[eduren]

I'm curious. Did you have the same reaction when Overwatch removed the ability to play duplicate characters on the same team? If I remember correctly, that change happened between seasons 1 and 2.

To apply your reasoning above, removing that ability was a "short term" (rules based) solution to a "long term" problem (balancing the hero roster to make duplicate heroes work in a competitive environment)

[diminoten]

Yes it was similar, though it was a much more reasonable move. They were two different decisions, with two different sets of consequences, and I don't think generalizing them as the same is accurate.

With a role queue, you are now unable to solve certain categories of problems your team may have. No one character in Overwatch can exclusively solve a category of problems, so being unable to swap to a specific character isn't nearly as prohibitive.