If there’s already two pools for competitive, PC and Console, I genuinely do not see the issue with there being a third pool: Crossplay.
I’ve looked over some older threads of people wanting Crossplay Competitive and wondering why it’s not a thing, only for people to get cranky at them about ““no PC player wants to play with console boo hoo hoo””
Okay. Maybe that’s their opinion, or your opnion dear reader, or several people’s opinions. But I promise you it’s not everyone’s opinions. I cannot conceive of a reason why there couldn’t be three different competitive pools that you allow the player to choose from.
Perhaps make crossplay default, but with an option to opt out of if you’re truly competitive, and want to focus on ranking up and maybe even climbing to top 500 or whatever. But there are a bunch of other players that want to play competitive for fun, and don’t mind too terribly about their rank yo-yoing.
Crossplay works well in Unranked, I don’t see a technical limitation. If it’s just the disposition of players, I just don’t see a reason not to include it as long as there is always the option to choose. Because if you get the ability to choose if you will participate in crossplay lobbies, you are likely aware of and accept the more unbalanced nature.
Some people just want to play with their friends in more than UR and Arcade. And I don’t see why that seems to be such a contentious idea.
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Or just keep it at 2 pools, remove controller aim assist for the PC pool and add the option to input a real MNK for consoles for the ones that want to play quickplay/ranked on PC queue
Because it breaks the number of players into even more queues, making queue times higher
I don’t know if i’m reading right, but are you proposing a controler/MNK competitive crossplay? That wouldn’t work at all and would be a mess, it doesn’t even work at quickplay
Controler and PC together will never work, Apex and fortnite are enough of proof of that
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because Blizzard won’t give pc player an option. see how they totally ignore PC players who hate CP
There is an issue: splitting the player pool.
It’s fine for QP, but crossplay competitive PC/console should never be a thing in OW. Especially because PC players do not have the option to opt out.
To not split the player pool. Again. I’d like to know how many players would voluntarily play in the crossplay pool vs those who prefer playing between console/console and PC/PC.
PC does not have the option to choose as of now.
I agree 100%. If I’m choosing to play crossplay comp with other people who are also choosing the same thing what is the problem. I’d love to see how many people actually play crossplay quick play compared to other game modes. Haven’t played this game nearly as much as I want to because a majority of my friends are on Xbox and they also feel the same way. Atleast give us an update on what your plans for crossplay are if there are any plans in the first place.
Apex and Fortnite are also proof of games with consistent player bases unlike overwatch which had to make a second game which is basically the same. Being able to play with anyone in any mode helps it seems.
Having controllers/MNK together will do nothing but scare more players and make queues higher
And OW2 is still growing, and with faster queues than OW1