I don’t play competitive and I have good reasons why. That doesn’t mean I don’t like at least TRYING to win. However, QP is a complete disaster, mixing in all sorts of people with different motivations. The comps are abysmal. Most of my games are lost in the hero select screen (triple sniper, all flanker comp anyone?). Teamwork is nonexistent. The matchmaker is laughably inompetent at creating balanced teams. I get 1 good game out of every 20. That is not an exaggeration, I am keeping track. It’s a testament that the 1 good game I get is so good, I keep playing to get another one again.
Please, do something. Add role select. Add a separate QP (try-to-win vs just messing around). I would GLADLY wait longer for a better play experience. I am on the verge of quiting this game.
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I don’t think there’s really a way to force people to try, but I definitely hear you. For me the far more concerning issue is smurfing, and even worse just stupidly high level players getting paired hilariously below their skill level. I got my gf OW today and the enemy team in her first qm had multiple people leveled into the hundreds…
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Comp seems to be the solution to most of your problems.
Wanna tell us your ‘good reasons’?
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With that kind of mentality, no wonder you can’t have fun.
It would be great to have a unranked competitive, but I worry about the constant dividing of the player base. Everytime a new mode is created, there are less players with which to try to create even teams.
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I do think just returning Unlimited mode to the arcade would help alleviate some of these issues. As it stands the ONLY place to practice a hero in anything that resembles a real game is in QP. Unlimited Mode used to offer that opportunity, but was inexplicably removed.
It’s nothing Blizzard can fix, it’s the mentality of the players. Every game I’ve seen with a competitive mode, players consider Comp to be the “primary” mode and everything else as “who even cares lol.” It really ruins the fun for players that just want to play the game without ratings.
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In competitive 8/10 games will be good, you almost never get troll comps, there is teamwork (most of the time), and people will go there to win.
Quick play is meant to be played for practice or casually, however players want to, they don’t have to play a character they don’t want to play.
What are you good reasons behind not playing competitive?
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Playing around 12-2 AM PST I often get better games on Quickplay than in platinum Competitive. Rapid but decisive flex, healer readiness, purposeful comps, team awareness… Anywhere from silvers to diamonds (if ranked at all) playing, but everyone was doing their part. Of my most memorable games by now (say, the top ten), only a few were Competitive.
Larger groups also help. The odds of getting teams on both sides actually playing to win is substantially higher. I’ve been a part of some very enjoyable lobbies that have lasted an hour or more with slight adjustments to either side as people came and went.
I imagine that solo queue provides the lowest probability of finding a good game.
Could not agree more. I’ve suggested a groupfinder system many times, and most people agreed it’d be great for comp, but personally I’d use it for quickplay more.
People sometimes bring up that there’d be long wait times, especially as DPS - there already are. You just spend it playing crappy matches with widow-hanzo-0healers-0tanks, i.e. waiting for a teamcomp you don’t need to heal in
As for the “just play with friends” argument - I actually like playing with different people each match, and playing different roles.
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While I do agree with some of this, I don’t think quick play is completely terrible. I only play quick play, and probably 7/10 games we have at least 1 healer, 1 tank, and everyone is trying their best. You do get a lot of tilters… but you also get that in competitive.
So, an easy way to fix qp is to give players stuff for winning. Maybe like 10 currency, or a 50% exp boost. Also, as many people before me have suggested, add quests! I mean, if a quest says “Win 3 games” or “Output 20.000 healing”, people would have a reason to win. Just sayin’.
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