It's one way to use maps to feel important, but setting yourself as the centre is one too, as is using the stretching out globe to a map problem to give you the advantage of rescaling. Or to give the 'others' a wilderness/otherness feel on the map. I think it would be an unneccesary new feature, people are used to the way maps look now and if 'north is always the player' is used then it kinda unintentionally implies 'northern powers are the main character/most important'.
It's one way to use maps to feel important, but setting yourself as the centre is one too, as is using the stretching out globe to a map problem to give you the advantage of rescaling. Or to give the 'others' a wilderness/otherness feel on the map. I think it would be an unneccesary new feature, people are used to the way maps look now and if 'north is always the player' is used then it kinda unintentionally implies 'northern powers are the main character/most important'.
You know before the invention of the compass, East used to be up. That's why orientation means to put East up.