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@MrGreenWithAGun

"when I was building maps for Halo I came to learn the best source of feedback was from the highest level of players. Not only did they know more, they thought it out so well they could clearly articulate what they thought."

That was never my experience. Most of them could not articulate at all why they thought something should be a certain way or not a certain way. And the vast majority of them would offer small advice here and a little critique there, and ever so gently dance around the plain fact that almost all of them preferred symmetrical arena-style maps as being the only possible configuration for "serious competition." So even if the project in question was asymmetrical, and possibly even foremost an aesthetic exercise, many of them would pick a corner of the map and say, "Why don't you just make the other three quarters the same as this?"

In the end I would look very, very carefully at the forge maps that made it into regular rotation and realize in mere seconds that these were nothing like the maps I envisioned and wanted to build or play on. I could get even uglier but that would be petty. Suffice to say that in many years of forge mode in both 4 and 5 I saw a handful of user-created maps that made me jealous. But only a handful. Most were the kind of project where I could eat a pile of primitives and puke a better map. Okay, that was the pettiness I was trying to avoid. I guess a better way of saying it is that one man's castle is another man's hovel. Yeah, that's more polite.

So no, I don't really take the pro's opinions to heart. Yes, they know more about how things work in high-level, high-speed, high-stakes play. But in many ways I think that makes them less attuned to what a normal player experiences, and certainly less attuned to what a normal player wants. Imo.