Guest
home
beatmaps
rankings
community
store
help
forum
  1. Forums
  2. osu!
  3. Development
  4. Community Voice

Poll 43: Do you enjoy playing maps from the Most Played category?

posted
Total Posts
58

Do you enjoy playing maps from the Most Played category?

Yes, I enjoy playing them!
238
26.56%
I play them almost purely for progression (pp, ranks, etc)
232
25.89%
No, I don't enjoy playing them
426
47.54%
Total votes: 896
show more
Haruto
1,815 posts
Joined December 2013
Haruto
some maps on the most played section are ok but to be honest, i dont really enjoy playing them because most of them are pretty boring to play.

would be best if the most played section are maps that is on the spotlights imo, or something like other people in this thread said regarding spotlights and stuff.
mariojudah
77 posts
Joined August 2014
mariojudah
Would be nice to see more interesting maps there, as far as I can remember it's almost always just been filled with typical pp farm and anime / J songs.
Kyuunex
99 posts
Joined November 2016
Kyuunex
I don't really enjoy those maps because they are severely lacking in concepts. The only ways the music is expressed in those maps are spacing increase on louder sounds or just whenever the mapper feels like it and occasionally triples or streams whenever there are 1/4s in the music.

Making things worse, currently 4 of 5 maps in there are from the same mapper, so every map feels like the same.

I think this should be replaced with maps from beatmap spotlight regularly, they are a lot better maps concept wise.

Worst case scenario, limit one map per mapper in there if nothing else.
Sotarks
3,493 posts
Joined May 2014
Sotarks
extenting the most played maps section to 10 is actually a good idea.
Greydus
24 posts
Joined May 2015
Greydus
I do not enjoy them, or well I stopped enjoying them after seeing that they are almost the same maps with just a few things changed.
Maybe removing it altogether would be a nice solution, and instead adding a search box to the home page just like in the beatmapsets page, I mean, there is already the beatmapsets page with infinite scroll and sorting options, it needs a little bit more of exposure.

EDIT
I guess we are talking about the old site most played section
Last edited by Greydus , edited 3 times in total.
bronco2p
4 posts
Joined August 2017
bronco2p

Ephemeral wrote:

We're interested to know how people feel about maps that are featured in the Most Played widgets on the front page. Do you enjoy playing them? Why or why not?

Let us know your thoughts!

I don't see the problem, its not liked there not mapped properly or not fun.
But I guess since they are usually PP maps that are featured it could get repetitive and therefore become boring.
👌👌👌
KatouMegumi
923 posts
Joined May 2014
KatouMegumi
Mostly I want to write something negative about a certain mapper, so I won't mention their name. This mapper is abusing the pp calculation system, by which the pp gain from their maps is inflated, making said maps appealing for the purpose of "pp farming".
I don't like this morally and that they get a highlight because of beling played a lot of times.
Maybe a rule that only show thier most popular map, and only one at a time.
-Flashlight-
Beatmap Nominator
541 posts
Joined February 2017
-Flashlight-
Sincerely I play them just for pp 5 digit inc. I downloaded CBCC due to the Most Played and now it's my top play lol
The Most Played maps are just Sotarks and VINXIS' No title... Everyone knows these maps. I agree it needs to change. I have no problems with the mapping style. It's just that they don't give a slot to the [very] good, not recognized map. I am tired of seeing No title and Sotarks in the Most Played. Maybe banning a map after X weeks appearing consecutively? This would (FINALLY!) end with No title, Black Rover & etc. Harumachi Clover could appear because it got ranked recently, but after X days/weeks/months it would eventually disappear.
Last edited by -Flashlight- , edited 1 time in total.
J1NX1337
248 posts
Joined February 2014
J1NX1337
For maybe a day whenever an actual cool new map gets ranked. Most of the time it's the exact same farm maps though, which don't interest me at all. Thus the most played maps section becomes quite useless since it hardly ever changes, and if it does, it's usually just another farm map.

I guess one thing you could do is simply exclude all maps from the most played list older than, say, 1 month. This way you could at least keep the list full of fresh maps rather than the same farm maps from 2-3 years ago.
Last edited by J1NX1337 , edited 1 time in total.
extrasensory
73 posts
Joined February 2015
extrasensory
I don't really enjoy playing them and neither do I use them to gain any pp very often. It's not like they are mapped poorly or anything, they are just not really interesting to play.
I also don't like how this section is basically just "look Sotarks ranked a new map". I have nothing against him but I'd be really happy if we could see a little more mapper diversity on this widget, so maybe you could make this section show only one map per mapper.
WalterToro
osu! Alumni
365 posts
Joined November 2014
WalterToro
Most played maps has more than enough places to be found, and because they have a lot of difficulties and are short and easy to grind (even more with DT), they will rack up on plays easily, and looking at the opinions given here, the "extend the Most Played Maps to 10" is a "Ha!, no please" for me.
Given that loved maps are getting more and more tools for exposure every round (news article and in-game banner) seems that they dont need more, specially due to the nature of the loved section itself (not all maps are loved, different numbers, and others)
The only project that seems to win something is spotlights, looking that they are going into a revamp right now, is the best place to get quality maps curated by various community members, my only concern would be that spotlights are probably going to be seasonal in the future (updates every 3 months) so something can be worked with that.
defiance
503 posts
Joined July 2015
defiance
i like at least 1 map from spotlights so putting spotlights is the best option imo

also players complain about how there isnt creative stuff so having spotlights there is like "hey, heres some interesting maps"
Karxy
59 posts
Joined July 2016
Karxy
Most Played will only be great once Sotarks gets all 5 spots.
Xinnoh
Elite Mapper
1,950 posts
Joined April 2014
Xinnoh
they're actually quite handy when filtering to other modes but i wouldn't touch it for standard
Megapcmx
289 posts
Joined May 2014
Megapcmx
When i was playing actively most of the time i just picked random maps from the ranked section with "recommended difficulty" because the 90% of the times that i downloaded some of the most played maps (avoiding sotarks maps that i personally don't like) all of them, where just tv sizes with tipical jump spam or generic stuff that are commonlly boring.
i know that somethimes there are interesting maps, but most of the time i just didn't enjoyed playing them
[Shiny]
153 posts
Joined June 2014
[Shiny]
asking this is basically asking if you enjoy pp farming or extremely popular songs' maps

then the obvious answer is no
Mekki
1,793 posts
Joined November 2014
Mekki
No, I don't. Most of them are cut songs made only for PP purposes, there is no fun in that for me.
Aiseca
451 posts
Joined February 2017
Aiseca

MkGuh wrote:

No, I don't. Most of them are cut songs made only for PP purposes, there is no fun in that for me.


It's better to say: "part farming", "part fun", "part random".

And for me, when a certain mapper tries to forcefully raise the SR of a song when it's not (actually) applicable, that's when the song gets ugly. I found no fun at that.
Mirt
55 posts
Joined January 2014
Mirt
I also agree with the idea of bringing a featured section however It's also nice to know what is being played. It's just an issue of the most played always being what gives the most pp this month, not what is most fun for the community. That and it's always Standard on the main page. Seeing other modes would be nice. However that is straying from the topic. I don't play standard anymore but playing charts that are fully dedicated around PP aren't that enjoyable unless you enjoy progression through ranks. I think most played in the loved category would be a far more accurate portrayal of what the community actually enjoys.

TL:DR Most played charts aren't fun unless you enjoy playing for progression.
This is mostly a pointless ramble. I didn't really think this post through to much but it's just what I thought at face value.
Last edited by Mirt , edited 1 time in total.
datcatt
6 posts
Joined October 2015
datcatt
Honestly they have become pretty bland and boring.Although some can be entretaining, most of them are made for farming and more farming.
Mayflower
246 posts
Joined June 2017
Mayflower
Please replace that section with spotlights, spotlight maps are amazing
show more
Please sign in to reply.

New reply

0
37 / 58