Blizzard..is this your vision of "matchamking"?

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MDMYRS

seriously? is this how you think games should go? what kind of backwards wonky kind of matchmaking do you have going on when you think this is what constitutes a balanced match? seriously, please fix your matchmaking…please allow people to solo queue…THIS is not “fun” unless you think one team being able to rag doll another team is “fun”.

Im bronze/silver in comp, so in QP, why would you think i need to be matched anywhere near people of this level? i routinely find that im matched with people who are diamond to GM in QP…why?

Please just tell…what exactly is your vision of matchmaking, because surely THIS cant be it…

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QP matchmaker is really bad, unfortunately.
Almost every 6v6 match has a player or 2 that don’t belong to the lobby. Every match is basically a 5v6 or 4v6.

Blizzard has to explicitly indicate to QP players that games are not balanced.
The expectation matters a lot in how people perceive their experience.

Blizzard, Just tell us how wide the MMR is for every match. Most players get mad when they discover it was an auto-loss after trying their best.

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im just surprised that more people dont have matches like this. Nearly 90% of all my games are stomps…maybe not quite THIS bad…but a stomp, one way or another. How can anyone call it “fun” when you enter a match where one side has really no chance of winning?

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its insane that this mode is the introduction most players have to the game - i dont understand why it’s just not removed… make every game comp and just create a lower rank called training or something.

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thats exactly why i play comp.
mm is still bad but much less than in qp.

qp is a trollfest.
And I should know it, spend… no wasted enough time there.

and with banns it only makes sense new players start in qp.

Its honestly like 10x easier to win in comp.

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see, where i play, in bronze/silver…ranked is no different than QP

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QP is where all the noobs start the game and can be regarded as a face of the game. It should more be like a protected game mode than comp, but it is actually the opposite. It’s perhaps the wildest game mode in OW without working MM and esp. since hero bans are introduced : All those annoying heroes went to QP.

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the problem is, if you are not good enough to reach…high plat, or diamond and above, your matchmaking in QP is exactly the same as Comp

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I just came from 4 matches in a row that were absolute stupid stomp. And this is basically the entire story of Stompwatch 2… sorry Overwatch 2. It’s just this BS 24/7.

If this is suppose to somehow make me or anyone spend more money on stupid skins, HOW? Why would I spend ANY money on game that intentionally and purposely F me in the A the entire god damn time?

I’ve only dragged my rear through stupid stadium to get the free cosmetics, I’ll never bother with the “win with all heroes” because I value my mental health more than 1 stupid lootbox and after like a week of not playing OW2 I just played 4 6v6 matches and they were all such hard stomps its not even funny. Now I’m gonna play some Marvel Rivals or Oblivion. Anything but this garbage game.

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Better off playing Comp if you want a better match making, just the queue times will be a tad longer than QP queues, since QP throws match making to the wind for faster queues.

Even I’m finding myself queuing into Comp games for a getter match up even if the wait time times are longer. Stomping or getting Stomped do not.make for good matches.

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Well I’d rather wait 5 minutes than waste 1 hour playing total BS matches that were so one sided I may as well just not play any of it and waste time on stupid match that was designed for one side to lose from the second the match started.

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Garbage forced loss streaks. Only pity wins when they decide to give you one. Doing their best to put stacks vs randoms to cause pointless to play one-sided stomps.

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you should play in my matches…down here in bronze, it’s often “geez, might as well just go back to quick play”

id love to play comp, if i could get out of silver but i dont have those skills, so there’s just no point to comp at my level.

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well QP matchmaking is all over the place in favor of queue times, that’s not news

i believe they have hard constraints when it comes to queue times especially in QP, so that people can farm their battle pass and making sure everyone can do it, even if they start later in the season or don’t play much

if match quality is your main concern and you’re a solo gamer, definitely go to comp i’d say. it’s not going to solve everything but it should improve it

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I would beg to differ, In qp nothing stops the game from having gold and plats in it.

while that won’t happen in comp.

I play qp when I want exactly this. a unbalanced mess where I can stomp others and they can’t block it by having a lower rating or banning the heroes.

beeing slightly above the bell curve has its perks for qp.
but beeing below I don’t think i would play a single game of qp.

I can have golds in qp making it hard to win and diamonds.

in comp I can be guaranteed that there won’t be diamond players. And no silver, max gold to plat what I should be able to manage.

struggling below gold… climbing wont make it betteryit makes it worse.

I as a peak dia player prefer silver/gold as I can decide the match basically myself.

I don’t have any influence on a dia match. unless I play out of my mind at which point I at max meet my peers in dia.

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bronze comp has nothing to stop diamonds and GM’s in it. Bronze is where all the high level players take their alt accounts to “pwn the noobs”. its so full of smurfs its not even funny.

thanks for admitting it. just another reason why QP needs to be matched better. QP says that its supposed to be matched against players of your own skill. There are those who dont want to mess with comp, but that doesnt mean they should be forced into horrible matches in unranked as well. QP should be matched better for those who want to play, but not wanting to worry about the whole competition thing.

im sure it does, why should I have to be your cannon fodder though? I had a guy tell me a few months back, that it “was his right to stomp noobs in QP” because he had gotten to such a high level, that he felt he deserved it. He actually said that. lol…

when i play QP, it’s not uncommon for me to have plats and diamond, and even sometimes masters and GM. Ive even seen T500 players in my QP games, there’s no reason for that. im silver at best.

just because their rank is gold doesnt mean they ARE gold. Smurfing is a HUGE problem. Also, the more you go up in rank, the harder it is to smurf, because the skill gap starts closing.

really? so you admit you are a high level player, but prefer to play below your rank so youll be able to carry games? really? This is exactly what im talking about.

So, now imagine those people in gold/silver who are having to play against someone more than 4 full ranks above them.

Im sorry, i just dont buy the idea that “its just quick play”…everyone wants to have a good time, yet not everyone wants to play comp…or doesnt have the skillset to rank up in comp. At bronze/silver, there is literally no difference between comp and QP. You even gave an example of why that is.

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speaking from a plat Perspective, its not fun playing in bronze.
heck even silver isn’t that enjoyable because theres no challange, I can understand low gold as it becomes actually fun.

My masters friend prefers either gold or high diamond as plat seems to be the worst of the worst. Silver (not to mention bronze) is so hard to reach without deliberately throwing like crazy that many don’t have fun trying so hard to keep the account low.

Ubderstandably some want to se bronze games and manage to stay down there.

Ofc a gold would have a field day and feel like he is a pro at the game but that isn’t gm or anything spectacular.

I can hardly reach high plat and I can absolutely smurf like a god in silver.

the problem with qp is its design for fast games and allow people to play with friends that have different skills.

what do you expect from balance when I duo as a plat with a high master?
Sure blizzard can try and give both teams the same rank on roles, but if your plat is a moira and I pocket my master ashe on mercy it doesn’t really matter what your master plays.
if you even have one.
this can’t happen in comp in a non wide match.

you are my canon fooder in qp like I am the same to master players.
Can’t complain about it, otherwise I’b be in comp with more strict mm.
the lower your skill, the more people can abuse you as canon fooder. what will the worst player in the world do? theres nobody to be his food. Won’t be fair for him and it wouldn’t be fair if he could beat others.

if you desire stricter mm, you should try comp.
under any circumstance does it have the better match quality.

I admit that I could play a rough diamond tracer yes. Thats true. when I play to my best it should be around a diamond level gameplay.

But I don’t always play at my peak Performance, sometimes people bann my hero, sometimes the enemy is aware how to play against my heroes and sometimes I want to play different heroes.

Overall that won’t bring me to diamond.
but its food enough that if I drop to low I will win.

I can’t tryhard every single game, firstly is it not feasable unless my hero would be playing for me.
abd secondly, If my hero is banned I can’t play them.

exactly the issue.
if you think you are so bad you cannot play comp what do you believe happens in qp? it will readjust and give you bronze 5 games or it will ignore your rating 24/7 and give you fast games no matter the rating?

if you would play comp and keep losing your mm would lower and lower.
but if you take smurfs as something the mm can Predict, here is a tip, it can’t.
also how will the mm Predict how I will perform?
it can’t.

if you lose in qp, nothing happens, the mm just adds you back to the q without a second thought about how you did.

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You have to take it easy in QP. Sometimes masters supports just want to hop on DPS and then they get curbstomped by an actual masters DPS on the other team… Nothing you can do about it. Just make current match end quicker somehow and go next, fingers crossed.

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I find the opposite to be true.
Probably because my comp games are stuck in gold, and i can get plat and diamond teammates in qp.

I get better teamwork, occasional help when i ask for it, my teammates know target priority and use cover.

In my comp games, my team ignores me even if i ask for help, everyone is shooting the double pocketed tank while being killed by enemy dps, and everyone keeps running down main into a bullet storm while there’s this perfectly fine flank route that none of the enemies know exists.

I can’t do much with the flank route myself since the best option i have for that is moira, other heroes i play being ana(too slow), zen(too slow) and mercy (sometimes wirks but i’m too squishy).
In oq i swap to sombra or tracer at that point and bother the enemy sups.
But sometims distracting 3 enemies is not enough to let my team win the 2v4 in the choke point.

So i stick to qp, because i get people who actually know how to play the game on both teams most of the time.

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Just get better at the game and find a good duo
Sorry to tell you this but you have a weakmindset