With all the talk of Blizz pulling Devs out of this game and essentially going to maintenence mode, Imperius is gonna be the last new hero to be added and it will be a long while until a new hero and content gets added?
No, it will not be the last new entry. The Devs always have 4-6 Heroes in development at the same time (at different stages) so the whole 2019 is “covered”, but they’ll be released at a slower pace.
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No, lol.
People are exaggerating. Not that many of the staff have left the game. And they are currently recruiting staff.
Furthermore, they most likely have several heroes down the pipeline.
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Well I am still waiting for more Warcraft heroes that I care for:
Cairne Bloodhoof/Baine Bloodhoof as Tauren Chieften
Vol’jin/Rohkhan as Shadow Hunter.
Mannaroth as Pit Lord
Lady Vashjj as Naga Sea Witch
Gallywix as Alchemist
Deathwing because Alexstraza is too healer for my taste.
Kil’jaeden as the prime Burning Legion hero.
Velen as the Holy Priest I am assuming
Anduin as of now I have no idea how he will work.
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They not “left”, they are moved.
Also LMAO, they removed devs to spare money, sure they will recruit new ones XDDDDDD
Can you actually confirm that, or is it just speculations?
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Wow, I didn’t know they are recruiting. Where did you read that?
check the vid 
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Each hero takes about 6 months to 9 months to be worked on before releasing, considering the rate they get released, I think we will get some what decent rate of content before it (I hope not) slow down with the content release.
Open your eyes, or ask any blizz employee, or you ain’t even need to ask them, as there are tons of reports about their crying already, about how Activision wants to spare money and they dindu nuffin anyway…
Yeah, that’s the pr propaganda they spread since ages, and congratulation in eating it…
Have you personally asked any Blizzard employees?
Can you sight your sources please?
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ok
Dud you live in a cave? The gaming news was literately full of interviews about these things in the past month, lol…
…Did you read the front page post. They legit say developers are being pulled. It isnt some rumor thats being exaggerated.
Some time ago there was an information that usually the Hero team worked at 6 heroes at a time, meaning every internal version has like 5-6 more heroes than current release version
I guess same could be assumed at this point as well, that a good portion of 4-6 heroes “accumulated” in development but reasonable would be to assume that the team got in half ?, that means 2-3 extra than those released
So yeah, there are at least 4-6 heroes at this very particular moment that are tested/developed internally at HQ, but after that would be safe to assume things would (significantly) slow down
Which is a shame to say the least, all they needed is focus/fix the matchmaker… Doubt there weren’t enough people trying out the game, it’s just that there aren’t enough staying…
where did you read that new people are being recruited
I thought they said the devs who left HotS team were moved to other Blizzard projects?
I don’t see how having a person working on game A instead of game B saves money…
Maybe we’re not thinking about the same announcement…?
@OP: I guess the answer to the title question depends on what you consider “for a while”…
They said here Heroes of the Storm Content Update - December 21 that Imperious will be followed by “a string of cool events and hero reworks en route to the next hero release”, so it sounds to me like Imperius and whoever-is-next will be pretty much the same as the last few have been.
After that, though, the post I linked pretty much says “we’ll see”, so maybe the next one (after Imperius) will be the “last one for a hile”.
Shall I enlighten you?
If you pay 10dev to work on A game, and hire 10more to make B game, then you pay 20 dev monthly.
If you move 5 dev from A to B, and only hire 5more, then you only need to pay 15 dev monthly, saving 5dev worth of salary.