Why I think Heroes of the Storm should flop

[Chazore]

Ok I'll bite


Heroes of the Storm in all honesty is the first moba that's ever appealed to me, simply because for one it's using it's own brand of already exisiting characters I already know about so getting to know their iconic attacks/skills isn't so hard for me like it would be for something like LoL or Dota, for another they don't put any focus on items like Dota/LoL do, they even give you multiple maps while LoL sticks with one (to which every strat is basically laid down for all of time) and Dota is pretty much the same.

To me HotS feels a lot easier to get into and doesn't exactly complicate things in the way LoL and Dota have before, that is to say HotS hasn't changed a lot either but to me it just feels much easier to just jump right in and play straight away, practice a build or two and just getting on with it while sticking with the team and pining the mini map for assistance which usually works quite well when paired with random players and friends alike.

The multiple maps more or less have different minions and mobs, sometimes even different mechanics but the goals are still the same, the blackheart's bay feels a lot like the recent Sky Temple with the exception of the mechanics with one having to gather coins and the other having to hold down a spot but in the end both are designed to attack gates/forts and thus feel the same with slight deviations within the maps design, not that I have a problem with that, I actually like all the maps but prefer having more maps than simply being stuck on the same map all the time.

I don't feel that HotS is a blatant cash grab ebcause really it;s not grabbing them tonnes of cash, you can earn most of it just playing the heroes, leveling them up and your profile, maybe if you wanted to level and gain gold faster then you could maybe buy yourself a stim pack but even then they aren't crippling in price.

If I had a choice I;d rather Blizz focus on making a new Warcraft RTS but I realise they won't because that would take away their own fanbase on the likes of Starcraft and more so with HotS, it happened more or less when they brought out SCII and now the SCII hype has died down and now it's not the big E-sport focus like it was 3-4 years ago (CSGO has more or less taken the spotlight along with other games).

I too played in Alpha and I've been plaing it on and off since, I can't say I'm disappointed, it's a decent game for me and my first proper entry into the moba genre and I feel a lot more comfortable with the characters and maps than I ever will with Dota/LoL, I know quite a few LoL characters and even like their intro vids and the like but they just don't click well enough like Blizz characters do.

In the end I think HotS will do fine for what it is, it won't generate them shit tonnes of cash like Acti think it will but it won't be outright terrible either, I wouldn't want it to flop though, seems a tad bit harsh to desire that on people like me who simply enjoy the game for what it is.