Role queue was created to appease DPS players, the same as almost every change ever made to the game.
Hard disagree. Matchmaking has always been terrible and is no better or worse than it has ever been for anyone below masters. This is a player-made issue stemming from the huge (and proportionately ever-increasing) number of smurfs and alt-accounts.
if the whole point of moving to 6v6 is to increase the match quality how would creating a situation where up 8 people in each match may end up playing a role they cannot play or don’t want to play help?
Do some research, it’s out there. They did say it. They then re-broke the balancing to start to prepare for the crap 5v5 OW2 they wanted to re-package.
You must be a Blizzard stick rider that believes everything that DEV 4 and Aaron pushes on you. It’s okay, “it’s not your fault Veeshkav, it’s not your fault Veeshkav”!!! You drank the Kool-Aid.
OW2 has been out for almost 2 years and has been constant garbage with slight changes back to parts of OW1. Why do you think that is? Why do they keep bringing back parts of OW1 to their (sarcasm) New OW2 game if OW1 was so bad. HMMMMM!!!
Even this new Tank change will not save it!!! We all know what will save this game… 6V6!!!
A lot of people don’t realize that the amount of CC OW1 had hurt Tank players the most. Tanks are in front of the team and the biggest target, so they got chain-CC’d the most, leading to people not wanting to play Tank. The devs never even addressed CC until OW2, and even so, they still need to reduce CC in the game further by reworking Ana Sleep Dart into a non-hard CC dart, reworking Cassidy Magnetic Grenade to no longer Hinder but be more reliable to land on flankers and also explode faster, remove freeze stun from Mei ult but make it deal more damage, etc.
Another massive factor that has caused longer queues in 2-2-2 is the hero roster being so imbalanced. When 2-2-2 first released, we had 8 Tanks, 16 DPS, 7 Supports, when we need to have 2 of each role in a match. A major issue for OW1 queue times was that we literally got ZERO new Tanks OR Supports after 2-2-2’s release. What’s even weirder, is that they gave us Echo, our 17TH DPS hero. Duh DPS queues were long in OW1. The devs have pumped out a good number of Tanks & Supports in OW2, which has positively impacted queue times, and the same can be said for new Tank and Support heroes helping 2-2-2 queue times.
The chain-CC issue hurting Tanks the most, and the severely imbalanced hero roster with no new Tank or Support releases, combined with slow balance patches until eventually they stopped all together (leading to people playing the role with the most heroes to choose from, DPS role), all compounded into the long DPS queue times we had in OW1; 2-2-2 is not to blame.
Lol I don’t even know what you are trying to convey. Maybe lay off the pills before you post?
Custom 6v6 is also trash. Nobody wants to play some premade custom game drag looking behind lobbies. If it’s not an official gamemode it doesn’t exist and is irrelevant to the discussion
Leave OQ alone please. Role Q only helps crybabies who cant get over with messy games that occupy <5% of their games
My research leads me to stuff like this:
which points to there being queue problems all the way back in Feb 2020, if not earlier. Then there’s also the fact that they had to introduce priority passes in Dec 2020, which point to there being queue problems then, too. I’m not getting anything for Oct 2020 having good queue times so I’d appreciate you helping me out, here.
Anyway, what “broke the balance” in between Oct and Dec?
That may be true, but it’s a completely defeatist attitude. It’s fine to feel that way, but makes it impossible to have any sympathy for those players when they complain about 6v6.
They literally have the power to get what they want, but consider it irrelevant because? Because? Cosmetics? Crappy matchmaker? Im at a loss. Laziness is the only thing that makes sense.
Just don’t play pretend like you’d have any in different circumstances
Or maybe it’s irrelevant to you because the smurfs, cheaters and trolls would be constantly and immediately banned from those custom games instead of relying on Bliz’s wonderful report system. Can’t have that….