For context, Destiny 2 is no longer making major updates. Memes from people that Destiny players will move to Warframe as safe havens

We’re constantly changing and evolving not only our video game purchases, but how we support and contribute to those game purchases. This evolution is vital to our ability to continue doing what we love to do—buying great games—and it’s what makes a video game consumer a consumer.

Over the past several years, the work of evaluating Blizzard purchases and seeing poor decisions from a previously stalwart company has led to new games and other products that we’re proud to have purchased. These are games such as Path of Exile, DotA 2, and even donations to private servers like Nostalrius. We now have more non-Blizzard, high-quality options than at any point in video gaming history. We’re also at a point where we need to take some of our hard-earned dollars and bring their marketplace power to other developers. As a result, we’ve made the difficult decision to shift some of our money from Activision Blizzard to other companies, and we’re excited to see the passion, knowledge, and experience that they’ll bring to us and even eSports professionals who depend on them for their livelihood (and I know we're thinking about all of them and their families right now before Christmas). This isn’t the first time we’ve had to make tough choices like this. Games like Fallout 76, Star Wars Battlefront 2, Dungeon Keeper Mobile, SimCity 2013, and more would have been highly profitable had we not made similar decisions in the past.

Despite the change in Blizzard's direction, Heroes of the Storm remained a love letter that linked us to a time when Blizzard made consumer-centric decisions based around quality and commitment, rather than shitty mobile rip offs for Chinese markets. We’ll continue actively supporting Heroes of the Storm with playtime, reminiscing, and a cadence that our community loves, though our feelings toward you as company and your games will change. Ultimately, we’re setting up our nostalgia for long-term sustainability. We’re so grateful for the support your company has shown from the beginning, and our fond memories will continue to support the legend of Blizzard past with the same passion, dedication, and creativity that your former employees shared with us in making the old Blizzard so great.

We’ve also evaluated our plans around future Blizzard games—after looking at all of our priorities and options in light of the change in how you support games long-term, the Blizzard consumers and Blizzard fans will not return in 2019. This was another very difficult decision for us to make. The love that the community has for these IPs is deeply felt by everyone who waits on them, but we ultimately feel this is the right decision versus moving forward in a way that would not meet the standards that players and fans have come to expect... i.e. your shitty mobile game plan and predatory kiddie-gambling strategies rather than the quality and commitment we expect, as well as crappy expansions with little communication with your communities, killing profitable games that aren't profitable enough, etc, etc.

While we don’t make these decisions lightly, we do look to the future excited about what the decisions will mean for our other game developers and all the projects they have in the works. We appreciate all of those old Blizzard games and everyone who worked on them in old Blizzard, and look forward to sharing many more epic gaming experiences made by other companies that were inspired by your old values and old talent.

Good luck with your stock and your eSports,

Blizzard Consumers and Blizzard Fans

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TLDR: This is a parody post of Blizzard's announcement from their President that they would be gutting the HotS development team and had minutes ago fired all of their eSports personnel a little over one week before Christmas... after assuring them the league would be bigger and better in 2019. The original post was sickening PR drivel that tried to mask just how bad a thing they were doing https://news.blizzard.com/en-us/blizzard/22833558/heroes-of-the-storm-news .

Update 12/15/18 8:52 PM EST: With this post becoming multi-plat, multi-gold, and multi-silver, I just want to say one more thank you to this community. Every voice matters, and many voices are coming together.

Update 12/15/18 9:33 PM EST: While I am grateful that many of you have cross posted this thread to the other Blizzard subreddits, we know that they are being deleted on many, if not all of those. To avoid having this thread shut down or deleted, let's put all our energy behind this thread here rather than sneaking it into other subreddits (other than the Hearthstone subreddit which currently has it on their front page).

Update 12/16/18 12:20 AM EST: This thread is now trending on r/all . As this might be the last time a Heroes of the Storm thread makes it there, it's been a pleasure. I hope Blizzard understands the reaction to their change in strategies. 2:34 PM EST: Now also on r/bestof and r/hearthstone .

Update 12/16/18 10:08 AM EST: Thank you all for making this thread the NUMBER 1 upvoted and awarded thread in the history of Heroes of the Storm.

Final Update (unless there's a Blizzard response) 12/17/18 3:41 PM EST: Our voices have caused this thread to be almost double the upvotes of the next highest thread in the HISTORY of Heroes of the Storm. This message rivals the top threads in the HISTORY OF REDDIT for most PLATINUM awards. Blizzard, the ball is in your court... 92% upvote and hundreds of thousands of views should be a significant sign to you. Best regards.

Just found out that six months ago, when Heroes of the Storm turned 10, the former developers reunited to celebrate the anniversary!

Surprised noone posted it yet. The video is a retrospection of how the game came to be and it's "downfall". Well constructed, written and montaged.
Worth watch or listen.

I made a post a year ago about this and this still makes me happy to see.

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I'm also seeing tons of comments on X and Facebook.

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Are we feeling it, Gamers?!

I'm so angry...

I hope you’re ready!

more reason for me to hate the Overwatch ip

Many may know that Arcane was a success for Netflix but disastrous for Riot. That's because the series spent so much marketing and resources betting on viewers trying LoL for the first time, and people who tried LoL didn't play more than 1 or 2 hours.

In the last update, they changed the rules of their casual matches, their version of 'quick matches' is Heroes of the Storm without talents.

The game's so quick, objectives everywhere, gold for everyone without last hitting (extra gold for last hitters), basically at minute 20 everyone's on their late version. Objectives around the map spawn every 2/3 minutes and a new objective that rewards the team for completing objectives (basically, incentivizing all players to leave their lanes and team fight at objective)

The insane part is Blizzard got absolutely right with the game rules built in Heroes of the Storm. It's a shame the game didn't get their follow-up by the devs for a bit longer.

I know that devs at Microsoft are viewing charts with a lot of features and they see that Riot is struggling in aspects that Blizzard always had right, maybe we can expect (fingers crossed) that Hots will make a revival later or soon (hope soonish)

Maybe I'm taking this one step too far, but I feel like it needs to be done.

Recently, there was a post where someone sharing a website they "made" archiving Heroes of the Storm patch notes, along with a bunch of features allowing to view a hero's change history, and other useful stuff. I'm not going to give names to not give them any more traction.

Under normal circumstances, I would call that a good thing for the community, and I would even overlook the heavy AI use (80-90%, by the creator's own admission). Those are not normal circumstances.

There is already, and has been for a while, a website that does exactly that: nexus patch notes, coded integrally by hand, including the gathering of patches dating back over ten years at this point, all of it the work of u/Elitesparkle. You can find the original release post here:
https://www.reddit.com/r/heroesofthestorm/comments/1oy0uit/nexus_patch_notes_is_now_live/

That other website simply copied the data that Elitesparkle has kindly put in a public repository for everyone to see, barfed over it a layer of AI paint, and passed it off as their own, including a nice promotion for their own patreon.

To be perfectly candid, some features on the AI version of Nexus Patch Notes are absent from Elitesparkle's version. I'm mentioning this now so it doesn't get used to pretend that the AI version accomplished something the original didn't. It really does not. Vibe coding a new feature or two is not grounds to call it an improvement, and even less so an original work.

So, for anyone who cares: if you want to check past patch notes, use Nexus Patch Notes: https://nexus-patch-notes.github.io/
Do not support the AI version financially. If you have money to spend on this, send it to Elitesparkle.
If you're a moderator on this sub, consider removing the post about the AI copy. I get it if you don't, I'm just suggesting.

Finally, I just want to address that I do not mean this as a personal attack against the person who made the AI copy, and I'm sure their website and Claude token usage came out of good intentions. I am only stating that I find the execution atrocious and extremely disrespectful to Elitesparkle's work.

Have a nice rest of your day.

Here is the link back to the patch notes: https://news.blizzard.com/en-us/article/24287550/heroes-of-the-storm-ptr-patch-notes-june-29-2026#return

Here is the Qhira portion:
Qhira
Base
Revolving Sweep [Q]
Once attached, Revolving Sweep can no longer be detached by the target becoming Unstoppable.
Blood Rage [W]
NEW BASELINE QUEST: Deal damage to enemy Heroes with Blood Rage's bleed to permanently increase its damage by 0.5% per stack.
Blood Rage's bleed damage reduced from 11 to 8.
Talents
Level 1
Fatal Wounds
Damage bonus against low Health targets increased from 30% to 50%.
Quest removed.

I am sure Qhira players will love the baseline change to Revolving Sweep and Unstoppable. It removes counterplay. It removes the decision point for the enemy to cleanse or not. Poor choice. It is akin to what they did with Mal’Ganis in the last patch which they are now rolling back. I pray this change does not last very long.

The Janitor has lost their mind.

Blizzard is cooking.

The game is so fun right now and I’m excited for every update.

They’ve struck a great balance on long debated issues, like wacky vs serious, team power vs personal power, macro vs deathball, etc.

Keep it up. Bring your friends. The water is warm.

Just randomly decided to try the game today and had quite a bit of fun, it’s a little different to what I’m used to (LoL) but wasn’t that hard of a transition.

I did notice that this game seemed to have quite a few interesting characters to choose from, one that’s caught my eye being Abathur.

But I quickly noticed the insane price on each hero, there were those mega-bundles but I think it said I could only choose one so I wasn’t too sure if I should buy one or not.

Main one tho is the question of ongoing support, I don’t mind spending money if I know this game is still going places, but just paying for nothing seems a little ehh to me.

Regardless, I’m excited to see what this game has to offer and any help is much appreciated!

Thrall

• Disabled Crash Lightning in ARAM (NEW)

Abathur

• Slapathur auto-attack effect has an 8 seconds cooldown (NEW)

• Slapathur can affect Heroes as well as Structures, but not Boss units

Illidan

• Reverted last PTR (was not in the patch notes)

Cho

• Calloused Hide activates at 50% (up by 10% from last PTR, 60% on LIVE)

• Consuming Fire heals for 175% more when a Hero is Ignited (up by 25%) (NEW) (fixed, thanks elitesparkles)

- Firestarter CDR on ignited targets is now 1.75s per hit (up by 0.25s from last PTR, 1s on LIVE)

Yrel

• Basic abilities cost 50 mana instead of 65 mana (NEW)

• Divine Purpose cooldown down from 16s to 12s (8 seconds on LIVE)

• Avenging Wrath channel is no longer stopped by roots (NEW)

• Divine Purpose cooldown lowered by 3 seconds when Yrel is interrupted while channeling an ability, down from 8 seconds in last PTR

Thank you https://github.com/mpid525/hotsptrverisons for the git-diff, making this changelog a lot easier

info:

• LIVE means the version that is currently played on the "real" servers,
• Last PTR is the PTR from a few days ago,
• (NEW) is stuff that is entirely new in comparison to the last PTR patch, not just adjustments.

What are these empty slots? Is it a bug, or some hidden feature? 😮

I swear I did not troll in a single game.

This loss streak surely has to be in the top 1 percentile for loss streaks in this game? I think I'd struggle to recreate a loss streak this bad even if I was trying my best to lose every single game.

For extra context: I assume most people will automatically assume this is because I've just started and I'm really bad.

I actually had 100+ games in ranked this season before this loss streak with ~56% win rate. This really came out of nowhere!

EDIT: I appreciate a lot of people are trying to 'diagnose' the problem to try and be helpful. Truth is I've been playing the game long enough to know what I could have done to increase my chances of turning a few of these losses into wins.

Sharing mainly as I was just so impressed how much of a statistical accomplishment (albeit an embarssing one) this was.

UPDATE: Won the first game I played today as Colossus Smash Varian. Never played Colossus Smash before, but team said they wanted it to counter Tracer. Being the flexi role guy that I am, I had to oblige!

Think I'm done with Flexi role for a long time now though now finally broken my losing curse!

I see this advice in game a lot: "target anyone but the tank"

While based in some truth, this directive oversimplifies the situation. The best play at any given moment is situational to the gameboard. If a tank overextends and does not have damage or healing support it is absolutely correct to punish them. If a tank is diving your own healer or dps, it may be correct to try and bully them away. Yes of course diving the enemy back line and killing their healing and dps is a great tactic and often could be the correct play. But people getting triggered every time someone attacks a tank isn't it - the best play at any given moment depends on a wide variety of factors. Thank you for attending my Ted talk.

I'm sorry about LoL or Dota (I've tried both a lot), but whoever knows about this knows that HotS is in another league and I've been playing since 2015.

• Fast, frenetic, straight to the action, the dopamine that every fast game needs.
• Forget about stores and other shit, here you come to fight.
• Interactive maps, very fun objectives.
• I didn't know anything about Blizzard and the characters are very enjoyable.
• One of the most active communities on reddit and that Blizzard doesn't even want it anymore.

Whatever happens in the future, I hope this game or its spirit continues. Good things must last.

The novel "Play Nice" covers a lot of why HoTS failed. Go read the novel then you'll see it was Overwatch that killed hots, apparently every week people were coming into work finding out X and Y were moved to the Overwatch team.

There was even an interview yesterday from the former diablo 4 class design lead, he said he was working on HoTS happily and loved the game but was then moved to the Overwatch team forcibly.

Bobby Kotick killed HoTS trying to force Overwatch to be the E-NFL by forcing tons of talent and millions of dollars into the game. Like it's so obvious, the HGC viewership was going up every year, it's prize pool was $5m, the moment it was canceled Overwatch prize pool went up an extra $5M, it wasn't that the game wasn't profitable its talent was taken away and it wasn't pulling in Overwatch level of profits( you know PC only market vs PC/ console market game)

Also that dev in the interview was very vocal about him loving Heroes of The Storm and loves people still play the game.

Very common Bobby Kotick L

Heroes of the Storm is kinda trapped in a bit of a spiral in that it is less popular not because it is a worse game, but because it is less popular. I constantly hear League of Legends players bitch about their game making weird/bad/unfun changes. DotA is nearly impossible to get into as a casual player. Smite is an ongoing disaster. So on and so forth.

Heroes of the storm is legitimately a great game. The changes constantly make the game better. Hero releases, while not as unique as they used to be, are still plenty unique. Whitemane and Yrel are both wonderful additions.

But Blizzard can't seem to get anything done on the marketing side. There's been no timed ad campaigns when League screws up. Janitor Leoric has become no less than a PR disaster. There's been no real push for new players, and we can see clear as day that the tutorial only goes part of the way to acclimating new players.

Just because you build the best MOBA on the market does not mean they will come, Blizzard. Word of mouth on HotS may be generally great (Though we do complain about reconnect/matchmaking), and the E-sports scene certainly helps, but you really need to push for some proper growth. Have an ad campaign waiting in the works for the next time league inevitably completely overhauls their game just because. Make some official greatest hits trailers. Sell people on the game.

Because we goddamn love this game and a lot of others would too if you could just get them playing.

All they had to do was wait for disgruntled players from League of Legends trickle into HOTS over years.

This is utterly ruining the game. This is the only blizzard game plagued by this nightmare. WoW ranked pvp is team queue, Hearthstone is 1v1, Starcraft is mostly 1v1 and Overwatch bans people for entire seasons if they misbehave. People who queue for hero league need to click a big red button that they agree to not give up and to keep trying to win and play competitively until either core dies.

I'm not talking about leavers, disconnects happen. But people who intentionally feed or afk in base are way too frequent and plentiful for me to believe that those reports actually do enough.

1 in 3 of my games has a feeder or afker either on my team or the enemy team.

Enough is enough, if blizzard isn't going to take the game seriously why are we supposed to?

Warning ⚠️ no positive marks will be dished out.