I see on these forums everyday about how role lock has ruined the game and que times are destroying everything and all that. But I don’t really get it.
I mean yes, waiting sucks.
Pick a different role.
Don’t want to? Then wait. Simple as that.
I’m a support main and I like that I’m guarenteed to have some help on the support role. I like that there are designated people to be the tank and to do the damage.
Yes there have been so many times where I’m like “ffs, I’d do it myself if I could” when a dps can’t take out a sniper or Pharah… but then I’m like “I’m Ana, just let me do it - co-support, take over for a second!” and yes… doing this sometimes leads to everyone dying because co-support can’t heal everyone at once… but I’d much rather this happen occasionally then have to always pray someone will go tank and someone will heal. I know that when I que for dps… I will get to play dps… I won’t be forced to go support because no one else will.
Tons of people enjoy it. I just believe they will come to regret that as many of the… Um… More… Pragmatic ones, already have.
I like it a lot actually, though saying you like anything Blizzard does on these forums will paint you as a suck up fanboy who defends this terrible company 
I like role q / role lock because I get to play healer and know I’m going in with another healer and having tanks, or I can actually play DPS without having 3 people instalock DPS before I load in. Plus, I never have to fill as a tank.
Most level headed thinking people enjoy it. Those people are also hoping for more balance changes to fit 222 as well. They are coming very slowly so only time will tell.
People who aren’t here to complain about it aren’t going to post about how they love it. They’re going to be playing the game blissfully unaware that this negativity swamp exists.
As a support player, I love it. The stress of queueing for comp has gone to zero for me. I no longer have to worry about getting two or more support mains on my team, or if we will have tanks or DPS players. Every game is consistent and guaranteed structure. It’s amazing.
I love it. I love not feeling like an a**hole for playing dps anymore, I love not getting paired with a group of 5 dps who tries to pressure you into solo healing them, I just love that I usually find a game within minutes as a support and a tank. Sure I cannot flex outside my role, but there’s QPClassic and Mystery Heroes and bazillion other Arcade and workshop modes that let me play anything I want.
I love roleque. best thing that happened to this game
and no I am not being sarcastic, I am serious
A huge chunk of the anti-role queue post are accounts with less than 10 posts. In many case their first ever post is rabble rabble get rid of 222.
So I suspect it’s mostly people posting with alt accounts. Something 222 and DPS queue times real crippled fun wise. Old system let always let a person get DPS and had fast queues.
Those sort of DPS alt accounts were never about over all team play anyways
Despite some downsides I love RoleQ. The game is much better now. I’m just sorry for DPS that wait that long tho.
The Overwatch Forum have always been the most negative corner of the Overwatch community where people will always favor complaining than praising, so really it’s no mystery why 2/2/2 role - lock is getting so much flack, in contradiction to what’s happening in such a close place like Reddit, therefore further proving my point… Really though, Forum users comprise such a tiny amount of the players base - almost negligible sometimes that the mass opinion here doesn’t mean almost anything for the state of the game overall…
In my opinion though, yes I also overall really enjoy 2/2/2 role - lock (even though there’s a lot of room for improvement, starting with the upcoming patch), as does the majority of the player base according to past official developer statements.
Of course due to people’s overall extreme bias here against 2/2/2 role - lock, they will simply ignore all actual pieces of evidence we have in order to endorse their own subjective and anecdotal opinion, so really what I suggest is you ignore them as well at the end of the day.
I like role queue. I love role queue. I enjoy everything about it. Even skirmish is fun as hell. Sometimes even more fun than matches.
My matches are so much more organized now. Its wonderful.
Will probably quit playing when it inevitably goes away.
I dislike what is being insinuated here.
You can be level headed and dislike 2-2-2.
Logical reasons to dislike 2-2-2.
- Wait times.
- Flex role removed.
- Stagnating experience due to heavy handed restrictions.
personally i dislike enforced 2-2-2 with no flex roles. many a game i have won by changing roles.
i mean same, but that’s mostly because of varying skill levels between roles, imo. like, i used to be fill player most times i play support because that’s the last role to be filled. but sometimes i get to play tanks or dps, usually from instapicking. and a lot of times when we’re losing i’d switch to healer because from my perspective the healers’ play were lacking and then the healers would switch afterwards and we’d win. because they’re not v good healers but were good at other roles. but with 222, you get teamed up with players from other roles that match the SR/MMR of the role you chose to pick.
No. You’re not. No one is ever the ~only one to enjoy this~ I’m so tired of these kind of posts.
Honestly… the game should never have launched without it… but when the game launched the Devs also thought that Counter picking the enemy and playing what is needed (essentially the flex playstyle) was gonna be the vast majority and far more popular that “I play the Hero/Role I want and nothing else”
It sucks that you cannot flex anymore (And flexing means playing what is really needed not “I swap off MT because I think our DPS aren’t doing anything” but at the same time it’s so wonderful that you get to have a teamcomp rather than a group of people likely all just wanting to play the same role.
I used to like it.
But I noticed that games now are horribly uneven. It’s not like it used to be. Teams regularly have people two or more ranks above where they should be. Matches are almost always stomps one way or the other. You get one really overpowered person carrying. It isn’t fun.
I think it’s the role SR. It broke matchmaking completely. The game can’t find balanced teams anymore, so it just slaps together whoever it can.
I mean I have game after game with regular QP where it just feels like every game I either can’t win or I can’t lose short of throwing. And then I go to QPC and I suddenly feel like I’m actually contributing and making a difference, and sometimes even carrying games.
I’d assume that vast majority likes the role q, tho it’s just a hunch.
It’s quite likely that big part of these forum 222 haters are just dps onetricks and they come to cry here during queue.
Like, tanks have no queue time to “suffer” and healers tend to have it quite low, till higher ranks. They simply don’t have time to whine on forums.
You are not the only one. Those who like the roleQ are too busy playing the game to make posts here. They aren’t waiting 20min in queue.