You're not going to compete with Lol, stop

[Monlyth-1121]

@Fawxkitteh-1929

The problem with that is lane freezing existed before the XP globes, so it’s not really much different.
Additionally there are responses to lane freezing in this game, much more than in League of Legends.

Lane freezing is now much more effective than it was previously, because it forces your opponent to go out much further than they previously needed to. Before this change, you could collect XP from around the range of a standard ranged autoattack, or further away if you had long-ranged waveclear like Flamestrike. You’d be more susceptible to ganks, but not forced to constantly trade health for XP in a 1v1 lane, unless the other laner puts themselves way out of position.

@Fawxkitteh-1929

Because people are TERRIBLE at this game.
They’ve always been terrible.
I frequently see games where an ally has 8+ deaths, and they blame draft or whatever. But they just lack the ability to watch the minimap, to make good judgement calls, and many of them don’t belong in the rank that they’re in. And THAT is why there are complaints about the XP globes, people don’t belong where they are and some of them are feeling it.

Bold claim. Care to prove it? Because as far as I can tell, people’s overall skill level hasn’t changed, nor has the game’s overall difficulty. If anything, the game is easier to play than ever; just pick bruisers and lane bullies every game, get a couple of easy early kills, and watch the wins roll in.

And when everyone starts playing bruisers and lane bullies every game, the difficulty will be exactly the same as before, except with more snowballs, a less diverse meta, and less fun.

@Fawxkitteh-1929

Yeah but that doesn’t matter because this game has BS comeback mechanics, and if a team wants to throw late game by losing 2 fights in the last 2 out of 22 minutes, they’ll lose the game.

So every stage of the game is important, and the winning team needs to actually outplay the losing team if they want to seal their victory? That sounds like a good thing to me. We should be encouraging that, not tearing it down with crap like XP globes.

In the words of HotS’ own developers:

@BCrawford-21494

Overall, the most important thing to take away from all of this, is that even when losing, the game should still feel close. You can still compete, fight the enemy team, and not be at too great of a statistical disadvantage. If the enemy team still beats you, it’s because they’re actually the better team, and not because early game mistakes lead to unsurmountable level advantages that don’t feel fun to play against.