Heroes of the Storm: Blizzard's Forgotten Failure

HotS best moba ever.

i still play it

HOTS is lowkey the most fun MOBA ever made... imagine that, having fun!!1!!1!

Why you all cant see it hots need hots token which can be redemed for battlenet balance 😢

I really like hots the way it is

sod hype

I play HOTS nearly everyday and I get a match between 15 seconds and 2 minutes depending.
Its not "dead", it just isn't getting anymore heroes.
Also, HOTS came out to late in the Moba genre phase. The players had already committed to their preferred moba and players don't really switch even it if is a better product. Not saying it is a better product, just that people don't like change normally.

Tbh HotS was always a lot of fun. Games were fast and not too sweaty. I always enjoyed playing it with friends

Hors was awesome until they stopped the hots league and then it stated dying. Their HOTS events were awesome back in the day.

Funny that in less than 2 days of this video being uploaded, a new PTR patch came out.

Add Master Chief, Mewtwo, Ryu, Ken, Bayonetta, the Roblox guy and then we're talkin.

I used to play this game ALOT

They were just so late to the MOBA genre

i liked hots more than league to be honest even tho i wasted almost 10 years in league

Great game, sad that people don't like teamplay

No gold?
Free lootboxes?
no thx

I loved playing HotS for a good while (didn't touch ranked btw so that's probably why)

I think it failed because the success of it wasn't spectacular and Warcraft players didn't play it enough.

Iv always thought Heroes would of been really successful if they just embraced it for what it actually was: a more casual MOBA instead of trying to make it an E-Sport.

Like I actually love how it plays, it has really creative heroes and all that.

Best moba ever created
Doenst required to look an crypto finance scamm video to play it

i met great friend with that game... but blizzard left me like my dad

I still play regularly, it’s a great game even without any updates.

The game didn't fail. In fact, the last year of its Esports scene was a good one. It just wasn't as profitible as they hoped, so they pulled their resources from it to focus on Overwatch 2 and Hearthstone.
Which might be the biggest oof ever.

is this guy fucking with us?

I still play hots, i think its a great game 🤗🙂

HotS failed because blizzard redirected almost all of the resources from hots to Overwatch instead. They stopped hosting any sort of competitive tournaments and updates happened less and less.

Still the best moba

It's not a failure. Still play it almost every day.

The problem was not HotS, but Activision. HotS was not the massive success they expected (TONS OF MONEY!), but still made descent money. Also, Blizzard forced HotS to be an e-sport...

Fun fact HoTS was profitable, just not profitable enough for blizzard

Man, Murky was so busted in Beta. I had so much fun with his bubble and regen. You'd run into a group of enemies and troll the shit out of them, bubble and fly away (completely invulnerable) while your crazy regen puts you back to full HP. I think the bubble had talents to increase regen while active, and the CD was stupidly short. You could kill people by chasing them down and nibbling at them cos they couldn't kill you.

Its so perfect to watch this at 1.25x speed. He talks too slow xD

Yeah i mostly agree. But the biggest issue the game had was most players played by themselves or with a friend. But the game was largely balanced around the 5v5 esports. Which is more how the game is intended to be played. But yes as a solo player the game really lacks a clear way to excelle as an individul in the game.

I started playing hots recently. Its like a 5v5 wow arena but better ! I love it. Also instant queues compared to wow Classic. Gl hf. <3 wtblifex-firemaw

The real reason HOTS went under, was because they couldn't fix Haunted Mines 😭

I gotta say, HoTS is the best MOBA in the industry. It's just... Activision Blizzard is a company I don't want to support until there's some genuine change in their culture.
Also people are so overwhelmingly childish about their addiction to the other MOBAs.
If you're a League lackey or a Dota dude, play HoTS. You don't have all of the issues of imbalance that the other games do because of items being a stupid design decision. Your skill does matter, perhaps more in HoTS than in the others, because everyone has to worry about getting outstatted or rolled by a hyper fed (insert any character here). Not in HoTS, there's opportunity to come back even from a severe deficit if you play smart, capture objectives over your opponents, and most importantly, soak XP from all of your lanes.

I'm pretty sure the game died with the E sports section dying, not all the nonsense you sprouted about

I don't think gold and items would make the better actually, it would make it worse and not as unique as it is. Maybe if there were other mechanics implemented it would be better . I have a suggestion for what updates could work.

because simply they didnt work with it due to lack of money support and events. They didnt believe it. If they did more comercials everybody would be playing hots. And btw the game is prity much alive. I am not having hard time to find games at least in europe

Still play it everyday, we even have league players migrating over.

Leagues forcing vanguard on me made me migrate back to hots

To be honest ...
I never played hots in the past because i didn't liked the idea of merging all the different universes together!

But.... i installed the game some days ago .... and .... it's a really good game!
As a casual player ... what i am now.... it's sooooooo good and i didn't get it why it's so unpopular!

The gameplay works ... the maps with the different "quests" are fun and... you got mapS!... not A map ;)

And you named it ... the shared exp simplified tha whole gameplay aswell as the skill system does!
For me it is a great "Absacker-Spiel" (german^^).... It's a game which you play alone or with some friends at the end of the day or if you have some spare time!

Gross please don't change hots. I left lol 7 years ago. Hots is perfect

Loved this game. I was a insane Gazlowe main. Almost 65% win rate with him. 🤓

It's also not really forgotten. It's not mainstream but it's still quite popular. Takes less than two minutes to get a gaming even during offpeak hours. 30-45secs normally, it's not huge. But it's still alive lol

It's not a failure, and a lot of people play it. (Buts it Probably the k/d/a order)

I played so much hots. I really still love hots. Heroes of the storm is not "Blizzard's forgotten failure". It's "Blizzard's abandonded success"

This is a good game, just needs a little love. I love the mechanic of just choosing abilities maybe if they added more opcions to choose from it would be more interesting.

heroes of the storm deserved success.

HotS is boring. A cardinal sin of multiplayer games. Even with Blizzard's massive fanbases it could not survive being bad. Sometimes you have to face facts.