15th version of the same song. This will ultimatively piss off the people that *do not like the song that clogs this up*. To be fair, this never happened to such an extreme, but we should really avoid these floods of mapsets that all resolve around a FotM song while all the other content gets shafted and shoved aside. The newest content should stay as varied as possible, starting with the songs being always different (or when an already Ranked song gets another mapset it should be sufficiently spaced apart, which is more or less one week)
Every other semi-politicial shenanigans you guys come up with are all first world problems you need to deal with in a more all-embracing manner. If you don't like speedranking, do something about speedranking itself. If you don't like BNs acting in bad faith, kick the BNs in their face. Also this is no buffer content, referring to pre-existing content doesn't change the fact that the freshest content would be congested with similarity.
And yes, remixes and TV sizes should not be Ranked in this time span either, because it's still the same song, just with loli voices or 2 minutes shorter.
And if you want to make an exception for the taiko/catch/mania faction, maybe try to make the Ranked queue be independent for each game mode?
Also if you guys just want everything to be Ranked at the same time, maybe just toss everything into one mapset. Although I feel like this game really needs a more elegant solution regarding this entire "mapset" ordeal and how BNs evaluate massive vs. mini mapsets (effort-outcome-imbalanace)
Serizawa Haruki wrote:
Why would someone rank the same song twice in less than a week? That's super unlikely to happen
It happened A LOT in the past, especially when stuff like Sword Art Online or other hyped anime content was released. That's why the rule exists in the first place. (trust me, after the 5th IGNITE set, we all grew tired of it)