What’s going on with the pool of players right now? 17 minutes for a GM heal game?? Yikes.
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Everyone: aint nobody got time fo dat.
Im referring to comp as a whole.
The game is unfun right now…mmr is drunk.
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All that is very true.
Instant queue on other roles. There is just a mass playerbase of boosted supports due to the role being both the easiest and the most impactful with all but LW being completely busted.
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That’s because all the GMs are busy smurfing instead of playing people their rank. This game promotes smurfing since you can just create endless accounts and it takes about a day maybe two days to be able to play comp.
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Longer queues because they tightened the range.
If you want lower ranked players in your lobby, you can have quicker queues.
This isn’t remotely true.
Some will have multiple accounts, they’ll be similar MMRs on all of them though.
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I guess all those people with ridiculous aim are just the same level as I am… get real.
Quite likely.
Quite a lot of players have good aim, but absolutely no gamesense or positional awareness and that’s what’s holding them back.
Occasionally they’ll be a smurf, not often. And depending on your rank, it’s unlikely to be a GM player.
Checked, you’re gold/plat. So you might have diamonds smurfing on the odd occasion. But that’s it.
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Do you just talk out your @$$ or do you believe everything you’re saying? Stop trying to defend Blizzard and their garbage practices.
I literally get grandmasters in my damn games https ://ibb.co/rp7ZryL
That picture isn’t the evidence you think.
Most likely tank is GM on support and the DPS is GM on tank.
Not GM on the roles they are playing.
Also, you were talking about smurfing. This isn’t smurfing, so doubly irrelevant.
It’s longer queue times because less and less people are playing the game.Tightening the range would increase queue times, but if there were sufficient people playing then it definitely still would not be 17 minutes. I’ve had faster queue times in GM on DPS. There goes the bogus hypothesis that "if people aren’t writing complaints on the forum then they must be happy…people are unhappy and just simply leaving the game without saying a word, and it will continue to do so.
The next excuse the devs will have up their sleeve is “well it’s starting to be an older game, OW2 was really just a continuation of OW1…”
Queue times will continue to increase until they get someone in there who has what it takes to fix the broken matchmaker.
Why do you play in GM? Go smurf, don’t be stupid! Q time from silver to masters is quite moderate. Get to gm, waste that account and make a new one, cycle repeats.
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It’s because of the later.
The player numbers have increased every month since launch, bar 1.
That’s just not true, the player base has shrunk so much they removed the east coast servers in s4 because they are not financially viable anymore. Here’s hopping they re enable them for s7.
The numbers are available. Do I need to hunt them down again… Lol
Found.
Month Average Monthly Players Monthly Gain / Loss Monthly Gain / Loss % Average Daily Players
Last 30 Days 28,383,008 2,233,194 8 1,892,200
May 30, 2023 26,149,814 434,840 1 1,743,320
April 30, 2023 25,714,974 454,685 1 1,714,331
March 30, 2023 25,260,289 470,996 1 1,684,019
February 28, 2023 24,789,292 1,180,442 5 1,652,619
January 30, 2023 23,608,850 587,703 2 2,124,796
December 30, 2022 23,021,147 2,469,691 12 2,071,903
November 30, 2022 20,551,456 1,990,902 10 1,849,631
October 30, 2022 18,560,554 18,560,554 100
Better formatting here…
https://us.forums.blizzard.com/en/overwatch/t/an-epidemic-of-cheating/824729/22
Those MAU numbers aren’t really important without a transparent daily counter like steam charts does, something blizzard will never do.
Why do you think they removed servers if the playerbase is supposedly growing?
The article that table is from reports daily and monthly players.
They didn’t remove servers. They removed the option to pick a region.
Why, when there is data that suggests someone might not be as correct as they think do they start moving goal posts… lol (trump)
???
They removed GUE1-4 and GUW1-4 in season 4. You clearly have no idea what you’re talking about. We only have ORD1 and LAX1 now.
Blizzard has never released daily player counts, only MAU.
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