Just discovered this article on IGN, published on April 14th. (It won’t let me post the link. Just Google it. I found it by searching for Heroes of the Storm for the past 7 days.)
In summary, the author says that despite cutting the esports matches and reassigning a bunch of developers, HOTS continues to provide new content and provide a great experience.
No doubt, a bunch of people may disagree with his opinion, but I just wanted to share the link because it’s rare for HOTS to receive good press these days, especially from a high-profile source like IGN.
Perhaps we’ll get a bunch of people to try it out (or return) and stick around. One can hope.
New content and great experience is true but that’s a stretch. The game is in decline and can always use more players. More players=better matches as more players are spread across ranks. Matchmaking system won’t have to work so hard to group fairer matches.
Fun fact: literally all of HotS’ issues are due to a middling population. With more players, smurfs become less common and there are more players close to everyone’s skill level. The core gameplay of HotS is fantastic.
Poking around, I see HotS coming up in conversation a bit more often lately. It’s usually followed by “Isn’t that game dead?”, but that’s usually responded to with “No, not at all.” It really does seem to be going through a small resurgence. Hopefully it sticks.
The funniest part of that review was that the main conflictic of that game involves there is either or much land or much water. Clearly ING is part of team magma.
