Will normal Open Queue return?

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Quickplay - Open Queue has been my primary gamemode and preferred way to play Overwatch for about 2 years now. It hasn’t been playable for a little while now, since the devs replaced it with the 6v6 2-tank limit test mode, but I was pretty okay with that since I’ve just been playing the april fools mode instead, and really enjoying it, and I figured since it was just a test, that it’d return to normal Open Queue eventually. But in the recent dev-blog, they stated the following:

So, does that imply that normal Open Queue won’t be returning yet? Or will the 2-tank limit mode run alongside with normal Open Queue?

I’d be pretty majorly bummed out if normal Open Queue doesn’t return for season 16, since I don’t really enjoy many of the other game modes, and the few other modes that I do enjoy have had such dreadfully long queue times in my experience that queueing for them has just not been worth it imo.

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Hopefully it will be brought back at some point!

:sob:

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I hope so as well.

Imo, this is the best mode

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I won’t lie; as someone who vastly prefers Max 2 Tanks to 5v5 OQ, I cheered when I read that M2T is sticking around for s16 at the least. But I hope that you guys can get 5v5 OQ in the Arcade or something. There’s probably at least one mode that could afford to get bumped out of there.

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Is 6v6 becoming a standard format for Open Queue modes? It’s unclear from the blog, but if that’s not the case, then every team Arcade mode will remain 5v5 OQ at least for a bit longer.

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That’s a fair point, actually, and one I’d not considered. I have no idea. I’ve been too busy waving the flag for M2T.

Although to play Devil’s Avocado (:avocado:) for a moment: I can imagine folks saying that Low Gravity (or whatever) isn’t the authentic 5v5 OQ experience.

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I’d honestly be more than okay with that. I do get that I’m basically part of a small minority of another already small minority [=people who prefer OQ > RQ → people who prefer OQ (no limits) > OQ (M2T)], but I would still like to keep my preferred gamemode around, since I still really enjoy Overwatch and would like to keep playing it.
(Maybe that’s too selfish though. I have been playing OW all the way since 2016, and maybe I should just learn to move on already…)

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Sure, but there are non-gimmicky competitive modes in there, as well; 2CP in exile and two CTF modes, for example.

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