

Thanks to the success of Warcraft over time, any title launched by this Californian studio comes along with plenty of expectations. Will Valve change something? Let's see.Blizzard Entertainment has become the video game development company par excellence in terms of online video games. Simple rule of the evolution is that you have to implement changes if you want to stay alive. The match duration and the distance heroes have to travel should be reduced dramatically. What can be the right answer for Valve? My thinking is that the right answer are smaller maps. Last two years, but can easily beat Valve's DOTA2. It won't beat LoL, that made 1 billion USD in each of the Right now there are more than 9 million subscribers and analysts predict that game will generate 5-10 million USD each month. You can afford a match or two each day.īlizzard's MOBA will easily steal players from DOTA2 and LoL. I am also fan of DOTA2 and will miss this game but. There is maybe some balance in competitive HotS but in pub games expensive heroes are better.Įveryone wants to be a Rambo.

Some heroes are better and you have to buy that better ones. You will launch the game just to get back to the realms of Heroes of the Storm.

It should be safe to choose it for your esports career. In other words - the game will be updated regularly. Why it's good? Becuase it makes the game profitable and publisher will have enough interest to support it further. Then, you have to purchase a stimpack to level up faster and get into a Hero League (only from 30 lvl). Playing on different maps makes the game more exciting. HotS is not afraid of having more than one map. The goal is to get Mercenaries, hunt enemy Heroes and gather treasures. There is no dumb farming - you don't have just to kill creeps. Heroes are travelling faster, you don't lose time going from A to B.ģ. Maps are not huge and action starts immediately.Ģ. Non-stop action - it's not all about creeps anymoreġ. In DOTA2 an average match length, including time for finding opponents and choosing heroes, is about 50-60 minutes.įor people who work and/or study hard that is a relief. I really miss short and adrenaline matches we had in Quake and Starcraft/Wacraft. In this article I will try my best to be short and will highlight why HoTS can be a strong competitor for LoL and DOTA2. MOBA Heroes of the Storm will be a great game. But now I have to admit: Blizzard did another Was I sceptical about Heroes of the Storm? Yes, and it took me quite a long time to download it and test-run.
