BTW I only play support and tank so this is not a DPS whinge.
Surely this could be an easy thing for Blizz to do! When queue times are longer than 10 minutes perform a ready check prior to putting someone in the next match. I try really hard to remove myself from the queue if I need to leave my desk BUT when you have been queued for 15, 20, sometimes even 30 minutes it’s easy to forget to do that and step away. You come back a few minutes later to find you’re suspended, lost SR AND eventually endorsement level.
It’s easy to tell if someone is AFK when they don’t even pick a hero at the start of the game. A ready check and then remove people from the queue if they don’t respond is an easy fix. I have been playing for a couple of years and have never left a game on purpose. This has only been an issue since queue times have become insane over the last few months.
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grab a marker and write “im in queue” on your palm
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We dont need this really. It would screw with matchmaker too.
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nope, not needed
in real life, if you wait on a long line and have to leave just before you get waited on - nobody is going to hold your place until you return - they’re going to serve the next customer who is ready to be served.
If they did hold the line until you returned, that would do nothing but slow down the line even further and frustrate everyone else behind you in line - the same thing would happen with a ready button in this game.
If you’re not ready to join the match, the game will find someone else who is. You snooze you lose.
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I always love the responses to obvious QoL changes on this forum.
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Ready checks are such a dumb simple feature that MANY competitive games have including Blizzard games themselves. Not sure wtf the OW team was smoking when they decided to leave it out
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It’s not about holding a place at all. I am simply saying if i have been queued for 30 minutes and gotten distracted with something else then i would rather be auto dropped from the queue for failing to respond to a regular ‘ready check’ than cause a match to cancel and lose SR, get banned etc.
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I got news for you. A lot of games like league that have that function will still punish you for missing the ready. It’s just usually a time out that gets longer with repeat offenders.
Why does it do that? Even though your not canceling the match that started it’s still wasting the time of the other people that would’ve been in that match as they need to wait back in queue.
and after the first time that happens, you and/or many other players would be back on here complaining that it didn’t wait indefinitely for your return
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This actually coukd be sorta good. If they gave you a ready check before you got in a game, the players ready to play could play and the ones who don’t ready would be sent to the back of the line. This would help prevent dps players waiting 10 minutes for a canceled game. And priority queue for dps isn’t super short either.
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I’d like something like this, but the other way around. So instead of a “confirm ready” button, have a “Not ready” switch. Only have it work for a few minutes or so, so you couldn’t keep it on for hours while you’re off doing something so you get an instant game, but if you need to go make a drink or something you could start the dps queue, flick on not ready, get a drink and come back without the risk of being dropped into a game while you’re in the kitchen if the queue is shorter than advertised
Sad how you had to say that before really explaining your idea to avoid answers like: “don’t queue for dps. Problem solved” 
Yeah, the one above your reply is incredible.
“In real life, when you get shot, you don’t respawn, so people should lose their copy of the game when fragged”
“ready when you want” queues… ya… not happening. You’re either ready or you’re not.
Edit: Just got suspended x2 for getting my coffee and not paying attention. (queue’s weren’t long with OW2 + Free game, new players. — But still need a, “ready” like EVERY other mutiplayer game on the planet.)
I don’t understand why people are against this or try to come up with other convoluted solutions. In every other game with any sort of automatic matchmaking, you have to press an “accept” button. If you don’t, you’re removed from the queue and the others who did press accept are moved to the front of the queue. It’s not rocket science.
League, CSGO, Valorant, even WoW, all have this. Now that I think of it, OW is the only game I can think of that just yeets you into the game like that. Even now when queue times are short, I’d still expect this to be a necessity, since the above mentioned games don’t have particularly long average queue times either.