Before Someone Brings It Up: Role Que doesn’t entirely encourage diversity in character choice, only role. You will still see players in role que pick the same character every time.
I bring this up to maybe help keep the game more diverse instead of literally seeing a Moira and Orisa every game along with the same 2 to 4 DPS characters everyone is deciding to play for the week.
They should try out a mode where you cannot swap heroes after the match has started, like 99% of all other games like this
Even if just for fun in arcade…
They did that already, MOBAwatch.
It wasn’t that well received so it hasn’t returned since.
Role queue does nothing to stop player diversity. Thats just silly.
If you want people to play something else for whatever reason, make other characters more fun
I agree, but that’s one of the main appeals of this game. If they limited it so that people couldn’t constantly switch it would make it a little better I think or at least announced when a player switches characters so you’re not caught off guard by something you weren’t even aware of that is now in the game.
I mean it’s kind of hard to play any 200hp hero that isn’t a support or has hard CC
You just get killed so fast that it’s almost impossible to keep most DPS up anymore without barrier spam.
Like Supports get a pass with their 200hp because they either have escape options/ higher self healing (Moira, Mercy, Lucio) have some kind of deterrent (Brig with CC, and Bap with Jump/ IF), or they play far enough back that it gives them SOME room to breath (Zen, Ana)
Most 200hp heroes don’t have that kind of luck.
Notice how the ONLY 200hp heroes who have been anywhere near meta have hard CC (Sombra, McCree) or worked to hinder/ help the meta (Symmetra)
Everyone else is the pool of 250hp heroes (Mei, Reaper, Doomfist)
The incentive is: if you play off meta heros, the others players will false report you and you acc will get ban.
introduce a ban system 
ban heroes you don’t want to fight.
another one could be you don’t get to pick a hero that’s been selected from either team,
so there will never be a mirror match ever.
that can shake things up a lot.
I don’t think it would be smart for the game to incentivize playing specific heroes since that hero might not be a good pick for any given match. I don’t want people picking the wrong thing for the match just because they’re trying to get stuff.
All you have to do is press tab (I think for PC, I play console) and you can see exactly what heroes they have
Sorry, there’s nothing the game would do to make me stop playing Zarya. Unless they make the game ban you. And I don’t play modes that would make people report me, AKA comp.
One word: Daily challenges
Finally I could play a game of FFA without three ******g Moiras in every match.
If you don’t care about the other characters. Why would this work?
when you’re in the middle of a game/round and someone dies, typically you’re first instinct isn’t to press tab to see if someone is switching.
For that to happen they would need to make some characters as good as others. And that won’t happen because they want their favorites to continue to be the most picked.
That’s easy. Bring more fun tanks and healers and nerf CCs.
How can someone want to play Reinhardt with so many CCs? I’d rather to play any other game
I check it after every team fight and whenever I have downtime to be ready
Why would I play a different character when I’m chained to the meta?
FTFY
Same reason they bribe people to play other roles or to play in “Competitive” mode.
Imagine thinking playing a mindless barrierbot is fun.