I was looking forward to OW2 but I just can’t bring myself to play something where I have to queue for 5-10 minutes to play a game that often lasts less than that.
It just doesn’t matter how fun the game is; if I can’t launch it, click play and actually play the game, what’s the point?
It’s not even like the players are the bottleneck, every role in both QP and Comp has at least a 2 minute queue.
EIther the matchmaking is the bottleneck or the server infrastructure is, either way it’s fixable on Blizzard’s part.
The fact longer queues exist elsewhere doesn’t stop them being too long here. (Also how many League games end in under 3 minutes?)
I didn’t say Overwatch 2 had the longest queues out there, I said its current queues are too long for me to play, despite playing hundreds of hours of OW1 (there was always at least one role with instant queue previously).
Maybe I’m old fashioned but I want to actually play the game when I’m playing games. If there’s a queue, any queue, I wont play it.
That’s the reason why i stop playing ow1. Was waiting 15-20 min. to play dps.
My biggest expectation from ow2 was shorter queue time for roles (bcs it’s f2p=more player). But seems competitive game is already dead. It’s first week but tank and dps roles have 7-8 min que time and i don’t like to wait too long for 10-15 min match.
That’s really rare in LOL man. I play at gold-plat elo and find match in 1-5 min. But games are not short as OW. Avarage match time 30 min.
İn ow 1 u have to wait 15-20 min to play dps and game ends in 10-15 min. That is really stupid. And this is plat elo btw.
And worst part that blizzard add in comp. game, is role que and separete rank for each role. Dude sometimes i want to play tank but my rank different at tank so i give up. Why every role has different rank? It does nothing but divide the players and prolong que the time.
At LoL u have to pick 2 role. And it give’s you autofill sometimes but it’s okay. Ow need that system too. And stop separating ranks!! U don’t have enough player for that!!
I’m sorry but if you think it’s a fixable problem for the kind of game OW is you’re just delusional. An easy example I can bring up is Dead by daylight. Que times for Killer are ALWAYS longer than que times for survivor. Part of that is because there’s 4 survivors in one match. But the other part is killer is a very popular and fun role. One can easily say it’s why someone would even play DBD.
The same logic applies for OW2. One role is always going to be more popular than another role.
Everyone has to pick 2 role like LOL. And again we don’t need separate rank for each role.
Sorry but 7-8 min. que time not normal for this game. And only bcs of this issue people will stop playing it. (include me)
It’s so funny that people don’t see the contradictions in calling supports bad for being “healbots”, then complaining about them dpsing as a support or just moving to the DPS role.
The point kind of defeats itself considering that the devs specifically made it so that new players have to complete FTUE first before entering comp. All the week 1 and 2 lobbies would just be filled with the same old players until the new audience fills our ranks
If you want your packed f2p lobbies in comp then I guess we have to wait a few weeks or so for all these new players to win enough matches to get into competitive first
And the bottleneck will get worse and worse, the devs and the OW Team don’t fix Mercy, keep her in a dying state, they don’t give anything new to the supports (Kiriko has only been a temporary patch), well here you have the effects already, sooner or later would appear.
I dont think you understand how matchmaking works. it doesnt matter how many people are playing the game if the roles they queue arent equally distributed
Supports get looked down upon a lot in basically every game i know. In OW 2 even more since they are so weak now. It is also always you who gets blamed if all players spread across the entire map and then scream at you " WHERE ARE THE HEALZ MAN!?!?!!!111"
Yes Genji main 4273897342 sorry i could not heal you through 3 walls as Mercy while you jumped into 5 Enemies all by yourself. Totally my fault.
But all jokes aside. There is 25 million players in OW2 (saw it on Twitter). Hard to believe that its hard to look for a match. That would mean a majority of the 25 mil people are playing DPS.
Honestly, supports are fun but if your tank is playing like a DPS and not paying attention to the supports getting screwed by Genji or one tapped by Widow etc., its not that fun. Add to that some DPS that just won’t go back for heals or expect us to join them 2 v 5 to pocket heals
Surely by “all roles” you mean “tank and DPS” right?
Queue times in QP are totally fine. If you really hate waiting, just play that. I think there’s hope for the competitive queues to get there. For one thing Kiriko is being added soon which should balance the scales for this season. Next season is going to be a tough time to be a tank main though.
OK, that is not acceptable either. Does not make these que times acceptable. Reason I pretty much went full boat on MH was the que times were more acceptable.