This thread was added on June 18, 2024, with posts from playoverwatch, blizz_winter.
Not sure if this is on their radar but doing any placements automatically makes your group wide which is not fun. I’m not sure if they would even have a work around but I’ve had absurd duo queue times even though we were the same rank just because one of us was placing.
This is on our radar, we agree it's a problem.
while we're on the topic of wide/close matches - how is the team feeling on the MMR range that makes a group qualify as wide or normal?
There's been a few situations where i play with friends i always played with, and we feel like we are similarly skilled, but we have to basically forgo climbing together cos we're apparently a wide group.
That's part of what Morgan is saying in this video - we're allowing wider duos to be considered Narrow. If you're not a duo though, the amount of rank you gain or lose is based on actual width though (not just being flagged as Narrow or Wide), so if you're just barely outside the Narrow bracket then the amount your rank changes with wins or losses will be very close to normal. You could still climb (or fall...) now.