A perfect Role queue would be “role intent queue”.
You can pick one or all 3 roles to queue up, in game it would tell you on the hero select screen and tab screen who got what role.
The role queue would be styled in 2/2/2 but its not a FORCED 2/2/2 meaning tanks can still clutch swap onto tracer for contesting in a staggered overtime and the like, or the DPS can swap to tanks for the current meta, and even past then EVEN IF THE DPS do not want to do it you still have a workable 2/2/2 to work off of, meaning you get none of those impossible games where you get 5 dps players, and 2 or 3 pick dps and the other two are already going to be overly critical of those players because they believe that should be their role which just adds to toxicity in probably the biggest way.
The role intent queue is basically saying " Im okay and comfortable to play tank at my rank or tank support at my rank or DPS and tank at my rank."
This system would ensure you get higher quality games EVERY game. Ofcourse you cant cure the trolls and throwers with it so there will still be some BAD games, but you wont get the games where the 6 people who queued up wanting to win with an impossible team to build. Which honestly is about 9/10 games just because the matchmaker hastily throws together seriously poor matchups.
Alot of games I play are won and lost because of these, it wasn’t a skill based win, the SR you earned for it wasn’t because you played out of your mind, its because the enemy team couldn’t get their game together because they had people who just were not proficient in these roles they were FORCED on by poor matchmaking.
then there’s the obvious enjoyment buff of getting to play EXACTLY what you queued up to play as. And not having anyone jump up and be like “MATE SCREW YOU IM GOING THAT HERO/ROLE”. Imagine that. Playing what you wanted to play every time you queued up. And not just accepting the fact you queued up to play Reinhardt or Genji or Soldier but you ended up having to play zenyatta or moira. I mean even if you CAN play them it just doesn’t feel good, and when offering any service for money (overwatch is that) you want to ensure the maximum level of enjoyment for all players across the board.
Players who abuse certain roles to gain quicker queue times and picking a DPS even when they are the dedicated support roles is a problem a lot of people have with this non restrictive matchmaker also, and to this I say do not worry blizzard is not stupid i’m sure doing that would be a reportable offense and you just need to have faith in the report system to deal with these kinds of players the same as trolls and hopefully the report system will act as enough of a deterrent because if you engage in that kind of practice, you would be banned before long. And that’s a seriously expensive habit.
I know faith is thin in this area though but lately its seeming more like its doing its job, even if there are alot of toxic players in ranked, but i believe they are only toxic because of the situation they are forced into by poor matchmaking, and no amount of the report tool getting better will fix people getting upset when they cant enjoy their time on a game so it needs to be fixed from the stem of the problem, which is definitely the matchmaker.
Basically the role intent queue is the EXACT same version of overwatch we have now. Everything can be done the same. You can still run quad tank or 4 dps 1 tank 1 support or solo heals and 4 tanks and 1 DPS. It just comes with a guarantee the current overwatch matchmaker has NEVER given you. A quality game from the get-go where you still have 2/2/2 to fall back on.
Same overwatch. Better Quality of life.