Blizzard makes some really good games, and with the release of Overwatch 2 going on steam to boost player numbers ((Aside of getting review bombed)) worked on boosting player numbers.
I’m not sure any Developers can read this, but what’s the deal? Put Heroes of the Storm on Steam to get players again. Age of Empires did it, so WHY NOT HOTS?
That’s true the bad reviews were well deserved, but yeah I’d say I see ALOT of friends playing overwatch on steam. So I’d say the plan did work on bringing more players in. I’m Confused why HOTS hasn’t been put on steam yet. Or any other free to play games like Starcraft.
Steam is like is, but they do not keep craps like blizard does
It would get bombed with negativ reviews from former players.
I don’t think it will, I’d say HOTS was better than the MOBA Smite, in the long run. THe issue people probably people hate with HOTS is that Blizzard just gave up, and refuses to put it on steam.
It might not be a trivial thing to bring the games to steam, and these games have already been dropped once for not being profitable enough to warrent any new content development.
So why spend resources on games that are only being kept alive as to avoid the backlash that killing them completely would bring?
While I and many others I’m sure would love to have these games avalible to a larger audience, I just don’t think Acti-Blizz sees it the same way.
Review bombing is the phenomena when something gets a lot of negative reviews, what you described is the causation of it.
Profitability wasn’t a main factor on why they stopped supporting HotS.
Dropping HotS completely would have pretty much no effect for them. All the players that are on their main cash cows wouldn’t go anywhere, and people on this game aren’t exactly bringing them tons of money. What backlash could there possibly be, and how would it be less costly than keeping the servers up and doing updates forever?
I mean, if HotS was massively profitable they wouldn’t have dropped it.
So when I say that HotS isn’t “profitable enough” I mean just that, I wasn’t suggesting that it was in the red or anything like that.
Plenty of gaming outlets would run articles if the game was straight up deleted, this would in turn deter people from spending money in their other games, as those “investments” now seem all that much more likely to disappear into thin air.
Not that anything effectively have changed, it would just serve as a reminder that digital goods aren’t a forever thing.
Community goodwill is a thing, I couldn’t say how highly Acti-Blizz rates it, but clearly higher than the server costs for now at least.
There’s speculation on either side. But I can’t see that they’d keep HotS going for fear of a backlash. We’ve seen plenty of servers go down before for many games.
This game isn’t exactly on anyone’s radar, so I can’t see that it being definitly closed would be relevant news for any gaming site. Most of them probably think it’s already gone.
I can’t see Blizzard losing any money out of closing down this game. Just like I don’t think they kept the SC2 servers going out of fear. The game wasn’t even liked that much. (SC2)
HotS getting review-bombed would require people to have an opinion about HotS, which most people don’t. This game doesn’t have a hatedom so much as a mass indifferencedom.
this is like the best name for an emotion, or lack of one
but I think we can do better
the infinite Apatheticism
That and, ‘hatedoms’ don’t spawn out of thin air. But it’s easier to pretend it’s some conspiracy theory against activision or hots, than to think valid criticism exists…
Totally related to the topic: are you familiar with the ‘indie’ studio by ex-blizz employees that sabotaged themselves and tricked the kickstarters about a dozen times, then blamed the community for ‘review bombing’? Who could have guessed people won’t just positively review what they don’t like…
Fact of the matter is…hots has nothing to lose in terms of playerbase from going to steam. They could even sell packages on-steam, 5$ first year of hots skins, 5$ 2nd year (maybe without the legendaries, but who cares), hoping to make some money. If no people join, they might have their reasons, which might be important to listen to if anyone wanted to revive hots ever.
'>Tell people you close the game they bought and make a new one that’s full of creative stuff, like a lot of PVE content.
'>Walk back on the promise, offer a watered-down OW1 (most people hated the transition from 6v6 to 5v5) that throws the whole balance off the rails, due to 1 tank instead of 2, like snipers being more opressive (which most non-sniper players hate).
'> “Negative reviews? Must be review bombing”
The curse of the modern content creator, rejecting criticism as discrimination, hatred and trolling.
You can’t hate something if you don’t know it exists.
That’s pretty much what I think. God for bid putting their games up on steam where A HUGE CULTURE of PC gamers dwell. I know a lot of people that won’t play any games unless it’s on Steam. Same for buying em, HECK. Blizzard could even resell a lot of these old games on Steam, and people will STILL pay full price. Kingdom Hearts did it and tat game is ALSO 20 years old.
It’s just not practical for Blizz to do this as it would need to be integrated into Steam’s ecosystem, updating older codebase which would need to talk with Battlenet, and justifying the investment for a game in “maintenance mode” just doesn’t make sense.
there will be 99% of votes that the game is pathetic. But in fact blizzard likes it when someone shows them that they are good for nothing
Kingdom Hearts was insanely popular and had a huge following with thirteen games in the series.
It’s kind of an outlier. (Not saying HotS couldn’t do well, but it was almost a certainty that KH would sell well with all that hype)
On STEAM lowest rate game is about20-30% positve comments - HOTs willby 0.5% - SO I guess STEAM will never want trash like this in library…
there are steam games with a 0% rating.
I feel like you’d be less of a ‘biggestloser’ if you’d stop going out of your way to be wrong.
https://steamdb.info/stats/gameratings/?all
steamdb would require someone to log in to see more than the initial top rated games, but it has sorting options so people don’t actually have to load ‘everything’ and then scroll to the end. Atm there’s 40 games with 0 positive ratings. Some of these aren’t just single votes either as games like https://store.steampowered.com/app/1180320/_War_of_the_Three_Kingdoms/
can have 65k reviews and only have 10% be positive.
There’s a whole host of stuff far worse than you imagine HotS to be still sitting on Steam. And some of them actually charge hundreds of dollars for someone to have the opportunity to see how bad the actually are 