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?
I also have longer queue times, but I’m skewed towards the higher end of the curve so there’s already just less available players for me.
I’d imagine it’s a combination of a few different things; -The awful news of PvE and terrible PR probably turned off a lot of people from the game -The surge of free to play players moving on -The time you were playing can have a big impact, at least it does for me. I get way shorter queue times on weekends and evenings.
For reference, I’m in NA and get around the same times though. 5 minutes in quick play when queued for damage or support.