I’ve almost 1430 hours , play since 2017 and only 22 hours of competitive.
It’s common?
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Competitive players are actually the minority, so no thats not weird or uncommon, it’s more uncommon seeing Competitive only players
It’s just that the game gets balanced around Competitive because balancing around a game mode where people run around without any coordination just isn’t a good idea
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i’m a competitive only player, definitely a rare thing.
i’d love to see some blizz stats on how many people play comp vs qp daily, our of curiousity.
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Do what you enjoy! Stop the comp anxiety! 
I played comp for 16 seasons… then I found comp adverse friend and I didn’t comp for the next 8 seasons
(because this game is better with mates, of course! )
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u wot m8
so thAt’s why role queue is extremely short compared to comp then
Not weird. 2500 hours here and I stopped playing competitive alltogether. Already got the golden guns I want
Before that, I would literally only do placements each season and not actually play real matches
I live inside quickplay classic and mystery heroes exclusively now
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I don’t think it’s common, but I was 1400+ hours before I played comp. And now I’m like 1500+ with only 11 hours of comp time.
And zero golden weapons. 
Most people play casually, we don’t care about that sweaty “competitive” modes.
Don’t be fooled by the amount of people on social media tryharding and rank-shaming. They are a minority.
Because, frankly, most just want to play and enjoy the game to relax. Nothing more 
I myself play QP Classic almost exclusively, and I never have problem finding matches in seconds, at literally any time of the day/night. 
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I haven’t touched Comp for literal years now.
And QP right now is as sweaty as Comp can be, only the players are even more retarded
If they do, hopefully they also capture how many play RQ and OQ. 
For some people.
Probably about 2% of my playtime is also spent on competitive. I quit competitive for a good while after season 5 because I lost 6 placements matches purely to opposing smurfs and players throwing a hissyfit on my team and then actually throwing the games. In one of them our Genji who picked 3rd DPS was malding so bad they just fed into the enemies constantly. Right from spawn to 1v6 as fast as possible. So I decided to quit until they address smurfing and/or starts punishing disruptive behavior harder and/or make improvements to the matchmaking experience
15 seasons went past and nothing was done to address these issues so I just didn’t play for 15 seasons. Then I started doing placements and stuff and since I was still able to lose a game or two in plat/diamond to pure bs rng I just never got into it. It’s just way more stressful and the payout is… numbers clout? Wow.
I play to enjoy the game and relaxed gamemodes are better for that. Usually. If I’m uncomfortable in a relaxed gamemode I can just leave and requeue for another one and get it in less than 30 seconds as a tank player. I have way more impact on the enjoyment of my gameplay when I play relaxed gamemodes.
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I have a friend who is 1000+ hours and exclusively plays quickplay. He did play competitive for a slight amount like under 10 hours though. He says competitive gives him anxiety, which I can understand. I told him that the anxiety lessens the more he plays it but I don’t think he wants to try it at this point. I think he’s afraid of finding out how bad he is because he doesn’t even do placements. He isn’t deluded or anything but if he got ranked gold or something after playing for so long, I don’t think he’d be happy with himself so he just doesn’t attempt it.
Nope. I have 439 hours playtime yet only 16 hours of it is comp. I literally don’t care about rank and golden guns (well, golden guns a little bit. But still not the rank).
i am in the same boat, around 750 hours myself and only have 70 hours in comp. its just not worth the effort, its too judgemental, people put way too much emphasis on the rank and sr number rather than performance and judge for what characters your prefer to play.
i literally only do placements every now and then to see where i am according to to the game, apprently I can quite easily acheive diamond support which nice, dont know what I can do when I actually try though
Actually Competitive is the most popular mode. See below data from Jeff himself:
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Oho! 
Can we also quote this when the next guy claims that “OQ is more popular than RQ”? 
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Not at all – because comp is filled with a bunch of players don’t pick a hero cause they want to fill, tilt if you don’t play meta, shot call with a bad attitude and scapegoat me if I play Orisa/Winston.
OW is weird. Other fps games with higher skill caps and more individual influence that are balanced for players being competitive with each other have quickplay as their main game mode, and nobody gets fussy about the vast majority of people playing it. It’s fair, fun, and there are some great players.
OW though, you’re either playing comp or you’re useless. Gotta get that SR, gotta prove your worth, gotta scramble for that tiny IV of dopamine promising that maybe after a few hundred more games you can move from one type of metal badge to another.
It’s weird that there’s such a community feeling that competitive is the only real way to play the game, and everyone else doesn’t know how to play the game. Especially when the vast majority of people are playing QP.
I just played a game with someone contending for a pro league(in a different game) who ran through and stomped a quickplay game, but it wasn’t a big deal, because the game was fun, everybody wished each other a good game, and nobody had to get their ego going in the chat at the end.
I don’t know what makes OW so incredibly toxic towards fun and insistent that having an SR makes you not an idiot. It’s a weird game like that. I really think the original vision, where you got 5 friends and made a weird composition and went crazy with a bunch of ridiculous characters is beautiful. The moment top down competitive balance for the 1% of 1% who play the game ‘correctly’ became a mandate, things went crazy.
Consider this. If only 100 or so people out of millions can play your game correctly, maybe there’s a fundamental design flaw? When you can’t balance a game so that it plays ‘about’ the same for everybody, maybe something weird is going on.
This went way off track. Long story short, it’s not weird to play only QP in other games, it shouldn’t be here, and the community at large is weird for making it seem like that isn’t the case.
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Yes, you can.
But it won’t help, because those people tend to have lost any touch to reality and rather come up with the wildest explanations of why “the data might be invalid” instead of accepting that most people think that RQ was a major improvement to the game and that Blizzard won’t remove it just because some people don’t like it 
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