Blizzard admits Overwatch 2 queue times are long because nobody's playing support

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Confirming longstanding player theories, Blizzard says 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Overwatch 2 queue times are longer than hoped primarily because support is unpoꦆpular, so it's making changes in an effort to make the role more appealing. 

We've gone over this before: 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:it sucks being aꦍn Overwatch 2 support player, and since fewer people want to play that role, 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:tank and DPS pl𒊎ayers are suffering long queues to get into matches. Now we're seeing Blizzard officially recognize the issue an🍒d at least start to talk about addressing it.

, executive producer Jared Neuss said queue times are "a very real, very consistent focus area for the team" and pledged to make playing support more fun. While he admits that there isn't a "silver bullet" that'll fix everything right away, there are "a LOT of ideas" being considered for upcoming seasons.

"Many of these ideas are focused on the s🐟upport role and how we can make it more fun and more rewarding to play," Neuss said. "We're discussing targeted support hero reworks, game system updates, and even some role-wide changes to improve support quality of life."

The specifics of Overwatch 2's attempt to revitalize the support 🍌role haven't been revealed, but Neuss said we'll get updates on the changes as they're decided on.

"In the short term, we’ve made queue-time estimates more accurate in the UI (support queues are less than one minute, in most cases) and we’re going to experiment with our Battle Pass XP rewards for thoꦫse who queue as🌠 support/all roles."

In case you want to do your part to reduce queue times, here's the full 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Overwatch 2 support tier list to help you pick a main.

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