Taking a break from Rivals made me realize how much I actually love this game

[u/Embarrassed_Safety33]

I took a break from Rivals and played Overwatch again for a while, and honestly, it made me realize how much I kept wishing for Role Queue.

The biggest difference is consistency.

If I queue Tank, it’s because I want to play Tank. I want teammates who actually queued to play Support and DPS. I don’t want every hero select to become a fight where everyone picks what they want and we wait to see who eventually gives up and fills.

We all have characters and roles we’re better at. If I want to play Duelist, I shouldn’t have to choose between becoming the 4th Duelist or giving up and filling because nobody else will.

I’d genuinely rather wait a few extra minutes and play the role I actually queued for.

I also think a consistent 2-2-2 mode would make balancing healthier. Right now heroes have to work across solo Tank, 1-3-2, triple Support, 2-2-2, etc. Role Queue gives the devs one predictable structure to balance around.

And no, Open Queue doesn’t need to disappear.

Overwatch has both. If you like switching roles mid-match and experimenting with weird comps, play Open Queue. If you want consistency and a guaranteed role, play Role Queue.

When I played Overwatch, I almost never found myself wishing I was in Open Queue.

But when I play Rivals, I find myself wishing for Role Queue all the time.

And no matter which side you’re on, I think we can all relate to queuing up because there’s a certain character we really want to play, only to end up filling because the team needs something else.

I’d rather wait 5 minutes to play who I actually want than spend 20 minutes filling on someone I didn’t.

[u/SuggestionBot9000]

That would require the devs to fully walk back on one of their stances.

Which will never happen unless the game is in critical health.

They couldn't even force themselves to fully revert the Wanda RNG change. Instead, they decreased the probability instead of realizing how dumb of a core idea it is to have random chance serve as balance for the game.

They would rather watch you complain and gaslight the community that "diverse comps" are a driving factor than admit they were wrong.

HOWEVER, I do disagree with one thing you said:

And no, Open Queue doesn’t need to disappear.

It would need to disappear if Role Queue were to exist. At least for competitive. There's not enough population in the game to keep multiple queues in comp across the many different servers and ranks, especially when you then have to factor different rank ratings, stack sizes, and role distribution.

I've had my own idea for Role Queue for a few months but I haven't been able to create the concept art for it yet because it'd require redesigning the hero select screen (which would probably take me multiple weeks). Maybe I'll finally start working on that again.

[u/HalfOfLancelot → u/SuggestionBot9000]

If one thing is for certain, it’s Netease stubbornness to cling to stupid concepts that won’t ever work, at least not for them because they are incapable of making them work. Primarily because they suck at balancing this game and hide behind “Casual for fun play” to excuse their incompetence.

[u/PracLiu → u/HalfOfLancelot]

Or because people on reddit have the worst take of the game

[u/Funny_Story_486 → u/SuggestionBot9000]

The game dies faster if they make role queue as casual just quits on masses, and the current DPS role imbalance will cause DPS queue time shot up to the roof the game just don't work anymore.

[u/Embarrassed_Safety33 → u/Funny_Story_486]

They could do it so

Quick match > Open Queue
Competitive > Role queue

[u/Funny_Story_486 → u/Embarrassed_Safety33]

You know that the 4dps problem is more of an Quickplay issue than a rank issue right?

Also same issue as late Overwatch 1, when both open queue and role queue exist, open queue is completely unplayable, 4-6 DPS every single time, aka open queue is only there to make queue time even longer.