And yet, casual players are the overwhelming majority of people participating in both casual and ranked queues.

It's not a mindless straight line from goal to goal, most of the map gimmicks aren't immediately obvious, and they replaced the sprint zones with one-way teleports.

All of these things are *very good* from a competitive standpoint, except for maybe having too many gimmicks going on at once, but they are *awful* from a casual standpoint. Made worse by them trying to force the new map on people.

I can't imagine how much it sucks to be new to CC and trying to learn, while also trying to make sense of the only map that isn't a mindless straight line from side to side. It's clearly way too much for the average player in the "Gold and below" bracket.

Why is Square-Enix so fucking out of touch with their actual playerbase? Who actually thought a map designed like this made sense to be released into a general map pool?