WHAT WERE THEY THINKING
WHAT WERE THEY THINKING
The game was fun, too bad it was awfully managed then mercy killed
WHAT WERE THEY THINKING
oh look at the e-sports scene, we have to get in that, there are tons of money
but sir, we can't make a decent game, not even with a gun on our heads
doesn't matter, our cattle- I mean our fanbase will throw money at it anyways
Something along those lines.
I found it fun but will only play it again if it gets a steam release. I refuse to deal with the Battlenet launcher ever again.
Blizzard was not content with just making money. They needed ALL the money and when they didnt get it they halted development. Such a shame. Hots is still the best Moba ever made because it doesnt make you want to kill yourself when you play it.
fucking loved it. played with my mates regularly. miles better than dota or similar shit
It probably got made due to Blizzard seething at Valve for getting Dota 2 out the door. They were hoping they could steal their thunder more than actually make a decent game.
They needed ALL the money and when they didnt get it they halted development.
this is such a strange mindset to me. i know it's just CEO brainrot, but the chances of your studio hitting the next big thing are so low
It came too late to the party
But it was fun
It should have embraced the casual-focus instead of trying to force an esports scene.
Blizzard being blizzard, ran it to the ground along with basically all of their other franchises.
Something along the lines of "let's make assfaggots but actually fun to play" I imagine
They wanted to compete against league when not even dota could do it.
Extremely delusional.
They recently buffed Ana and Idk why, the buff doesn't guarantee it will get picked more when Brightwing, Anduin and Whitemane are in the game
play any hero
do mediocre or shit
play Deathwing
slap everyone's shit
nobody can kill me
push lanes solo all the way to the enemy's base
MVP in every game, most damage to heroes done
I like Leoric and Blaze but they're so weak in comparison. I don't understand the design logic behind Deathwing
post panda butt
I still think it was the most fun MOBA
An absolute top experience with friends.
you know how powerless and frustrating you feel in the average ASSFAGGOTS?
you know, being chained to 4 retarded monkeys which all can decide single-handedly to ruin your game and leave you stuck in a lost game for 20 minutes
well, what if we made individual performance even less impactful by introducing EXP communism
Their character design was top notch though. Cool dudes and smoking hot chicks
They had a ton of expensive senior programmers and designers. They had years of experience with SC2. They (for once) didnt get an army of jeets to shit out spaghetticode and garbage models. It was by far the biggest team on the blizzard campus. Their strategy of pumping money into esports until it magically became a thing was stupid, but they did not skimp on hiring talent.
play Deckard.
tossing potions both on the ground and directly at allies.
we get shit pushed in at one point.
got 3-4 potions sitting on ground that our tank could pick up as we withdraw.
deliberately walks around the burst healing potions and dies.
Slightly related, but similar thing with regen globes. There's a regen globe that spawned from a collaterad minion kill or whatever and the idiots never pick them off, even it appears within fucking melee range. Merc camp globes too. They solo the camps and never pick it up to recover the lost health/mana.
They have some really unique heroes like Chogall and Abathur and Ragnaros.
the game with by far the most original and creative hero design being the one that fails is even more proof cattle are retarded and soulless
They knew what they were doing with this.
The best Blizzard product in 20 years, minus the Legion expansion, no doubt
They were only ever thinking of ESPORTS.
They made the best casual MOBA on the market and destroyed it because they couldn't stop thinking about exports.
They (for once) didnt get an army of jeets to shit out spaghetticode
I mean, the programming is half the reason why it never took off as an eSports. Every client knows where everything is inside of the fog of war.
they were thinking "let's make a MOBA that's actually fun" and delivered
nerf lili before abandoning game forever
FUCK YOU
First for Alorok
I look like her
Every client knows where everything is inside of the fog of war.
You mean like every RTS/MOBA does things?
I mean
Ah I see, you're a faggot.
MOBAs are more prone to cheaters anon. Also, neither League or DotA 2 does this.the client does not know where hidden enemies are until they hit the transition layer.
I have a job for you under my desk then.
To further add to this, instead of Blizzard hosting servers, one of the clients gets selected as host and has full authority over the game.
HotS was the last Blizzard game made by a real team of actual humans.
name one reason why this is bad
Certain heroes that have powerful gimmicks excel outside of Ranked mode when you cant counterpick them. Deathwing is one of them. Hes not a Tank technicly so the game doesnt force matchmaking for one and without a specific %shread on a team he can kinda do whatever he wants.
You wanna steamroll every game? Find a friend and Cho'Gall in Casual. Even better? Cho'Gall + Auriel. The 3 of you will easily 3v5 99% of the game.
And your argument is that HotS failed because of cheaters?
Laughable.
To be honest, when it just came out, it was actually really fun. They then fucked it up with shitty blizzard style "balancing" and then pulled the plug on it completely, killing it. It was a good idea, nu-Blizz just fucked it up
I liked it, they just shit the bed. I just liked the idea of no items, you just pick a build. But I quit after they turned Tyrande from a dps with some support to just more support that didn't do much dps and took away her owl build.
I cannot wait to get started ^~^
Oh yeah? How will you prevent THIS from happening?
I play Vikings, ETC, Tychus, and some Diablo. So not my problem. Used to play Gazlowe but then they ruined him and I cant meme saw it up anymore.
Why did those retards make invisibility visible? The most dumbfuck change imaginable
Because it's plenty broken as is?
What's fucking broken about going slightly transparent?
slightly
Complains about HotS not allowing an individual to impact the game
Posts a picture of Li-Ming
Gee I don't know. Maybe the fact that you literally can't take damage except from AoE/Skill-shots? Literally just dodge.
You still can't take damage from single target skills. Like nothing changed, they just made it so that it's not actually invisible.
Prevent what from happening?
Why did Malganis use an ultimate that swaps health with a target when they had 20% and he had 100%?
Can't prevent skill issues
How about THIS then?
this is actually the best verison of any moba. mobas are games that play best when they're lean. 50 min matches are trash. the stupid plate spinning minigame that is the first 15-20min of league is fucking awful.
if a match goes 30 min in hots it's LONG.
the malganis can't see so it's ok he can stunlock an entire team
It's like the entire enemy team is invisible, so it's okay!
For me it was Abathur.
Look at the map
See any kind of conflict anywhere at any time
Swing conflict every time
Get MVP every game
Honestly was the best MOBA I played out of like a dozen or so. Unfortunately blizzards incompetence cant help but ruin everything they own. Seriously tho they could easily revive this by putting it on steam, giving it crossplay, and putting in other big Microsoft IPs
It was too brainless and casual for an average mobafag. (Anon Babble loved it)
oh the enemy has blinded himself
let me just schwooze right up to him so I'm easy to find hehe
All according to plan.
This game is great and the fact that it still has a solid playerbase despite being deadder than dirt for years proves it got something right at least.
Of course, I want to ****** her.
Sex with Orphea.
how to play any other map than the fucking CURSED HOLLOW? I'm sick of it and it's like the only map in quick play rotation
The fact people were bad at orphea for not being an established character shouldve told you how gay people are. With such an audience you cannot win
I used to play this a lot back in the day and i used to use some protos dude that never died... good times (dont remember his name, it was the bruiser looking guy).
Alarak uses the respectful greeting when encountering qhira
Now why might that be?
Were they keenly aware of the implications of Alarak calling her a primate and to stop flapping her orifices at him? :^)
mounts
overwatch characters
NAH
Even super smash bros wasn't this cartoony and lame
mounts were fine and promoted aggression, since mounts let you move in, but didnt let you leave a fight.
overwatch was a mistake. Both the game itself and the inclusion of the characters into HOTS
mounts were fine
nah sorry fag mounts were an addition to cater to the retard wow player audience
normal people don't want to see Diablo riding around on a little horse
Diablo
except he didnt mount up
This. All they needed to do was keep updating the game and waste money on e-sports.
Orphea was easy to beat with any kind of movement or cc, though.
waste money on e-sports.
that is the one thing they shouldnt have done
oops
not waste money* obviously
valeera sex
Shit, Valve took Dota from us!
add in an appealing character
kill the game a few months later
what did they mean by this?
let's made a moba game that's actually fun for non autists