Serizawa Haruki wrote:
If they don't look at the length, then yes, they might think it's the official version, but there is no way for them to know anyways because they didn't know about the original length in the first place. I don't understand this logic at all, you're saying that unofficial cuts are bad and annoying to deal with, but they are nearly the same as official cuts, but apparently those aren't a problem? Whether you or most players like short maps is not relevant here, if you want to avoid them you need to look at the length in any case because for example every visual novel/eroge/video game short ver map that doesn't have the marker in the official metadata source can't be distinguished from the full version either so this proposal wouldn't actually fix the issue. For songs whose original release is the short version, you would also think that it's the full version so you can't really avoid it being "misleading", although i don't consider that a big problem to begin with, it's not like you are forced to play certain maps.
The problem is that even the OP includes wrong information. While you are correct about TV Size maps requiring the respective marker, this is not true for a lot of other songs like Eroge/Visual Novel/Video Games etc.dong wrote:
From the OP:
When looking at the beatmap listing either on the website or through osu!direct, the only information visible to the user is the artist, title, source, and some difficulty information. The problem here does not arise for official cuts, as in the ranking criteria it is stated that, for example, a TV-size beatmap should be specified as such in the title, however fan-made works are not included.
This means that many beatmap titles are misleading in that the information that it is a shorter version of a song is left out. Often players do not realise that this is the case until they have already finished playing the beatmap, much to their dismay. This also means that unofficially cut versions have become indistinguishable from full versions of the same song.
If you don't consider it a problem then that's on you. Clearly enough people do.
"Often players do not realise that this is the case until they have already finished playing the beatmap, much to their dismay."
Before you play the map, you literally just need to look at the upper left corner and if players are disappointed by the map being short, then that's a different issue. Would players be disappointed if the full song were only like 2 minutes long? Probably yes, therefore it doesn't really matter if (Cut Ver.) is being added to the title. For example, one of my ranked maps (https://osu.ppy.sh/beatmapsets/746632) is 2 minutes long. Is it a cut or the full version? Most people would think it's a cut because it's fairly short and it sounds similar to many ranked cut songs. But it's actually the full version. Does finding that out make them less upset all of a sudden? Clearly not so I think your point is moot.