You’re part of the problem with this game. Straight up. If you’re that good that you’re landing Grand Master and higher, stick to Comp with the rest of the sweats.
Going into QP Public lobbies to “stomp” doesn’t show you’re good. It just suggests the opposite, that you can’t post great gameplay when faced against people your skill level. At this point, if I see titles that are that high in the lobby, I simply leave, XP Penalties be damned.
There’s literally 0 fun in the game being rolled by people who are unkillable who just decimate your entire team non-stop. It’s not even a game at that point. It’s just a delay until the match ends in the enemy team’s favor.
Do yourself and everyone else a favor. Stick to Comp. If you’re so good, you should enjoy it there. Sooner or later, you’re gonna run out of QP players to dominate because they’ll all have moved on from the game mode.
When your Que times on Genji or Widow are 7 or 8 minutes+ due to lack of players in lobbies, just for a 2 minute game, maybe at some point you’ll realize why.
I noticed that too. I mean, you can clearly tell during the gameplay who is stacked and who isn’t. When a team flows well and there is clear synergy between the players, it’s obvious they’re stacking. I’ve played enough QP (it’s pretty much all I play, since early OW1 days). It’s painfully obvious which groups of people are communicating and playing together vs which are just randomly thrown in.
Honestly, I think after D4 drops, I’m just done with Overwatch. I’ve given it some solid years of gaming, and at this point between the Battle Pass, the Match Making, pay-walled Heroes, this game is ending up just like most other modern competitive shooters. Either you sweat, or you quit.
And? The entire rest of the lobby should suffer? I don’t think you understand just how genuinely unfun it is. Literally all you see halfway through those lobbies are players on the enemy team leaving, making it 4v5 or 3v5 for the rest of the game.
How is that fun? Honest question. You have people playing wildly outside of their purported skill level, against a lopsided team who has given up trying because it’s such a stomp.
If the matchmaker puts GMs into my Silver/Gold games, it’s matchmaker’s fault. I only blame GMs if they intentionally smurf.
Not all GMs like pub stomping. Some might wanna just chill, or warmup or practice and are disappointed they don’t get better skilled opponents to play against. They might be so skilled that even if they play with one hand or half-drunk they will still automatically stomp the casuals the matchmaker paired them against.
i used to be diamond and on all other games im top tier ranks only on overwatch do i struggle to rank up in any way shape or form. thanks overwatch for the worst matchmaking , gameplay decisions, unending abyss of no responses from credible top gamers who tell you exactly what is wrong yet you look the other way like cmon man
I don’t play comp. I have friends who do. They’re ranked from GM down to silver. When we want to play together, QP is really the only option.
I don’t think it’s fair to hate on high ranked players for wanting to play part of the game. The anger really should be directed at Blizz for their matchmaker being so wonky.
But then they won’t get to have fun from stomping on casuals. And playing against equals isn’t fun, as it suggests, that all that sweating was for nothing.
It’s F2P game, so there always will be newbies to steal candy from.
Matchmaking wouldn’t cause so much damage to game, if high ranked players weren’t in QP. As to put said high ranking player in low rank game, such player must be present there.
And that’s how you make them quit QP, by specifically not resisting them. Until they get just as bored in QP, as they were playing against their equals.
I hate to break this to you, but smurfing is not an aberration it is the norm and has been in literally every competitive multi-player game that has ever existed with skill or rating-based comp systems. Like I played multi-player games before these things existed and was playing when they became a thing, and it’s always been normal.
I’ve ‘smurfed,’ in every competitive game where I’ve achieved a high rank or rating. Anyone who says they don’t or haven’t is lying. I get it that it can ruin people’s fun and I think most people try not to be toxic about it, and aren’t looking to ruin matches. Usually they are goofing around playing off-meta or doing something outside their wheelhouse precisely because doing that at your ‘peak,’ in terms of rating, rank, etc., is throwing. Some people do just want to curb-stomp lower ranks and are toxic and they suck, and of course if the skill gap is large it can still ruin games even if you are goofing off, and that sucks, but if they’re not in ranked and not going out of your way to grief people, be toxic, or boosting friends and the like I don’t see that it’s a huge issue.
Not that it matters either way because it isn’t going away.
Also FYI in Overwatch I’m a mid-as-heck player low-to-high Gold so I’m not coming at this from some elitist standpoint. I’ve had matches ruined by higher ranked players. Just reflecting on the fact that in other games I’ve been the higher ranked player who doesn’t want to have to sweat to grind out wins against people on my skill level that force me to play a main, be a meta-slave, etc., and likely get nothing from it because I’m already at my peak.
Soooo, what if they want to learn a new hero that they know they won’t be able to compete in GM with yet? What if they want to queue up with friends? What if they want to practice on a different role?
Your enjoyment does not take preference over theirs. They are not purposefully stomping in QP, QP matchmaking is very loose.
I personally enjoy going up against higher skill players in QP. I like using cheesy dumb ways to kill them if I can’t duel them head on.
It seems to me like you are one of the ones waiting for PvE. The current game is competitive in nature.
so high rank players should be excluded from the game because they’re better than you? i dont get what point is being made?
‘you arent allowed to play anything other than comp because I don’t feel like trying to get better at the game’
How about you just stop playing and wait for PVE if you want easy games