Matchmaker changes

[Kjalar]

Yesterday I realized that my QM queue times have decreased dramatically. At the same time, match quality became absolutely horrible. Not that it was very good previously, but still. I'm getting 2 supports vs 1 support matches, matches where one team's avg MMR is like 100-150 lower than the other team's and so on.

Do you guys know if this is something that Blizzard did intentionally or it's some bug? Was there any announcement?

[Ulfric Trumpcloak]

100-150 mmr can be just 4-5 wins, so im not sure what you're crying about.

[Panquake]

More than likely to current "For Azeroth!" event going on right now. Big influx of wow players doing the quest for the mount.

[Captain Douchebag]

More than likely to current "For Azeroth!" event going on right now. Big influx of wow players doing the quest for the mount.

I suspect this is the main reason for the faster queues and amount of absolutely terrible players at the moment aswell.

[Kjalar]

100-150 mmr can be just 4-5 wins, so im not sure what you're crying about.

Since when expressing a concern is considered crying?

150 average team MMR usually means that one of the teams has either 1 absolutely terrible player or 2 mildly terrible ones. In both cases, games are pretty much uncarriable.

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More than likely to current "For Azeroth!" event going on right now. Big influx of wow players doing the quest for the mount.

Good point, didn't think about that.

[Astalnar]

Those WoW players are farming AI games, so probably not the reason behind this. In general, after I came back to HotS after a year, I found wait time horrendous, even for a quickmatch it can be up to 4 minutes.

[Nerraw]

I would have put it on the event as well, but my queues have been close to instant even with Murky and Lucio. I have no idea what they did, but they definitely did something.