I like the idea of a minimum team comp requirement for spawning and changing roles. I’m not totally against the idea of a role queue, but I like to flex and I don’t like the idea of getting screwed out of ever getting to play DPS ever again just because I picked something other than DPS in addition to DPS.
If the minimum you could spawn or change into was some variation of 1/1/1, maybe with some additional requirements like an additional tank or support minimum, just let individual teams figure things out.
When we get enough heroes in the roster that there are as many different tanks and supports as there are dps (like 15/15/15. not 8/15/7) we can start talking about enforced 2/2/2. Of course, by that point we also might not have to.
It’s really hard to decipher whether they’re working on it or not from the recent interview where he talks about role queue.
Jeff: “It took over two years to write the matchmaker, and if we want to pursue a role queue it will take months and months to implement a role queue, and we have people working on this now.”
He says if they want to pursue a role queue, then he says they have people working on it. Could be a poor choice of words, but who knows.
And not only would they need to create a role queue matchmaker system, but they would need to rebalance the game around 2-2-2 firmly. Some tanks would need some buffs for example, otherwise the queue times would be high, especially for DPS queue. Since a lot of people hate playing tanks right now.
Ideally I’d like to see a role queue system with the ability to swap roles in game if needed.
I’m officially uninstalling when this happens. I can tolerate trash balance, but not role restriction.
The cons list is far longer, and the pros list are all baseless dreams, the same dreams people though about LFG, and if Blizzard cant even get that right, there is zero chance they’ll get role queue to work.
Role queue is not going to get the gold player out of gold, because they’re there have have been there for 3 years because they are gold players. Pretending like you’re a better tank/support than gold is what’s feeding the dream of role queue. And in reality, they aren’t all that good.
When/if it gets added, I’m giving up on this game.
Jeff has also stated that they want to actively improve matchmaking with finer grained SR calculations and more control. The idea of being able to tell the matchmaker that you want to play support now, and getting matched as your support SR would reduce the need for smurf/alt accounts.
Similarly, letting people tailor their own rosters to block out characters for specific reasons would completely eliminate the need for smurf and alternate practice accounts as if you wanted to practice a hero you weren’t as good with, you could just block out the heroes you are good with and get matched at a much lower SR through either a simple recalculation of your SR or a series of placement matches under the altered roster.
I’m in favor of a personal roster more than I am a role queue. Implement the role queue in the background so that people can’t see it and don’t have anything to take advantage of.
Because I was a Masters level Support/Tank, and not even close to that level as a DPS. If I want to queue for DPS, then I should be placed at an appropriate rank to not hurt my teams chances of winning.
