Daily reminder that queue times don't reflect player numbers

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They are, actually, a reflection of player ratio queuing for a certain role.

if 10k players queue in a split 33%/33%/33% role ratio - the queue times will be short

if 1000k players queue in a split of 10%/60%/30% - the queue times for the 10% role will be short, but the queue times for 60% role will be long.

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Yes, but 6v6 timer has a bug showing numbers that are miles away from reality

I haven’t waited more than 3m since the release of the mode

And when it says 8mins or more, I go into a game <1m; and a new game. Not backfilling

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I can only assume it’s overall across the entire game. In some regions it really might be terrible queue times but at least in NA queue times are really off.

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Real ones or the estimated?

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I mean real queue times. Because I’m sure some players must be having awful queue times for it to show that. Surely right?

Maybe the estimates are based off the number of players of your roughly similar mmr queuing but because it’s qp it makes concessions really fast? Idk.

I really can’t wait for the devs to give us the actual stats. Even based off an eye test my queue times have been fine and it’s not like I see the same players constantly like I did with kingmaker on any of the 3? 4? days that ran. Maybe that’ll change over the next 2 weeks.

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That would be a “useful” bug, if Devs wanted to draw less attention from 6v6

And yes, I never saw the same players in a game

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All I see is that they can keep both 5v5 and 6v6 in the game and queue times are a nonissue as mostly everyone said would be the case.

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there sitn even to many players left due to aaron keller

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No, marble ribals took ow players.

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This is true, but not the entire story. Matchmaking includes factors other than just role. Rank, time of day, and location all also play a role because the matchmaker needs to find 10 people per match that also meet that criteria. The larger your overall player base, the more likely it is that you have players meeting the necessary criteria in edge cases.

If it was purely about ratios, then every non-role queue game mode would have literally instant queue time, which we know is untrue.

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OH YEAH THAT TOTALLY EXPLAINS WHY ALL ROLES = TANK ONLY

Garbage dead game. Inexcusable to defend this awful challenge that shouldn’t be a thing.