Sooo many people say this game is dying, when the queue times are almost instant.
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Some people like pain
Very true.
I’m biased as I usually play tank. But even when I play other roles, I have no complaints about wait times.
While I will agree this game isn’t dying… queue times often have little to do with a game’s success. I can get a Hearthstone match instantly. Does it mean Hearthstone is in a good place population wise? I’d say it’s down a ton from 10 years ago.
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Some people just love to talk smack about OW2. Its weird, I know…
The world is obsessed with negativity because it gets more attention than positivity.
I would get way more responses to a post if I was super toxic than if I were to say something neutral.
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I haven’t seen a queue time under 10 minutes for anything but tank all season.
Not that I think the game is dying just that your queue time has nothing to do with population.
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Depends on your mode and rank
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Its true. Its a psychological function too: Humans are more sensitive to unpleasant information.
yeah, but arent most Hearthstone matches bots? I thought that was the deal. There are a lot of bot players in that game.
If there were a billion players online and it was losing 100M an hour, you’d still have a day of instant queue times. Your reasoning is fundamentally flawed.
When the player numbers dwindle they simply reduce the quality of matchmaking and increase the concessions the game engine provides based on the matchmaker’s idea of how to compensate for the handicap - it’s this element of the matchmaker that is the most broken in my view.
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People are still playing and paying… Queue time are still fast … most people are still happy. Whats the issue?
Over here in Asia server the queue time is pretty fast even for 6v6 comp. So the game is not even close to dying.
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Why do people act like others just complain in a vacuum and not for real, valid, and specific reasons?
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We’ll all only ever agree, and be right, about “Game dead” when it hits EoS and they shutter the servers for good.
To some degree I’d bet they’re right that OW is deader than it was in its heyday, but like… Every game ever released is? Maybe not like super recent games, like Oblivion Remaster, but how many people here regularly still play HellDivers 2 or PalWorld or Elden Ring or Dave the Diver or Doom 2016? Probably very few of us if any. No game can hold its playerbase forever, people get bored, run out of content, find something else they like more, ect.
Unless the population is constantly nosediving and neither leveling off or getting semi regular injections of returnees/newbies the game is most likely fine and speculation on overall population serves no purpose.
No most of the player ran bots are gone. Blizz bots exist only if you’re on a terrible losing streak
It is kinda a modern gamer/streamer click bait habit to call something dying when it isn’t.
Dying games aren’t receiving support and updates. The dev team has moved on to a new project.
Ow has been dying for 9 years.
People confuse lower Steam numbers for dying. When the context really is “new more popular releases are out.”
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Well said. Paladins is a game that is dying by that excellent definition. I like Paladins. RIP Heroes of the Realm 
Overwatch’s strongest point was that matches were often quite quick to find and that the netcode was strong, especially when compared to Destiny where the raids were Russian Roulette in who was going to DC or when the puzzles would glitch out and the run would wipe.
You either a low rank or a tank player.