I play only QP, Total Mayhem, occasionally mystery heroes, and comp rarely.
I am an easily stressed person with emotional issues. Comp is stressful.
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I’m taking a break this season and only playing QP. It’s relatively easy to win even with poor Comps. I also like to practice heroes I don’t play in Comp and it’s fun.
For me right now I play QP because my internet isn’t stable. My ISP is working on the network in my area and it keeps messing with my connection. I would play comp but I don’t want to dc in the middle of a game. And my internet situation probably won’t be resolved for another month or so. As for if I enjoy quickplay yeah sometimes I do. I enjoy it when I don’t have brain dead teammates or people treating QP like it’s a DPS deathmatch. Sure I’m a newer player myself but I’m coming from Team Fortress 2 and have been watching streams and videos of Overwatch since Beta. The only issues I’m having as a new player is developing the muscle memory and hoping my connection doesn’t die on me.
I play both.
QP is leaps and bounds more casual than comp. Yes the team generally wants to win still but aren’t going to attack you (often) if you pick outside of 2-2-2.
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QP just makes me mad most of the time so no, I don’t enjoy it. There are many nights where I’ll play 10 games and lose 9 of them. It’s just not really a great experience when no one on your team is even trying.
I tried comp and after 8 rounds I had enough. It’s really not for me.
Arcade is too gimmicky.
So, as it stands now, there isn’t a single mode in Overwatch that’s fun for me to play. As such, I haven’t played much as of late.
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I play mostly quicklplay, and in my experience team comps are generally better in qp. Also when a Hanzo one trick leaves b/c we lost the first point, it’s nice to have a replacement rather than finish the rest of the match with 5 ppl.
I use quick play to practice heroes I need to get better at. My teams usually have 4 dps heroes, of which at least one is Hanzo or Widow. And then there’s the try hards with the golden weapons who are playing their 200th hour on Genji in QP. It makes the practice less than ideal, but it’s still better than inflicting my sh*tty Roadhog on my comp teammates.
While ther is(or atleast should be) a difference between QP and comp, I don’t see it.
At least in Quickplay when I get bad comps, bad healing, etc, it doesn’t effect MY rank. If individual performance wasn’t factored in, and those people who won’t play to win were filtered down, I might care enough about comp to play.
But between the pressure I feel to perform well for my team, the annoyance I feel when they treat it like quickplay, the stress of potentially being punished because the PSN network went down for the umpteenth time, and the lack of backfill, it just isn’t as fun for me. I always try to play a little comp each season when I feel lucky, or if a friend wants to play, but other than that, I stick to quickplay. It’s much less annoying to me, regardless of the lack of close matches.
Reading over these responses, it really seems like a difference in how focused a person is on winning. People who play comp are hyper-focused on winning games, gaining SR and climbing, but QP folks just want to have a good time and play what they want. And maybe it’s because I’m on PS4, but QP isn’t nearly as bad as people make it out to be on here. It’s rare that people don’t try to win in QP, and I know people get triggered when they hear “it’s only QP,” but what many of us mean by that is—if the team loses—nothing is lost but the game. We don’t mean “it’s only QP, don’t take it seriously” as in it’s a mode to screw around in. We take it seriously! We want to win, too! But we want to win and have fun playing a casual game with the heroes we enjoy, without feeling pressured to conform to a meta and win no matter what. It feels a lot worse to lose in comp than it does in QP.
Another good thing about QP, I think, is that when off-meta heroes become viable in comp, it often doesn’t make a difference to us because we’re already used to playing with/against those heroes. I had no problem with the Junkrat buff or the Sombra buff, as I’ve played with and against those heroes for a long time in QP. I couldn’t notice a difference in them at all after their changes. Junkrat in particular has always been extremely popular in QP. Comp seems to make people not only toxic but obnoxiously whiny.
So yeah, give me the chill of QP over the pressure of comp any day. If you can’t chill in a casual game mode, then there’s no point.
No. I think Blizzard purposefully makes stomp comps in QP.
I rarely get what feels to be an even match in QP. By rarely, I mean never.
I play heroes that generally in competitive just got me abuse. Mercy included.
I rarely play competitive because I got very tired very quickly of people raging. For a while I just did my placements, which put me in gold. I can and have climbed to plat but it’s just too draining for a thing that’s supposed to be fun.
I like the idea of competitive, but I’ve had enough bad experiences that I’m just burnt out from it. I can’t tell you the number of times I’ve swapped from a heal role to attack/symmetra because our comp wasn’t working and been shat on for it. Occasionally I’ll get an apology from the person after we win but more often than not they just go silent instead of raging. It’s disheartening.
I think the last time I played comp seriously was when Mercy 1.0 was still a thing, it was a game that went into a REALLY LONG overtime on KOTH with just a constant long team fight and EVENTUALLY the enemy Hanzo had the nouce to kill me before he ulted (I had rez and a ridiculous amount of rezzes from that game) and we lost. Naturally I got the blame for dying, the loss had nothing to do with our DPS not killing the enemy Mercy first (or at all) - That was it. Done.
It wasn’t even a major incident, it was just one too many times of being screamed at. At least in QP I don’t feel bad about getting sassy when they start to get ragey.
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I haven’t played comp for 3 seasons (I think?) simply because I think the game is not balanced enough to compete in and I don’t think it will ever be. Right now D.va is too good, Moira outshines all other supports and in some cases even dps, lol… Scatter arrow is still in the game… and much more frustrations and unbalances.
I do, I did play competitive at some point, got to diamond for the sake of saying I can do it if I try. Then went back to quick play because it was alot less toxic and stressful.
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I play quick because there is no forced urgency that you MUST win, no matter what. You can play to win there, but don’t have to worry as much if you lose. Unless you have an idiot team who wont leave their spawn for some reason. I get alot of those in that mode.
hardly ever push out of spawn or push passed the first choke.
Nothing annoys me more than activating valk, only to have my team just fire into the point wthout moving forward.
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I will not do competitive. I know Overwatch is branded as a super competitive game but that aspect doesn’t interest me. I would’ve liked my Tracer golden weapon but oh well. I have bad anxiety. I’d hate to see someone raging or put massive pressure on myself. I still have a lot of fun in quickplay and arcade. I do wonder what my rank would be 
I do really good sometimes but get rolled other times… probably mid tier
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Yes I enjoy QP games.More than competitive.
I have not played in since sezon 4.
Bliz banned be becouse of DC problems in sezon 4.
After that I tryed many times every time just in
competitive DC problems.QP or other parts of game
I haved only 2 time DC.(I am 526 lvl)
When tryed competitive players always pick 2 snipers.
When ı pick heros I can play best always someone ask for switch.
QP better than competitive.Many trol in competitive.I remember many games no one picked tanks in competitive.
Always someone with widow,hanzo and genji.I can play better than many widow but ı dont played in compettive.
I was new player in sezon 3-4.Now I can play with 25 hero
without problem.I can aim beter than many plat players.
I am ok with being copper and never enter competitive.
I can bully any player if ı am in good mod.
I dont want to be mad about losing games.QP if my team bad I dont lose anyting.If good just wining games.Main
objective for playing games is having fun.Competitive is not funny.When ı try my best always some trols or leavers in game.
Machmaking system very very bad.One time
I team up with random coper players after won one game.We started win every game.Last game was aganist
grandmasters,masters(we all copper)One of us haved dc.
We played 5 copper aganist this players.We was on def.
We won first round.Second round we won again.
After that every one in our team haved DC problems.
I gat sezon ban.Soo
I dont have any interest for play in competitive.I am realy
happy in QP.I was symetra main but now I am tracer.
I can aim better than before and I can play better than before.If I enter I am sure I wil have DC problems or one of youtubers(whic is I hate and reported me with his fans)will find out I am ranking again and someting bad will happen my acounts.
QP is funny.I pick healer if we dont have.I pick tank if we dont have.I am reporting bad players and forgeting everyting after game end.Competitive players not like me.
They ern money from ranking.I dont thing its fair.I watched many video about competitive for lern play better.Many competitive players bad.Only few elite player realy good.Others realy bad.
I only play quickplay. It’s great. Yes, the quality varies wildly, but who cares? Oh, I’m stuck on a team with 4 dps and a Torb on attack? Well, we’re losing this, but that’s ok. Have fun, do what you can, and when you’re done, leave it behind and go to the next one. And as I’ve seen mentioned here, there’s very little toxicity. I’ve seen maybe 2 or 3 in the time I’ve been playing. That’s all I can remember, and it was less toxicity, more “oh grow up” annoyance. I may try comp some day, but I like the casual experience that QP gives.
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Can’t be bothered to even touch competitive now. I like good compositions, I like winning and I do bother taking one for the team but while I won’t hold it against people for picking what they want or find fun to play, people will go rabid for it in comp.