I bet youve heard the “its QP” response so I have always wondered why this is the standard response when you try to win in a QP game, its almost hilarious.
Has anyone from blizzard actually defined what Quickplay is for? Just curious.
Is it for fooling around? Is it for purposely throwing so the people you play with get frustrated? Is it for Practicing? You cant be serious when you say it is for Fun because Fun is subjective. Do you have fun when in your team you have a player with 2000 SR lower than you? Do you have fun when in an enemy team they have a player with 2000 SR higher than you?
I have long wanted to have a competitive non-rank mode for practicing characters I want to get good at so I wont have to be the teams dead weight in a ranked game while I learn a character. Cant do it in QP as this mode is a mixed case you either stomp or get stomped and every 100 games you get that balanced Match.
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Based on my last couple of attempts to play it…
It is for the sweaty try hards that only want to spend the whole game counter swapping to win.
It isn’t much fun any more. Ranked is a lot more chill.
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Love letter for you by blizzard.
I don’t know if I fully agree that ranked is “a lot more chill” but it definitely doesn’t feel like QP is the casual mode that it once was. QP and Comp vibes are almost the same now.
Competitive is supposed to be for just that, competitive games between players of roughly the same skill level.
Quick play is for finding “quick” matches with no stakes. Every restriction, such as mmr range caps, will just make it take longer to find a game, which defeats the purpose.
You should always at least try to win, or at the very least not actively throw, but thats the extent of what you should reasonably be able to expect for the casual mode.
If I still bothered with QP, I wouldnt get mad or be surprised about teammates and enemies being of wildly different skill levels. I’d know that it was exactly what I signed up for when I queued QP.
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Quickplay is for fast queues, that’s about it.
What players do with those fast queues is up to them. Practicing for comp, fooling around, playing new heroes etc.
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It is for playing without worrying about losing rank.
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I mean it’s in the name of the mode. It’s a mode designed to allow quick games. Hop in and go. Don’t take it too serious and just have fun playing the game.
QP has shorter games, and trivial punishments for leavers. It is a casual mode with minimal obligation on the player to stick out games that involve either playing alongside frustrating teams, or playing into cheese, or unbalanced lobbies.
Mostly I use qp to warm up a bit before going into comp. Also, for practice on non-main characters.
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I personally wouldn’t call a basic gamemode that should be the base standard from a game a loveletter. But tbf we’re dealing with a different Blizzard these days, wouldn’t surprise me especially after the whole Diablo 4 collectors addition fiasco.
The correct answer is that QP is whatever that particular person wants it to be. For you it’s a place to practice new heroes. For me it’s a serious mode to play as well as you would in ranked, just faster matches. For Jim it’s for goofing off with his friends. For Michelle it’s to play off-roles only. For Michael it’s the only place he can play with his PC friends.
QP is just a mode where the game has the same balance and rules as those available in comp where the general goal is still to win for the most part, but also for players to have fun and not necessarily be taking it too seriously since there are no risks or rewards to winning/losing.
There will never ever be an unranked mode where 100% of the people in it will be taking it 100% seriously 100% of the time. This is simply because it will still be unranked. There are no risks to losing. You don’t rank up or down, you don’t gain or lose SR, you don’t get suspended for leaving games etc. So unfortunately even if Blizzard put in a mode specifically called “Ranked practice”, because there’s no actual risk to your rank, people have no actual real incentive to play it 100% serious.
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If you’re still expecting your team to carry while training a hero, it means you need more training.
If you out-stats your mates and opponents, maybe you’re ready for competitive.
been playing some comp finally but i kind of get the feeling i should have just skipped the season since ive only gone from silver 5 to silver 3 on dps. grinding rank only for you to lose a bunch after the season ends (rank decay) kind of seems unmotivating
For practicing heroes and not tryharding
Add another vote for the “pretty much whatever you want it to be” mode from me.
Personally I play vastly more QP than Comp because there’s a non-zero chance that something will come up to distract me, or even have to put down the game. I’m an asocial guy for the most part but even so, I still get phone calls, people dropping by, deliveries, etc. etc. For that reason alone I’m pretty reluctant to jump into Comp which has no backfill and the prospect of longer games (four round escort games, for example). So I don’t personally head into QP just to goof around, I take it moderately seriously.
I’d kill for a mode that has both tight(er) matchmaking and backfill but it looks like it’s never coming.
It’s for bad matchmaking.
The problem is Blizzard has hurt competitive a lot with longer que times, especially if you pick tank in upper ranks. Never mind poor balance, bad maps etc. So lot of people gave up on comp, not wanting to wait 10-20 minutes to get into a match that is a complete curb stomp because your facing people 500+ SR higher than you in a 5 stack while your team is all randoms.
If all games are bad, if all match making is a joke people default to game modes that go by faster. Till they stop playing all together… which is honestly what a lot of people have done. I know for myself I logged in one day to see how bad the new year event was… and just gave up on it. Same with the battle for Olympus thing. Not fun, no real rewards for playing etc.
I’ve always viewed QP to be used as fun / chill / learn new heroes BUT you should try to win as well. There’s no point in playing a competitive style game when you don’t want to try and compete. So, yes, have fun, and you’ll probably have more fun if you win!
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