It's been 7 months since Hogger was released

[Krak-11516]

@Paradox-1653

Don’t make excuses for Actiblizz please. Smite just had its 3rd new character

Does smite have a skeleton crew and run on the same engine as HOTS? You are comparing apples and oranges.

Also the HOTS team does not represent all of Blizzard. So do not treat them poorly because you have a bias towards Blizzard.

[QueenBWthe3-2999]

@Paradox-1653

Smite just had its 3rd new character for the year added a couple weeks ago, and has also had numerous balance patches, bug fixes, and several events with tons of skins and content added, as well as a redesign of their joust map. They even had new avatars added for minor things like Father’s Day.

Meanwhile Blizz had a Xmas “event” that lasted almost 'till freaking Summer, and when asked about wtf is the hold up with new content, eventually responded with “DurRr of coUrsE We sTiLL wOrK on HoTS, wHaT eVer GAVe u tHe ideA we Didn’T??”

Tell me how many devs also work with Smite compared to Hots team. They properly have a much bigger team compared to Hots dev team. Something that also helps a lot with releasing new content.

You cant really come with excuses that Smite release more content then Hots does right nw when you dont even know how many works for that game imao.

Thats like telling one person to release same amount of content as 20 people can do combined.

@Paradox-1653

yet somehow still has a cult-like fanbase that rushes to defend them at every opportunity.

Becasue those so called cult Blizzard Fanboys hope Blizzard in the end comes back again to its former glory where the company cared for its customers. Not like now. But can you blame them ?

You would properly come to a gaming company defends too if you had a game you really liked to the deeps of your heart that suddenly became like Hots is now. Or would you just leave it like to die like all bandwaggon fans does. Real fans of a game stick to it to the end.

Bandwaggon fans will leave it to rot and find a new game to be bandwaggon fan of for as long it last.

[Paradox-1653]

@Krak-11516

Does smite have a skeleton crew and run on the same engine as HOTS? You are comparing apples and oranges.

Are you implying the engine has anything to do with development cadence?

@Krak-11516

Also the HOTS team does not represent all of Blizzard. So do not treat them poorly because you have a bias towards Blizzard.

I don’t have a bias, I’m just being realistic.

@QueenBWthe3-2999

Becasue those so called cult Blizzard Fanboys hope Blizzard in the end comes back again to its former glory where the company cared for its customers.

This will unfortunately never happen and anyone that thinks it will is going way beyond hope and into serious delusion.

@QueenBWthe3-2999

You would properly come to a gaming company defends too if you had a game you really liked to the deeps of your heart that suddenly became like Hots is now. Or would you just leave it like to die like all bandwaggon fans does. Real fans of a game stick to it to the end.

I’ve played Blizzard games since they were called Silicon & Synapse and released RPM Racing for the SNES. I played this game since the final weeks of beta. I spent a LOT of real money supporting this game before HotS 2.0, always had an active stimpack, bought all the legendaries ($15 each at the time), etc. Implying I’m a “bandwagoner” or not a “real fan” is pretty hilarious.

I’d love for this game and this company as a whole to return to their former glory, but it’s never going to happen. The Blizzard I grew up with is dead, all that’s left is a bloody husk that Activision will continue to squeeze every last drop out of until it finally dries up and they find a new studio to cannibalize. Sometimes you need to take a step back and be realistic about a situation, which unfortunately includes abandoning a game you once loved that has been left to rot.

Forgive me if I find the notion of being “hopelessly hopeful” in the face of grim reality aggravating.

[Fawxkitteh-1929]

@OzymondiasKN-1893

Negative. They’ll start removing heroes one by one

They already have. Starting with Stukov.

@Landmine-11612

Do you really expect them to keep expanding the roster to infinity?

No, but they did set certain expectations with certain interesting heroes like Abathur, Cho’Gall, and Murky, while leaving out certain super iconic characters in favor of far less prominent ones.
I do think people forget though, progress in Heroes doesn’t just involve generic items that all heroes have access to, or just an increase in damage on the one skill you level up. Talents are more interesting and involved than that, and have to be tailor made for each new hero, which can result in them feeling more unique from each other. Though sometimes they fail to make characters stand out enough and they fall to the wayside and don’t see much play.

[Krak-11516]

@Paradox-1653

Are you implying the engine has anything to do with development cadence?

Why you think Rein got scrapped? Engine complications.

Also you are comparing two games with two completely different engines. Which means different ways to develop it.

@Paradox-1653

I don’t have a bias, I’m just being realistic.

Even though your statement is anything but realistic.

You seem to think the HOTS dev team is the same as all of Blizzard. Hell you even said to stop “defending” Blizzard. Like as if I was talking about the company as a whole.

I am talking about the HOTS dev team and only the dev team. Not how Blizzard ruined Battle.net which what you seem to focus on instead.