Instead off splitting the playerbase in Role queue and Open queue, could they not just force roles through role passive’s?
Like say by having a tank on your team, the team get’s a hp buff / armor buff.
By having a healer the team get’s hp regen when not in combat.
I like the one where Dps are blocking healing received but the entire team should not get it.
By doing some passive role boost like this they would ensure atleast 1 hero from each role and then the random people could fill in the rest 
The trouble is this community has a player base at odds with the game. Role queue has never really worked; you either get really long queues to the point they start losing players, or really bad match quality as the matchmaker mixes several ranks together just to find a game.
They had a chance with OW2 to switch things around, and for whatever reason they thought removing a tank would fix it. It was obvious to anyone who had played the game for more than 5 seconds it wouldn’t fix anything. The only thing I think would work would be to go 1-4-1, or better yet go back to open queue and work to make the support and tank role more enjoyable and rewarding to play so that more players actually choose to play them. Probably too much like hard work for Blizz these days though, those shop skins don’t make themselves.
I didn’t mean they should lock in 1-1-1, the game would be open que so the team could go 5 dps.
But if they went without tank, the team would have 100 less hp.
Without a healer they would not get hp regen.
Yeah deleting the off tank was a mistake!
Yeah changing colour on skins must be a hard and requires alot off artists
Role Q came about as a result of the Open Queue causing a headache in the early days of OW1.
Partly due to goats and partly due to the fact you’d have matches where nobody would play tank or support.
Role Q was healthier for the game at the time before double shield became a thing and it’s so far along now removing it would cause a lot more upset. I prefer Role Q to open Q personally I know what I’ll be doing and can hyper focus on that rather than repeatedly trying to work out what to play especially if your role was take
You should not be able to choose the role to search for a game.
It should be like lol that when entering the game they agree on who should be a tank or healer etc and be able to transition in the middle of the game if the tank cannot do so and give up their role to someone else.
Would only work if players were the same skill/rank on all roles.
They aren’t.
So people cry about imbalanced matches now… that idea would actually create them.
But in role queue they match gold 3 dps with plat 1 tank and gold 5 support just to get a match because off the queue times.
Having 5 people around Plat 1-3 would give a better game overall.
They role match, not very well, but it’s role matched.
Subtle differences could be key.
Ultimately, that player picked tank, they have the same MMR on tank as the DPS do on DPS and supports of support.
If there MMR on all 3 roles is pretty much identical, then you probably wouldn’t have too many issues. But the chances of that are very slim.