I’m low diamond as a support, and QP for me is something. Because the game force me to play against 4000+ every second game or even more often. And this is like 70% of all my QP games right now. And this is not an exception. This IS the rule. And what options are possible with these 70%:
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In the best case, in both teams there will be several 4000 + players of the same skill level and there will be a fascinating confrontation that leaves you satisfied even if you lose. Because the process was saturated. That is happening not so often.
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But this happens VERY often. Highly rated smurfs or real 4000+ players and top 500 in one team and diamond-platinum (and even gold) in another. Need I say how interesting this game is? Either it is won in a minute and a half (with luck) by the same team with a large number of 4000+, or this dull bottom lasts more than three minutes when the enemy team moved close to your respawn and you can’t do anything about it because of the big skill difference. You know. Like in 1000 or more. In either case, it seems more like a baby beating than a game. It is not fun, it does not give you anything, just wasted time.
The reason for the second option is also often leavers. If your teammate left the game (even in the start of match!!!) prepare to lose. I don’t know what happened, but the game just practically stopped connecting players during the match. You have to wait a minute and a half. And you’re lucky if the connected player does not come out again after seeing that the match is clearly not in his favor. In addition, those who go out and enter the same match are eliminated, not even giving a CHANCE to form a complete team. It is simply disgusting.
This has happened before, but not on an ongoing basis as it is happening now. The game naturally becomes gradually impossible to play. How long will this go on? Why does the game think it’s normal? Why do developers responsible for matchmaking think that this is commonplace?
If not difficult, share how often something similar happens to you and what you think about it. Thank you.
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Most likely because it’s Qp… they don’t care about making a match fair based on mmr
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They are trying to keep queue times down, so just throw whoever is 1st in the queue into a game regardless of mmr
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This is actually bad if they trying to fix it like this. All games will become like season 18 starting thing. Well… it is already happening actually.
It’s not fun from the other perspective either, I’m GM and have gold/plat players in my team more often than not in QP, not really fun when it’s both your dps and they feed for 10 minutes.
That is actually true. I’ve seen this a lot. Gold and top-500 in one team. Like what the heck.
I think the match making in QP is favoring A match vs making certain people be in queue times that are too extreme.
I think if there are 6 people on both sides, it should do what it shows sometimes (I’ve seen a pop-up for balancing teams but it’s not as frequent) and that is balancing the players so they are evened out, I get that people want to get into matches in QP fast but it’s a bit unfair, though in saying that, stacks being split would cause even more of an issue so I guess in the case where people aren’t stacked but it’s completely one-sided (rating wise) team balancing should happen right at the start.
I have those painful one-sided matches and it’s quite painful to have multiples of those in a row ESPECIALLY when it’s the same damn people over and over, back when the tab screened showed stacks, I’ve had games where non-stacked people were always on the enemy team for a good 3-5 matches at a time.
It’s also especially annoying with the leavers, I’ve had that issue but it’s worse now when someone leaves that isn’t a DPS since you won’t get someone into the game as fast as say QPC days.
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YES, EXACTLY! God, how familiar this is to me.
All they have to do, to switch things around a bit is quite literally switch around the teams, it makes the game a bit more interesting, I know this doesn’t happen all the time but still having that same widow/genji/whatever on the enemy team that was destroying you last match and just changing it around a bit never hurts, shouldn’t be hard to code either, you just have something in place that keeps track of who was on your team (which is done in the social tab anyways and is shown in the endorsement menu pop-up thing) and if the same say 80% are the same make sure that teams are swapped around.
Unfortunately restricting qp to comp ranks will increase the queue times and make it a ranked mode without sr. 
This is why I started to play comp only. Muuuuch happier.
I’m saying that I’m not even against the top 500 in the match. Just DO SOMETHING WITH THE TEAM BALANCE unless otherwise possible.