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Blizzard's Heroes of the Storm announced
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Interfectum
Gold Member
No gameplay details?
Why bother? We're less than a month away from Blizzcon. We'll see plenty of gameplay then.
maniac-kun
Member
Why would they announce it with that animation?
Same here
Dance Inferno
Unconfirmed Member
SQUEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!
Do we know anything about this game other than that flash animation? Or am I to be left squeeing in ignorance?
Do we know anything about this game other than that flash animation? Or am I to be left squeeing in ignorance?
Pinko Marx
Banned
If it's F2P I'll try but I'm willing to bet this'll follow the LoL model over the Dota2 one, which is a big turn off for me.
Professor Lich
Member
Happy to see Carbot Animations get some more recognition, was wondering what his side projects were.
That would indeed suck.
Indeed, maybe if they used this style it would be easier for especially new players to be able to tell apart spells, heroes, abilities etc. And Blizzard would be able to introduce people who are intimidated by DOTA/LoL to try out the genre.
These days MOBA games have so much detail, for a non hardcore player its pretty hard to see what is going on in intense situations when spells and shit starts going off its like Chinese New Year going off on your monitor
Jackben
bitch I'm taking calls.
You guys need to familiarize yourselves with Carbot. Made lots of cartoons before Blizz commissioned him to do fun little promotional videos for mostly social media announcements. Has nothing to do with what will appear in-game.
Fragamemnon
Member
I wouldn't be so sure about that. I think they know they are going to want to draw heavily from LoL's userbase and aggressively challenge that game.
Dance Inferno
Unconfirmed Member
ah so this was the secret project carbot was working on
I think blizzard were pretty incompetent in dealing with dota, I mean for god's sake they had at least 5 or 6 years to capitalise on making their own dota, but they let riot and valve take the spotlight.
It probably wasn't a priority for them.
ThreePiMatt
Member
That is probably the most un-Blizzard-like announcement I've ever seen.
I still think that it was pretty much easy money for the taking, it wouldn't have take that much effort to make a dota side project. Same thing occurred for brood war and how it pretty much became a national sport in south korea, blizzard didn't bat an eyelid for like 10 years and the only time they did, they pretty much killed it off. Not to mention sc2's horrible mismanagement, despite however much I love the game.
If Blizzard has any hopes for the game, this will probably be its major selling point.
Interfectum
Gold Member
Haha yup.
Metzen: "An ancient evil has been awakened and has torn a rift between worlds and now heroes must fight to save the universe. Prepared, you are not."
I dont know. In comparison I'd rather have balls.
All they need to do is add hooks from their other games to earn cosmetic items in Heroes. The new b.net beta client (preceded by realID initiative) speaks to them wanting an even more cohesive ecosystem. I think their model with be closer to LoL's, enhanced by cosmetic rewards tied to playing other Blizzard games. (Something like, Beat D3 on Inferno, get a weapon or costume for that class in Heroes...Clear a new raid in WoW, get a limited availability costume in Heroes...etc) Blizzard is getting "paid" through encouraging people to spend more time in their games or, for WoW, on subscriptions.
Well, with their penchant for H..S names for games as of late, maybe we should call this one HeroStorm.
HeartSwarm
HearthStone
HeroStorm
Can't wait to drop a Thrall Dooooooomhammmmmer ult on someone.
Dance Inferno
Unconfirmed Member
Yes. That is exactly what this is.
maniac-kun
Member
No.
If you ask this in 2015, we can move this up to a "maybe", but 2016 is a safer bet.
Didn't the Titan project basically get reset? I doubt we'll hear anything about it for a long time.
If I had to guess, I think it'll have all the champions available with options for cosmetics (like costumes). I don't think they'll make you pay for the champions because that wouldn't be smart, why pay for it when HoN's champions are all available (but it's Blizzard, so who knows)
It got somewhat reset yes. I was just wondering about a possible reveal as Blizzard seem to running out of ammo before the show. Ofc, we'll get more gameplay and so on. But what about the surprises?!
Ok, I'm happy if they announce an extra class for RoS.
It got somewhat reset yes. I was just wondering about a possible reveal as Blizzard seem to running out of ammo before the show. Ofc, we'll get more gameplay and so on. But what about the surprises?!
Ok, I'm happy if they announce an extra class for RoS.
I doubt they'll even talk about it with Heroes of the Storm, Diablo 3 expansion, SC2 expansion and the next WoW expansion. Maybe next year...maybe.
I am right there with you
I doubt they'll even talk about it with Heroes of the Storm, Diablo 3 expansion, SC2 expansion and the next WoW expansion. Maybe next year...maybe.
I am right there with you
Don't forget the unleashing of the HearthStone Open Beta. That'll get some hype.
Completely forgot about it (which is dumb since I just got into it last week, really fan so far).
Dance Inferno
Unconfirmed Member
Where are you getting this info from?
GuitarAtomik
Member
No gameplay huh? Is this still basically a Starcraft 2 mod, or did they decide to go farther with it? I assume the latter.
I would speculate that it's the "O" in the logo + the 3 characters fighting in the new trailer. I doubt this'll be the case and believe the 3 lines making up the "O" in the logo just represent the 3 roles in the game (tank, support, dps). That's just speculation.