So the recent bad news about Overwatch 2’s PvE cancellation was really disappointing, but honestly it kinda just reminded me that I hadn’t played OW2 in a long while, so I decided to jump in and just play some games.

Queue times for Ranked Any Role is 8-15 mins. Even Quick Play Any Role is giving me queue times of 5+ mins.

I’m in Japan but that also usually means I can get games in Australia and Korea. At launch I was getting games in seconds. Now it just kinda feels dead.

They just launched the new season too, which begs the question if I was silly enough to buy the Battlepass… how could I even go about completing it.

I understand the Blizzard hate here, but I would also be quite sad to see the game just disappear and not have further development to improve it. Is this just a my region problem, or is this common globally?

  • lavender@kbin.social
    5·
    1 year ago

    https://i.imgflip.com/ihebz.jpg

    Joke aside, it may not be as popular as OW1 was, nor have as much of a dedicated fanbase. I personally haven’t touched it since week one of OW2 because I was not enjoying myself like I used to, and felt scammed. I reckon plenty of others are of the same opinion.

  • yuun@lemmy.one
    5·
    1 year ago

    At my exceedingly okay skill level on US East Coast servers, my queue time is <1min in quickplay. Maybe 2m on support? I’m not really playing much anymore, but not seeing bad queues regardless.

    Releasing their most mild season just in time for the entire summer is certainly a choice, though.

  • dope@beehaw.org
    1·
    1 year ago

    I’m a US player and I’ve only been enjoying total mayhem. The game is way too slow and boring.

  • Kuvwert@lemm.ee
    1·
    1 year ago

    I assume the executives are trying everything in the book to squeeze every possible dollar out of a near dead community before Microsoft buys them and it’s not their problem anymore.

    Ow2 evolved into an exit scam