17 minutes+ when it says <10 minutes. Got banned for 8 hours. Inb4 salt. Yes I’m salty. The queue times are so bad, people literally forget they are in queue and walk away from the computer. I am far from the only one who has said this. 5 times today I was on the recieving end of someone afk/dc beginning of game, thus collapsing it, and being sent into another 10+minute queue
WHICH MORE OFTEN THAN NOT, ENDS IN LESS THAN 7 MINUTES DUE TO ROFLSTOMP IN EITHER DIRECTION.
We want to PLAY the game and your system actively makes it challenging to do that. Though it is obviously in Blizzards best interest to keep the hamsters on the wheel anyway, so they wont bother fixing anything, as they have kept this game in perpetual beta since launch.
Yep. I’ll spend all day playing tank to avoid the queue but it gets boring. I miss just one tricking tracer all day. I can still do that now but it’s like 8 min queue cancelled, 11 min queue cancelled, 9 min queue one sided stomp that’s over in 5 mins, 11 min queue another one sided stomp over fast, 14 min queue cancelled. Cool, I just spent 2 hours of my life and got 0 quality games in.
The DPS queue time wouldn’t actually be that bad if after waiting the 10+ minutes in queue we didn’t end up with:
a leaver on your team in the first minute, making you go through the queue AGAIN;
a leaver on your team after the first minute, making sure that you spent the last 10+ minutes only to lose SR and have nothing you can do about it;
a leaver on the other team, that triggers the whole team to leave therefore cancelling the match;
the instalock Hog that never shoots the enemy shield and tries (or rather, fails) to flank the whole game;
the DPS Moira;
the one trick Mercy that ONLY heals her boyfriend duo;
the one-trick Junkrat that can’t even manage to get Gold damage when you’re playing Ashe poorly, or even break the enemy shields; (that’s what happened in my last game, fyi)
the offtank main duo that wouldn’t pick a main tank even if it meant getting a million dollars;
ever since they pulled 4 dps from rotation/banned them support que times now rivals dps most days. now and again ques are shorter but not by much. The game needs to make tanks more viable to players and personally i think the way of doing that is nerf rein so he isn’t a must pick against enemy reins. We all know he is the most played tank in the game.
They want more tank players make the other tanks more viable.
The player base has dropped by a factor of 6 compared to the previous year. It’s even worse with the number of people watching. Look at the Twitch audience statistics. The smartest move right now would probably be to bring very good A.I. bots into the game, to fill the roles no one really wants to play.
Overwatch was my favourite game for a long time, but it is not good anymore. The focus is too much on non-competitive features. It almost seems as if the Executive Producer had decided to destroy all competitive features of the game step by step.
The matchmaking is bad and unfair, the reporting system is completely flawed and promotes frustration and anger. The statistics and medals are beginner friendly but misleading for more advanced players.
They even managed to fake the POTGs in such a way that a Moira who has done absolutely nothing in the game can now believe that she has performed the best action in the game. This describes the state of the game very well.
It is understandable that the hardcore gamers who play several hours a day and want to improve their skills are now gone. The reward is too little or even non-existent. Instead, the frustration is very great.
What remains is a bunch of role-playing 13-year-olds and drug addicts and players who only play occasionally and don’t care about anything anymore.(This is not exaggeration or sarcasm.)
Soon the queue time for Arcade Quickplay on EU servers will exceed 3 minutes during weekends.
Players will not wait much longer than 3 minutes for an arcade quickplay game. With each additional minute of waiting, many players are getting closer to uninstalling the game. I don’t even want to talk about competitive mode.
Support queue times are partially longer than damage queue times.
When queing for all roles daily, I get damage like once a day and support maybe once a week.
Most annoying thing about queue times is how inconsistent they are, sometimes you get a game in 3 mins even as damage and sometimes it takes literally 40 minutes. With consistent times one could at least choose a series or a game with short episode/level times instead of beeing ripped out of the game/series or finishing one episode/level and then still waiting half an hour.
On top of that leavers are a legit issue, to the point that I would say about 20% of my games are cancelled at the start. Understandable with such queue times, even I myself forgot I was in queue on 2-3 occasions.
As far as POTGs go, apparently it is a “bug” that has been known for like months, but is too hard/unimportant to fix, so its just left until somebody has the time for it. (= after overwatch 2?)
as described, it fits very well with the basic attitude of the developers regarding the favouring of new and bad players.
I can’t think of any change in that time period that could cause such a bug.
And even if something was changed and would cause such a bug, the developers have version control over the changes and could very quickly isolate the cause and fix it.
Thats why I said apparently and “bug” instead of just its a bug.
Because those “bugs” have also been happening in the past, where specific groups or heroes were preferred for a while. As if its so hard to adjust the values or - if it really is a bug somehow, fix it. They could also quite easily have an automated system, that tries to keep a similiar potg % across all heroes (ofcourse also in regards to playtime), making very minor adjustments each week instead of this “well hero x got very little amount of potgs - lets buff their value by 300%”
Maybe he is in a low elo and cant even accelerate his brainpower to a state of imagening that heal queue up there takes quiet some time now that the game is more stale than milk in the sun. I feel you, same boat, close to 3k anyone has to wait but the tanks, and the matches IF games take place are often atrocious. I swear if nothing is changed before OW 2 i surely wont support it. And i hope the less casual people here will also get their stuff straight and also just go into rehab from this lost cause called overwatch comp.
New and bad players are most likely to be uninformed and thus/also paying for stuff. Older players lost interest in the cosmetics the face of the game is carrying, cus they know the real face by now. As much as i don‘t want it to be true its quiet striking and your two sentences here easily break down why stuff doesnt change.
overwatch is a competitive environment. Ofc, and people in North Korea are blessed with freedom.
Uno and Romme are more competitive than solo-queue… and after 21 seasons of suffering and experience in the trainwreck that is this games comp mode: go elsewere, troll.
I dont get how many of the people that still log in daily gladly take it up the butt with all these changes by Blizz. Ya‘ll stupid?