It’s 5pm UK time and I have just queued with the same 6 people. It just swaps us around.
Plus I am a Plat DPS, it’s putting me with masters and a top500.
The top 500 ball went 20-0 and basically won the game on his own. There isn’t enough players playing this game to make it a mode that can continue, you may as well remove it.
Open queue is probably still alive in popular regions. The world does not revolve around the UK, fam.
I’m in the same region and I’m not having this problem…
Let me play a couple of games tonight and get back to you…
Yeah, honestly I have no problems with OQ in NA at any time of day. 
Yknow the funny thing is, it’s not dead in my queues however all I ever get is a team that plays 2 supp/ 2 dmg/ 1 tank
Just go play role queue??? I don’t get why you’re ruining the open queue experience because despite tank having lower health its still the optimal comp to play. So it just ends up either play 2 supp 2 dmg 1 tank or lose
I couldn’t find an open queue game in 15m (US) so i assumed it was dead lmao
wonder if most of the players moved to mystery heroes comp?
I have no clue. I stopped playing it after the tank nerfs. It might genuinely be dead. I guess it would not surprise me.
It’s Europe servers, it’s a fairly big region with hundreds of thousands of players.
Not in Overwatch, clearly.
Why do we have to remove a mode just because you get the same 6 people in it?
If those other players are still queuing for it, clearly they want to play it.
Replace it with 6v6. They won’t though cause it would end up more popular than 5v5 and it would make them look stupid for implementing it in the first place.
Something I havent seen mentioned -
What would removal accomplish?
If people are playing that I have to imagine it’s because they don’t like playing something else….so what would removal of the game mode accomplish exactly? Besides making a selection of players not want to play the game
Make open queue 6v6 so that it has more of a novelty.
I have a bad experience, gotta get rid of it now!
I only play OQ, please don’t remove it lmao.
I often have 5+ min queues as duo at prime time. And 10+ in a 4-5 stack at prime time. This season has made it much worse, so much quicker before.
I also play in a duo, most often at 11:30pm EST NA time. Never get more than 1 minute queues, usually less. I’d say maybe MMR is a factor, but judging by the GMs/Ms and Bronze-golds I’m usually matched with/against, I’d say MMR is not really taken into account in OQ much. So idk.
Lamo the world dont resolve bout one country dude
MMR is certainly a factor, and makes for long queue times for us. Also since the start of this season, as a 4 stack, our random is so often new to the game. Like almost always negative k/d while every1 else in the game is 2+. Its rough at times, I hope they can fix this matchmaking issue that they made so much worse in s3.
Big stacks is normal to get long queues. And 9/10 matches in OQ are stomp or be stomped with GMs and bronzes/veterans and noobs in the same lobbies. If MMR is in play, it’s working in a very weird way. In RQ it makes sense, they can use role MMR, but in OQ there’s no way to really do that. OQ matchmaker is as loose as it gets.