I’m not sure of the dev lift (I’m sure it’s considerable) but I’d love to be able to queue for multiple game modes at once.
I could queue comp DPS and QP tank and team death match arcade as an example and be happy with any of the results.
Would potentially help queue times on some of the lesser used game modes
I feel that if there was a multi queue option, it would be arcade only.
Queueing for qp and comp at the same time sounds like an imminent disaster.
They talked about this in a past interview. They said it’s a lot of work and they have other priorities. Translation: this will not be a thing anytime soon.
I think the real motivation for not implementing a multi-queue system is the queue times issue.
Because technically speaking, multi-queue is already a thing in role queue. The algorithm is already there. So, clearly it’s not a technical issue and it won’t require a lot of resources as they said.
A weightless, self-organizing multi-queue system might reduce the population of QP and Ranked drastically, because the less popular modes (arcade, stadium) will clearly be the bottleneck.
I doubt this is an outcome they want to see happen.