Also new characters generate more play time than new maps, so next season will see more traffic than usual, the one after less, the one after more, etc etc
Part of the problem…in my humble opinion…is the insane number of things to queue into. I am SURE I am missing things, but QP, Comp, 6v6 (qp and comp?), vs AI (I know people who ONLY play that as it is relaxing compared to real games), mystery heroes, any of the multiple arcades up on a given day, deathmatch, role queue, open queue, stadium…that is kind of bonkers and definitely spreads the playerbase thinner than it needs to be.
This. I lost all interest in OW in around 2 seasons. After around 8-9 years, its kind of bad. Main factor is that going into a game and playing a game has a bad ratio and we just have too many modes that fracture the player base completely. This is not fixable anymore btw, so I just wait until OW gets me exited for something again.
You mean 5v5 ranked ? Game has way too many modes rn, tank players are all queueing 6v6 because solo tank is insufferable, 6v6 is both quickplay/ranked and now stadium on top of it
This thread is genuinely meaningless if you don’t say what you were queued for, there can be a billion active players and the queue times could still get this long in a role queue system
I wish I could queue the way I want and have 20 minute queues. idgaf about queue times. I can do other things while I wait. I don’t have ADHD. Just don’t make me re-queue 50 times because you put me on terrible maps like shambali.
I just noticed that half the responders here are smurfs… yea I agree, no sympathy for essentially cheaters (cheating the matchmaker) who definitely enjoy stomping on lowbies. They’re why I can’t get back up to masters after rank reset so I stopped comp. I solo queue and it’s always them deleting my team’s dps.
they might have to compile all the gamemodes into 6v6 or 5v5 open queue if they want to keep stadium as a sidemode and have somewhat balanced matches. If the game has long queue times and bleeds players it could cause a snowball effect that makes even more people quit. Marvel Rivals might just be the beginning of the end, who knows what games are going to come out that could potentially take over the genre.
and then they add stupid feature to make the wait time longer, map select screen, hero bans screen, the stupid pointless “progression” screen at the end and later will add end cards, or so they say i dont believe them
dude, the stupid useless game director after years of being quiet for the first time in ever he mentioned the story, he would like to go back, no actual promises of ever doing anything, no actual mention of anything, and the hordes of shillers coming out of the sewer “YeAh wE aRe So BvAC golden era, take that haters” dude, this is exactly why the game is on it worst state ever, they get excited for literally nothing, not even crumbles
not really, when hazard came out, with marvel rivals, the player count on steam reached it historical lowest, hazard hype died in days, freya didnt bring many players either, or perks and stadium, you know when there was more players on steam than any other season? when juno came out, idiots, thats why blizzard only relase skins for her, gooner game, new heroes, the main appeal of a hero shooter dont generate hype anymore, some people even think they should stop making more characters for a while, they ruin everything, and lore wise, nobody cares
but this game have a morbillion active players at the same time, thats what people told me on twitter when i said death game, they are coping?