Rated seems to be the same but I’ve noticed that unrated queues have doubled/tripled this week, waiting 10+ mins for it to pop at peak hours and 20+ at off peak.
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I mean people is tired of the mmr system and the duo when it’s supposed to be a “solo” mode.
I don’t blame people. That and maybe people is just waiting for actual pvp changes or fixes.
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Pretty sure unrated doesn’t use MMR. But maybe I’m misremembering.
Queues for epic BGs are about the same, pretty fast unless it’s “very late night.”
It’s quite long I agree (that’s what she said?). Can only speak from Alliance side, but it’s quite brutal at times. I find myself farming herbs/ore and realize wth it’s been a long time since I’ve been in queue…
Same thing that happened in dragonflight, the pvp player base quit, went to pve or left the game for good. Its not dead yet but once a season dies its done for the expansion. Those subs are gone, many forever.
Blizzards Inaction to enforce its own rules allowing 3rd party websites to monetize all PvP rewards, flooding the game with RMT teams. Boosters and BOTS…
ALL stick and no carrot, players at low ratings going 10 straight losses without a single win, because they are against Premade full of professional players boosting customers. Players are smart, at what point do they say screw this and go play something fun? enjoy a dead season, and enjoy the decline.
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this happens every season, first few weeks has a lot of activity, then it dies down and mmr gains slow down, then end of season pushes happen. This is just how it goes.
the two ways to get the rating you want that make it the easiest. If high activity play early in the season before activity dies down. If low activity, wait to end of season with the most amount of inflation and effort. Want to just get 1800 for a mog? should have just qd BGB in the first 3 weeks. Now if you dont have it, you can get it but itll take more time than it did before. So if you want to just hit 1800 easiest thing to do is now wait to the last few weeks and just get it in an afternoon.
And then a 6 or 12 month subscription for mounts/pets comes up.
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Anecdotal but, I’ve definitely stopped queueing this week and just gone back to futzing around on alts in pve.
You can only feed unskilled marksmanship hunters free kills for so long before losing interest. I do hope they enjoy blasting one another in the absence of easy cloth targets.
Do people just see unrated and ignore the UN?
I mean most people don’t care about unrated past the first week for gearing purposes.
After that its just a joke mode with all manner of broken consumables active and premades everywhere. Just not to be taken seriously by any serious player.
And then mmr is broken in rated in shuffle and you can have 10+ hours of progress wiped in blitz cause blizzards servers crashed. so there is no reason for any serious player to even play the game right now. gg
Right but the thread is about unrated queues, people come in here and type a paragraph about rated instead of just making a separate thread.
It doesn’t surprise me that they are long.
I like playing unrated to but they just don’t have a meaning for a lot of players. Especially when what little fun could be gained from them is just sucked away by premades and cringe strats with engi items etc.
So thats probably why the ques are long.
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I’ve done a handful of unrated BGs this season and I refuse to touch them again. If it’s not part of the weekly quests I’ll stick to BGB and shuffle.
Say what you will about the BGB player base but it’s left the unranked games with the bottom of the barrel players.
And now that we can transfer honor, I have literally no need to ever go back to them.
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faster gearing means less chasing the carrot which means less time spent in game
one issue is fewer players overall. since the war within launch, i have not been able to access the game on my mac - game freezes and crashes my mac every time. and i mean every time. i simply can’t play anymore.
an absent druid/hunter/dk/pally does no dps - also can’t que for bgs.
i took a month off thinking they would fix it - but not a single thing has changed. i check various forums and i’m not alone in this. so, subtract a percentage of the mac users from the already shrinking player base.
based on the non-response i got to the ticket i opened, i’d guess they just don’t give a $hit anymore.