The map design really affected Splatoon 3's casual playerbase retention way more than meets the eye. The maps can make this game so draining when you're just trying to hop on for the sake of playing a few games, Splatoon 2 had a noticeably more active casual playerbase near the end of its span (imo) - ThreadSky

hyperstar7.bsky.social • 21 hours ago

The map design really affected Splatoon 3's casual playerbase retention way more than meets the eye. The maps can make this game so draining when you're just trying to hop on for the sake of playing a few games, Splatoon 2 had a noticeably more active casual playerbase near the end of its span (imo)

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coqdorys.me•20 hours ago

the maps mean that if i want to hop into open for a few games i get 4-13 tetras who have permanent forward drift on their sticks

the modes don't help, there isn't a chill space any more. opens is where people want to chill but also where full stacks go on and destroy everyone

kaasiand.cool•19 hours ago

also this game’s new modes are fun but they’re literally all locked behind being available for one day a month Or Less (tricolour and challenges), or behind grinding for at least half an hour to play each single match (king salmonids). Nothing is just.. available

bluvapour.bsky.social•16 hours ago

It's almost like having almost all your new maps either be hallways or tetris pieces as well as utterly destroying fan favorite Splatoon 1 maps and bringing back Splatoon 2 maps mostly unchanged was a bad idea actually wow who could've known.

db132.bsky.social•19 hours ago

One of the aspects for me are the ones they brought back too. Like we had Sturgeon and others for 5 years in S2 and they brought them back for another 5~ years with barely any changes if at all. Wahoo used to be my fav map in S2 and now I kinda hate it. On top of that the new maps feel bad too.

db132.bsky.social•19 hours ago

Mahi sucks now too but it's so radically different that it's basically a brand new map to the S1 version. If it werent for being on a team that I vibe with I probably would have quit the game out of boredom already. Just have no desire to play casually cause of the maps and the rotation system

z-34.bsky.social•5 hours ago

Before I played comp I was able to constantly play splatoon 2 almost every day without getting burnt out - when splatoon 3 came around I couldn't bring myself to play it much at all after the first few months until I got into comp it didn't feel as fun and this is probably why that was the case

thelegobrick.bsky.social•17 hours ago

Yeah, a vast majority of the stages brand new in Splatoon 3 are terrible at best, and they brought back mostly just garbage from Splatoon 2 and destroyed good Splatoon 1 stages

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