I really hope this change gets implemented. It is badly needed. The game is no longer fun for players that dont like ranked. QP is a mess. The problem OW currently have is people not caring. Traditional QP can be a mode relegated to arcade. Fingers crossed for a change!
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Or, and I’m just spitballing ideas here… don’t do that.
Put your damn 222 in the arcade. You’re talking about making drastic changes to the entire game that severely limit a lot of players’ options, and if you want to claim its for the greater good of comp then be my guest. But please, for the love of Jeff, don’t force it on us lowly casual Quickplay warriors.
Make it optional. Make LFG viable. Do whatever you have to do so that you people who want 222s are fully capable of getting it, because you deserve to have the team comp you want.
But don’t force it on those of us who don’t want it. You don’t have to play with us, you have every right to form your team comp however you like, why can’t I enjoy that same right?
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I mean, I wouldn’t mind 3 free lootboxes a week.
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terrible idea …
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Welp, there is ffa for that tbh, just pick right hero.
Perfect. Everyone wins. Case closed, let’s do this. Mission complete?
the correct word is “want”
not “need”
as in some folks want this change, but it certainly isnt needed
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exactly right froggy boi
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No… I think it’s best to force it on everyone. Can’t think of any good reason not to, at least.
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Have you considered that it’s maybe there to limit the number of tanks played in OWL, and not what we want/need? Also, maybe new hero can’t work without 2-2-2 … who knows why Blizzard makes it’s decisions 
how about “there are players who do not want to always play under such constraints”
how about “4 times the queuing time for the majority of the player base”
how about “Blizzards revenue drops considerably and they reduce resources, servers, dev work, new content, etc etc etc”
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Better games make more money. This makes the game better. Period.
It’s barely worth discussing the pros and cons anymore, because it just is going to happen.
The choice now is how are you going to adapt.
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How?
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Better depends on ones point of view
You see it as better
I see it as worse
It remains possible that the feature will be optional rather than forced
If it is optional, I have no issues with it
If it it shoved down the throats of the many who do not want to be forced to use it, players will leave
Some of those who do want it who are dps players (the majority of the playerbase) will leave when they find out their waits to play are 4 times as long as for tank and support players
Players leaving and taking their discretionary game dollars elsewhere is not a good thing for Blizzard
As more and more players leave, queues will grow longer and longer, and in turn, more players will leave…a snowball effect
I dont see any of this as “better”, personally
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Then limit it in OWL, and hope the rest of the community chooses to follow suit. Frankly I don’t give a damn what OWL needs, and I resent how much influence the people at the top (referring to OWL, and also streamers) have over the entire competitive community, because the competitive community is, in turn, holding the casual community hostage.
If the top 5% want, or even “need” to force 222, that’s their problem. But don’t force us lowly quickplayers to play by a radically restricted ruleset just because the elites won’t play nicely.
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It is highly unlikely that it will be optional. In fact, I would go so far as to say that if it is optional there is no point in doing it at all. You lose way too much of the potential benefit.
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There is no adapting, more people will leave. The game isn’t better since most of the roster is DPS and people wont like playing the other characters. The game is pretty dead here in Asia, any more queue time than my 5 mins queues is the final nail for OW in other parts of the world.
Dead game doesn’t make money. They should have adressed character distribution at the start if they planned to have team comps. Its too late now.
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agreed 100%…
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I’m expecting it to go very much the same way as One Hero Limit.
It will hit comp first. It won’t hit QP until the balance changes are making QP less fun to play.
Given that Blizzard is a for profit company, and forced 2-2-2 would present huge risks to their revenue even if one nly considers the imact of 4x waits to play for the majority of the playerbase, I think it is highly likely that Blizzard will go with optional
I explained the reasoning above…a for profit company earning a profit is very important to said company, and in fact, they cease to exist without it
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