How to increase the player base

That’s pretty disappointing to see them dump down the whole ad thing on a major update, should have kept it going.

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There is not only positive advertising for something and yes, they never really existed for Hots.
I’m talking about the negative advertising about Hots but I will not continue the conversation because you know exactly what I mean :wink:

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Just make a good game :slight_smile:

I give hots a 6.5 / 10

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Wanna work off of this point

-Better tutorials
-Better filters/gates for modes to ensure some baseline level of skill
-Social functions so players can optimize their gaming experience if desired

While that’d be really great, it’s unfeasible for a couple reasons.
heroes take something like 9 months to make, so unless they decide to hurt the live-game by withholding heroes, this can’t happen. The heroes team also isn’t going to be increased dramatically either given the shuffling of devs off the team and onto other projects.

releasing a ton of heroes at once would probably screw up balance in a big way too.

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The last ad i’ve seen was for 2.0.
They probably thought 2.0 would be so good they won’t need more ads.

How increas player base?!..with this way…:

No new player is going to grind heroes in this game. Just make everything free with skins costing shards and gems. Let everyone play every hero from the get go.

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you would need such a large marketing campaign to show again ANOTHER revamped HOTS that it probably isn’t worth it for Blizz.

I am pretty sure that they advertising the game enough. What do you think Heroes of the Dorm for? Charity?

In my country gaming forum, they knew about HoTS existence yet none of them stick to the game long enough? Do you know what is the reason? Here is the hint: Not because they can’t see the HoTS ad at youtube channel or something. Majority of them just don’t like HoTS core gameplay and exp sharing.

Good for them, what about the rest of the countries.

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3.0 would be nice but

blizzard has already invested tens of millions into HGC / Marketing. The roi was subpar.
I don’t think the blizz executives trust the hots dev team to produce a quality underlying product.

You really think releasing a 3.0 version of this game would really boost its popularity and playerbase?

I don’t think so.

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What they need is a good director and a good head of design.

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What they got was dabiri and his team zzzZZ

have resource value build up your keeps/minions/characters. make them more snowbally. have characters to where you can feel the impact you are making. make it more challenging. make merc camps more threatening. make taking keeps harder. make objectives more impact full. or have objectives give you buffs or rebuild broken keeps. give us more choices. the current game is basic not enough build paths not enough challenges.

You could give that rating to the beginning of 2.0
I don’t think any serious player, playing this game for at least 2 years would give more than 2-3 / 10
There is potential, but not capitalized. It’s like using fuel for driving downhill where you just had to roll down(with the help of the players feedback). Wrong decisions made by wrong people, eventually or most likely, much room for your own interpretation of how the game turned in the last 2 years.

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i think i said something about this before though. HotS had a commercial at one time actually. it was waaaay back at release (didnt see it), but it existed. no advertising since then though.

which if you think about that its not surprising at all.

the last TV commercial they made for HotS was back at release. i know not long ago i remember seeing the LoL commercials. i even commented here about it saying how LoL really showed how much they wanted ppl to join them vs HotS. advertising right? havent seen any for HotS.

any kind of advertising in browsers? automatically deleted. i use uBlock Origin to block ads. i dont want to deal with a bunch of ads when im browsing. never mind that some sites ‘may’ have their ads hacked and such which poses various security risks. so i block all that. if blizz thinks advertising in this method is good…well, sorry. adblock and ublock have been around a very long time. there are a lot of ppl using them.

its just something to think about. i mean i have a DVR too so i can skip TV commercials :wink: , but ppl (speaking from my experience here) are far more likely to see the TV commercial than an a browser ad because the ones on the computer are completely gone. the ones on the tv are still there.

I am speaking for a part of the SEA region.

What do you mean the rest of the countries? Do you operate under the assumption that players from other countries don’t know what is HoTS due to the lack of advertising reason that you sincerely believed?

No, ads in browsers are not gone. The people using adblock are in a minority. Most of them don’t even know such tech exists.

By ads i mean proper ads, explaining how game works, adverising articles etc, not flash adware injected by google ads/facebook ads. Prople automatically run away from these products

I’d say go back to thr things which made the game popular in the first place. And that is the difference from other mobas…

Like ammo, specialists and other things…

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