Heroes of the Storm
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http://us.blizzard.com/en-us/games/heroes/
Or at least I think it's a DOTA game.
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Or at least I think it's a DOTA game.
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I heard they took some devs off of Titan to work on this. Hopefully they're taking it seriously. Its got all their franchises in one!
And Blizzard is way late, they might as well not even bother. They had the chance to essentially print money if they'd properly taken DoTA over in the War3 days, but they fucked that up and it's too late now. LoL and DoTA 2 have the market.
It's already associated with Blizzard. This was made by the creator of a very popular Starcraft 2 animated series. Blizzard gave him their blessing to continue using their IP in his 1 minute youtube shorts and I guess this is a nice tie in for the dedicated starcraft community - who are probably the most likely to start playing a Blizzard developed MOBA.
The animator has done several Youtube pieces of Starcraft fan animations, many of which are quite hilarious (and have millions of views).
They are using the animator's fanbase as an augmentation to their marketing. Cheap and efficient!
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Tons of info from BlizzCon this weekend. I'm interested in seeing more.
The look of Diablo is very cool
Blizzard making a DOTA with all of their popular characters isn't mainstream?
But it's very mainstream too.
Mainstream would be to "copy" the characters form other franchises like dota 2 and lol do. Blizzard is 100% original and genuine, give or take.
And yes, it's cool they decided to go with the D2 version of Diablo, because we all know D2 was the best.
Is it F2P?
If not, i'll pass/
The art style is nice and cohesive, painterly and vivid like WOW, but I just don't like some of the skins, at least the joke skins.
They might allow people to make custom maps / game modes, though. I think that'd give them an advantage.
I also think if it is not F2P it will hurt them severely. MOBAs lend themselves to that payment method very well.
I'm pretty sure one of the skins is going to be the D3 Diablo as they use her in the cinematic. It'd be pretty weird if they didn't, but I gotta say I love the Murkablo skin.
From what I saw from the various panels and Q&A entry is going to be free. It looks like they're going to charge for skins/alternate mounts. I think they're going the LoL route for pricing as it sounds like characters can be earned though playing or bought outright. They said in one interview that it is still up in the air but that is the vibe I got.
I think too many people underestimate the "casual market." To me, a casual gamer is anyone that does not invest 3-4+ hours a day into a game.
If they are able to bring in design elements that attract the larger masses, I would call that a win.
I highly doubt they will even bother competing in the same space as DOTA 2 or LoL. It won't be a super crazy extreme hardcore game IMHO.
Won't surprise me to see a very tutorialized style Single Player with heavy ability-gating. Interesting single player story etc.
Very much looking forward to it. Some AMAZING talent on that team.
They're not - it's a lot more casual; much like Hearthstone is to Magic: the Gathering.
It's still another MOBA to me though, so I'm not yet keen on it. I'm also assuming it's free to play, which could influence my decision to in future.
It is. They rotate six free characters per week. You earn gold by doing quests in game, which you can use to unlock other characters or you can buy them outright with cash.