main reason: tanks
they are either insanely strong (like rein fire strike builds that oneshot everyone) or insanely weak and just get shredded in two seconds because of the mid-late game damage scaling
personally, i would like for 6v6 to be the core game format for all modes, but thats just me
Oh yeah, running into the classic and always picked Rein Zarya duo would be so much more fun
As someone who’ve living in Max 2 Tanks at the moment I’m cool with 6v6, but doesn’t Stadium currently have some performance issues for older PCs? I’d guess that bumping the player count up to twelve per match would make that worse.
Agreed. Just 1 more Tank per team! Nothing to be afraid of Devs!
Yeah 222 is more stable and balanced, and raidboss tank 122 is a twisted game mode. Everyone knows it. But the problem is q times isn’t balanced. Also, the devs personally don’t wanna accept it imo, because it is the only thing remained to attach “2” after OW.
Yes because if there is one thing to fix the long support queue its requiring a higher ratio of Tank players… that will certainly fix everything… wait did we want to make the queues shorter or longer?
Support queue times already get as high as 20 minutes for Stadium. Do you want them to double that? Because that’s what you’re asking for.
No. 20 characters are simply too many to say no with.
No thanks. The game is already to chaotic. I don’t need more chaos. 5v5 is perfect for this mode.
It seems to have problem with higher end pc as well. Like this post.
Apart from PS5 also seems to having issues. Not sure about Xbox. Mode is terribly optimized.
Just wanted to say i love your name. I also got my name from the ender’s game series.
Let’s go dragon army!
I do not want to think about what a 2 tank situation looks like with Zarya. 
She already makes things unkillable.
That is enough internet for me today.
Its time to come full circle and return to the OW1 format 
Stadium is like a trading card game. You can combine things in various combos. Some intentional and others unforeseen by developers discovered by players leading to omega spikes in power or down right pathetic combos that do nothing.
Adding more characters makes it even worse. Combine that with performance hits and I’m perfectly fine with it being 5v5.
It should remain 5v5 at this point.
Two normal tanks, two damage, one gigabuffed healer because of queues.
I thought that’s the fun point of the stadium mode. It’s one of the most casual game modes. Even more so than total mayhem. It is and will be much worse balance-wise than the regular game. Strategy/Tactics are bs in this mode tbh.
Chaos can only last so long. Its something you need to do in minor doses rather than consume it as many games as possible as gaming platforms would like players to do.
Yeah I agree. But the game mode itself is released so. When Diablo had a group PvP, then it’d be so. Enjoying op builds is the current stadium, nothing more.
Its all the more reason I’m disappointed that PvE didn’t come by because these are the kind of things perfect for pve for the power trip.