Dad came back with the milk… and Xal’atath’s feet pics
A new hero for Heroes of the Storm announced at Blizzcon!
Submitted 1 day ago by bandanawearingbanana@lemmy.world to games@lemmy.world
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QueenHawlSera@piefed.social 8 hours ago
Bougie_Birdie@piefed.blahaj.zone 1 day ago
For those who thought the game was already shuttered, HotS went into maintenance mode a few years ago - 2022 I think? Basically that meant that they weren’t actively developing it anymore, I think they stopped balance updates and only committed to patching major bugs or security vulnerabilities.
Of course, they never stopped taking your money if you wanted to buy their boosts.
This news has me conflicted. On the one hand, HotS was my favorite MOBA - it does several things right that other games in the genre consistently fail at and they took some major chances on unique character designs. On the other hand, I wouldn’t piss on a Blizzard exec to put out a fire, I don’t even want to play their free games
mr_robot2938@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
Blizz continued balance patches and hero reworks during “maintenance mode”. They rebalanced and reintroduced a previously disabled map (Haunted Mines) and continued adding skins.
It’s been a long time since monthly character additions (Hogger was the last), in-game events or serious content updates, and of course the official esports aspect is long dead.
It’s one of my favorite games of all time and I hope it continues to find new life.
rue@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
I’m in the exact same boat. I finished writing off blizzard after all their failures and cover ups, but HotS was the only MOBA I ever enjoyed and I put so many hours into it. Made even more conflicting now that it’s owned by Microslop the Dev Butcher.
MashiroTenshi@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I’m not defending blizzard by any means.
Since 2022 there have been both character and map balance updates. They just recently put in (arguably) the biggest changes to several characters and how their baseline abilities work.
Microsoft doesn’t have a moba of their own, maybe this is their push to be in that club?
Bougie_Birdie@piefed.blahaj.zone 18 hours ago
Huh, I guess that makes this announcement less surprising then
I hadn’t heard they’d taken the game out of maintenance. Come to think of it, I hadn’t heard any news about the game, it’s like it dropped off the face of the earth
Appleseuss@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Does hots have an auto chess game like tft?
Rugnjr@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 day ago
No, but hearthstone does. That’s blizzards main entry into the genre, with plenty of characters from hots
MashiroTenshi@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Not yet
zikzak025@lemmy.world 1 day ago
And here I thought this game was dead. They’re coming back to it?
bandanawearingbanana@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Real “dad came back with the milk” moment 🥲
But seriously, the game was never really dead. The community is quite active still, the subreddit has loads of monthly active users and it takes less than a minute to find games. Small balance changes and Updates still happen almost every month.
Blizzard has stopped supporting the pro scene years ago but that never stopped casual players from enjoying the game.
CosmoNova@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I thought the shut down servers years ago.
bandanawearingbanana@lemmy.world 1 day ago
The game is still quite active, takes less than a minute to find a ranked game.
Poopfeast420@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
They stopped releasing heroes in 2020 or something, then did nothing for a few years, but eventually started doing occasional balance patches, and now they’re apparently going to release at least two new characters. Servers have been up and running this whole time.
Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Did anyone know that this game still existed?
kuiskaaja@lemmy.ml 1 day ago
exactly, i thought this game died years and years ago
switcheroo@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
The HotS fangroups are very dedicated so it’s nice to see this (even if it is Foot Lady…).
I don’t play anymore but I still watch HotS streamers. Can’t wait to hear who will be the second new character they’re also releasing (please for the love of God don’t be another effin’ elf 🤢).