I am heartbroken for you and your team. It must be hard to lose your best developers to other projects against your will.
To all the people who love HOTS. Just spend $40/year and HOTS will get their developers back. Seriously. Put your money where your mouth is. Save HOTS by taking action and protesting with YOUR WALLETS.
Honestly, damage control is pointless right now.
Blizzard/Activision more or less signed the death warrant for HoTs, and betrayed lots of players who actually cared for this game.
Are you really so damn stupid that you just told people to GIVE THEM MORE MONEY? Just shut the hell up.
what a joke you take out the competitive part of the game most high level players who are gm every season and grind the ladder to put a name for them selfs out there have no goal now . all the new teams that have been practicing to get the chance to make a name and play in a pro league or win a big tournament have wasted there time perfecting their game … you ruin the game with this news we are not worthy of your time anymore even though we have given you alot of our time and not only that our money . glad you really listen to community … you guys really dont give 2 SH*TS about us or what we say anyways you never listen to what the people want … THANKS AGAIN BLIZZARD KEEP UP THE TERRIBLE WORK 
I’m heart broken about what they’ve done to their employees here. This isn’t the Blizzard I’d heard so many amazing things about, and now so many people are falling away with promises unfulfilled and empty words from dev teams across the board. WoW, HotS, Diablo, no SC talk, and with how they’ve behaved towards HGC, I’m worried for any ‘pro’ scene that exists with Blizzards name on it. They brought on new players, new teams, changed rosters, got or changed sponsors, were in meetings and discussions about new opportunities for HGC and they ripped the rug out from under everyone.
The folks I know who stream this, or play this professionally, are crushed, and with how close it is to the holidays, it’s just a low blow.
To anyone saying that a free to play model doesn’t work, I’ll direct you to the granddaddy of mobas, and still standing powerhouse DotA2. It’s just on the company/team to create something that a fanbase can gather around and reliably play and be excited about, and subsequently put money into. There’s plenty of models and ways Blizzard/Activision could have looked to and tried.
At this point, I’m worried there’s no ‘fans’ left, just people with hopes that haven’t been completely broken yet.
I’m still trying to figure out if I can morally play this game I love after what they did to their own people.
To anyone who’ll still be in the Nexus, Good luck, and Have fun.
If we don’t get 1 hero released every 1 or 2 months then I’m done supporting this game.
I sincerely hope that you mean that. That you’ll focus on taking care of the players. Its a much needed change of focus.
I love Heroes of the Storm, it is my favorite game. Please take the recent events as an opportunity to build on what makes the game great.
I play all of Blizzard’s games. And out of all of them, I think Heroes of the Storm is the best one right now. It’s managed so well in regards to its content updates and its gameplay and its community.
It’s sad that the eSport scene will vanish now. That’s a big blow to the community and everyone involved in eSport. But I think the game, the players, and the developers can weather that storm.
It’s also sad that some developers are being moved to other teams. Though I must say that when I saw the size of the team at Blizzcon (a photo during a panel presentation) it seemed like a really big team – much bigger than I expected. I mean, it seemed bigger than the Overwatch team, which is crazy!
So we may have been a bit spoiled in the past few years, considering the fact that Heroes of the Storm never was Blizzard’s most popular or profitable game, though it had development attention as if it was!
But hopefully the developers who remain dedicated to the game can keep churning out some cool content updates. I know I’m personally super stoked for what’s to come. Orphea and expanding the lore on the Nexus as well as the gameplay changes that’s been talked about, that’s all something I’m super excited about. Hopefully that development wheel can keep spinning, even if it will now spin a little slower than before.
We’ll be fine. In the end, we’ll come out a tighter community from this I think, however sad it all appears right now. ![:slightly_smiling_face:](https://d3rakab8gpdsa3.cloudfront.net/en/heroes/images/emoji/twitter/slightly_smiling_face.png?v=6" ":slightly_smiling_face:")
Because now more than ever, our charge is to focus on taking care of you, our players
Like you took care of all your HGC players and staff? No thanks.
This is false. Activision has Blizzard by the balls. Unless Hots randomly spikes in profits for some odd reason, nothing will happen. So unless that $40 dollars were to spike Hots financial growth, this game will not receive any growth and unless you know how big the player base is there is no way to determine whether or not this statement is true and it is far more likely to be false as I assume there is less than 100k ppl who play this game worldwide.
If anything, as a community per year, we would probably have to spend $5000 dollars each to revive the game. The burst would have to be significantly large enough for Activision to see it on paper. All they care is about money they can capitalize on in short successions, they don’t care about the long-game.
Wow, imagine being so blind that you legit think things are fine and that everyone will easily “weather the storm”, even having the delusion that we’ve been “spoiled”.
It’s just my thoughts and sentiments. I completely respect and understand if you feel otherwise. No disrespect meant 
same feeling about this. it’s like we will be lucky if there is new heroes. we can hope to have 1 or 2 per year. if it’s that way this game is dead.
Honestly, I’d be alright with slightly fewer heroes released per year, as long as balance and reworks are the focus. All I really want though is Vol’jin. Good to know most of the biggest names will likely be sticking with HotS. But realize that once new Blizzard projects come to light everyone will be shouting “HotS died for this” so you better be prepared to deliver something amazing. I for one won’t abandon HotS just yet because its really very enjoyable. As long as it’s properly maintained and the dev team remains responsive, it should be fine, international competitive scene notwithstanding
This is all about the hostile takeover of ACTIVISION. They don’t care about customers or loyalty to players that have been playing blizzard titles since Warcraft. Actually they do care about customers but only, PAYING, customers. This is the end of Blizzard as we know it. The signal has been lit, for example, re-skinning a terrible mobile app and calling it Diablo and not even developing it in house. Moving developers to other projects probably means there going to lose there developers due to the bonus cuts and being one of the lower paying company’s now without the bonus.
Kaeo, u rnt the person to write this six paragraphs of appologies, resentment and disappointment. U havent even properly positioned as a lead director of Hots yet, and it wasnt u who threw our accumulated love, passion and support for this game into a garbage. I believe that someone who knows more , can say more, can make promise and take responsibility for this should step out and make appologies.
The Implication of this disasterous event is that no blizz community members - fans, employees, developers, etc… - can rely on this company for both games and e-sports aspects. The game was gorwing slowly, and one of the selling point of this game - playing tons of heroes from multi gaem universe of blizzard - is the ultimate dream of all blizz fans. I really hoped, after countless demand for Raynors rework, that i could see Kerrigan becoming mage, more of like Guldan, and Artanis, still a warrior but receive more intuitive but heroic like skills.
Just because Diablo immortal brought a huge value depreciation doesnt mean that the company can make a major move around, shutting down league without and pre-notice, and technically putting a less famous game into comma. From my past experience, this is not Blizzard’s belief, and especially, no one deserves this ridiculousness but the ones who decided to develop D.Immortal.
Just do one last thing, add some Call of Duty 4 hero, so we can all see clearly whats going on.
It was a REALLY underhanded move for you guys to hype up a major event and let it run and let people buy loot boxes before making yesterday’s announcement. I spent over 200 bucks on Heroes loot boxes and other gem stuff literally one day before I knew I cannot continue playing this game.
If Diablo III is any indicator of this type of announcement, yah, Heroes will still exist but it will die a slow death. We therefore have the choice of watching a game we love putrefy into decayed garbage, or simply cut our losses and go to another game before it gets to that point. Axing a good part of the dev team means worse development, less intangible work like balancing and less new content. There is literally nothing else it CAN mean. As a Diablo III fan, I know exactly where that’ll lead and every Diablo fan that booed you guys during Bliz Con knows that as well as I do.
You really should have anticipated that part and made your event announcements AFTER this announcement.
Can you please revert those nonsensical Qm changes that let us waiting 80000 seconds to end matched with the same potato players? Before the door slaps your back parts…?