Data for devs on PP

General Discussion
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Tracking QP games for Priority Pass versus non.

All data was taken with fresh queues, no ‘preferred queues’ or queueing from one match directly into another. If I list “no PP” it meant I selected the role WITHOUT using a Priority Pass. All were for the Damage role (tank/support have never been >5 minutes).

Date_____(minutes listed)_____Actual Time _____Map (Win/Loss)
12/28 _____<7 (<2 w/PP) _____ 2:43 _____ Anubis (L)
12/28 _____ <6 (<2) _____ 4:43 _____ Lijang (W)
12/29 _____ <7 (<2) _____ 3:48 _____ Eichen_defense (W)
12/29 _____ <6 (<1) _____ 3:58 _____ Gibr_attack (L)
12/29 _____ <6 (<2) _____ 7:48 (no PP) _____ Illios (W)
12/29 _____ <5 (<1) _____ 7:18 (no PP) _____ Rialto_attack (W)
12/30 _____ <5 (<1) _____ 2:47 _____ Hana_attack (L)
12/30 _____ <6 (<1) _____ 3:31 _____ Blizz_defense (W)
12/30 _____ <6 (<1) _____ 7:43 (no PP) _____ Volk_defense (L)
12/30 _____ <7 (<2) _____ 3:54 _____ Nuban_attack (L)
1/1 _____ <6 (<1) _____ 1:12 _____ Paris_attack (W)
1/1 _____ <6 (<1) _____ 0:56 (no PP BACKFILL) _____ Holly_defense (L)
1/1 _____ <6 (<1) _____ 2:02 _____ Volk_attack (W)
1/1 _____ <6 (<1) _____ 1:45 _____ Oasis (W)
1/1 _____ <5 (<1) _____ 2:30 _____ Busan (LO)
1/2 _____ <5 (<1) _____ 3:03 _____ Route66_defense (L)
1/2 _____ <5 (<1) _____ 1:33 _____ Nepal (W)
1/2 _____ <4 (no PP) _____ 6:45 (no PP) _____ Havana_attack (W)
1/2 _____ <5 (<1) _____ 2:19 _____ Anubis_attack (W)
1/2 _____ <5 (<1) _____ 7:14 (no PP) _____ Volks_attack (L)

So the use of PP definitely has reduced the queue times from the <5, <6, <7 listed, but it never gets to the <1 or <2 except for the one backfill (and that one I actually didn’t even USE priority pass!). What I find interesting is that my non-PP times are actually quite a few minutes /above/ the estimate (almost always ~2 minutes). I guess the system still has trouble estimating queue times with people using PP.

I also didn’t notice an unusual trend of people ‘throwing’ or ‘lost games’, but ended with an 11-9 record, which I consider quite good for someone who mostly plays tank/support and all these 20 matches were on Damage.

Anyway, just wanted to give DEVs some actual hard data from us ‘grunts’.

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Just a suggestion – that’s a bit hard to read. Maybe try like a google excel doc that you can share? Would be way easier to track/read.

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google sheets would def be the way to do this

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Good point. Wasn’t sure if I could link things like that. A summary would be:

14 matches with Priority Pass: screen said “<1 minute” or “<2 minute” on all, yet average wait time was 3 minutes and 2 seconds.

4 matches w/o Priority Pass: screen said “<5 minutes” or “<6 minutes” on all, yet average wait time was 7 minutes and 31 seconds.

1 match w/o Priority Pass that was a backfill in 0.56 seconds.

1 match w/o Priority Pass where initial queue times were listed as “<4 minutes” (so no Priority Pass option), but actual queue time was 6 minutes and 45 seconds.

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You could also do a table using the forum markdown options. This post has a how-to on that if you want to spice up future posts or edit this one.

There’s also this one which has a lot of stuff in it

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U would need to show data from before the patch to actually prove queue times improved

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Valid point and I agree.

I was assuming that when the old system said “<6 minutes” it would basically be a queue time of 5-6 minutes…but, yeah, without having recorded that, who knows how accurate the “<6 minutes” actually was.

So best I can say from my 20 data points was that using Priority Pass reduced my queue time /as compared to NOT using Priority Pass/, but that all reported queue times were off by 2-3 minutes.