There was a time when I could hop quick play mess around for 5 to 10 minutes get out of the game tilt-free without breaking a sweat while also having some fun on top of that. Unfortunately, after the MMR changes it seems that I am absolutely forced to try my absolute hardest if I want to win and get my weekly and seasonal challenges done.
Although I am a GM player I feel as if there’s a time and place for me to want to sweat. So getting put in game with top 500s and GMs Every single game leaves pretty much no reason for me to play QP i might as well lock in ranked I’m sure even the most competitive of players can relate to wanting to chill out on a game for a bit it seems that this is now impossible though
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Don’t give any high ranking comp player pity because they have to play with others with similar ranks. In fact they should all be banned from joining quickplay where they don’t belong.
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So, as stated above, you want weaker opponents just for your own fun? What about them?
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It’s not anyone’s fault some people just improve better or have better aim lol what the hell is this
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Jesus mike with the real takes. OP just wants to coast like a smurf.
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i don’t try in quickplay most the time its with friends and with me in the game they get top 500s and gms. soooo what about them?? what about the plats that somehow get on my team the game is fun for no one other than the people trying as if there life depends on it. also, this shadow dragon sounds insane lmao just cuz i was able to climb to high elo doesn’t mean i want to try every single game ranked feels easier than qp most the time but like i mentioned i cant queue with my lower elo friends
if people keep winning they won’t complaint and always said GG
and then when they got bad match they complaint and never said GG anymore
I’m silver, and solo q for QP I get masters and top 500 players. So it’s not “poor them” for queuing with you, it’s a fundamentally useless system.
MMR is almost irrelevant for QP, its all about quick queue times, so as player numbers have declined the spread of ranks has got worse and worse.
I am guessing I’m not alone amongst lower rank players in having given up on QP - it’s never fun to get endlessly stomped by high rank players even if they’re “not trying” - to exclusively play ranked (which has its own mm issues but is infinitely more tolerable) which would also skew towards the high ranks.
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I mean … if you solo queue, yeah chances are you are going to get vs people from your rank. If you want lower average level of enemies, you are going to have to stack with people in gold 
I’m sure they aren’t trying like their life depends on it. Could it be … and bear with me for a second,
maybe they’re just better than you at the game? 
They can’t help the fact they’re good at the game, I’m sure they’re in quick play to have fun. And if there is someone “trying their absolute hardest” maybe that’s how they enjoy playing the game? The only difference between you and them isn’t the skill level. It’s the fact that they’ll say gg and go next game while you make a post like this complaining.
Dude, I am over here suffering because I get new players in nearly all my games and you are complaining about that you are actually getting ranked with your own rank?
Not all GM/Top 500 are sweats, you just need to actually play rather than wanting it to be care-free…I would suggest you play Custom games instead.
the issue lies where i have easier games in the comp which i already mentioned i cannot queue with friends in , so as we are forced to play qp id expect to not to get top 500 and gms constantly, especially since it makes my own friends not wanna play with me lmao . but as you’ve mentioned its probably because the decline in players as ive only noticed it within the last couple of months
It makes it tough to play QP to learn new heroes or aimstyles you’re not comfortable with since the MM doesn’t take that into consideration. I am pretty good at projectile but mid at hitscan so if I want to practice hitscan I will play so much worse but still face my normal masters/gm players in QP. Only workaround is to have several accounts. Would be easier to just lock in your hero before you queue and match from that but OW doesn’t work like that. They really promote alt-accounts because of this system.
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This as well sure i can play most characters at a proficient level but wanting to play a new champ is SUPERR unfun with this system it HEAVILLY encourages smurfing
i’ve said it before here and ill say it again. overwatch punishes you for becoming better at the game
i wonder if any other game does the same as well? older games in the past was basically you queue into the game you’re gonna have a chance to go against someone way better than you a lot of the time. i dont think matchmaking came about till the halo series
this is the matchmaking i enjoy sometimes i get into a match with a great player other games are chill and no one is angry. i constantly see people leave games over and over just because the enemy team or my own is too good making the overall matchmaking experience terrible cycling thru entire new players until one side eventually loses. this is absolutely unfun for both sides
everybody goes throught that tho not just your rank. there is always someone better or someone worse. its either they laxxed the matchmaker or 5v5 is the culprit for more roflstomps. i still wonder if its just people complaining since there was roflstomps with 6v6 as well. were games slower…? dont have a clue
as for queueing with friends with a way lower rank then you, then yea that would sucks since this game somewhat tries to find even matchups. so they’ll take another grandmaster and shove some golds (if thats the rank your friends are in for example) on the enemy team. then those golds on the other team will be like “HOW COME I SEE GMS ALL THE TIME”
hehe
The MM is crap, but of all the people impacted by it, people at high ranks are least and your whining about “hard” games in QP because you’re coming up against people at similar rank is absolutely nothing compared to people at low ranks getting perpetually destroyed by people at your rank when in solo q. Your friends might choose to do it, and old MM might have given you an easy ride because of that, but the fact that you aren’t getting a free ride now is the least valid argument against the current state of QP MM I’ve seen.
quick play is more sweaty too since daily and weekly challenges. something that wasnt there in overwatch 1
personally i like that tho, im a sweaty player