Is it really that bad? Gold\Silver is so random anyway. It is a good thing to play against better players. It makes a change from the usual first-pick Murky because preferred pick got banned or saying gg after going solo 1v5 or threatening to report everyone because we didn’t help them keep their deaths below 10.
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Making a better game is a great way to profit
If putting a price on this game would be a terrible choice
Then take a look at Overwatch compared to many of the other free to play first person shooters
Yes making the game better is great way to make profit and that is what Blizzard is constantly doing.
Overwatch works in different mechanics and it have had pricetag from the beginning. Every game needs to be looked at seperately and compare different aspects on that market situation. Also timeline is crucial, meaning do you start a game with pricetag or not. It is extremely hard to put pricetag on free to play game when it has been out for few years as free to play
Ban these people
extra letters because blizzard is run by incompetent clueless people
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Are you seriously approving of such things like the Garden of Terror update?
Just look at all these dislikes!
They may have been trying to make the game better but they have also been constantly making things worse
It almost seems like they are intentionally sabotaging their own success sometimes because some changes are just so bad
It’s clear that they don’t always make the best of choices
Putting a price on Heroes of the Storm would not only reduce alternate accounts but it would also increase profits
Profits that can be used to hire people to make the game better
Putting a pricetag would reduce smurfing and playerbase plus less new players would join hots. It would decrease immense amounts of profit and would be devasteting for Blizzard. Therefore Blizzard will never do a amateur misstake like that. Time will prove my point right.
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I would argue it differently, HotS lost a lot of players because people can get away with smurfing, trolling and other suspicious activities.
So if you make it like 15 euros to buy the game, Pay to Play, no sub… people who actually care would play it. Trolling would drop down if reporting system is good, people would care they can’t play if real money is involved.
State of ranked and other match modes would improve, attracting new players.
Sure it might loose some players at start, but again, I strongly believe it would gain much much more in the long run.
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It is fine to have that opinion. However Blizzard (and I) disagrees with that businessplan. In theory you can be right but I tend to believe a company which makes 55 million dollars profit per quater knows better
They made all that money on payed games though, WoW, Warcraft 1-2-3, Starcraft 1-2… Overwatch… etc…
They sure as hell made nothing on HotS, thats why they canceled everything HotS related, you can consider this what we are playing pseudo maintenance mode compared to what it was.
HotS business plan was sponsorship and tournaments. They invest in hosting them, sponsors pay to get advertised. Interest plummeted, sponsors backed out, they canceled everything.
Nope, hots made a lot of money. It is still making money but obviously less since playerbase has decreased.
The major scource from money is not from sponsorships. Hots is free to play but items in store cost money - this is the way to make tons of money nowadays.
Your perception of “lots of money” is quite different then Activisions perception of same quote.
Trust me, original intent of entire project was to cut into MOBA tournament market. Heck, loot boxes were added as an after thought in HotS 2.0 in attempt to salvage what can be salvaged since tournaments were already showing signs of weakness.
Tournament idea is to make game more attractive and rise the awareness of the game. Anyways as I said before you got your opinion thats fine but reality is reality and it has not or will not make any sense to put a pricetag for hots. You will see that time will prove my and Blizzards idea correct.
And what if TIME causes this game to shrivel and just lose almost all it’s players?
Will you be happy to be correct then?
People already have ENOUGH complaints about this game
I want my beloved game to live on!
And if you haven’t noticed already
We used to get one new hero almost every single month
Now we’re lucky to get one even after three whole months
I didn’t want to believe it but it is indeed true that they care a lot less about this game than they used to
Stuff like removing Haunted Mines
Giving us only a limited pool of the AMAZING and MANY maps this game has to offer which was the one of the main appeals of this game to begin with
We used to have so much fun with so many maps and now that’s gone too
Changing an enjoyable Hanamura Temple and Garden of Terror into something so much worse
Feels like downright sabotage of their own products!
Something sinister is definitely going on here
Why won’t you just be on our side?
You’re a player and a lover of the game too
Just like us
That is inevitable, it is only matter of time.
Don’t think you have a firm grasp on how much revenue tournaments make. When you have 2 milion people watching them on twitch, 15k live in arena. Do you know how much ad money is that?
Why do you think they were giving us portraits and other cosmetics for tuning in to twitch streams during their tournaments?
They tried, it didn’t work. Problems were too big. Game masked its weakness behind variety. Eventually sponsors realized what is going on, and backed away.
No more words for part of peo0les wich reply here. Topic is about smurf accounts, they always,always start talk or reply for different topic. heh 
This year i did suggested ideas wich agains smurf accounts.(this one my topic …
But …"freedom is on first place "( in decions of HoTS devs. team).
And there is result…
I never,never will farm one more time with alt account.
Of course i either had and like almost everyone had alt/smurf accounts.
Problem had 2 sides.one is for new fresh players(newbest)…others for old players…
First side (new players),cause high problem (or 60% vs 40%).
You make alone get own conclusions…
While Heroes of the Storm coming to an end is INDEED inevitable because all things do come to an end someday
It does not have to be so soon and there are things that can be done to make it more exciting even now
I am sure you and I both can agree on that
All hope is not lost
Not yet
It will probably be 2-3 more years. They will try to revive it, if revival fails again, they will just discard it and probably shut down development completely… after which they will shut down servers.
Only thing which can save it is community, but I’m fearing community has already given up.
Like community saved SC2, but then again, SC2 has strong roots in Korea, which kept the whole project going. It was so close to being completely discarded when pro players stopped playing and moved to more lucrative games few years back.
Sadly I’m not seeing that happening with HotS.
Warcraft Reforged will be massive though.
I have a feeling that developers were taken from Heroes of the Storm to work on that game
Hopefully after it has been released there may be renewed hope for our beloved game once again
Heroes of the Storm is unique after all
Heroes from all over the universes collide and fight together here and The Warcraft Universe is one of them
So I imagine we’ll definitely be seeing some changes in the nexus after Warcraft 3 Reforged hits release
They were for sure, you can see how Reforged resembles HotS graphics wise. Its like HotS graphics have been taken to Warcraft.
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Now that you mention it
There definitely is a resemblance!
Even Blademaster looks A LOT like Samuro himself!
And I feel like the graphics look even better over there
And they aren’t limited by the StarCraft 2 engine the way Heroes of the Storm is