In Mid Rank Q-Times are now 1 min for every Role

You definetly see the impact the Release of a certain Game has currently.
Q-Times are 1 min advertised for every Role in Mid Rank.
I had 3 Matches in a row where the Q-Time was close to 20 Seconds.
Damn there are even BattlePass Bonuses for picking DPS now … hahah.

GL & HF Gamerz !

Shorter queues means more people are available.

It’s all good.

idk… i am actually not on your side here.
I get what you are trying to say, but i dont think that suddenly OW got a surge of Tank and Support players that balance out the entire Q.
I also played with the 2 Players in 3 Matches in a row already. (Enemy players sudenly on my team and vice versa).
And the Matches are even harder stomps then usuall (Early Season times taken in account).
I (my opinion) think that the playerbase took a massive hit.

But we will never know for sure because that is not a metric Blizz publishes besides some “we are the best Blog posts” and "this is the “Player distribution” once a year.

GL & HF Gamerz !

Just looking at the very small number on steam. It went down at the end of the last season (as it always does). But jumped up with MR release and the new season.

Competition is healthy.

I sadly have to disagree with you again.
Steam is not a metric for OW.
The game is out since 2016 and joined Steam about 1 year ago.
I too looked at the Steam stats, and those actually look “normal” but i can assure you if we had those metrics from Blizz you would be not so confident.

I dont want to argue here, but we have very oposing views on this topic.

GL & HF Mate !

Agree. But it’s a good show of trend.

I’m confident ow will be fine. Honestly both games will do fine for at least the next year or so.

MR will be the one I’m less confident on, but mostly because I can see china stopping trade with the US and as such, MR would take a slapping