Wide Group is horrible

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In the video Blizzard said Overwatch is most fun with friends. Now we wait 10mins+ for a match (Gold1- Plat1). 4 Players not allowed. What is that??! Its acutally worse than OW1 queue times which is the reason why OW2 exists!

Gameplay did not improve. Queue times did not improve. They are actually killing the game for no reason.

What will be the result of this? They is not gonna be 4 people in a discord searching soloQ, there will be sumrfs boosting the lower players up!

I queued while writing this btw. we at 15 mins now

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Almost like people wanted tighter MM in comp, and are unwilling to duo in a wide group :thinking:

Because it’s physically impossible.

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Solo players are tired of facing stacks and having very inconsistent match quality. This change was made to improve the solo player experience.

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Wide groups get less rank changes. So no, that won’t be happening

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So what we had before S10 wothout smurfs just main accs?
I see nothing new

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Its not wide groups with smurfs. Why play on the main acc in masters or diamond when you can just play the plat smurf with 2 min queue time?

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Yep now instead of getting god tier stack players on my team, not I get stuck with potatos on my team… Literally my team k/d was pretty nice but 1 player… we were all 20+ kills and 7 or less deaths… This soldier was 2/14 by the end of the game… We won, cause their venture was and idiot and i played moira to punish venture

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Not sure what server you are on, but in a wide group from bronze to high plat we had 5 minute queues on EU.

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You’re not going to get any sympathy here solo players had it rough for too long

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The only way to speed up queue times is to reduce the quality of the matchup.

Wide groups are hard to balance since they need to fit you both in the same game with very different skill levels, while also making sure the game is fair. To counter that they need to find a similar wide group, which that takes time.

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But everything is fine! - OW forum shill who genuinely believes the game has improved and so did queue times just to ruin the gameplay while telling everyone who doesn’t like it to buzz off so they can keep the pink glasses on.

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gm+ has 1hr long que times for duo rn, its unplayable lol why make it the most strict at the top, the place with the fewest players …

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can’t wait to q silver + master :heart_eyes:
(silver is actually a plat player who got a low rank reset) trying to push the master into gm.

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Same here, have a P5 account just to stack with friends who are in silver and gold, and it used to be within the 1000SR / 10 Divisions parameters and it was finding us matches in 3m. It wasnt even unfair to enemy teams because they were too always a similar set up, with one higher rank guy and two lower rank.

Now i went to Q yesterday with just one of them, first it was a 15m Q… the second was a 35Minute, wich was just the point of wich we said, this aint it and went to just play QP wich was also 8m [TBF after that the later QP matches were also 2m]

I asked him, would you prefer qualtity games over fast Qs ? Obviously the answer was; Fast Q… Blizzard did us dirty, they said this is to allow wider groups, it made me think its only groups that are over 10 division apart, starting at 11… We were within parameters of the old 10 and it gave us that horrible Q… Everyone in the lobby was complaining about it.