Every hero is unique and interesting

>Every hero is unique and interesting
>13 maps that are all different
>Amazing art, animations, sounds, design
>Passionate small dev team headed by big old Blizzard names like Samwise Didier, Glenn Stafford,
Jason Hayes and others
>No boring dated mechanics like last hitting, hard lane matchups and assignments, etc
>Plenty of depth despite not having items
>Huge amount of nostalgia and fanservice for current and past Blizzard names everyone grew up with
>Constant stream of content with new heroes, reworks, map updates, events, etc
>Best f2p loot chest system on the market
>Easy to pick up, hard to master
>Tons of replayability
>Infinite lifespan due to Blizzard support
>No one wants to play it over League of Legends
How can everything go so right yet still fail to draw in new players?
Will it ever rise to greatness or has the MOBA ship already set sail?

(You)

Overwatch heroes are all ez mode cancer that simultaneously attract dweebs

Since I know you're a Blizzard shill, can I ask you why Sylvanas's HOTS model is hot while BfA Cinematic Sylvanas is so goddamn uggo?

>i'm bad at the game

You're welcome

Tracer, Hanzo, and Genji have all been getting BTFO in tourney this week, it's probably just a L2P issue. Perhaps a reason why people don't want to play this game is because A) Most people are retarded and B) you can't hide your retardation behind farm and carries like you can in other games. If you suck you lose and people hate losing.

I wish I wasn't so god awful with Alarak. I love that man.

Hots is a retirement game for the old devs so they can get away with maximum sex appeal. Shame reason Nova has a better face then from SC2 and why art work for one of the new maps makes a big thing of her legs.

>Didn't get Metzen
Glad we dodged that bullet

I wonder if the overmind twist was his idea of if he was the one to back track on that after everyone complained about it.

Let it go Blizzard.
Even by assfaggots standards this game blows

By all standards that aren't "how come I lose" it's actually good though

>make all the marketing and appeal of the game that it's casual and easy for wowbabs
>it's actually not
>turn away "hardcore" players because it's lacks traditional depth, turn away "casuals" because they just fucking lose all the time in QM fiesta and it makes them quit
Makes ya think

post the tyrande sfm

I don't have that I just have mommy pics

>constantly shill this shitty game on Sup Forums
>no one wants to play it anyway
maybe your higher ups should put more money into making a good game instead of advertising a terrible one

everything about heroes of the storm is "too little too late"
that's the number one reason why the game "failed" in relation to blizzard's other properties

all the overpowered overwatch cancer heroes aren't doing it any favors either

No you fucking retard. I'm sure there's a small % of people who get fucking mad at losing but most people don't, people get mad when they feel their time has been wasted which is why these games are cancer

Didn't nessicarily mean get mad, getting discouraged or fed up can be achieved without getting mad. Also, video games are purely for wasting time. Not sure how that's relevant when out of all the assfaggot games this one wastes the least amount of your time.

>Matchmaking still a joke
>Overwatch heroes all some broken combo of move while attacking and press button to be invincible to cross-promote
>Sub shovelware made in India levels of game balance
>Insistence on making an esport game, rather than a fun experience
Until all of the above is fixed, it will be absolute dead trash.

I want to like this game because the character art/voices are so good and true to the characters, and the delicious thicc females but the gameplay just doesn't stick with me

QM teaches people to suck
No one knows what balance or good matchmaking is because everyone fucking sucks
Until QM is gone, the game remains kill

Its late to the party. Simple as that. Its about as popular as "the third moba" can get. But its already been marked for death so theres no point discussing what could have been

>Have to play with 9 other retards

I have played all the famous MOBA in the market to a minimum of 300 hours( this was paragon I have 1000+ hours in the others.) HOTS is the most boring of all. The only good thing about it is that QM are short. HOST is the weird boring kid in the MOBA family. Some times is fun but you only talk to him when the others brothers are not in home

>Every hero is unique and interesting
lmao at the very start
>13 maps that are all different
slightly
>Amazing art, animations, sounds, design
yea lots of good animations and variations, impressed desu
>Passionate small dev team headed by big old Blizzard names like Samwise Didier, Glenn Stafford
tru
>No boring dated mechanics like last hitting, hard lane matchups and assignments, etc
found the shitter
>Plenty of depth despite not having items
sure, but much, MUCH less than other games
>Huge amount of nostalgia and fanservice for current and past Blizzard names everyone grew up with
yep, love it
>Constant stream of content with new heroes, reworks, map updates, events, etc
reworks are joke, post hots "reworks" in any dota forum and you will be laughed at
> Best f2p loot chest system on the market
idd
>Tons of replayability
depends what you mean tons, much less than any other games
> No one wants to play it over League of Legends
dumbing down an already dumbed down game and offering almost nothing too different in return will get you nowhere
they should've went with gameplay that is more between dota and lol instead of leaning much to the lol's side
instead of getting their own warcraft 3 fanbase, they opted to get shitty lol one and failed

> Will it ever rise to greatness or has the MOBA ship already set sail?
No, its too shallow.

>play unranked
>people still make the most retarded fucking picks
>end up with a QM tier comp anyway

Unironically because Sam, who was art director of warcraft for the longest time, is wasting his talents on HotS.

However good news is that the Wow pvp designer, celestion or whatever, is now working on Hots, so wow is free of his mental retardation

>boring
I wouldn't call it boring, it's chaotic as fuck. Some heroes are boring and others are like doing a line of coke. The main turn off for me is being put onto BHB with a composition with zero PVE or onto Braxis with TLV just ruins the fun. I agree that QM is the root of all evil.

>celestion or whatever, is now working on Hots
No wonder the latest patches have been utter trash

My turn off is that with all the others MOBA there's a lot of heroes I like to play or to try time to time, in heroes is like " sigh* let's see what heroe I play now, who I'm not 99% tired..". The only one that I enjoy is Nova because she has 3 different playstyles

Celestion works on Hearthstone

He's on the Hearthstone team now, not the HotS team.

Blizzard finally gave him a job he has the tools to do.

i lef LoL for this and I'm not coming back.
there is way less toxic people here

thats because you are playing quick match, get a chromosome and go for ranked/unranked where everyone is more serious

> pic related is my nigga

>autolocks your HL game

...

hard to be toxic when only like 30 people play

I Like this game, but they are slowing Hero releases to like 6-7 weeks up from 3-4 weeks. Dead gaem :(

You forgot
>Shittiest netcode of any moba

hanzo wins automatically and theres nothing you can do back to him

There was an interview yesterday with one of the HGC top dogs and he said that it's just a trial run. If it doesn't work out or people don't like the new content schedule they are prepared to switch back. They are trying to take hero updates and balance more seriously for competitive and casual play so they want to try this run out for a bit to see how it works.
New schedule is
>PTR week
>Reworks and skins
>Event and hero week
>PTR
>Hero week
>PTR
>Battleground
>PTR
>Reworks and skins
>PTR

Should be more constant shit but we will see

None of this changes the fact that it's a moba. It has more in common with faceshit games than conventional video games.

>>No one wants to play it
because it's boring

Because it's too fucking casual. Doing well doesn't feel rewarding because one guy doing decently doesn't account for the literal anchors around your legs that feed the enemy team a two level advantage.

I recognize the effort that the developers put into the game and a lot of the actual characters being genuinely fucking unique (Abathur is my fucking boy) but Blizzard's philosophy of babying retards and making sure they don't think anything is their fault is an absolute death knell for a game of this genre. If you took this development team and let them actually breathe, or if you constantly play with people you know, you can get something out of this.

Also, Haunted Mines should have never slithered out of the fucking abortion bucket. Horrid fucking map.

There is talk about retiring shit maps. BHB is getting redone (lol) and Haunted Mines might disappear to custom games only.

>>Insistence on making an esport game, rather than a fun experience
This is the worst part by far.

HOTS seemed like it might be a fun CASUAL moba when it first launched, that could let you have stupidly balanced heroes like abathur that wouldn't fit into more serious mobas.
But then blizzard decided it needed to inject some esports cancer into it and stopped making cool heroes in favour of injecting more of the same generic shit you see in every other moba except worse than you see it in those.

Gets stale pretty fast.
Also you are tied to 4 retards even harder than other mobas.

it's been steadily building it's player base and will continue to do so. nothing is gonna kill lol or dota except themselves but they seem to be doing their best

MOBAs are shallow, with 4-6ish buttons, top-down gameplay, etc.

as much as I want a new hero all the goddamn time I do think it's better for these games to take their time with this stuff. I'd hate for it to wind up like league where some characters are so dated you will get straight up reported for playing them

>artanis gets to do assassin damage despite being a tank

I have liked playing casual quick match in the past, but the match making has really grated on me. It's not fun to be locked into a twenty minute stomp fest where the other team has a butcher and no one on my team has any CC abilities to counter him

he doesn't do tank things though, all he does is right click and has the swap thing

>it's been steadily building it's player base and will continue to do so
Citation needed
I see the same shitlords almost every game I queue for. Even when queues are 5-10m apart.

You forgot the most important thing.

>Runs like ass.

They really needed to change engines, now it's too late.

The frame rate is also influenced by your latency which is really questionable.

It came in so, so late. They should've bought out IceFrog before Valve.

defend this

I don't believe that shit for a second

it doesn't run well on toasters so it is doomed to fail

it runs fine on toasters, the thing it cannot deal with is shitty connection. See

>Hots is a retirement game for the old devs so they can get away with maximum sex appeal. Shame reason Nova has a better face then from SC2 and why art work for one of the new maps makes a big thing of her legs.

>No one wants to play it over League of Legends
I DO!!! ME!!! I DO!!!

you are alone, firend

>>Easy to pick up, hard to master
you master every character within 5 minutes of playing it for the first time

>>Tons of replayability
every match being the same "get ultimates and then make a giant cum shot by using 5 at the same time" is not replayability

t. shitter

>take away the fundamental aspects of the genre like last hitting, gold and item management

Turns out you get something incredibly boring lmao

I only play solo vs AI mode. I like the game but I'm afraid to play with other people and do badly.

Better than league sure, but league players won't leave that game.
Not better than other games.