Well, it’s been a while.
Never heard of the Moba genre until I saw HOTS. Didn’t even hear of hots until I saw a Graves vanity pet in WoW.
Played a few games specifically to get the pet, and found the game rather interesting. Quickly got hooked into hots. A year quickly passed and 2.0 hit, and from there, the feel quickly turned sour and toxic. I myself turned toxic, constantly berating players for actions that was just unrealistic to either do or expect.
In my mind, 2.0 was the tipping point of no recovery. Loot boxes, and the currency that you had to pay money for brought into the game something I absolutely despise about games these days. Activision’s influence here is all too noticeable, and all too damning. Too much time went by before I noticed my own toxic behavior and straightened myself out and stopped directing my frustration at the players and realized it was more so on the developers for their match maker to turn into such a giant turd sandwich. Even more time passed before I realized the game just wasn’t what brought me into it.
So, I stopped playing early to mid of last year.
I don’t miss it. I do not miss this game.
I do, however miss playing with friends, and having fun with random strangers, but that doesn’t happen anymore, since all my friends stopped playing as well.
Thanks for a fun game while it lasted, sadly I no longer have that expectation from Blizzard anymore.
To everyone else who still plays, I hope you enjoy it, and if/when your time comes. Hopefully we can meet on the next big platform.
People will personally attack OP for simply sharing his opinions but he is not alone when it comes to these views about 2.0 being the point at which the game started to decline.
I still come to these forums to see if anything has improved but it is easy to see from daily posts that it hasn’t gotten better since then. There are more heroes but their implementation fundamentally changed the way the game was played. Forcing esports for profits ended in failure while corrupting the fun experience pre 2.0 provided with the disastrous balance changes that came with it.
I had played over four thousand games pre 2.0 starting with beta and for awhile things were good. The interactions between people in the community took a sharp turn for the worse post 2.0 and soon the people on my friends list stop logging on HoTS altogether. The majority of the original player base has left and few original players still log on regularly. The game’s hemorrhaging base will likely continue the trend with queue times and HoTS maintenance mode being obvious indicators.
Perhaps one day this game might be open to the community to mod it to their individual tastes but until then we have a HoTS that only serves a smaller and smaller few.
I mean I like Imperius and was one of the heroes I had on my list for ones I wanted to come out and I still uninstalled. It could have been Deathwing wouldn’t of changed my decision.
The decline in this game has nothing to do with lootboxes considering the reward system in 2.0 is 3 times better than the reward system pre 2.0 seriously don’t even try to make that argument the math doesn’t support it.
The game started to fall apart as they added more mana less heroes and let the high mobility heroes run roughshod over the game.
Now loosing HGC is probably the deathknell for the game as the one means of bringing players in is gone. You are now going to have a 0 dollar advertising budget ( dont kid yourself thats what HGC was a 3 day 12 hour a day Twitch infomercial) How do we add new players now ? we don’t.
I understand if people want to leave and play other games certainly about 1/2 the streamers of this game have left I just don’t care about why you are leaving.
If they’re no longer playing the game, they have no right to talk about things like balance or the community. Do that, and they are simply the trolls whose live sole purpose in life is to spew hate speech and nonsense.
So, if those people still have a fraction of dignity left, they would quiet vanish from this game. Never showing their face here ever again, once they have uninstalled the game.
They can discuss anything if they don’t show it off that they quit the game in the first place, but nobody will take you seriously when you say Chromie’s Q stack damage quest is OP or I wish they nerf dive bomb tracer or anything similar to those.
If posters like OP provide detailed feedback as to why they are quitting the game where is the harm? If anything posts like these should be valuable to any Devs that remain to target common problems that are often highlighted in such posts.
The OP did not use “hate speech” as you asserted, he did not come across to me as a troll. If anything he wrote respectfully with a desire to share what he sees as the problems with the game and perhaps just say goodbye to the community.
This guy is literally the trash whats left of this dead game now. Absolute degenerate. “I prefer silent losses where we just use abilities, have lights going off everywhere, also thinking about stuff is dumb and your teammates never owe you anything, especially a performance and passion to the game that’s closer to your own. Ban everybody that says anything and make sure you say nothing to anyone ever because that makes you susceptible to getting banned!”
That’s the thing isn’t it, the reason new players should want to play a game is because it’s fun for the players, not because it’s been designed to look good to esports viewers.
If you need esports just to get new people to play your game, instead of popular word of mouth and your friends playing because it looks fun, then what the hell are you even left with? If you can’t keep people around with everyones favorite Blizzard Heroes then maybe, just maybe, the problem isn’t the players.
good choice this game become pure trash,abomination, uplayable crap with dumbest player base in entire games history. Again at weekend mm crap gives me imposiible to win matches with imbecile players that doesnt have a clue about this game.Pathetic moba.
So exactly how does someone thats never heard of Heroes find out about heroes ? by watching a twitch streamer ?
I got into Heroes by watching Blizconn finals after watching some starcraft it looked cool enough for me to try it, Seeing the game played well helped me see how it could be fun. Now there are fewer options to do this.
Clearly Business and Economics were not taught at your school. Word of Mouth is a bad means to gain exposure unless you have some sort of active stealth campaign. I don’t see Blizzard spending anything on advertising this game.
I played hots once, then I ate a sandwitch. Then I realized it had mustard on it so I swore at my wife for the direction the sandwiches were going in my house.
So for some reason here is a story about my experince with hots. So I am done and remember always say yes to mayo.
Barely anyone outside of Blizzard games even know what HoTS is which doesn’t do it any favors lol. I do remember the Starcraft stream being hosted into the HoTS one on a few occassions though like you said to try and at least reach out to more in the blizzard community. They stopped doing the cross promotions too for some reason, I know a few people that started playing just from those.
In my mind, 2.0 was the tipping point of no recovery. Loot boxes, and the currency that you had to pay money for brought into the game something I absolutely despise about games these days."
LITERALLY every non-mastery skin costed money before 2.0, in fact, if i recall
correctly, 2.0 gave us access to every single skin made before 2.0 for shards (which are free and easy to get)
Activision’s influence here is all too noticeable, and all too damning
ok no, like i just said 2.0 made the game cheaper in all ways, there are currently a flat 0 items that can not be obtained without spending money, even gem only item can be obtained for free.
players and realized it was more so on the developers for their match maker to turn into such a giant turd sandwich.
don’t play qm. nuff said.
Even more time passed before I realized the game just wasn’t what brought me into it.
So, I stopped playing early to mid of last year.
pretty fair point and very valid, no reason to play a game you hate, see ya and good luck
You know “vote with your walled”? Thats exactly what they did. Its their full right to do so, and if you disagree with a company, its generaly the best thing to do.
Yes, it might be painful to quit a game you love. But sometimes you just have to.
A player’s understanding of the game is only valid up to the point they ended playing. After that, they are no longer experiencing the game themselves, along with the changes that have been made to it. Which would render their previous knowledge useless.
And what would one without any knowledge, but speak like they’re the most important person and all knowing about a game, be considered, if not a troll?