Let's talk QM - AKA how QM ruins the game for players and devs

[mada7-1926]

@Minky-11649

People find this even more baffling, as do I, but numbers speak, this games playerbase is casual for the most part.

I find vs AI being so popular to be kinda surprising too because there’s only so much a computer can do as opposition to human players and figure it must get boring after a while

@Minky-11649

I’m not sure about that, but it hasn’t helped that there are no guilds in Hots so people can easily find groups, or even a useful LFG system. The focus has always been QM for good or bad.

That could be the case but they’ve done so much to try to get people to play the draft modes and for the most part people just aren’t biting. They give extra XP, you don’t have to play specific classes or franchises to complete quests if you’re in those modes, you get special portraits, they give you free mounts if you play enough storm league but people just aren’t that into it in this game.

I’m almost exclusively a QM player myself and I try to think sometimes what it would take for me to want to play storm league and I honestly don’t think I could name one that would ever get considered that’s how unappealing I find that mode. I spend a fair bit of time here and I know this is a small sample size but the storm league players seem, for the most part, like a deeply unpleasant lot. I’ve seen so many threads about people getting reported or banned in storm league because they said anything at all in chat or because they genuinely deserve to be banned, or use smurfs. It just doesn’t seem worth it to me. Losing always sucks but it is so much worse when you lose and are reading some jerk ripping everyone else apart while losing. QM has some people that are super serious and get mad and lash out at their team when things go poorly but much more often I find people are good sports and if you lose you lose and still say GG at the end of the match.

[KYX-21270]

@Rasalom-1811

The really bad part about QM is the fact there there is no barrier to entry. Just pick a character and hop into QM.

Why would you request a barrier for entry? If any, it should be there for ranked.

@gaston205-1951

Blizzard doesn’t need to make tutorials about drafting, certainly not having to put it into the game. Anyone who actually cares about draft will either find one of the many tutorial videos and forums posts to base their decisions on, or they will simply not care and decide to learn by doing.

It never fails to amuse me to read that some players want a draft tutorial made by Blizzard put into the game. There are so many different approaches to drafting strategies, so many variables. Everyone would go absolutely bananas over an official tutorial because it does not cover their idea how drafting should go.

@robertsonb-1109

From my perspective, QM is exactly how this game is played.

What I love most is adapting. I love trying different and unusual builds to suit the needs of the game. Modifying my play for when we don’t have a tank / healer.

Haters will say that you are the reason this gaem is ded.

[Rasalom-1811]

@KYX-21270

Why would you request a barrier for entry? If any, it should be there for ranked.

You should be at least a specific level on a character to play with other human beings. I would say level 5 at minimum. At least then if you have played vs AI for 5 levels, you would have a basic understanding of how the characters skills work.

[SgtCreamSoda-1185]

Especially now that Tracer has ruined it