QuickMatch wait time

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So, I’m a player who comes back every few months and plays a lot for a few weeks and leaves and comes back again. I’ve been back for a couple of days, and I’m leaving early and hoping that the next time I come back, I wont find this problem again (I am going to move to LoL for the remainder of my MOBA itch this time, but will probably try HOTS again the next time to see, but if it’s still a problem, I’m not coming back).

The problem: long wait times for no noticeable improvement in matchmaking quality on quick match.

For example, today alone I have played 6 games. I waited on about 8-10 minutes to get into each game, each game was so lopsided that it was decided or completely over within the first 8 minutes. I spent more time waiting to get into a crappy game, than actually playing.

Today, I played quick match because I just wanted to play some HOTS, I do not care who wins or how balanced it is, I just wanted to play. If I want to play a ‘balanced’ game, then I do not play quick match. But it is completely unacceptable for me to wait for more time than to actually play.

Just to be clear, I am ‘not’ exaggerating the numbers at all, I took a few screenshots, and it is completely unacceptable for me to look at these screenshots of me 8-10 minutes to get into a game, with each (EVERY SINGLE GAME) being either completely decided, or actually finished within 8 minutes. Again, my complaint is the wait time, this is quick match, I just want to play. I, however, am NOT going to wait for more time than I am going to play.

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HotS has been going the wrong direction for a long time. Sure, they add content a tweak things but the vision they started with is dead. Each patch feel more and more distant from what HotS was.

It’s not exclusive to just this game either, WoW is an absolute tragedy in it’s current state. They have no clue how to undo what they have broken.

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Since the patch (november 28) the time to find qm is being around 10-12 minutes. If I wanted a balanced match I will just play HL or TL.
I cant play Orphea and practise because of this.
I play this game nonstop since 2015.
I gonna play hearthstone then :confused:
(sorry if was bad english, im from brazil)

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Well the players keep asking for “better matchmaking”.

Blizzard delivers. They add more and more rules to the matchmaker. Attempt parity in partysizes, attempt parity in rough hero role, etc. Now, because the cries for “MUH MATCHMAAAAAAKING!” are ever so loud, they added that every team needs a healer and a tank.

Just like 5man dungeons in any MMORPG, this has the following effects:

  • Tanks can get a match near instantly.
  • Healers can get a match near instantly or pretty quickly at least.
  • DPS wait for a long long time because 99,95% of players want to play that sweet sweet omg-I-carried-the-group-hard. But the team needs 20% healer and 20% tank, not 0,03 and 0,02 percent, respectively.

And as always, the community’s desire for “bttrmtchmking” now backfired, and now everyone is crying again.

IMO: Queue times in QM were already way too long before this. Screw the no-mirror-heroes rule, it made the queues more than double (duh) and reduced match balance significantly (duh…).

But, as someone who mostly plays healing and rarely a tank: At least now I’m back to 10-40 seconds queues :grin:

:+1: to the “I want better QM matchmaking!”-whiners. You for once improved my queue times. Drastically!

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Things is, make no mistake: They did this because of the constant barrages of cries for “better matchmaking”. They would have 0 monetary incentive otherwise. It’s enjoyable to see the very same people who cried for better balance in QM matchmaking now come out and cry about their 10-15 minutes queues. Well, what did you think would happen? :stuck_out_tongue:

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Never called for better matchmaking - please ‘read’ my post before ranting about something completely unrelated

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Patience is one of the highest virtues.

If not, the greatest one.

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He’s not ranting about something unrelated… he’s telling you what caused your 8-10 minute que…

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totally agree. If I cared about matchmaking/balanced games I would NOT be playing QM. Leave that for unranked/ranked queues.

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My games used to be 60-80 seconds on average and we did get some funky comps from time to time, but now I wait for average of 500 seconds, we get only assassins, specialists and in best case Medivh vs a comp of 2a/2t/1h three games in a row. I invited two friends and chose a 2 tank 1 support and still waited 640 seconds for two assassins lvl 40-60 while we and the enemy team were 600+. Played 5 games and I counted each wait time to a combined 41 minutes. This is fine.

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Last week, my wait times were definitely long. Like 5-10 min average. This weekend, I noticed the times coming down to more acceptable. Like 2-3 min on average. Maybe it was the weekend, but I noticed a difference in the last couple days.

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I want to add my feeling in here for what it’s worth -

I HATE the new matchmaking system. Quick match should be…quick!!! Please, not all of us can sit on our computers for hours waiting for games that are more balanced. If we want that so badly, we will play HL. In QM we don’t care if there are healers/tanks in every game - in fact part of the fun of QM are those random games with 4 specialists or 5 assassins and we all have to adapt!
I am very disappointed right now, doesn’t matter if I queue a healer, tank, or some sort of halfsy, I am waiting 3-10 minutes per game and it’s making me want to stop playing.
Please Blizzard, make the queues shorter. You’ve done so much good with matchmaking but whatever is happening now is too much for a simple gamer like me.

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better matchmaking doesnt mean waiting 20 min to get a stomp. maybe we have balanced heroes now (1 supp, 1 tank) but the quality of the matches is still garbage. 2 months ago i had at least 1 support in my team and i did not wait 15 min to get in 1 match. maybe in 2 months the playerbase was halved

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10 minutes to get into a quickmatch every single time, this is insane, before this patch 1 to 2 minutes was the maximum time i had to wait.

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qm w8 time is awful. I do not understand why they just make 5 assasins vs 5 assasins game? Most of the heroes is assasins and que time will reduce a lot…

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It’s same problem here - wait time is 7-10 min (warior 60s - assasin 250s ?!) - HotS do something with it! Lots of player go play some another games as my friends. We hate the new waiting system! Rebut it as soon as possible.

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Better matchmaking doesn’t necessarily mean “always a tank and a healer”, just don’t make a comp with 3 specialist, 1 assassin and a healer, while the other team has 2 assassins 2 tanks and a healer.
There were plenty of times when I got on a team with 2 specialists and 1 assassin, while the other team had 3 assassins. All the matchmaking system had to do, was to swap 1 assassin for 1 specialist and there we go, balanced team. Cases like that happened on a daily basis, sometimes with even worse disparities.
Long queues should only punish people who queue in groups with 2 stealth assassins, 2 healers, or other stupid stuff like that.