After 7 years its over..
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After 7 years its over..
frick
Haven't played it for years but always wanted to check in again. How big is the playerbase currently? Is it still healthy?
takes long time to find match in eu
EU queue times are ok depending on rank (high rank queue times can be long but that was also the case when the game was "alive", low rank queue times are fast), NA queue times slowed down a lot. Korea is basically dead, minor regions like OCE are completely dead (think someone was in queue for over a day and got no games).
it was over before it started
It was over the second i hesrd their were no items.
And then it was double over when i actually played it and instead of simple pusha and pull laning to team gameplay it was just fighting over homosexual side objectives nonstop
talents replaced items homosexual
And wow talents are incredibly shallow and not as intresting and then festered thoughtout the genre infecting dota.
I rather just have items
HotS is an example of a game with fresh ideas but an extremely bland and watered down gameplay.
What a shame.
>watered down gameplay
Pretty much this. After some point it just starts feeling the same no matter what hero or role you chose
More of having a moronic publisher
>WE WANT CASUAL DROP IN MOBA !!
>NO WAIT WE WANT COMPETITIVE ESPORTS FOR THE BIG CASH
>THAT FAILED? JUST PULL THE PLUG LOL
ActiBlizzard deserved to burn from the start
Dumb frogposter.
Ok moron.
That's just like your opinion, my dude.
I never played MoP; I quit right after the firelands patch in Cataclysm. But yeah, I'm inclined to agree simply because though the Pandaria concept started from a pure meme, I always found just old school fantasy fun.
>Humanoid kung-fu panda that wanders around and teams up with Rexxar for wacky adventures and the chance to brew even tastier alchoholic beverages.
You know, why the frick not?
Regardless, though I agree with you, I'd go even a step further almost.
>Characters of importance
Funny, you could make the case for both Arthas and Illidan that their story arch were done at the end of Frozen Throne.
Arthas ascends to LK and quite literally rules his eternal kingdom consisting of skeles and other undead. And Illidan is dead by Arthas' hand, end of story.
I don't like Sylvanas wank at all, it's dumb as frick. However, I do have to say that out of the three mentioned her storyline is the only one with any proper cliffhanger at the end of W3. She should have been the villain in Vanilla WoW, and should have died at the end after some epic ass fight, and then the story does something new, while retaining it's status quo of "Horde and Alliance fight for reasons X, Y and Z".
Did you or did you not post a fricking frog, homosexual?
You did.
That makes you a dumb frogposter.
moron.
stay mad, Black person
It's finally over. Breathe in some gas, friends. But what a fricking annoying message. "oh hey we're not going to work on your game anymore but make sure to check out our other cool titles!"
Man that just rubs me the wrong way
Ahh.. thank you, Malthiel
I remember playing hots when it came out and it was pretty grabo whatever, but like 2 years or so I tried it again and it was extremely good.
Its sad but what I expected. HotS really was the last game Blizzard made, the last one where it felt like the devs actually liked videogames.
And so the final speck of soul blizzard had left is officially dead.
I remember when I loved this company and the games they made, how did they end up like this.
They were bought by Vivendi and forcefully merged with Activision. When Activision bought its freedom from Vivendi, they also inherited Blizzard, and thus doomed it to its current state.
>hey were bought by Vivendi and forcefully merged with Activision.
They were owned by Vivendi for all but 3 years of their existence and were only ever known as Blizzard Entertainment under Vivendi.
Yes, and Vivendi put them in the activision department.
Vivendi never owned Activision, you seem confused.
>They were bought by Vivendi and forcefully merged with Activision.
Morhaime (Then acting CEO of Blizzard) brokered the deal between Vivendi and Activision. Fact of the matter is that Vivendi didn't want to sell the Vivendi Games subsidiary until then, and while Kotick wanted to purchase Vivendi games for a merger, didn't agree with the terms up until Morhaime greased the wheels. Blizzard wanted this merger, and made it happen themselves. This narrative that Kotick swooped in and fricked everyone in the ass is fricking dumb. Blizzard is just a greedy ass company that wanted more money, like the majority of billion-dollar companies, who was willing to sell their relative independence for a quick buck.
F
the only good moba, I'm surprised that it came from nu-blizzard
Was the only asshomosexual I liked
RIP to the last sliver of soul Blizzard had.
Get yourself neutered.
>Jobgash
wow those are some wacky looking tyranids
What is it about Warhammer that looks so massively soulless and haphazard compared to the Blizzard rip-off equivalent?
>those hips on that demon on the left
HNGGGG
>never added Moira as a hero
sad but deserved
Frick Moira, in the non-literal sense, hated her since Cata. Shouldn't've been spared by Varian, she's an arrogant c**t, and it also feels awkward having a bronzebeard lead the dark iron, or having a female dwarf leader.
And no, this has nothing to do with being against whites leading blacks, although I'm sure SJWs could've made a point about that.
>Moving forward we will support Heroes in a manner similar to our other longstanding games, StarCraft and StarCraft II
Welcome to the dead club
HOTS had some cool ideas that made asshomosexuals fun, F
still better than how they treat Reforged
>tfw hopes for microsoft to come in and save HOTS with an influx of resources dashed
frick. Well, it's my fault for hoping for anything anyway.
What did you expect? We are reaching peak levels of terminal cancer. The blizzdrones will defend this with their wallets til the end.
Blizzard is no more, and has not been for a very long time.
Shame, this is the only game my wife and I had fun playing together.
My ex got me into it, we played set up our PCs next to eachother and played a frick ton. It was my first MOBA too. We broke up 4 years ago and I still play it. Sad times are upon us
Never played any other moba, i had some mediocum of fun with HoTs.
>Hogger was the last hero added
jej
>blizz makes game
>stops creating anything for it but new characters
"uh we're dropping support cause no one plays anymore lol"
im surprised they put out any new characters after they killed all competitive play.
>announce plans for Blizzcon 2023
>disclaim that absolutely no hots panel
I wanted axe.
MS should port that shit to console, it's the perfect candidate
MS is going to turn Blizz into your standard shitty mobile phone company. All Blizz IPO's will becomes shitty gatcha phone goyslop. There is nothing left.
This is what happens when you go woke.
Feel free to point out a single mobile game that ms has
that assumes microsoft is competent, what they'll actually do is waste millions of dollars creating new flops
Goodbye Leoric, you were my favourite skellybro.
>HotS dead
>SC2 dead
>WoW is fricked
>Diablo is a israeli mobile game
>Overwatch was never good
Feels bad
WoW is dead too. Nobody normal plays it
Don't worry, if twitch numbers are to be believed OW2 is going to bomb hard
>Starcraft
Dead
>Warcraft
WoW is a humiliation WC3 was butchered
>Overwatch
DoA
If diablo 4 fails its literally over
>If diablo 4 fails its literally over
You are clinically braindead if you actually think it will even be remotely above revoltingly average at best.
I'm pretty sure he means financially. I don't know why people keep trying to attribute success to quality. Bad games sellw ell all the time.
because quality is the only metric that matters you israelite. i dont give two fricks how much money your game made or lost, i only care if its good.
>quality is the only metric that matters you israelite
Not when talking aobut "success" you moronic ESL.
yes. you were you literal moron. that was your exact question "why dont people care about how many sheckles a game can make, why do they noise about quality" do you even know what esl means?
>"why dont people care about how many sheckles a game can make, why do they noise about quality"
No one said this, you god damn idiot.
>do you even know what esl means?
Yeah, your the prime example of it.
frick
I climbed to GM with Probe and Medivh.
I am sad
Remember me?
Perfection. The Salt Mines call.
>one of the things hots boasted about over its competitors was its map variety
>most of the maps were shit and no one wanted to play them
Let me guess.... you were just bad and couldn't cope with variety like a proper lolbabs.
cmon dude, at least half of the maps created for the game were terribly balanced or just plain unfun. it's not unreasonable to say that they should've accepted less is more and focused on less, more developed maps instead of shitting out barebones, poorly thought out ideas to the point where they had to have fricking map rotations
>delete haunted mines
>but keep hanamura
The game took a nose dive quite some time ago, between the shitty maps and hero changes, but the single turning point for me was when they added tracer and ever other cancerwatch trash that followed except zariya, she was cool
They changed Hanamura
I never had a problem with it either way
Nah. The real truth is that HOTS was too difficult for your average MOBA player, whom came expecting an easy experience, but instead met the hardest, most gruelling climb in MOBA history.
>every single map plays differently based on hero picks
>every single hero plays differently based on hero combs
>every single hero comb relies on teamwork to function properly
>comeback mechanics demand constant attention
All of this demands that you're actually good. Of course the pros of LOL and DOTA are going to have an easy time because they're not shit (like 99% of all MOBA players). But your average MOBA player is incapable of the most basic requirements here and rely ENTIRELY on their mechanic skill and nothing else.
taking hots seriously was your first mistake, i played sylvanas every game and just ran down a lane mashing my shoot arrow button
Then you just cannot expect to win. But yes, you could easily climb to diamond by just having fun and actually being a teamplayer.
Simply because in HOTS being a teamplayers completely and resolutely would always DWARF mechanic skill.
>ranked hots
bro just stop
Man, sylvanas was fricking broken. People never expected me to just drop them 100-0 in an instant when they came to stop my fat push, shit was fun.
>too difficulty
>when every character that slightly didnt fit the mold got either butchered or left to rot during the power creep
Lol sure buddy, whatever floats your boat
And this is what I meant by watered down gameplay. You cannot solo carry games in any capacity, you cannot get ahead individually and there is no gameplay elements that reward for good mechanical micro play.
And as much as I enjoy tactics and "thinking outside the box", you shouldn't/can't bring these aspects up by cucking the other side of the coin, because it waters down the gameplay and any meaning tied to it. And thus alienates a good proportion of players, those types of players who stay year after year, like in LoL or DOTA2.
>He doesn't know about exp
Lol
>Implying
I've had games where I solo kill my lane opponent 3 or 4 times, while the enemy team takes 2 mercenary camp and comes out on top, because "muh team XP". It's absolutely disgusting.
The comeback mechanics were absolutely terrible. You could dominate for 20 minutes straight, die once and lose the game
Exactly.
>die once and lose the game
You deserve to lose if you actually fricking die whilst being ahead of the enemy team you fricking shitty standard LOLbabs
Seethe, why don't you go try mod your dead shitty game into dota 2 like HoN.
>die once and lose the game
Why do you think people call Hots the hardest moba?
No one called it that besides deluded blizzdrones
Why do you think the game is dead?
because the genre is dying.
Nice cope. The genre is stagnant but league, dota and even smite is doing worlds better than the moronic baby-brother that hots was and forever will be.
Nice cope. Everyone already moved away from mobas only pinoys, chinks and koreans keep them alive.
why lie to yourself
hes right, the white man has moved on from asshomosexuals
then why do the "chink and koreans" play any other moba except hots which is the only dead one
hots is dead
Because HotS wasn't popular enough or actually competitively good nor supported by blizzard. Why would you play HotS when you could go play your local mobas or league or dota and if you wanted to be a sweatlord, go get paid for those instead?
Pathetic. Your game was such a fricking vile piece of steaming rat shit, that even the lesser people recoiled upon seeing it.
What a sad game fricking game. It never even left a mark anywhere.
come on now
the game boils down to snowballing to lvl 10 and 5v5 deathball fighting. There is almost no other strategy and dedicated healers make the game a boring slog like Overwatch.
Welcome to silver city
>5v5 deathball fighting
the only fun part of mobas? I will take it over 20min of laning phase before the game starts only for the enemy top laner to dab on your team 1v5 because he has full build already
Yah, and look where your shitty taste got your game.
esports memery killed it long ago
Don't get ahead of yourself amigo. The game had lots of other issues before and after esports came along and shat all over it.
Pretending the game was thriving and perfect before that is just sad cope.
I don't know why homosexuals like you regurgitate this bullshit that the game was somehow on the downslope before e-sports when 2.0 was literally the game at its peak. That's the entire reason some suits at Blizzard decided it needed to be made into an e-sport game.
Blizz's obsession with e-sports killed it in a way you can't recover from. A bad map or hero can be fixed. A several year long development timeline to make the game as sterile and 'competitive' as possible can't. Interesting heroes did not work in the shitty hero brawler meta they wanted to enforce, and they all got reworks, leaving the game very much for the worse.
Zarya is the only non-cancerous Overwatch hero, and I guess Lucio is alright too, he's strong but not obnoxious.
Literally every other one can go frick themselves though, especially Tracer.
haaahahahha the mines
>it never returned
What bullshit. If you're going to just throw in maintenance mode, why not add it back?
Why was this removed? Unbalanced shit? I remember it being fun.
Objective was so weak, the correct play was to not go in the mines and push a lane uncontested.
Also the entrances/exits was some Scoobydoo shit
It was extremely imbalanced and there were a lot of bugs on it whenever they released a new hero, especially if they had a global effect.
I'm pretty sure they stopped updating this shit years ago anon.
>they never added skeram
Oh no how could they not add literally who?
this guy is a joke
we should've gotten razorgore though
how would that work
i don't frickin know but they should add him anyway
Skeram was the only boss from AQ40 I actually liked. Everything else was a fricking slog, but fighting some cool bug/wizard herald of an ancient evil Egyptian insect empire was kinda cool. He also had a cool design, wish they didn't re-use it for the final boss in a BC 5-man instance.
god i want to slog through AQ again
Miss me with that bug shit
>entire raid has 2, MAYBE 3 items for my class, rest are side-grades over T2/BWL gear.
>We are required for only one boss, but required for nearly all trash
>Our least-used utility skill finally gets some use on another boss
What class was I?
The game was terrible and half the characters were boring. No one is upset this is gone. Blizzard never provided any real support to the game beyond when it was in beta and streamers were playing it.
>be top tier Murky player
>call a guy a homosexual
>get put in a ban pool for 30 games that I refuse to play
>never touch this game or any Activision nuBlizz shitpile ever again.
>RPS: You have some interesting alternate outfits for heroes. Roller Derby Nova, especially, caught my eye. On its own, that's totally fine - just a silly, goofy thing. A one-off. But it got me thinking about how often MOBAs tend to hyper-sexualize female characters to a generally preposterous degree - that is to say, make it the norm, not a one-off at all - and StarCraft's own, um, interesting focus choices as of late. How are you planning to approach all of that in Heroes?
Browder: Well, I mean, some of these characters, I would argue, are already hyper-sexualized in a sense. I mean, Kerrigan is wearing heels, right? We're not sending a message to anybody. We're just making characters who look cool. Our sensibilities are more comic book than anything else. That's sort of where we're at. But I'll take the feedback. I think it's very fair feedback.
>RPS: I have to add, though, that comics might not be the best point of reference for this sort of thing. I mean, it's a medium that's notorious - often in a not-good way - for sexing up female characters and putting them in some fairly gross situations.
Browder: We're not running for President. We're not sending a message. No one should look to our game for that.
>RPS: But it's not even about a message. The goal is to let people have fun in an environment where they can feel awesome without being weirded out or even objectified. This is a genre about empowerment. Why shouldn't everyone feel empowered? That's what it's about at the end of the day: letting everyone have a fair chance to feel awesome.
Browder: Uh-huh. Cool. Totally.
>[PR says we've run over, tells me I have to leave]
>RPS: Thank you for your time.
HOTS was the last based Blizzard studio. Gave Tyrande huge breasts and a nice, fat ass.
post Alex
Man, she must hate doorways.
Bonking her head all the time.
Never liked her face
no one likes yours either
I remember that interview.
you can feel the leftoid seethe that they didnt get their way kek
>I don't feel empowered by looking sex or ripped so no one else should either
What an obnoxious crock.
>This is a genre about empowerment.
What the frick were they talking about?
Most of the elves had nice breasts and fat asses, and Sylv didn't have stupid velly censorship (though that version was an option added later)
Sally Whitemane, Queen of Hips
>the porn we got of her thanks to HOTS
Thanks to the team
I like whitemane and that model is sex, but I really wish they had kept the unique lipstick and tabard instead of that weird 5 lb boob flap.
Anon i'm gay and even I cringed at your sheer stupidity.
>Anon i'm gay
Clearly.
it's like they don't understand that normal dudes (the target audience) will look at a sexualized female character and think "yeah cool" and then look at something like speedo tychus and also think "yeah this is frickin' rad too"
I fricking loved speedo tychus - add the shark mount and you are good.
The skin just fits the character so good, its bonkers.
This game has no real content in years you dumb fricks. This is just Blizzard finally confirming it instead of bullshitting players and interviewers.
Threadly reminder that Overwatch characters where what ruined the game. Not just the fact that they suck thematically but the attack-while-moving mechanic fricked up the entire concept of spacing and positioning. It was just a nu-Blizz attempt to milk over-cucks
Also the OC Black person and the e-girl. I don't care if you like their looks. Why the frick are there literal who's in my fricking blizzard smash game.
e-girl was cute, nigress was a desperate move to cater to sjw
Hanzo and zarya were okay, the rest should never have been added.
Hots and Hon now dead, arguably the msot casual and most difficult mobas
>will never get this mouch SOUL ever again
>dreadlord jaina
that was top SOVL
>Dreadlord Jaina
It was such an old Blizzard flavor thing to put in the game, since all the conspiracy theories at the time fabricated the entire thing about her being a Dreadlord and actually dying at Theramore. Only HoTS studio had the balls, and boy does that skin do things to me.
>/dance she stabs the ground with her staff and pole dances
They knew exactly how to defeat me
Gave her a whole new voice pack for it too. Between that and Azmodunk they knew how to go all in on memes.
The hots devs were relentlessly based.
>his minions turned into refs with foam fingers
hilarious
Wow this new season of Overlord has really gone down the drain.
That little enigmatic smirk from Dreadlord Jaina.
This was peak soul right here.
My main man 'Zeeb will rest in heaven with his toads and bugs.
did they ever nerf big voodoo?
They tried but his Zeebo powers could not be stopped
>Fully upgraded five toads at max distance with upgraded plague
Became an absolute beast at sieging, you could hit entire walls/gates and take them down in moments
I got ridiculously good at aiming his spider jar. Always just where the enemy is going to be in one second. I loved watching them run for the nearest gate trying to get them off.
>Grey DeLisle voice
>Coomer outfit
Happy me
Oh ya this pic reminded me that 90% of their skins were absolute horse shit
>Grey DeLisle voice
>Coomer outfit
Happy me also
>coomer skin
>picks the one that hides the tummy and makes it harder to see her undies under the see-through skirt
They should have kept the new player hero bundle that came out like 4 years ago, but no they were greedy as usual. Better make WoW classic f2p or it'll die too.
but wow classic is already free for wow subscribers
>Moving forward we will support Heroes in a manner similar to our other longstanding games, StarCraft and StarCraft II.
so not at all, and hope people forget it exists except for the lunch money you can squeeze out of people playing it at tournaments, got it
Goodbye HotS and thanks for all the porn.
I remember playing the game back in the beta. My first level 10 was Tassadar. It felt so good getting that Master Skin. Next was Chen after that. Always getting complements from plays and such.
Then they made master skins available to all disregarding skill level.
Yeah but they made Lili look like FNAF nightmare trash and never fixed it
>tfw no young-adult Lili
Don't open.
>Arthas is now permanently stuck with a shitty generic death knight kit instead of anything remotely resembling the lich king.
Anub'arak plays more like a necromancer with his shitty bugs than the lich king. Absolute travesty. They should put out an editor and a custom games section so the community can actually support the game like they don't want to.
anyone can make hots in warcraft3
He also has one of the worst models in the game
..and also one of the best, with a full separate voiceover
>good character go evil
>get killer abs
Why we can't get devs like these anymore?
>morally grey character goes good
>becomes a hot qt 3.14
All of the "what if" HotS skims were great
>Maiev
>morally grey
She's the best nelf and was fricking robbed of her campaign
Tyrande is a cuckquean and shit
Yah, It's a shame they didn't do more of them. I can't recall people speaking favourably about "normal" skins.
Dreadlord Jaina and Orcess Johanna are god-tier for this
If only blizzard hadn't rejected the original MOBA guys
how the tables turn
And then they tried to force themselves into esports lmaaaaooooooo
You just know that guy that gave the thumbs down was shitcanned. Possibly flayed alive.
He got shitcanned but not for that. The reason he got forced into retirement was becuase he told the Activision board that the Overwatch League will flop since the game is not ready to become an esport
And did it end up flopping? I don’t pay much attention to OW.
Oh it did flop in a spectacular fashion. It's even reached a point where Blizzard wants to drop the whole thing like they did with Heroes of the Dorm and WoW arena thing but they can't do it because of sunken cost fallacy and Overwatch 2 taking a huge hit.
Morhaime will probably never forgive himself for letting the merge happen and saying no to Icefrog
>Morhaime will probably never forgive himself for letting the merge happen
Morhaime is the only reason the merge happened at all.
Yeah...
This thread has brought back feelings for a company that was dead to me for a long time
Man there were so many blizz babes to coom to back in 2016. What the hell happened...?
>OHOHOHOO
Absolute based.
Also dies someone have the summer-devpicture of HOTS where we could see that it was actually full of Chads and Stacys?
>that Ojou-sama laugh
i miss her so much.
It was the best of it's genre by far.
All it had to do was not add Overwatch shit and OC do not steal Black folk.
Overwatch characters were always going to be added, such a pointless complaint
Ye v Black folk are just moronic i remember reading literally every time a ow charater was added it was some 4d marketing ploy by blizzard
Like no shit moron. Its a blizzard smash bros, newest blizzard franchise will obviously be added and everything is a marketing ploy when you think about it
Just make them skins if you must
Game went from the most interesting designed characters out there to another blink/dash troonyfest
dva was okay
Overwatch characters would have been fine if they weren't all fricking busted on release.
OC Donut Steels should have never fricking happened. No one in their right mind ever thought "man i love this blizzard all-stars battle game i wish they added some fricking literal who e-girl with throwaway lore"
>Anduin
>Qhira
>Deathwing
>Basically stopped playing after that so I dont know how much worse it got
It wasn't even a franchise thing, its part of the moba model to release busted shit to force people to relinquish their goy coins and then nerf it into an acceptable state of balance.
Didn't help that it was slow as shit to earn new heroes in hots.
Even league with their shitty system is miles ahead in how fast you can acquire the champs you want.
I stopped playing after they reworked Azmodan into a generic nuker and Fenix being released
I remember non-OW characters weren't so bad on release. Blaze in particular was pretty underpowered.
Honestly why I still play Dota after all these years is heroes being free means they aren't just released overtuned to sucker people into buying in. It's to bad it basically becomes your job after a while, I liked HotS for being easy to jump in and out of.
>after they reworked Azmodan into a generic nuker
Ill never forgive them for this
One of the biggest reasons HotS failed was because they desperately tried to turn it into an e-sport, and part of that process was reworking every old character into a soulless cookie cutter version to fit the shitty hero-brawler-shaped-hole they were trying to force the game into. I want to shit down the throats of whatever wienersuckers at Blizz became obsessed with making every game hyper-competitive and sterile.
Qhira is an abomination.
>OC Donut Steels should have never fricking happened. No one in their right mind ever thought "man i love this blizzard all-stars battle game i wish they added some fricking literal who e-girl with throwaway lore"
the problem there being that since they spent two hundred years doing nothing but WoW they'd have a roster made exclusively of
>stoic and strong orc warleader dude
>breasts, but mysterious
>breasts, but corrupted
Orphea is a cool design though, I can't blame the people working on HotS for wanting to add a little personal project to the cast, also she's actually fun to play. Qhira can go frick herself though.
I just think that HotS should be a blizzard smash game first and foremost even if Orphea is cool.
It'd be like if super smash bros announced "Niguru, son of Master Hand" or whatever their OC boss is.
Qhira's like they mixed Li-Ming and Alarak and removed all the charisma and humor so all your were left with was an insufferable ass. Being a original and coming in and talking shit about how all your favorites ain't shit made it even worst.
....she is fun to play though.
Should I play it if I have never played a MOBA? Is it free right? Do I get to level and get skins or do I have to pay for them?
you will unlock the skins faster as you realize how much fun you will have
Free, you can get everything just by playing at length
I'll give it a try, I guess I can waste my time from time to time
Feels like the entire world is going to shit, bros. I can't shake this feeling of dread.
Just enjoy the ride friend, there's nothing you can do if ~~*they*~~ want to end us in nuclear fire
The Volleyball skin had its own hearth animation which is a bump, set and spike
Li-Ming was made for MDA (My Dick Alone)
>Make whey for da bad guy
What did Zul'Chad mean by this?
>waaaa I dided once and lost the game, its unfair!
>lmaoooo this game was SO casul
do lolbabs and dotaBlack folk really?
Thank God, the game was trash
I'm not being ironic, trash
Everyone knows. They had some decent ideas and models but in the end it was still shit.
Coping gays will tell you the esports ruined when it was never a good game to begin with.
wow he was right
we can tell you replied to yourself
>purposely crops the image to not show the red line of your own post
>inspect element
Show us the actual post
>he has red lines enabled
>he doesn't
solves the samegay issue when someone calls you out on it
here is a bigger pic
I am honestly clueless no idea what you just said
too late homosexual, you just disabled it. go samegay somewhere else
lol ok moron
sucks your game is dead
phoneposter = opinion discarded
you sure seemed to care a frickton, no need to try pretend
Not even me moron
Just like your game
nice try mobile gay
I actually can't tell that at all.
except he's right
the game was fine as far as casual mobas go, but more important, it actually offered something unique in comparison to other games in the genre. heroes like cho'gall and abathur just wouldn't exist in other games.
then they went and made everything and everyone generic to make the game 'e-sports ready.' unique heroes were neutered and some maps were straight up removed forever.
it wasn't even the only game this happened to- OW died because it desperately tried to appeal to a competitive audience
Well other games can scavenge (steal) their ideas now like with any other dead moba, so there you go.
More Li Ming please
So now what do I play if I want something casual like ARAM?
Frick... /heals/ is not gonna like this...
Aye...
the size of this woman goddamn
And WoW didn't even keep her thick form...
WoW is at the point where every hero is quickly turning into a limp-wristed sexually flaccid non-entity.
AYE!
If there was any race that deserved the classic blizzard beef it would be the new dragon race. But nooo they made them look like actual fricking deviantart scalies.
Okay I recognize that is supposed to be Uther.... what the frick did they do to him?
They nu-Blizzed him.
remember how spirit healers were blue angel people? turns out theres an entire faction of them in the afterlife and normal people can be selected to become them. uther got selected because he was a good paladin guy. the blue angel people also demand that you erase your memories or else you could be biased in your duties (i forget what their duties actually are, ferrying people to the afterlife?). uther didnt want to erase his memories because he was pissed at arthas and started a revolution against the authoritarian blue angels by throwing arthas's soul directly into super hell. the revolution was immediately subverted by super satan (who turns arthas's soul into a mourneblade/sword thats even more epicer than frostmourne) and uther was a bad guy for a bit. then uther said sorry, helps kill super satan, and arthas's soul gets permanently deleted. uther is still a blue guy but i dont remember if hes leading the blue guy faction or not
Imagine going back in time to the mid '00s and telling people about Arthas' ultimate fate.
WoW lorewise was always a mistake, pure hackery that just went on to become more autistic as time went on.
I admit I'm a warcraft 3 purist, but I don't care. The entire premise of WoW from the start is a hacky frick up.
Forsaken joining the Horde is definitely still weird. And let's not even begin to talk about Blood Elves.
As I said, the entire setting is fricking weird.
The time skip, major story narratives hidden behind end game raids which had extremely low accessability just to name a few. And finally the fact that they refused to return back to the status quo of "Horde and the Alliance fight each other because reasons." It took them what? 4 or 5 expansions to do that? The whole charade of bringing in a new big bad is/was cheap.
You mean you don’t like the idea of Arthas and Illidan and everyone else of importance being killed by no name mooks while sylvana gets wanked into infinity?
MoP was the only good expansion due to how far removed it was and that it couldn’t rape the WC lore.
don't forget one of the blue angel people is an actual troony
The game was cool but it could never REALY get popular as a casual game
the game was fun to play in a 5-man party but playing it solo was a fricking nightmare
>Haunted Mines is gone forever
WHY?
Best thing about HotS was how fricking sexy their female models were. Like holy shit, you'll NEVER get anywhere near that in any future blizzard product. In fact, I'm certain it's one of the reasons it was decided to be axed since they've been on a purge of removing anything "problematic" like renaming hysteria to unholy frenzy despite it being in the fricking blood tree
>In fact, I'm certain it's one of the reasons it was decided to be axed since they've been on a purge of removing anything "problematic"
That and y'know. The game bing mediocre and unpopular.
Game was fine - it just didn't perform as well as they'd like and they fricking nuked it from orbit out of the blue right before a fricking tournament and it never recovered. Literally never given a fair chance - they just wanted hots to be something it was never going to be and threw a fit
HotS was a great casual moba that could've been a good mainstay. The problem is that blizzard wanted it to become an esport so fricking bad that when it wasn't they shuddered it and put a skeleton crew and shifted all the devs to other projects even though it was still making them money. Just another victim to Blizzard's inept management that lives for short-term money
rip
it was the last game that had old blizzard soul in it and they just outright killed it.
rip.
Like other high level games(chess, fighting games, golf) HotS demand focus and the slightest error leads to catastrophic consequences.
It was over when they nerfed my boi Reghar. Not being able to heal yourself with the ulti was fricked up.
Impressive.
didnt realize diablo 3 looked so fricking shitty
Diablo 3 is probably Blizzard's worst looking game in terms of fidelity. Maybe Immortal and current WoW are worse in terms of visual design, but when Diablo 3 came out it was so far behind the graphical fidelity curve of the time it was completely immersion-breaking. It wouldnt have been able to build the atmosphere of the original games if it tried.
For some reason it was like 3 or 4 years out of date graphically hen it launched. Maybe more.
Unironically, it was so it could run on chink/pc bang computers
>you now remember the Monk trailer
God, at least D4 looks visually good and has a proper diablo aesthetic, it's the only reason I even remotely trust it
AAAAAAAAAARGH I JUST want a starcraft warcraft or diablo girl to sleep with me no sex just sleep in the same bed and maybe talk about lore and stuff aaaAAAAARGH
dude WoW's lore is fricked, if a girl starts talking about WoW lore in a positive way, get the hammer and get bonking, the head trauma might improve her intelligence
But I want to talk about killing blood elves with Jaina while she's in my bed keeping me warm.
>never got a BFA Mommy Jaina skin
RIP
Post your favorite map.
NOW!
braxis..... home..........
All the SC1 Terran remixes in HotS are fricking baller
too late, you already posted it
Haunted Mines
Gather Tribute, or face my curse. The choice is simple.
ENOUGH! My curse has ended
Pew pew!
>Blackheart's Bay
S O V L
>drinking from the wrong end
The nuke map
frick this map
mines braxis. good memories of my one trick artanis days and holding down top lane every time. must have had an 80% wr on that map with him.
remember when artanis could 1v5 before his rework as long as they had no hard cc? those were some good times.
For me it's
just played a game on this map that was fairly even, both teams had all keeps down and we're gunning for the last turn in. our team had lost the last couple fights and were gonna try to defend the enemies final turn which would wipe our core.
our butcher wanted to solo the boss and so we lost the fight trying to stall them 4v5
I thought they already killed support for it years ago
They announced they were putting it on the backburner. This is the "we literally aren't going to touch this ever again if we can avoid it" announcement.
>best game blizzard made in ages
>shit on and then abandoned
maybe microsoft will do something
They won't unless the game gets a really extensive overhaul.
Game has LOTS of issues that pushed people away from it.
RIP. I had my fun over the years so i'm not that sad
I'm gonna miss all the musical throwbacks and arrangements
Looks like yer enemy's alllll paid up
FIRE YE BLAGGARDS!
Aye, there be some fine BOOTY
HoTS was full of wonderfully fat asses
Post webms of attractive HOTS females
>no webms of pic related
whats the point
>shortstack Gobbo Chromie came out before the pozzed overlords made Chromie a troony dragon
I miss the early 2000's to early 2010's like you wouldn't believe
>she made fun of people who think she's male in hots
That's my canon.
troony dragon?
They made Chromie trans.
What the frick does that even mean? Sounds like mental illness.
>can shapeshift into whatever he wants
>chooses to be a shortstack gnome
kinda based tbh
sure
Don't have any webms but
>spent 2400 doritos on this costume and her witch costume because I couldn't decide which one to get
my whitemane is only level 12
The game was already on life support, why does this post make a difference?
father.. is it over?
BACK TO DRAWING HAMMERFALL ALBUMS WITH YOU
I'm sexually attracted to the past. Is there a name for this?
Elder Lich
nostalgia boner
I really hope another Moba just rips off some hero designs from this game so something of use can be salvaged. Shit like Abathur is a fricking great design in incredibly fun to play despite the simplicity of the game over all.
League and Dota have champs that are similar in the way that they sit on a champ and heal/deal damage
I don't think we'll get closer than that. Hots's design where you just need to soak exp and the sudden objective that draws everyone away is what enables Abathur.
For me it is more the rapid switching between heroes, buildings and creeps, setting up mines for scouting and ambushes, and being able to come in a save a hero in a pinch on the drop of a dime.
Tinkers probably the closest to that concept for me, but still pretty far off.
>Abathur
I know League has that cat character. No idea if it's actually like Aba.
>Cho'gall
I hope some game makes a 2 in 1, this was the funnest hero ever made in any game ever.
>Murky
I never want to see that fishfricker again >:(
It's a shittier version of Aba in everyway.
t. league and hots enjoyer
Not really aba. She's just the hat but with none of the interactivity/required macro play.
I want the TRANNIES out and the based PARTYROCKERS back for fricks sake.
HOTS was unironically the best MOBA game. It was just fun. The other ones like DOTA and LOL are just rife with autism.
Also Whitemane.
unironically sad
Pure soul
>game goes on maintenance mode
>everyone flocks to play it
time to install. what am I in for?
Dissappointment as the "flocks" dissippate again.
Nothing, there's no more updates.
it's still playable isn't it? i mean, idc if there are no updates. you buy smash brothers and that game isn't updated really. still fun to play.
easy to pick up and pretty casual moba. it can be pretty fun if you're playing for the first time
I haven't played in a long time, but I'd play at least one last match with each of my favorite heroes during the weekend.
>Garrosh
>Stitches
>Medivh
>Falstad
>Anduin
>Leoric
>Tassadar
>I'm going to have to go back to league or DOTA 2
Man it was nice playing a game where people were just all casual shitters and nobody gave a frick, time to get back to the endless sweatfests.
I want to go back to LoL, just to see how many games I can lose on purpose before getting banned.
>Riot killed that fan project that was going to bring back Season 2/3 league (aka the good part)
Frick Riot.
Just waiting for a game with the bros and jamming to this banger.
damn i suddenly love ASShomosexualS now
Damn. Shit was fun. I never was able to talk my buddies into playing but I still had lots of fun against random players.
Chen, most fun tank in any moba
Chogall, cool design, fun matches when he was released and every match had one
Gazlowe, a b***h
Li Ming, frick anyone who played this character unironically
Tassadar, used to be a super fun support
Kharazim, great melee healer design
Valla, my longtime favorite dps
>Yet again a warcraft game without Garritos or Daelin Proudmoore
It's indeed over
Oscar Vega @raspbearyart is a beast, look up his stuff
how does blizzard still have fans
They dont. They have slaves.
So how many people actually play this? At least 1000?
I played it for a bit too, so make it 1001
>Arthas never got fixed, model wise or skill wise
Hey blizzard, frick you.
blizzardrones get what they deserve
Rest in Peace
Art and music in this was soulful
I will forever remember the "Lvl 20 upgrade" feeling when this music kicks in.
>As a token of our appreciation, we are gifting the incredibly rare Epic Arcane Lizard mount to all players with next week’s patch.
>incredible rare
>all players
uhhh
>Step 1: Accept death
I'm tinfoil-hat-sure Morhaime was the one who was pushing e-sports at Blizzard.
One of blizzard's most baffling marketing mistakes was releasing two titles with the abbreviation HOTS so close to each other
Good, now I can finally stop playing.
Be glad it won't be retroactively raped like wc3 right?
If all the franchises that make up HOTS get retroactively raped, does the commutative property of rape get applied to HOTS?
No, because HotS was an active love letter to when Blizzard was good. Gul'dan is a perfect example, his design is based off of both classic Gul'dan, with the best parts of the WoW and WarCraft movie redesigns, but nothing about him is made at the expense of what made the character cool and visually unique in the setting.
Diablo is another example where Samwise went out of his way to ensure that the version in HotS was the "classic" Diablo, and not the D3 version that was a massive departure in style and appearance.
Zeratul looks like a fusion of his SC1 Shadow Hunter concept art, his SC1 cinematic model, and then given a less busy version of SC2's Praetor armor.
Rehgar looks like a classic WC3 Shaman with some light additions from the WoW T2 Shaman set instead of the garbage WoW appearance he has that makes him look like a toy.
The Lost Vikings were specifically designed to look like how they did in their games, rather than how they looked in every instance since then, including art updates, which always made them look like WoW Dwarves.
When Kerrigan initially released in Beta, Journos tried to get her censored, and the HotS team flat-out didn't give a shit and gave her a Succubus skin a few months later.
Lt.Morales, despite being a redesign of the SC1 Medic, keeps the sultry voice and double entendres from SC1 that was largely downplayed in SC2, with the devs saying that the "Hot Nurse archetype was the foundation of what made the Medic unique and memorable in SC1".
TL;DR: HotS is an amalgamation of what made Blizzard's characters what they were. It was the last spark of everything that made Blizzard games special, and didn't take any shortcuts or bend the knee to PC culture.
I'm still a bit annoyed that we didn't get Duke as a Siege Tank but at least Sgt. Hammer is hot
The Duke mission where he was in the Siege Tank wasn't part of the final game, and they said he was too associated with the Norad for him to feel right as a Siege Tank hero. Similar story for General Warfield who is basically the same character as Duke, thanks SC2
I played the shit out of Hammer
I love being artillery
Hammer is actually brain dead I dont know how you can like her when its literally sitting in one spot sometimes pressing z or w to escape.
big gun go boom
They should've just focused on making fun unique heroes with flashy abilities instead of this e-sports autism. Literally a game ruined by a non-gaming department, a victim of early 10's bullshit. Just make Blizzard Brawl instead of failed competitive moba. I feels so bad for the devs.
They could have made a competitive Esports game. Or they could have made a casual brawler. Blizzards failing is not picking one. The all to common falling on your face aiming at a target audience of 'everyone' instead of honing into a specific market.
>Hot Nurse archetype was the foundation of what made the Medic unique and memorable in SC1
Abso-fricking-lutely. I didn't even know she was quoting Star Trek and medical drama cliches she was just fricking hot.
This was a woman in fricking power armour. No bikini shit just a wink and sultry voice. You know what? That's exactly what was appealing about Kerrigan. Whatever she looked like she playfully fricked with Jimmy about it. And again, we had no fricking idea what Kerrigan looked like not even from the manual art. It was just raw fricking female confidence that made her sexy. We didn't even have a picture of Infested Kerrigan until Brood War.
The same confidence was in all the men. I didn't understand the pop culture references back then but it didn't matter, they were all big dick players from the Marine up to the Battlecruiser. You legitimately felt good having these guys on your team despite the fact that half of them are criminal rednecks and the other half are (charming) European stereotypes.
What they did to the SC2 units was a fricking travesty.
ngl the only good part of this game was the unique heroes- abathur, chogall, murky (even tho it was fricking frustrating to play against) vikings etc. chogall was fun as frick with a friend in pubs in particular
Alright Hotschads.
Post your favorite Pissed Line.
>For the last time, I do not have a Graviton Beam! You are thinking of a different protoss phoenix.
>This exoskeleton can be extremely difficult to control. Do not judge a dragoon by the paths they choose to walk!
I just really like Fenix
>This exoskeleton can be extremely difficult to control. Do not judge a dragoon by the paths they choose to walk!
Someone please post that gif of that dragoon walking over higher terrain or something.
>Dragon
>Assigned male at birth
sus
Its sucks that its gone now. Qhira was an abomination and i was hoping they would add the raven lord or black heart but now it will never happen. Also anyone who plays specialists is a unfun wiener
just right click my FRICKING portals they're RIGHT THERE
I get out on my OWN cause I am a MAN
>implying theres any specialists left to play
it's full of snowBlack folk now, it has been over for 2 whole fricking years
And Dota 2 lives on. Adios shitty game.
There's like 15 heroes in HotS I immensely enjoyed, gonna be a shame to watch it go.
Can't say I'm surprised but nothing lasts forever I guess,
Locker room sex with Orphea!
I wish they'd have done more High School skins, I remember when these came out I wanted a Mr. Abathur, Automotive Teacher Gazlowe (With car parts), and a Principal Medivh.
INSOLENT CHILD
I sleep
based character
also love muh Kween Zagara. The only one I would kneel for
No one ever expects the Bug Build! Now your lanes are destroyed while you weren't looking!
Well shit.
I just got back into hots a few weeks ago, game fun
There's a lot of cool skins in this game but I mostly used the default skins and master skins (or some of the alternate universe cool ones)
I wanna play as Leoric, not as a weird Darth Vader man with Leoric's moveset. A lot of them just feel like different characters
abachads ww@
I don't play him that much anymore because he leads to 5 minute QM queues and is very prone to getting imbalanced teams because of his weird fricking role
but he is extremely fun
His mine build wasn't his strongest, but it sure was his funniest. Just mines mines mines everywhere and you can feel the frustration of the enemy players building when they step on one every single bit of grass or side passage
>mines build for teams with lots of squishies or on maps with a lot of rotating
>shield build for having no healer or having a high value team member to protect (+ rat pushing)
>aggressive hat build to deal with annoying dodgy heroes like Tracer
>locust build for maximum turtle on big maps
love the slug
>somehow lived to the end of the game's lifecycle being the only hero to not get his MULE removed
Remember when fricking Malfurion had it? That was weird. Wish they'd make it look infested since literally only Aba has it now, but clearly that's not happening anymore
>Attach to Valla with her speed upgrades, Butcher with meat upgrade, or Varian with twin blades and speed upgrade
>Get your melee speed upgrade too
the best candidate for your boosts
>the pyroblast ultimate marker at the end
kek'd
The fricking classic.
It's the 1/2 second of pyroblast marker that makes it
I loved her....
I was opposed to the idea of HotS OCs but I really like Orphea, her design is great and she fits in well with the world and I want to frick her
Qhira sucks though
I like Qhira gameplay but god is her design ugly
She has a pretty boring personality and basically no good voice lines too. They should've just slapped her kit onto Reno Jackson or something.
What about doing it with Fenix warp?
>we never got a Hearthstone rep
I really wanted Kazakus
>her design is great and she fits in well with the world and I want to frick her
>Qhira sucks though
True and True.
>it's okay if I can coom to it
Cmon anon
Listen, it was like the third thing I mentioned, it's not JUST my dick talking. She has connections to the Raven Lord who was an established and kinda well-liked character already, that helps a lot
CUTE and FUN
>dodging a pyroblast as guldan by using demonic circle
no better feel
VPing a teammates to save them from pyro is cooler
I only liked it because Kael'thas could wear pants and was top tier. My boy got treated like shit and his voice still wasn't great without Flynn.
I still cant fathom how theres seems to quite a sizable chunk of contrarians on Ganker that actually believe hots is anything but mobile tier trash
The whole HoTS thing will always a mistery to me
>Game wasn't great, it was okay
>Was vastly overshadowed by League and Dota
>but it was till fun to play
>Art team was pure soul, better than Riot's or Valve's
>While every single Blizzard team was full of sexual assault, the hots team was described as the one where people were chill and did what they wanted (coming from the chick that Alex was modeled after)
>game was short and players were okay, very few raging vatniks that would pop a vessel that you don't do exactly what they are told like in dota or league
>Pure, PURE sex designs from a company that shied away from revealing outfits
It's a shame. Past me called it casual shit but in the end, it was far more enjoyable than League or Dota 2 ever was (Dota 1 is still the best). If there's one thing I feel bad for it's the art team not getting the recognition they deserve but at least they didn't have to get the shit treatment the wow and ow team had.
Part of me hopes that the art team will stick around when the merge with Microsoft happens so that we can get a revive with the microsoft franchises or another game
>HOTS 2 featuring master chief
im down
I implied it earlier in the thread, but in case it flew by.
If this game wasn't as casual, it would have been a massive fricking success.
It also would've blown dick like every other ASShomosexualS. Better to be good and niche, than soulless and tryhard.
I doubt it. It would have needed only a few changes that would have made it more "high octane" let's say.
>Slightly longer lanes
>Straight up less maps, only one map per franchise
>Separation of team XP which affects the power of your teams NPC's and individual XP which affects the player in question
>Allow bigger champion power spikes
Yeah, I know. If HotS suffered from casual syndrome, then DOTA2 suffered from boomer gameplay syndrome.
Unironically though I hate the current state of League, I think it managed to balance the formula right, keep the basic shit there, but shake off really old and dusty mechanics away like denying lane creeps.
Funnily enough though from my Warcraft 3 days, if I had the power and the money and I could make soemthing happen?
Battle Tanks as a standalone MOBA would be glorious.
Do any of you gays remember Battle Tanks?
Those changes all blow dick and go against the spirit of the game.
>Straight up less maps
Yes, while I enjoyed most maps I can't forget the absolute pain when forced to play a shitty map you didn't like.
It's possible but I understood why they catered to a more casual fanbase since it would have needed a huge frick up from both valve and riot for them to become big. And honestly, the main reason why I played hots was because I was fed up with 40-60 minutes of dota matches and the meta shifting the way it did.
At the end of the day, I'm sorta relieved that they made it a more casual because people don't ape out and ragequit like in Dota where every game I played when I wanted to try it to see if it's fun again only to be greeted by 4 slavs who rage.
>only thing good about the game was sex appeal
this game really deserved to die.
It was the perfect for the "I want to scratch the moba itch but don't want to play League and Dota with dumb Black folk anymore" to be fair
For sure, Hots had the best experience when it came to teammates. Probably cause of the low population and the mega casuals.
I cannot get over the fact that to this day DotA2 remains as unsexy as possible. Look at how the Queen of Pain Arcana is the most phoned in design ever.
>It will only cost you 200
probably one of the reasons why dota has the least amount of girls playing. That and the difficulty of course.
but yeah I can't take people seriously when they praise dota designs when most of their shit is just copy pasted WoW assets or the most generic fantasy shit ever.
>I can't take people seriously when they praise dota designs
Same. My friends like the designs and I think they're fricking crazy. You pick a random Capcom title and it's almost guaranteed to be more awesome than whatever DotA does. Fricking Resident Evil b***hes are hotter than anything in DotA.
How can anybody live in a universe where fricking Darkstalkers or Monster Hunter or hey, I know this is a stretch, BLIZZARD exists and think DotA2 looks incredible.
Oh god, the Ogre Magi Arcana. It's a thought crime. I feel like whoever designed and approved that should be shot. But deserving to be shot than those people for allowing that to be made are the people who bought it. I looked my friend in the face and asked him he needed to explain why he bought it. I needed something, ANY objective analysis that could justify the reason for buying it and he couldn't do it. And I pull up the fricking concept art of an Ogre Magi from Warcraft fricking TWO and it looks better. I swear to god if they updated the models from Warcraft 3 and I could do it I would replace every single base model in DotA2 with their Warcraft 3 model. Shadow Shaman despite all his stupid cosmetics still doesn't look as good as base Shadow Hunter. Lina despite all her fricking cosmetics still doesn't have a nicer face than the Sorceress.
I FRICKING HATE HANAMURA AAAAA
Gonna be sad to not be able to play Tychus, Jimmy, Jaina or Blaze in the future.
GREAT soundtrack
game was mediocre and should have been an angel arena clone instead
good, heroes of the storm was fricking boring
>no money
>no inventory
>no last hits
>no denies
>just braindead teamfights around whatever the map objective happens to be
there's a reason why not a single dota clone has managed to be better than dota, because they all frick up the very easy formula.
dota has been shit since patch 7.00 too, so it's even more embarrassing nobody filled that void
That's what's so dumb about mobas. It's supposed to be warcraft, but the troops are all automated so you can focus on the hero. And then the troops clash and you actively fight for a draw and do stupid shit that doesn't make sense like killing your own troops so the enemy can't. So you're not like generals or heroes, just a couple of vultures fighting over scraps.
>>no last hits
>>no denies
Imagine listing these as complaints.
>>just braindead teamfights
Team fights are as braindead as you want them to be. Also I much rather be fighting other players regularly instead of doing what amounts to fricking PvE for half the match.
>I just think that HotS should be a blizzard smash game first and foremost
It is. I don't consider a single character enough to cancel the whole concept out. Two OC is pushing it I guess, and like I said my opinion of Qhira is much lower because she's fricking obnoxious to fight.
>It is. I don't consider a single character enough to cancel the whole concept out.
We'll just agree to disagree.
Fair enough.
kek
HotS was amazing.
LOGICAL DECISION
Anyone got the "waiting room" pic? I wonder who will never get in now...
I still hoped onto Magatha.
She did nothing wrong
My main man made it in and I'm happy
Post your never ever
At last, a worthy disciple
I member when people thought they were gonna add the Innkeeper from Hearthstone. Good times...
the game was peak >SOVL
Mecha Tyrael main to this day
Mecha skins are some of the most soulless dogshit skins in every moba that has them.
>unique mounted forms
>completely redone voiceover for some of them
>different special effects
>soulless
Yeah, no, frick off.
Hey Gankerirgins, what was your meme build that you had success with?
For me it was DPS monk.
Shockadin Uther zapping people from a screenwidth away for no mana that burst health himself for like 1000 HP. If you stunned or slowed him at all the shoch had a .5 second cooldown for 4 seconds that allowed him to erase other supports and ranged DPS.
i fricking loved playing Cho'Gall with randoms.
Ragnaros was also great.
>vashj or azshara never
Hots was the best moba game. Better than Dota, HoN, LoL, Smite, whatever.
Then they ruined it by adding Overwatch characters and other gimmicky characters.
Then Blizzard went full BLM troony mode, so anyone sane boycotted their company.
Rest in peace, Heroes of the Storm.
it was always shit
what's the next moba to die?
dota has its addicted russian boomers and pcbros and league is still way too popular, so those two are fine, but who'll follow hon and hots into the grave next?
Is there anything else of note besides Smite?
Don't think so unless you count mobile shit.
Probably Smite. I think both LoL and Dota 2 will die or decline heavily around the same time. Even then there will probably be russians and brazilians keeping the games alive.
wait a fricking second,
did they really wordfilter fricking valv*drones
when did this happen?
they filtered pcfa t s too
>take 10 damage
>AAAUUUUGHH
>AAAHHHHHHHH
gonna miss those tassadar screams.
He was my favorite support because of how well he could frick over pushes and pre nerf his Avatar was actually a danger.
Play some fricking HOTS.
Just because it won't get updated with new shit doesn't mean the servers are being taken offline. You can still fricking play, if you indeed actually like the game as most you motherfrickers claim to.
>t. playing since the fricking Alpha and still playing regularly
Based.
I recently re-downloaded it expecting a ghost town but it is basically as active as I remember it.
its over
the doomposters were right
I just wanted to play as Mengsk was this too much to ask. I will never forgive but I'll also never forget the good old days https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=utSCrc7RR-Q
A few games here and there is all you need to enjoy HOTS. You don't need to grind it for 6 hours a day every single day. But at least play the fricking game.
give 'em some pepper lad
this is Jimmy
RIP to the only moba that was too good for its dipshit audience. I don't think we will ever see a blizzard game with this amount of care and soul put into the game frick this gay earth
I really liked the game. It just clicked with me in the way other MOBAs couldn't.
Their last game with a soul, what a sad day.
It's too bad 2.0 killed their revenue with the lootbox. I spent like 400 before and around 20 after and it was the same for every peoples i played with.
Alright time to reinstall.
Someone I played with said he spent around that much. I couldn't figure out how he spent that much. I didn't spend a dime on the game before or after 2.0.
Oh yeah
>got that skin but the lavender blackie
>ended up liking it the most
I'm so confused
Only ASSgay I enjoyed because it was low effort. People who spend thousands of hours to not have fun in League or Dota are mindbroken.
Fricking hell
I hope Microsoft would do something about it after the acquisition, unfortunate
i liked the game, have like 50 something abathur and over 20 on most healers
*hoped
it died when Lana Brapchynski left, anyway
>Brapchynski
Errr, anon?