https://news.blizzard.com/en-us/blizzard/22833558/heroes-of-the-storm-news
Sounds like phase 1 of going into maintenance mode.
Sounds like phase 1 of going into maintenance mode.
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Blizzard moves devs off Heroes of the Storm, Cancels Heroes eSports
- Thread starter ManaByte
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Huh it always seemed like it was semi successful or at least something compared to the hundred dead mobas out there.
Blizzard jumped on the MOBA bandwagon just a little too late, I don't blame them for wanting to move resources away from it towards more (presumably) profitable parts of the company.
I enjoy playing HotS, but the reality is that it's below blizzards standards (though immortal may be lowering those standards). I remember before it came out there were leaks/rumors that upper management was displeased with it. It was probably just too far along for ATVI to allow them to cancel it so late in development
lol is it a franchise if it's just other franchises in a single game.
It had a fanbase and core following, lots of people played it regularly. I guess all those people go to the other 2 major MOBAs now.
It's not just that they are cutting out Esports for HOTS but they are also decreasing support and content for the game. Once more people get wind of this they are gonna migrate like D3 players migrating to PoE (which just had 50% more players on launch than the last league because of the Diablo Immortal fiasco).
The problem is Blizzard gets away with what they get away with because they have a lot of good will with their community
This is yet another blow to that good will in a year full of them.
I loved the hell out of this game when it came out. I still play it occasionally. Very proud of my 145 Murky. The game never got a good balance going at all. Constant power creep and other terrible decisions from the developers. Quite a few of the games characters are completely useless. It's a shame but it is what it is.
Kinda bums me out, I liked Heroes. The variety of maps and general absurdity of it drew me in more than any of the other MOBAs out there.
They had started to actually build up lore for the game itself. The most recent hero is actually a unique creation that's a daughter of one of the announcers.
I think they accidentally trainwrecked their monetization post-2.0. The character bundles were great. But the re-addition of paid skins seemed to indicate that they might have accidentally killed their financial model when they put loot boxes full-force into a genre/model where it just didn't make much sense compared to stuff like OW.
Leaving so many people hanging is super shitty though, and ActiBlizz should be doing the right thing and paying a few months severance to people affected by this.
On top of this League/DOTA have both been introducing HOTS-esque modes with 15-20 minute games, which makes it harder for HOTS to compete, since they're doing what you're doing, while having far larger install bases.
Leaving so many people hanging is super shitty though, and ActiBlizz should be doing the right thing and paying a few months severance to people affected by this.
Doing a HOTS-original hero + all the fanservice stuff at Blizzcon makes me think they knew this might happen.
It's a shame. This was my most played multiplayer game for several years. There's been rumblings of the game dying, but I think this is the final nail in the coffin.
Guess there are only two lanes in MOBA, after all. Heroes of the Storm should be a neat Pasture title, though. May it enjoy its twilight years in relative peace.
Sad to see it get minimized. It was my most played game of 2016 and 2017. The game was always interesting with different maps and regular enough new heroes to shake things up. I could play quick play and just play who I wanted and still have fun.
Fuck me. I play HOTS nightly. Its so much fun. I swear Blizzard is being screwed over by Activision. Games are just going to get worst under Activision.
Yeah, I was a little confused about why they picked now to start digging into HOTS's lore and making original characters, but the timing is making sense. Even if HOTS itself folds, they've developed a universe that they can find ways to keep alive, and until then they have a way to drive engagement with less competitive fans.
OW having 6 heroes currently in development makes me think that moving people over to that team in order to push out more content is part of the plan, as they're blatantly overworked/understaffed.
I think the sooner people accept that Overwatch is a multiplayer game and that's what always intended it to be, the less disappointed people will be.
I used to be heavy into HOTS, I assumed Blizzard would stay happy with the core audience it found but I guess not.
HOTS team didn't really do any single-player content. The OW team is legit overworked- the reason all the 2018 events are basically the same as the 2017 ones is literally because all of the OWL development stuff completely ate up their team's time.
They're totally going to be making a BR game.
And it's totally going to come 3 years after BR gets saturated af.
And it's totally going to come 3 years after BR gets saturated af.
I think he's talking about people wanting more of it due ot his lore. Like single-player experiences, tv series/movies, etc. IMO after TF2, people should know better already.
Didn't know there was a sport around this. Didn't they do some bedroom college thing when it first came out?
Overwatch team isn't even 200 total people IIRC. Which is madness, Destiny has twice that many people working on each individual expansion.