Just wow they flipped off the entire HOTS community.

Feels bad for entire teams like Team Liquid who fielded a full roster, and team in support of Blizzard esports just for it to be canceled. Blizzard's track record with esports is truly something else, with only Overwatch as their shining star.

Activision was always the more influential of the two branches even before the merger with Vivendi ... 

That sucks. HOTS was a great Moba. I enjoyed that better than LoL and DOTA2.

People need to stop with this Activision vs Blizzard crap. They're the same, deal with it. Just because Blizzard makes generally pretty good games doesn't mean that they're not scumbag corporate assholes.

HOTS never had chance against League of Legends and Dota 2 to begin with.

This was expected by the amount of viewers on twitch for the past year for the game
Poor Grubby

That honestly sucks ass.

Heroes of the Storm was the only Moba out there that I actually loved playing, that I could actually understand and that actually followed a play style I've been rolling with the past 5 years.

Blizz just seems to not be giving a fuck about the console/PC communities with the shitty move to mobile gaming (with them moving console/PC/HotS staff over to mobile development).

I've noticed that Blizz and other companies seem to just drop something if it doesn't become a one hit esports wonder or doesn't make a few billions. Whatever happened to sticking through and working your hardest?.

The only real chance Blizz have at the e-sport scene now is focusing on Overwatch. Right now balancing in OW is a mess and there is a lot of matchmaking improvements that still need to be done.

That's bad news for all the HotS fans, I feel sorry for them, I do understand Blizzards decision though. Blizzard put a lot of money into HotS esport, they not only sponsored all the events they also directly sponsored the teams and players, too much money for the amount of intrest HGC created for the game. Another point is that HotS failed to create a strong Brand, a possible successor would have a very hard time on the market especially now that the big MOBA hype is over.

At some point this will happen to every big esport title and than comes the big test, will it be able to sustain a big esport scene without official support? Only a few legacy titles managed to do that and i doubt HotS will be one of them

Blizzard supported HotS esport for over 3 years, they still support SC2 esport, over 8 years after it initialy released. Blizzard really isn't a company who is fast at droping its esport ambitions.

Back in the "good old days" devs didn't support at all, CS 1.6, SC:BW and Quake esport was all grass-roots or third party.