its the only one well made, League of legends suck dicks with his gold and feeding system, tons of autistic heroes without any reason to exist, and Dota is so fucking hard in terms of farming and has the same problem with feeding in early game
@@dontreadmyname4396 DOTA I feel offers the "complexity" people crave & LOL offers tons of niche off the wall hero designs and more focus on fighting than the others. HoTs was fantastic for those of us who only wanted to play 15-21 minute games and have something fun and competitive VS the 45-hour long games of other MOBA's that revolved around farming & economy.
Eh, you probably don't like MOBAs in that case to put it simply. Plenty of folks say that they enjoy MOBAs or at least want to but stick to Heroes of the Storm which... yes, it is a MOBA that is true... but it doesn't have any depth to it, runs on the Starcraft engine (famously known for being one of the worst gamiing engines to date) and repeatedly have to redesign many of their core maps which indicate that it isn't well balanced. To put it bluntly: I am not saying this to mock you or anyone who enjoys it... but there's probably a reason why one enjoys this MOBA and have no interest in learning other ones which have none of the issues stated above.
It's sad that this happened the day that I was gonna start devoting more time to get better and climb higher, but now I feel all that motivation is gone, and I'm sure many other people will say the same. I haven't been part of this community for very long, but I feel so bad for everyone who bust their ass to get to where they are, just for it all to crumble anyway. In the likely event that you may leave the HotS community for some other community or for grander purposes, I wish you best of luck in any pursuit. Your content helped shape a lot of players and built a very friendly, educative and professional environment. Good luck, and have fun.
I worked so hard to get where I’m at, and I feel like I’ve been stabbed. I was so competitive and ranked so high. I was excited for this game when it came out. I loved it. But now, I hate blizzard for what they are doing. Guess I will go back to DOTA and LoL. Sigh. Rip HotS.
Truly sad, I actually got into HotS from stumbling upon an HGC game on the twitch front page. I've never liked moba games in general until HotS, and that game I saw on HGC. There are so many great people around the HGC that I love, and support with all I can. This is really a big heart break, never thought I'd get this emotionally sad over an esport stopping. However! My support shall continue to every single individual that was apart of the HGC. Just as I said in the opening line. Its just a truly sad day for everyone involved, and the fans who really love the scene. Just at a lost for words now. Things are always darkest before the dawn, lets hope that dawn comes soon.
I quit HotS at the beginning of the year, since I didn't really like the direction it was going and wasn't enjoying HL, but watching HGC was still a thing I looked forward to on weekends. I think this BlizzCon/post-BlizzCon fiasco (including the Diablo news in this) has really proven that Blizzard is no longer the company it used to be, not even close. I wish you and all the teams the best for the future - I might have given up on the game a while ago, but it still fucking sucks to see such a good community of people simply tossed aside like this.
In one word... ACTIVISION! killing every game they touch! Former CEO Mike Morhaime and others knew it what is coming... He left before it implodes. RIP BLIZZARD! I bet the stock prices will goes down again.
Mike is all about the fans, his talks are legit. Prior to stepping down from his role, I believe he felt the new (activision) direction went against the fans. It will be interesting to find out how things will progress just from a business point of view.
Activision Blizzard: Collective name for the previous daughter companies Activision and Blizzard who now share resources but not development teams. Activision: Responsible for games such as Call of Duty and Destiny Blizzard: Responsible for games such as World of Warcraft and Starcraft Heroes of the Storm: Unprofitable game as a big tournament-game but fun to play casually If you wanna make memes, try rolling your face on your keyboard - that'll at the very least make you appear smarter.
Becoming??? Diablo 3? Every wow expansion since cataclysm? SC2 compared to brood war? HotS itself as a dota clone? They did well with hearthstone and overwatch is ok. That's still just a mountain of crap with sprinkles on it. The golden days of Blizzard ended somewhere around the mid to late 2000s. People slow as fuck to wake up. No wonder we're in this predicament with videogames these days. People are JUST NOW finding out they've been gobbling up shit for the past 10 years and are only now tired of it.
You can see how Activision is slowly eating away at Blizzard. Especially with this. Must be another one of those "cost cutting" decisions that was talked about in the Kotaku article
It seems rather short-sighted by J Allen Brack not to consider alternative ways to fund HGC... I mean SC2 has Battlechests. They were supposed to partner with Red Bull last year when they released the Deckard Cain patch. Just seems like the new CEO is way out of touch and not really in control of his company. I mean a good CEO would figure out a way to grow a property, bad CEOs do what this kind of stuff.
Yah', I do and it'll be fun to test out Diablo on it and then go back and play good games on the PC again. What, you want a punchline? Okey, here's the punchline: Those games will primarily be Blizzard games.
I remember your content from back when rexxar came out. Many people loved the game even with its many flaws. It was certainly my most favorite blizzard game ever. I dont know why I should even keep the blizzard launcher... maybe back to warcraft 3. R.i.p. HGC 💔
Particularly blizzard. And what really sucks is it isn't the people on the ground at blizz, many of those people are honest to god incredible people that have produced infinite happiness for millions of people. But so many of their corporate or business decisions from the top down are just awful. They killed WoW for me, killed HotS, next on chopping block is Warcraft III. Whatever will turn a profit, never mind showing loyalty to your core base from the beginning.
No game or community can ever replace what HotS meant to me. Climbed all the way from Silver to Diamond, near Master and felt so great to have been making a lot of progress lately. Started out playing very casually, did not think MOBA's were really my thing and I grew to absolutely love the game. I loved watching HGC and looked forward to it every weekend. We weren't the largest community but it was clear that the playerbase was sustainable and we were very patient with changes throughout. This sudden abandonment was absolute bull shit, and my heart goes out to those who's lives were completely built around this amazing game.
One of there games is being cutback and now apparently all their games are dead? Im devastated as to whats happened but your chatting bollocks. Grow up you ape
@@FastFoodVicar Okay #1 the insult wasn't necessary #2 if you've been paying attention at all, Heroes isn't the only game of theirs suffering right now- the budget cuts are for ALL their IPs, with this announcement it only confirms what everybody was fearing for a long time but more so since the "Diablo Immortal" fiasco, that Blizzard is experiencing a great cultural shift, and it's a shift that is focusing on PTPTW mobile games. Gaming as we know it is starting to creep into it's darkest hour, where people are finally waking up to the fact that we've been getting shit on for ages (Bethesda's Fallout 76, EA's BF2)
@Adûnâi That in and of itself is a problem, when the only thing you can come out with after making a great game such as WC3, is a damn reskin- sure it's very nice but it's also a slap in the face.
@@FastFoodVicar Did you think I was being 100% dead pan serious when I made that comment? I like the part when you said to grow up and next tossed out a childish insult next, that sure did show me. Grow up you poop head.
It's just my opinion but I think it has something to do with the stock price catastrophe followed after Blizzcon. Most likely the blizzard employee Kala talked to do believe HGC would return in 2019 but they changed it soon after trying to dealt with the financial crisis. However, IMO, this will only get things worse.
This is a wake up call to ALL eSports players that play a Blizzard game, not just HotS. If Blizzard feels like their game isn't showing "growth" cutting the eSports scene for that game is now an option and it CAN come with absolutely no warning. WoW Arena, HS, Overwatch could easily be in this same position in a couple years. The Korean scene is the only thing keeping SC afloat. This is a huge hit to Blizzard eSports in general and what sponsor is going to want to invest in a Blizzard based eSports team when announcements like this can come completely without warning. 2 months ago Blizzcon made it seem like this game had a bright future, new content, new features, etc. 2 months later and here we are. I feel terrible for the HotS community and all the other communities shouldn't ignore this because this could be them soon enough. Its hard enough for these eSports players to deal with the pressures of competing but now they have to deal with the pressures of having anything to compete in.
Feeling real stupid now being that HGC 2018 was constantly hailed as their "biggest season yet" like yeah no duh it's the biggest one; it also turned out to be the *LAST* one so let's at least go out with a bang... I love HOTS to pieces. I've trained my skills in it religiously since 2015 and this current event (Toys) is my favorite of all time. The childlike wonder and amazement it fills me with; the sheer joy I felt knowing that I'm just as excited to play HOTS as The Kid is to mess around with his toys....instantly soured in the most cynical way possible. It's like trying to enjoy a video game and hearing your parents argue about getting divorced in the other room (another thing I've actually experienced). You try to ignore it and escape in the game world for a while but reality just destroys you. Knowing that my duo and I will never be able to attend HGC Championships at Blizzcon actually made me cry a little bit. "We'll make it next year, heck yeah let's go watch HGC live next year!" We were so excited. Whole thing just sucks. There's no silver lining to this. I'm so incredibly sad.
R.I.P. Aba, Murky, Uther, Lili, Diablo, Sylv, Fenix, Stukov, E.T.C., and all my favorite heroes that i am not going to even see because HotS... was the last Blizzard game worth playing.
real ass video, appreciate you posting such a raw and heartfelt video. community hearts go out to you, hope your UA-cam channel continues to thrive no matter what you do next
This has impacted me like a relative has died, the game had its flaws but i loved it, i spent hours i even tried to get into the competitive scene and i have played in open division i didnt go far but i thought maybe one day i Will, i got so many good memories with this game ive played it casually, tryhard, drunk, many hours after eachouter, in the middle of the night till its too late to go to sleep, it has brought me many good friends and connections and it hit me so hard when this happend Cause i love to play this, but i cant imagine what its like for the pro players and casters and everyone who had their life built around it completely, to think i one day would go that far for this game, scary, If i tried harder maybe i would have Been there too to suffer more, im happy i didnt, but blizzard messed up so many lives Cause of money, sure the game didnt bring you huge amounts of money, maybe only enough to have it running or slightly less perhaps, but we all expected them to reduce the staff for the game or something else, not this, they clearly lose aswell, without giving it a second thought they just lost alot of loyal blizzard players for all their games, i myself even put my own money into hots many Times only for blizzards sake, this game Was the third biggest Moba in the world, it had what a good Moba for me should have, now it Will sink down under smite and whatever other Mobas there are, no1 Will play this, no1 Will stream this, and many Will stop playing other blizzard games also Cause of this, atleast i Will. Sigh
Look at that, new season, new event and now we're even basically given a death timer for the game. Clap it up, they just ruined an amazing game. Hate to say it, but no pro scene honestly means no one will really be interested in the game and therefore there won't be many updates, content or really anything. My favorite computer game that brought me together with many friends and other communities just getting shot down like this
Don't know, I have the feeling that the people who care about the Proscene in HotS are a small percentage of the players. I, for example, play it some times, Quick Match, never put a foot into ranked, never watched a Pro game - because for me HotS is a casual game to chill and play as my fav Blizzhero. It sucks for guys like you who are way deeper into the game :( But to say that "no pro scene means no one will be interested in the game" isn't true, I think.
@@stolenravage2522 Perhaps not the fact that HGC is leaving will kill it, but them specifically stating that they're removing most of the current devs and development will be little to nothing besides a few heroes and skins for a little while to come- will kill it, slowly.
@@ScaryScarab21 It's not just that, though. It's the fact that this signals lower commitment from Blizzard, and also that decision was probably driven by relatively low user base (compared to their other games and relative to cost to maintain). When both player base and company commitment are low, it is difficult to imagine how the game will grow. This seems to be indicating a slow decline for the game - what I have come to call a death spiral. Additionally, the removal of the pro scene and the way pros were led to believe that HGC would continue up until this latest news, this has really dampened the enthusiasm of the most committed players and even casuals who watched them. Blizzard has to have though about the possibility of all of this beforehand, so all signs are only pointing in one direction, and it is not up.
You can still play with your friends. Boot up the game and look. QM still there, Unranked Draft still there, Ranked still there even as well. Nothing about HGC being canceled means you can't play fun games with your friends.
I'm sorry to everyone who put their heart and soul into this game as the pros did. It broke my heart a bit to hear how it was told to everyone in that scene as well, especially after being told everything was full steam ahead. So, to Kala, tempostorm and everyone else that put so much effort and love into the game and its community, I'm sorry this happened to you, you all deserved better.
Since the game is still moving forward, and new stuff is now announced will be coming out soon, I hope Kala still will make more coaching vids so that we can still be better players and achieve higher rankings in the HL or TL . His guidance has dramatically helped me move from from bronze to Plat.
Well Blizzard lost their outstanding status and is becomming a more average development company. They have very big problems today. Nowadays, I even can imagine to see Blizzard go bankrupt or be overtaken by Activision completely in a few years.
You're aware WoW and overwatch are making them money hand over fist right? And despite Diablo immortal being talked down on so often more likely than not that game is gonna make them loads as well. They aren't going bankrupt anytime soon
There is a great quote from True Detective that seems relevant (though this is not word for word): "You only live so long - so be careful what you get good at."
This game pretty much killed all the love I had for Blizzard. I've been following Blizzard all the way back since Blackthorne, Warcraft I and The Lost Vikings. I've bought and played almost every single game they ever made besides World of Warcraft. Coming from League of Legends in which I got to top 16 in the world (when there was only the NA server) and quitting after two years because the community was toxic and Riot games absolute trash, it was with a breath of fresh air that I moved to HotS. However the report system and the way the game is conducted just makes you never want to say jack shit in chat or actually care, so for someone who is incredibly competitive as me, I felt the game just wasn't it. Reporting did nothing unless you get mass reported so people can say the most, inconsiderate ludicrous shit to you, you take videos and screenshots, present it to Blizzard staff and they do absolutely nothing. I spent over 3000€ in this game I have pretty much everything ever released but if I report someone who calls me a shit eating faggot and hopes I die from cancer and the staff tells me "just report them, what do you want me to do?" it's pretty shitty. Added to this there was the Activision takeover, Destiny 2 being a joke, the Diablo announcement and I suddenly, after all this shit I just thought... this isn't the Blizzard I loved once anymore. I'm glad I quit this game like 4 months ago when the queues in Master League were almost an hour at times. Still sad to see it go.
Fun fact: Google exists Even more funnier of a fact: you never used it Proof: Activision ain't Blizzard, Activision-Blizzard is the daughter company of Vivendi until they bought themself out of it and made Bobby Kotick the CEO of Activision-Blizzard. Who, if you didn't know... ain't the publishing CEO of either Activision nor Blizzard. If you don't like Blizzard, then fine. Ain't something special not being a fan of a company, I am not a fan of several companies myself... but I am not a fan of those companies because they did or do something stupid. Not because a meme told me to stop enjoying them.
@@ArgentumEmperio that is actually incorrect, sir. While Blizzard remains "autonomous" it's activision who is calling the shots. If they decide the HGC is not giving them profit and HotS is not going anywhere, they'll pull the plug.
They give 0 notice and fire everyone. I mean like Sonic LeBeast worked a year and a half just to qualify. Also didn't people just move to Cali to be on the right server? Also for the players they just released a massive change that players aren't going to know how to respond to. We would look to the pros to know how to play these changes and now its just going to linger and make the game terrible.
Well the game is far from dead. That's just an overreaction. But it's not looking too rosy. Without an official pro scene, the community could get together and attempt to set up and grow independent tournaments instead of relying on Blizz to do it themselves. Better to fight for it, than just declaring a game we all love 'dead' and moving on. Because that will CERTAINLY kill it.
This is total bullshit I love this game like it’s a part of me or something I’ve spent tens of thousands of hours on it but this is the last straw. I thought what blizzard did to the Diablo fans was bad but this is on a new level. I will no longer buy anything blizzard related or support company I hope they go bankrupt. Kala bro Keep your chin up
lawlestest Yeah you can call me a dog all you want. What’s up with your name man does it mean do you engage in criminal activities and don’t care about the law. If that’s true you would know the two reasons do to get fucked up in prison. Not minding your own business talking to people crazy. That’s OK though I’ll let you get it out of your system. Talk shit all you want over the comments page and continue to make statements regarding others character when you don’t even know them it’s cool.
100%! Blizzard stopped caring about us, the consumers, the players, the fans. We have been tossed aside like some overused rag they used to wash their car with and now there throwing away the Windex, the pro players, the people who inspire us to be like them so we can play and have incredibly high-quality games in the future and come out on top and feel like badasses because we took on another team of almost perfectly equal skill level and won the game. Now that this is ALL gone, whats gonna happen to the player base? Whats going to happen to all the content creators and all the people that helped to build up the HoTS community? Whats going to happen to all the esports players and all other players that was wanting to strive to become an esports player for HoTS by putting an ungodly amount of hours into the game just so they can learn all team comps and positioning and everything else...whats going to happen to them? Its going to slowly, but surely....vanish...its just gone and we'll be left with some shell or husk of a game we used to love and enjoy and the only thing that will be left is the small remaining dedicated fans that will be incredibly upset because their favorite game is now no longer being washed...its just left there to get dirty, nasty, & burnt up in the hot sun, never to be driven down to Walmart to just pick up a few groceries. it'll just be sitting behind the house rotting under that pine tree so that the sap falls on it and gets sticky and becomes more grotesque. I understand that they will STILL have a few of the remaining DEV's but the foreseeable future...idk...doesn't look good... :(
RiP Hots, rip you... sorry to hear this. I also liked the game but i‘m a freaking silver and i feel like i am just at the beginning. Now... it‘s a beginning with no End. GG WP Blizzard 🤯☹️
2:25 While the channel comment is funny, it's a sort of an ironic analogy of the result that shitty Activision has when they flash that potential money to Blizzard. Metaphorically, Blizzard is drinking themselves to death and the community has to deal with it. Everything from fucking Diablo to Overwatch to HOTS to anyone that has a cell phone. Hearthstone and WOW will survive because they're based around money. (I still appreciate their devs) fuck activision, however, at the same time... I've never seen such a tightly knit and dedicated community. It's such a terrible shame that the community that is most negatively affected by this bullshit is the Blizzard community. You guys are phenomenal and extremely passionate.
Couldn't even make HotS last longer than LoL, Blizzard? Really? I can't believe this company right now. I fucking hate Activision and what it has done to Blizzard. I was never a competitive HotS player but I really feel for you guys right now. As a competitive Overwatch player, this really frightens me and is way too close to home.
This is awful. I was so looking forward to the 2019 season. I even went out and purchase a bunch of tempo storm merch. My heart goes out to you. I hope you can figure something out. I'll always be a fan though. Try and have a happy holidays though.
As someone who played a LOT of alpha / beta hots, after a long time playing dota, i was seriously surprised the game even tried being a proper esport as i just couldn't see it being engaging enough either to play or watch once it went live and a lot of the fun synergies were taken out. I can't say i'm at all surprised it failed, but i'm really sorry for all the people who attempted to show faith in blizz by choosing HotS instead of a proper game like dota, cs, league etc. Blizz has shown recently that loyalty and their original fanbase mean nothing to them. Honest question - What made you want to make a career around HotS instead of a better established game like Dota 2 or League?
LoL and DotA2 are two of the most boring games I have ever watched on twitch. Tournaments are lame and I’m not feeling it. That’s probably because I don’t play those games - because I just can’t enjoy them. To me they are some of the worst games ever created tbh. And that’s probably the reason you think HotS was bad and not fun to watch. You didn’t have any passion for it and didn’t know as much about its mechanics and heroes as you do with LoL/DotA2.
@@eldrstarsong4085 What you call the "boring grindy" bits are what make the games interesting and tense in dota2 and why the viewership of the international and the yearly prize fund continue to grow each year. The main reason people call it boring is because they don't understand what's going on, and rather than try to learn WHY it's a big deal that the enemy team just stole a 5 stacked ancient camp, they go "pfft just more farming BOOOORED NOW". Even if you just base it on kills though and have no understanding or interest in the actual economics of the game, Dota 2 is still the highest kill count game of the main bunch, with hots and lol both being REALLY slow most of the time as far as actual kills go. You say hots takes out the boring parts but i say in reply that without any of the depth or complexity of the other games, HotS's ENTIRE game is boring, which is why nobody watches it and it failed as an esport.
@@NateTheScot The depth or complexity is just different. In LoL it's the last-hit farm system + gold/items system. In HOTS it's the dynamic map objectives system + experience/talents system. In my opinion the second combination is better for these reasons: - The last-hit system is absolutely unintuitive and illogic: in war what matters is that the enemies die, it doesn't matter who gives the final blows. And of course it makes no sense that you can only loot the enemy's money if you give the final blow, like it magically disappeared if you don't. - The last-hit system is redundant because to kill enemies is a benefit itself, you don't need to add a second benefit to make you look forward to kill enemies. It only causes snowball effect for no reason. The same happens with experience system in HOTS, but less pronounced because talents are not as powerful as items. - The last-hit system makes the micro game(combat) unnatural because with that system you have to try to give the higher amount of final blows(to minions) instead of trying to deal the highest damage to the enemy power as a whole. Many times when you could use an attack to hit a lot of minions and a player at the same time, you cannot do that because the minions have a concrete amount of HP that would turn into almost 0 and your minions would give a lot of last-hits, meaning that you lose a lot of money. - The last-hit system makes the macro game(global strategy) artificially static because the players get much more benefit from taking up lanes than just kill enemies or destroy buildings, wich diminish the benefit of more dynamic strategies than just filling every lane with players. The same happens with experience system in HOTS, but less pronounced because you can kill minions without last-hit carefulness and therefore you can rotate more frecuently.
Heroes of the Storm was Blizzard's last original IP and last original creation so it makes sense it is the first thing 100% killed by Activision. Activision is going to kill your other favorite Blizzard games and IP's soon. The company Blizzard we've loved for 25+ years is gone and it will take multiple miracles for it to come back and that sucks. This hurts to say. Heroes of the Storm was the video game I loved the most, by far, the GOAT GAME. I wish I could show Activision this, but all they care about are graphs and pissing people off.
The problem is Blizzard tried to make a pro scene and league instead of make a good game and build up the community. They did it backwards. If it's a good, competitive game with a growing, large community, a competitive scene would form itself. Blizzard tried to force a competitive scene and continued to lose money doing it instead of focus those resources on the game!
It completely killed all my motivation to play the game, I set a goal for myself to continue getting better and better and playing in everything I possibly could like Heroes Lounge/NGS etc to eventually go to the OD and possibly get into HGC. Now all of that is dead and there's nothing for me to work towards. Oh wooooo I can try to be number one on the ladder for a game with no competitive scene, what a big waste of fucking time that would be now.
Im so bummed about the announcement bro. Devastated for everyone whos livelihood and time has been revolved around HotS. Its such a darn shame. This is my favorite game and its just a damn shame to see this. Keep your head up, you will find something to pour your passion into. Good luck.
Serves them right for trying to squeeze money out of their playerbase with a mediocre copy/paste game. Even bigger joke that diablo is banned in china, when they were trying so hard to sell it to the chinese "gamers". Absolute joke of a company they've become. From heroes to zeroes.
??? What do you mean? You realize that ALL GAMING STOCKS, of basically every company (especially those with lootboxes) took a hit back then right? It wasn't even thanks to the Diablo Immortal announcement, although that won't help the stock go back up. Edit: Not apologizing, I'm saying, the stock loss WAS NOT Diablo Immortal, that was just hella bad timing.
@@katomamundara8106 ofc i agree.. you can see it on other companies but one thing they have in common and thats bad deccisions, microtransactions and bad state of their AAA recent games... it would be too ignorant to say just diablo .. but lets just say that timing and all the rumors how they need to cut budgets to their games for recent years you can see quality of blizz game rapidly going down....and this diablo mobile..well...it was the last nail to the coffin... and if i look across all the other AAA companies.. their plum could be ,,normal,, or in my opinion they did it to themselfs and its fully justified and hope they will start thinking again with their brains and passion than money greed alone.. and i would say diablo only made the decision over Hots possible cuz they originaly had planned tournaments for 2019 and send even month old updates to sponsors and teams about the details about them... so i think this decision was made just in few days as everyone is now cofused and mad... which i think diablo was the catalist
Well, that's fucking bullshit. I can't say I didn't suspect it after the radio silence of the few weeks but it still sucks to hear ActiBlizz say it out loud. Don't be sorry Kala - you put yourself into this game as much as any of the players you coach and we love you for it. I pulled myself up from Bronze to Plat2 with your advice helping me out and I'll always consider that an achievement worth remembering. And don't apologise for swearing either. - strong words for strong emotions are exactly what one would expect. FWIW, I watched you play through Dark Souls 3 and think it was some of your best content ever. I came for HotS advice and kept watching for your personality and attitude. Peace out you DirtySouthBoy. GL HF with wherever you go next.
Really sorry about this man. Watching you coach people has been so inspiring to me and it is really hurtful to see this all destroyed in the blink of an eye. Feels bad man.
This was a MOBA that was so refreshing coming over from League... granted I hadn't played in some time....I still came back to it and played matches from time to time. Hell even my good friend who would never touch a MOBA played with me for the longest time. Blizzard is really making some questionable moves lately
So pissed right now too man. Right there with you. We all need to be strong and figure out a way to live with things we can't control sometimes. We are all going to feel this. You rock man! Wherever you go, this community will follow!
Just remember DIABLO IMMORTAL is the reason this is happening. They are on damage control and refuse to kill the parasite that caused it, cutting off the left foot instead of the pinky toad.
This is happening because HotS isn't popular or profitable enough. It's too bad that people who have devoted their life to playing a video game have had the rug pulled out from underneath them, but that's the economic reality of the situation.
@@swisskabob I would normally agree with you but I don't think that is the case. I think they lost a lot of money with diablo immortal ban in china as well as other games being put on the soon to be ban system in china. HGC cost money and takes a while to return only 10-15% on investment. This equates to them cutting cost to recover from massive stock and profit losses. Hots was simply the easiest one to cut as it has the smallest community
This more likely than not has nothing to do with Diablo they're killing this game cause it's easily there their least profitable ip. Why spend resources on something that is giving you low returns and just draining your money.
Happy Holidays, hope you can find your way around this and transfer your passion and skills to something else Thanks for all the content and work you did for the community. We'll see you in the future.
Blizzard was fucking stupid as hell to allow Activision to take over everything and to not split ways with them when they saw the first sign of danger. Now it is becoming too late because of how long Blizzard has allowed Activision to make Blizzard their bitch and most of the important developers who used to work at blizzard are now gone. This is a perfect lesson on what greed can lead to. They sacrificed a large fan base and a very high reputation to take a chance for some extra money and now will end up with nothing.
"if there is no object to strive for what are we even fucking doing" - While I understand your point if the vast majority or HOTS draft players were playing with an idea of "one day I'll be a PrOGamEr!!" then they are delusional.
Im so sorry for you and all who are affected with this BS... and i dont even play this game... i think we should call for a boycott with all these shitty game companies... another video game industry crash would be the appropriate thing to happen so that these companies will open their eyes...
I never really played MOBAs a lot or really tooo much of Heroes of the Storm, but it was actually the only MOBA I have actually had a fun time in. So sad to see this happening and I'm progressively losing faith in Blizzard.
I came back to the game 3-4 months ago and were playing like 10-12 hours each day. Started watching pros and youtube guides. Started watching you Kala (recommended you to a lot of people). I was steadily rising from basic gold (since I came back) to diamond 2 with quite a high win rate. I had found ~7 people to play TL often and together we were improving sooo much. But eh. I think it is all over. I disliked the new EXP change anyway, but hell I can get used to it, it is too early to tell. But now this is the nail in the coffin. I played a trial of an MMO last week and didn't want to buy it because of my HOTS would suffer, but now I think I will. It was fun while it lasted! Heh I played dota1 for 5-6 years, moved to LoL because it was better!! for 2-3 years and then to HotS because it was better!! but hahaha. What a joke.
It's really dumb. I don't even play HoTS more that a couple of dozen games per year when I'm too tilted/tired to play league or just looking for some chill time, and I'm pissed at this. I can't imagine what the HoTS Pro players and their staff must be going through right now.
I guess instead of defending and praising the game players who "loved the game" should have brought the flaws, even the ones they tried to deny were clearly there, to attention to be fixed. The game was medicated on new heroes, maps, cosmetics, and such. You guys got the game you wanted and you guys got the outcome you deserve. The game is still alive tho, so chill.... just without the Esports it didn't deserve. Funny how people turned on it now just cause the crutch of Esports making it appear to be better then it is ... is gone. Its not that i hate Heroes, i been in love with it since Alpha, but its problems grew just too much to stomach. I went from so many games played to being unable to stand to play more then a few matches... just waiting for real fixes to roll out, but they never came. I don't hate the game, but it IS equally frustrating as it is fun. Game mechanics like rejoining and NO match ready check BEFORE entering lobby is gross. The newest Moba with crappier design. League of Legends doesn't punish people in queue cause some person is afk; the person afk gets kicked and the non-afk get thrown back into their position in queue. Hero balancing is fking awful and more awful since Overwatch introduced is High mobile heroes. And don't ever use the excuse of focusing someone with cc and burning them... cause the same can be done to your team and even prevented with stupid abilities like Medivh. Match making can't balance, because its impossible to balance. Warrior class can mean a dozen different actual specializations. Its one thing to have strength and weaknesses then another to be FLAT OUT STOMPED by someone in the same role. The game isn't as good as people would like to believe and Blizzard just told you so. If it was actually even good fun it would have pulled the players in rather then having them quitting. Its not the end tho, just for Heroes Esports... and that Dorm thing. While I am loving it... i do wish the game made a huge comeback, but Devs don't have a clue nor will you help give it to them.
I remember in 2008 when they announced their partnership with Activision. I was 14 year old and I immediately knew that it was a horrible idea. Now BFA is dying they got obliterated with dislikes in their channel in their recent vids. And Diablo, a fucking joke. And Ben brode left hearthstone. Not surprised that HotS was next.
On the 12th day of Christmas Blizzard gave to me 12 minutes queue time 11 deaths Leoric 10 minute braxis 9 stacks Butcher 8 nerfs on Genji 7 strikes of Khara 6 minute mid brawl 5 man team wipe 4 employed devs 3 minute "GG 2 AFK-ers and a cancelled HGC
I'm so sorry for what's happened here. I don't really follow the esports side of HotS but I know that this has devastated people who deserve so much better. I feel like we're witnessing the death of Blizzard at the hands of Activision and I am fully boycotting anything Activision from now on.
I never was much into HotS, but I've respected their proplayers and their stories, victories and so on. I hope this won't bring you down, man, you will be able to switch. Blizzard really fucked you all guys in competetive scene without any lubrication.
If you watch MFPallytime video on this, it seems that the communication was non-existent internally at Blizzard as well. This is really just Acitivision putting their foot down and cancelling everything Blizzard wanted to do. Sucks. But we all knew it could only go downhill after Activision acquired Blizzard. :(
This is absolutley fucking horrible news! I dont play this game anymore due to lootboxes and other things. But even as a esports fan, this is horrible! All the best Kala and others. I hope you find something to solve this situation!
You buried your head in the sand. I've been a plat pleb for over a year and a half, qm for 2, and I knew this game was going down the shitter the moment they refused to address the reporting problem. You could notice a substantial drop in the number of players around that time - and Blizzard refused to address it, streamers refused to put pressure on them. I honestly don't feel bad for anyone affected by the death of HotS, in fact I actively wished it upon Blizzard. Their arrogance is hilarious, and only dwarfed by their incompetence.
Blizzard could have lowered the budget for HGC and gradually phased it out, but no they just stopped. Put loads of people out of work, no where for the pros to go. I loved HGC, it was what football is to a football fan only much much better. I really hope that another company run a competitive HotS pro league, like it used to be part of the ESL, but I don't think it will happen :(
Thank you for what you did Kala, I learned a lot from your content. I uninstalled HotS hearing this news coz without HGC, this game doesn't have any interest. Good luck for your futur challenges. Peace man
I'm so sad to see this happening. I'm not crazy into competitive Hots but I still love seeing the pros play... C'mon Blizzard, you used to be better than this.
I love your videos and it was awesome to watch tips from a professional coach. I'm sad and I feel for you. You're a great person with an incredible mindset (aiming the community). I hope you have a wonderful future somewhere your heart can heal these wounds.
The saddest thing is that HotS was the only MobA I enjoyned in my life...
its the only one well made, League of legends suck dicks with his gold and feeding system, tons of autistic heroes without any reason to exist, and Dota is so fucking hard in terms of farming and has the same problem with feeding in early game
@@dontreadmyname4396 DOTA I feel offers the "complexity" people crave & LOL offers tons of niche off the wall hero designs and more focus on fighting than the others. HoTs was fantastic for those of us who only wanted to play 15-21 minute games and have something fun and competitive VS the 45-hour long games of other MOBA's that revolved around farming & economy.
Eh, you probably don't like MOBAs in that case to put it simply.
Plenty of folks say that they enjoy MOBAs or at least want to but stick to Heroes of the Storm which... yes, it is a MOBA that is true... but it doesn't have any depth to it, runs on the Starcraft engine (famously known for being one of the worst gamiing engines to date) and repeatedly have to redesign many of their core maps which indicate that it isn't well balanced.
To put it bluntly: I am not saying this to mock you or anyone who enjoys it... but there's probably a reason why one enjoys this MOBA and have no interest in learning other ones which have none of the issues stated above.
Same
I installed LoL today and played a few...I'm good at LoL as well, but it's just not fun. It's not HotS :(
I bought 1 year stimpack on black friday.... I want my money back.
same
JEBAITED hahahahahahah thats what you get when you trust in blizzard
Chargeback
Why did you buy a blizzard product when they're known for being rip-offs? Did people seriously not learn from Diablo 3?
@@Rodrigc92 stupid idea. Blizz will flag your account, and you will have problems if you want to buy anthing again on that account.
Good god, blizzard going all in on crappy public relations lately. RIP
It's sad that this happened the day that I was gonna start devoting more time to get better and climb higher, but now I feel all that motivation is gone, and I'm sure many other people will say the same.
I haven't been part of this community for very long, but I feel so bad for everyone who bust their ass to get to where they are, just for it all to crumble anyway.
In the likely event that you may leave the HotS community for some other community or for grander purposes, I wish you best of luck in any pursuit. Your content helped shape a lot of players and built a very friendly, educative and professional environment.
Good luck, and have fun.
This post describes what I'm feeling right now, thanks for sharing
I worked so hard to get where I’m at, and I feel like I’ve been stabbed. I was so competitive and ranked so high. I was excited for this game when it came out. I loved it. But now, I hate blizzard for what they are doing. Guess I will go back to DOTA and LoL. Sigh. Rip HotS.
Truly sad, I actually got into HotS from stumbling upon an HGC game on the twitch front page. I've never liked moba games in general until HotS, and that game I saw on HGC. There are so many great people around the HGC that I love, and support with all I can. This is really a big heart break, never thought I'd get this emotionally sad over an esport stopping. However! My support shall continue to every single individual that was apart of the HGC. Just as I said in the opening line. Its just a truly sad day for everyone involved, and the fans who really love the scene. Just at a lost for words now. Things are always darkest before the dawn, lets hope that dawn comes soon.
I quit HotS at the beginning of the year, since I didn't really like the direction it was going and wasn't enjoying HL, but watching HGC was still a thing I looked forward to on weekends.
I think this BlizzCon/post-BlizzCon fiasco (including the Diablo news in this) has really proven that Blizzard is no longer the company it used to be, not even close.
I wish you and all the teams the best for the future - I might have given up on the game a while ago, but it still fucking sucks to see such a good community of people simply tossed aside like this.
In one word... ACTIVISION!
killing every game they touch!
Former CEO Mike Morhaime and others knew it what is coming... He left before it implodes.
RIP BLIZZARD!
I bet the stock prices will goes down again.
Mike is all about the fans, his talks are legit. Prior to stepping down from his role, I believe he felt the new (activision) direction went against the fans. It will be interesting to find out how things will progress just from a business point of view.
how is activision to blame for the fact that the game is not played nor profitable enough to mantain a pro-scene?
@@fabiancalderon6729 So it was profitable days before the fail and now it's not ? yeeeee, sure buddy.
when did i say that? read again
Activision Blizzard: Collective name for the previous daughter companies Activision and Blizzard who now share resources but not development teams.
Activision: Responsible for games such as Call of Duty and Destiny
Blizzard: Responsible for games such as World of Warcraft and Starcraft
Heroes of the Storm: Unprofitable game as a big tournament-game but fun to play casually
If you wanna make memes, try rolling your face on your keyboard - that'll at the very least make you appear smarter.
Blizzard is rapidly becoming a garbage company. Sorry to hear how this is impacting you.
Yeah but they've become a much bigger pile of shit burning dumpster fire now.
Becoming??? Diablo 3? Every wow expansion since cataclysm? SC2 compared to brood war? HotS itself as a dota clone? They did well with hearthstone and overwatch is ok.
That's still just a mountain of crap with sprinkles on it. The golden days of Blizzard ended somewhere around the mid to late 2000s.
People slow as fuck to wake up. No wonder we're in this predicament with videogames these days. People are JUST NOW finding out they've been gobbling up shit for the past 10 years and are only now tired of it.
You can see how Activision is slowly eating away at Blizzard. Especially with this. Must be another one of those "cost cutting" decisions that was talked about in the Kotaku article
@@evelynmathis4619 blizzard died along with arthas in 2010...
@@_Mutto_ 'overwatch is ok ' lmao
It seems rather short-sighted by J Allen Brack not to consider alternative ways to fund HGC... I mean SC2 has Battlechests. They were supposed to partner with Red Bull last year when they released the Deckard Cain patch. Just seems like the new CEO is way out of touch and not really in control of his company. I mean a good CEO would figure out a way to grow a property, bad CEOs do what this kind of stuff.
If they don't have something to take it's place, they just shot the game in the face.
feels like they shot my doggo in the face
They shot themselves in the face when they let greedy assholes Activision take over.
*DO YOU GUYS NOT HAVE PHONES THOUGH?!*
Yah', I do and it'll be fun to test out Diablo on it and then go back and play good games on the PC again.
What, you want a punchline? Okey, here's the punchline:
Those games will primarily be Blizzard games.
Fuck of this diablo mobile shit
I remember your content from back when rexxar came out. Many people loved the game even with its many flaws. It was certainly my most favorite blizzard game ever.
I dont know why I should even keep the blizzard launcher... maybe back to warcraft 3.
R.i.p. HGC 💔
There's 7 to 9 (depending on how you count) better games on it.
May I suggest keeping it for any of those?
Dont. Ever. Trust. Corporations.
Particularly blizzard. And what really sucks is it isn't the people on the ground at blizz, many of those people are honest to god incredible people that have produced infinite happiness for millions of people. But so many of their corporate or business decisions from the top down are just awful. They killed WoW for me, killed HotS, next on chopping block is Warcraft III. Whatever will turn a profit, never mind showing loyalty to your core base from the beginning.
No game or community can ever replace what HotS meant to me. Climbed all the way from Silver to Diamond, near Master and felt so great to have been making a lot of progress lately. Started out playing very casually, did not think MOBA's were really my thing and I grew to absolutely love the game. I loved watching HGC and looked forward to it every weekend. We weren't the largest community but it was clear that the playerbase was sustainable and we were very patient with changes throughout. This sudden abandonment was absolute bull shit, and my heart goes out to those who's lives were completely built around this amazing game.
Sorry guys Blizzard is now a moble game maker, all the PC games that you loved are now dead. RIP
One of there games is being cutback and now apparently all their games are dead? Im devastated as to whats happened but your chatting bollocks. Grow up you ape
@@FastFoodVicar Okay #1 the insult wasn't necessary
#2 if you've been paying attention at all, Heroes isn't the only game of theirs suffering right now- the budget cuts are for ALL their IPs, with this announcement it only confirms what everybody was fearing for a long time but more so since the "Diablo Immortal" fiasco, that Blizzard is experiencing a great cultural shift, and it's a shift that is focusing on PTPTW mobile games.
Gaming as we know it is starting to creep into it's darkest hour, where people are finally waking up to the fact that we've been getting shit on for ages (Bethesda's Fallout 76, EA's BF2)
@Adûnâi That in and of itself is a problem, when the only thing you can come out with after making a great game such as WC3, is a damn reskin- sure it's very nice but it's also a slap in the face.
@Adûnâi couldnt agree more
@@FastFoodVicar Did you think I was being 100% dead pan serious when I made that comment? I like the part when you said to grow up and next tossed out a childish insult next, that sure did show me. Grow up you poop head.
It's just my opinion but I think it has something to do with the stock price catastrophe followed after Blizzcon. Most likely the blizzard employee Kala talked to do believe HGC would return in 2019 but they changed it soon after trying to dealt with the financial crisis.
However, IMO, this will only get things worse.
Blizz first killed sc2 for me. Then diablo 3. Then wow. I guess they plan on self destruction until they go out of business.
Sc2 is alive and kicking. The sc2 scene is bigger then ever. But with Actiblizz calling the shots I am worried
@@durand4337 That's funny, know what other game I heard the fanboys parroting was alive and "bigger than ever"?
@@throwaway5744 Yeah, hence the "i am worried"-part of my message
@@durand4337 Sc2 is bigger than ever? What are you talking about? Sc2 is totaly dead.
@@SnapTrack111 lol where hav u been lately
This is a wake up call to ALL eSports players that play a Blizzard game, not just HotS. If Blizzard feels like their game isn't showing "growth" cutting the eSports scene for that game is now an option and it CAN come with absolutely no warning. WoW Arena, HS, Overwatch could easily be in this same position in a couple years. The Korean scene is the only thing keeping SC afloat. This is a huge hit to Blizzard eSports in general and what sponsor is going to want to invest in a Blizzard based eSports team when announcements like this can come completely without warning. 2 months ago Blizzcon made it seem like this game had a bright future, new content, new features, etc. 2 months later and here we are. I feel terrible for the HotS community and all the other communities shouldn't ignore this because this could be them soon enough. Its hard enough for these eSports players to deal with the pressures of competing but now they have to deal with the pressures of having anything to compete in.
So sad. Was looking forward to this season. But where ever you go Kala, I will follow
Feeling real stupid now being that HGC 2018 was constantly hailed as their "biggest season yet" like yeah no duh it's the biggest one; it also turned out to be the *LAST* one so let's at least go out with a bang...
I love HOTS to pieces. I've trained my skills in it religiously since 2015 and this current event (Toys) is my favorite of all time. The childlike wonder and amazement it fills me with; the sheer joy I felt knowing that I'm just as excited to play HOTS as The Kid is to mess around with his toys....instantly soured in the most cynical way possible. It's like trying to enjoy a video game and hearing your parents argue about getting divorced in the other room (another thing I've actually experienced). You try to ignore it and escape in the game world for a while but reality just destroys you. Knowing that my duo and I will never be able to attend HGC Championships at Blizzcon actually made me cry a little bit. "We'll make it next year, heck yeah let's go watch HGC live next year!" We were so excited.
Whole thing just sucks. There's no silver lining to this. I'm so incredibly sad.
remember that report where it said that Activision told Bli$$ard to cut costs.... sure looks like it.
R.I.P. Aba, Murky, Uther, Lili, Diablo, Sylv, Fenix, Stukov, E.T.C., and all my favorite heroes that i am not going to even see because HotS... was the last Blizzard game worth playing.
real ass video, appreciate you posting such a raw and heartfelt video. community hearts go out to you, hope your UA-cam channel continues to thrive no matter what you do next
This has impacted me like a relative has died, the game had its flaws but i loved it, i spent hours i even tried to get into the competitive scene and i have played in open division i didnt go far but i thought maybe one day i Will, i got so many good memories with this game ive played it casually, tryhard, drunk, many hours after eachouter, in the middle of the night till its too late to go to sleep, it has brought me many good friends and connections and it hit me so hard when this happend Cause i love to play this, but i cant imagine what its like for the pro players and casters and everyone who had their life built around it completely, to think i one day would go that far for this game, scary, If i tried harder maybe i would have Been there too to suffer more, im happy i didnt, but blizzard messed up so many lives Cause of money, sure the game didnt bring you huge amounts of money, maybe only enough to have it running or slightly less perhaps, but we all expected them to reduce the staff for the game or something else, not this, they clearly lose aswell, without giving it a second thought they just lost alot of loyal blizzard players for all their games, i myself even put my own money into hots many Times only for blizzards sake, this game Was the third biggest Moba in the world, it had what a good Moba for me should have, now it Will sink down under smite and whatever other Mobas there are, no1 Will play this, no1 Will stream this, and many Will stop playing other blizzard games also Cause of this, atleast i Will. Sigh
THIS!
Look at that, new season, new event and now we're even basically given a death timer for the game. Clap it up, they just ruined an amazing game. Hate to say it, but no pro scene honestly means no one will really be interested in the game and therefore there won't be many updates, content or really anything. My favorite computer game that brought me together with many friends and other communities just getting shot down like this
Don't know, I have the feeling that the people who care about the Proscene in HotS are a small percentage of the players. I, for example, play it some times, Quick Match, never put a foot into ranked, never watched a Pro game - because for me HotS is a casual game to chill and play as my fav Blizzhero. It sucks for guys like you who are way deeper into the game :(
But to say that "no pro scene means no one will be interested in the game" isn't true, I think.
@@stolenravage2522 Perhaps not the fact that HGC is leaving will kill it, but them specifically stating that they're removing most of the current devs and development will be little to nothing besides a few heroes and skins for a little while to come- will kill it, slowly.
@@ScaryScarab21 yes, that is something I believe, too.
@@ScaryScarab21 It's not just that, though. It's the fact that this signals lower commitment from Blizzard, and also that decision was probably driven by relatively low user base (compared to their other games and relative to cost to maintain). When both player base and company commitment are low, it is difficult to imagine how the game will grow. This seems to be indicating a slow decline for the game - what I have come to call a death spiral. Additionally, the removal of the pro scene and the way pros were led to believe that HGC would continue up until this latest news, this has really dampened the enthusiasm of the most committed players and even casuals who watched them. Blizzard has to have though about the possibility of all of this beforehand, so all signs are only pointing in one direction, and it is not up.
You can still play with your friends. Boot up the game and look. QM still there, Unranked Draft still there, Ranked still there even as well. Nothing about HGC being canceled means you can't play fun games with your friends.
I guess we will have Heroes of the Phone soon. And HGC will be back eventually.
I'm lost for words, but I can't imagine how you feel.
Sorry dude - you guys have been awesome. No HGC this year is going to feel fucking strange...
I'm sorry to everyone who put their heart and soul into this game as the pros did.
It broke my heart a bit to hear how it was told to everyone in that scene as well, especially after being told everything was full steam ahead. So, to Kala, tempostorm and everyone else that put so much effort and love into the game and its community, I'm sorry this happened to you, you all deserved better.
Since the game is still moving forward, and new stuff is now announced will be coming out soon, I hope Kala
still will make more coaching vids so that we can still be better players and achieve higher rankings
in the HL or TL . His guidance has dramatically helped me move from from bronze to Plat.
that merry Christmas killed me. I feel for you and all the Hots people. I only enjoy the game casually but this just seems heart wrenching.
Well Blizzard lost their outstanding status and is becomming a more average development company. They have very big problems today. Nowadays, I even can imagine to see Blizzard go bankrupt or be overtaken by Activision completely in a few years.
You're aware WoW and overwatch are making them money hand over fist right? And despite Diablo immortal being talked down on so often more likely than not that game is gonna make them loads as well. They aren't going bankrupt anytime soon
@@yamifalcon I hope so
Merry fcking christmas to you too. FeelsBadMan
There is a great quote from True Detective that seems relevant (though this is not word for word): "You only live so long - so be careful what you get good at."
This game pretty much killed all the love I had for Blizzard. I've been following Blizzard all the way back since Blackthorne, Warcraft I and The Lost Vikings. I've bought and played almost every single game they ever made besides World of Warcraft. Coming from League of Legends in which I got to top 16 in the world (when there was only the NA server) and quitting after two years because the community was toxic and Riot games absolute trash, it was with a breath of fresh air that I moved to HotS.
However the report system and the way the game is conducted just makes you never want to say jack shit in chat or actually care, so for someone who is incredibly competitive as me, I felt the game just wasn't it. Reporting did nothing unless you get mass reported so people can say the most, inconsiderate ludicrous shit to you, you take videos and screenshots, present it to Blizzard staff and they do absolutely nothing. I spent over 3000€ in this game I have pretty much everything ever released but if I report someone who calls me a shit eating faggot and hopes I die from cancer and the staff tells me "just report them, what do you want me to do?" it's pretty shitty.
Added to this there was the Activision takeover, Destiny 2 being a joke, the Diablo announcement and I suddenly, after all this shit I just thought... this isn't the Blizzard I loved once anymore.
I'm glad I quit this game like 4 months ago when the queues in Master League were almost an hour at times. Still sad to see it go.
Fun fact: Google exists
Even more funnier of a fact: you never used it
Proof: Activision ain't Blizzard, Activision-Blizzard is the daughter company of Vivendi until they bought themself out of it and made Bobby Kotick the CEO of Activision-Blizzard. Who, if you didn't know... ain't the publishing CEO of either Activision nor Blizzard.
If you don't like Blizzard, then fine. Ain't something special not being a fan of a company, I am not a fan of several companies myself... but I am not a fan of those companies because they did or do something stupid.
Not because a meme told me to stop enjoying them.
@@ArgentumEmperio that is actually incorrect, sir. While Blizzard remains "autonomous" it's activision who is calling the shots. If they decide the HGC is not giving them profit and HotS is not going anywhere, they'll pull the plug.
They give 0 notice and fire everyone. I mean like Sonic LeBeast worked a year and a half just to qualify. Also didn't people just move to Cali to be on the right server? Also for the players they just released a massive change that players aren't going to know how to respond to. We would look to the pros to know how to play these changes and now its just going to linger and make the game terrible.
Well the game is far from dead. That's just an overreaction. But it's not looking too rosy.
Without an official pro scene, the community could get together and attempt to set up and grow independent tournaments instead of relying on Blizz to do it themselves. Better to fight for it, than just declaring a game we all love 'dead' and moving on. Because that will CERTAINLY kill it.
This is total bullshit I love this game like it’s a part of me or something I’ve spent tens of thousands of hours on it but this is the last straw. I thought what blizzard did to the Diablo fans was bad but this is on a new level. I will no longer buy anything blizzard related or support company I hope they go bankrupt. Kala bro Keep your chin up
You keep telling yourself that.
The next time something gets release from them, you'll be slobbering all over it like the dog you are.
lawlestest Yeah you can call me a dog all you want. What’s up with your name man does it mean do you engage in criminal activities and don’t care about the law. If that’s true you would know the two reasons do to get fucked up in prison. Not minding your own business talking to people crazy. That’s OK though I’ll let you get it out of your system. Talk shit all you want over the comments page and continue to make statements regarding others character when you don’t even know them it’s cool.
Christopher May he’s a troll. It’s better to just ignore them because getting mad makes them horny.
Cause Activision
LoneSoldier29 They need to hop off of Activision.
may i ask how is activision's fault?
That's a real convenient scapegoat, I'm sure their next games will be good *sarcasm*
Boycott Activision.
100%! Blizzard stopped caring about us, the consumers, the players, the fans. We have been tossed aside like some overused rag they used to wash their car with and now there throwing away the Windex, the pro players, the people who inspire us to be like them so we can play and have incredibly high-quality games in the future and come out on top and feel like badasses because we took on another team of almost perfectly equal skill level and won the game. Now that this is ALL gone, whats gonna happen to the player base? Whats going to happen to all the content creators and all the people that helped to build up the HoTS community? Whats going to happen to all the esports players and all other players that was wanting to strive to become an esports player for HoTS by putting an ungodly amount of hours into the game just so they can learn all team comps and positioning and everything else...whats going to happen to them? Its going to slowly, but surely....vanish...its just gone and we'll be left with some shell or husk of a game we used to love and enjoy and the only thing that will be left is the small remaining dedicated fans that will be incredibly upset because their favorite game is now no longer being washed...its just left there to get dirty, nasty, & burnt up in the hot sun, never to be driven down to Walmart to just pick up a few groceries. it'll just be sitting behind the house rotting under that pine tree so that the sap falls on it and gets sticky and becomes more grotesque. I understand that they will STILL have a few of the remaining DEV's but the foreseeable future...idk...doesn't look good... :(
Wow that last “Merry Christmas” really hit me hard :(. I’m sorry that you have you have to go through this after all the work you’ve put in
Casual player that only plays QM, but I've always loved HGC. Uninstalling today. Fuck you, Activision.
Merry Christmas, guys...
RiP Hots, rip you... sorry to hear this. I also liked the game but i‘m a freaking silver and i feel like i am just at the beginning. Now... it‘s a beginning with no End. GG WP Blizzard 🤯☹️
2:25 While the channel comment is funny, it's a sort of an ironic analogy of the result that shitty Activision has when they flash that potential money to Blizzard. Metaphorically, Blizzard is drinking themselves to death and the community has to deal with it. Everything from fucking Diablo to Overwatch to HOTS to anyone that has a cell phone. Hearthstone and WOW will survive because they're based around money. (I still appreciate their devs) fuck activision, however, at the same time... I've never seen such a tightly knit and dedicated community. It's such a terrible shame that the community that is most negatively affected by this bullshit is the Blizzard community. You guys are phenomenal and extremely passionate.
Couldn't even make HotS last longer than LoL, Blizzard? Really?
I can't believe this company right now. I fucking hate Activision and what it has done to Blizzard.
I was never a competitive HotS player but I really feel for you guys right now. As a competitive Overwatch player, this really frightens me and is way too close to home.
This is awful. I was so looking forward to the 2019 season. I even went out and purchase a bunch of tempo storm merch. My heart goes out to you. I hope you can figure something out. I'll always be a fan though. Try and have a happy holidays though.
As someone who played a LOT of alpha / beta hots, after a long time playing dota, i was seriously surprised the game even tried being a proper esport as i just couldn't see it being engaging enough either to play or watch once it went live and a lot of the fun synergies were taken out. I can't say i'm at all surprised it failed, but i'm really sorry for all the people who attempted to show faith in blizz by choosing HotS instead of a proper game like dota, cs, league etc. Blizz has shown recently that loyalty and their original fanbase mean nothing to them.
Honest question - What made you want to make a career around HotS instead of a better established game like Dota 2 or League?
LoL and DotA2 are two of the most boring games I have ever watched on twitch. Tournaments are lame and I’m not feeling it.
That’s probably because I don’t play those games - because I just can’t enjoy them. To me they are some of the worst games ever created tbh.
And that’s probably the reason you think HotS was bad and not fun to watch. You didn’t have any passion for it and didn’t know as much about its mechanics and heroes as you do with LoL/DotA2.
I know what you mean since I played moba games for such a long time...I mean you can not even spectate players ingame xD.... I wasn't surprised at all
@@eldrstarsong4085 What you call the "boring grindy" bits are what make the games interesting and tense in dota2 and why the viewership of the international and the yearly prize fund continue to grow each year. The main reason people call it boring is because they don't understand what's going on, and rather than try to learn WHY it's a big deal that the enemy team just stole a 5 stacked ancient camp, they go "pfft just more farming BOOOORED NOW". Even if you just base it on kills though and have no understanding or interest in the actual economics of the game, Dota 2 is still the highest kill count game of the main bunch, with hots and lol both being REALLY slow most of the time as far as actual kills go. You say hots takes out the boring parts but i say in reply that without any of the depth or complexity of the other games, HotS's ENTIRE game is boring, which is why nobody watches it and it failed as an esport.
@@NateTheScot The depth or complexity is just different.
In LoL it's the last-hit farm system + gold/items system.
In HOTS it's the dynamic map objectives system + experience/talents system.
In my opinion the second combination is better for these reasons:
- The last-hit system is absolutely unintuitive and illogic: in war what matters is that the enemies die, it doesn't matter who gives the final blows. And of course it makes no sense that you can only loot the enemy's money if you give the final blow, like it magically disappeared if you don't.
- The last-hit system is redundant because to kill enemies is a benefit itself, you don't need to add a second benefit to make you look forward to kill enemies. It only causes snowball effect for no reason. The same happens with experience system in HOTS, but less pronounced because talents are not as powerful as items.
- The last-hit system makes the micro game(combat) unnatural because with that system you have to try to give the higher amount of final blows(to minions) instead of trying to deal the highest damage to the enemy power as a whole. Many times when you could use an attack to hit a lot of minions and a player at the same time, you cannot do that because the minions have a concrete amount of HP that would turn into almost 0 and your minions would give a lot of last-hits, meaning that you lose a lot of money.
- The last-hit system makes the macro game(global strategy) artificially static because the players get much more benefit from taking up lanes than just kill enemies or destroy buildings, wich diminish the benefit of more dynamic strategies than just filling every lane with players. The same happens with experience system in HOTS, but less pronounced because you can kill minions without last-hit carefulness and therefore you can rotate more frecuently.
Insider in the core team in Hots said that they only learned themselves a few days ago that all of that was happening. I love this game it's so sad.
Heroes of the Storm was Blizzard's last original IP and last original creation so it makes sense it is the first thing 100% killed by Activision.
Activision is going to kill your other favorite Blizzard games and IP's soon. The company Blizzard we've loved for 25+ years is gone and it will take multiple miracles for it to come back and that sucks.
This hurts to say. Heroes of the Storm was the video game I loved the most, by far, the GOAT GAME. I wish I could show Activision this, but all they care about are graphs and pissing people off.
don't need to worry about activision killing the other games, they already did that a while ago
"original" Lmao.
It's just another moba, but in a different skin.
They're all the same.
@@lawlestest I mean, Technically MOBAs exist only BECAUSE of Blizzard...
Can someone explain what exactly Activision had to do with this? I don't play any of these games but I was just curious
@@Gu3ssWhatsN3XT I don't understand. How are the other games dead? Explain me with details if you dont mind, please.
Sorry Kala. :(
Ill still support the game and all of the pro channels none the less.
The problem is Blizzard tried to make a pro scene and league instead of make a good game and build up the community. They did it backwards. If it's a good, competitive game with a growing, large community, a competitive scene would form itself. Blizzard tried to force a competitive scene and continued to lose money doing it instead of focus those resources on the game!
its the end of the game
It completely killed all my motivation to play the game, I set a goal for myself to continue getting better and better and playing in everything I possibly could like Heroes Lounge/NGS etc to eventually go to the OD and possibly get into HGC. Now all of that is dead and there's nothing for me to work towards.
Oh wooooo I can try to be number one on the ladder for a game with no competitive scene, what a big waste of fucking time that would be now.
Im so bummed about the announcement bro. Devastated for everyone whos livelihood and time has been revolved around HotS. Its such a darn shame. This is my favorite game and its just a damn shame to see this. Keep your head up, you will find something to pour your passion into. Good luck.
probably victim of 40 billion loss from their stock over the diablo sadly
Serves them right for trying to squeeze money out of their playerbase with a mediocre copy/paste game.
Even bigger joke that diablo is banned in china, when they were trying so hard to sell it to the chinese "gamers".
Absolute joke of a company they've become.
From heroes to zeroes.
@@lawlestest Not banned, they are told to change things that dont fit on the Chinese "culture"
??? What do you mean? You realize that ALL GAMING STOCKS, of basically every company (especially those with lootboxes) took a hit back then right? It wasn't even thanks to the Diablo Immortal announcement, although that won't help the stock go back up.
Edit: Not apologizing, I'm saying, the stock loss WAS NOT Diablo Immortal, that was just hella bad timing.
@@katomamundara8106 ofc i agree.. you can see it on other companies but one thing they have in common and thats bad deccisions, microtransactions and bad state of their AAA recent games... it would be too ignorant to say just diablo .. but lets just say that timing and all the rumors how they need to cut budgets to their games for recent years you can see quality of blizz game rapidly going down....and this diablo mobile..well...it was the last nail to the coffin... and if i look across all the other AAA companies.. their plum could be ,,normal,, or in my opinion they did it to themselfs and its fully justified and hope they will start thinking again with their brains and passion than money greed alone.. and i would say diablo only made the decision over Hots possible cuz they originaly had planned tournaments for 2019 and send even month old updates to sponsors and teams about the details about them... so i think this decision was made just in few days as everyone is now cofused and mad... which i think diablo was the catalist
@@hyoon7685 Even companies who haven't had bad decisions of late however have been feeling stock blowback however.
Well, that's fucking bullshit. I can't say I didn't suspect it after the radio silence of the few weeks but it still sucks to hear ActiBlizz say it out loud.
Don't be sorry Kala - you put yourself into this game as much as any of the players you coach and we love you for it. I pulled myself up from Bronze to Plat2 with your advice helping me out and I'll always consider that an achievement worth remembering. And don't apologise for swearing either. - strong words for strong emotions are exactly what one would expect.
FWIW, I watched you play through Dark Souls 3 and think it was some of your best content ever. I came for HotS advice and kept watching for your personality and attitude.
Peace out you DirtySouthBoy. GL HF with wherever you go next.
Really sorry about this man. Watching you coach people has been so inspiring to me and it is really hurtful to see this all destroyed in the blink of an eye. Feels bad man.
This was a MOBA that was so refreshing coming over from League... granted I hadn't played in some time....I still came back to it and played matches from time to time. Hell even my good friend who would never touch a MOBA played with me for the longest time. Blizzard is really making some questionable moves lately
#ripblizzard2018, cant say more !
3:19 the way Merry Christmas was said was perfect. Merry?.. Christmas.
Duran Greig he Was about to say merry fucking Christmas, thats exactly what i would have Done
@@oddniit1669 haha, yeah you're right, I just re watched.
"It's just fucking bullshit. Merry Christmas" 😂
When you remember that esports was started by fans and players and not companies.
Good thing I switched to league. I really enjoyed the constant team-fighting aspect of HoTS and I can get the same vibe from playing aram in League
So pissed right now too man. Right there with you.
We all need to be strong and figure out a way to live with things we can't control sometimes. We are all going to feel this. You rock man! Wherever you go, this community will follow!
Just remember DIABLO IMMORTAL is the reason this is happening. They are on damage control and refuse to kill the parasite that caused it, cutting off the left foot instead of the pinky toad.
This is happening because HotS isn't popular or profitable enough. It's too bad that people who have devoted their life to playing a video game have had the rug pulled out from underneath them, but that's the economic reality of the situation.
@@swisskabob I would normally agree with you but I don't think that is the case. I think they lost a lot of money with diablo immortal ban in china as well as other games being put on the soon to be ban system in china. HGC cost money and takes a while to return only 10-15% on investment. This equates to them cutting cost to recover from massive stock and profit losses. Hots was simply the easiest one to cut as it has the smallest community
Robitoughin there is no function that puts you against bots in an unless an enemy leaves
@@swisskabob Happens with every game .. Nothing lasts forever, no matter how much money you keep dishing out.
This more likely than not has nothing to do with Diablo they're killing this game cause it's easily there their least profitable ip. Why spend resources on something that is giving you low returns and just draining your money.
Wine and dine with clowns and get treated like a fool.
Happy Holidays, hope you can find your way around this and transfer your passion and skills to something else Thanks for all the content and work you did for the community. We'll see you in the future.
Blizzard was fucking stupid as hell to allow Activision to take over everything and to not split ways with them when they saw the first sign of danger. Now it is becoming too late because of how long Blizzard has allowed Activision to make Blizzard their bitch and most of the important developers who used to work at blizzard are now gone. This is a perfect lesson on what greed can lead to. They sacrificed a large fan base and a very high reputation to take a chance for some extra money and now will end up with nothing.
feelsbadman hope they reverse this horrible decision
Holy shit... I mean I never played HotS, I only play LoL when it comes to MOBAs, but this is just not ok...
Gunna uninstall the launcher, Blizzard just doesn't care anymore. They don't need my money.
But then u cant play hots anymore...
"if there is no object to strive for what are we even fucking doing" - While I understand your point if the vast majority or HOTS draft players were playing with an idea of "one day I'll be a PrOGamEr!!" then they are delusional.
Well said, Kala. I'm glad you found the words, I've been absolutely speechless. Stay strong, brother.
Im so sorry for you and all who are affected with this BS... and i dont even play this game... i think we should call for a boycott with all these shitty game companies... another video game industry crash would be the appropriate thing to happen so that these companies will open their eyes...
I never really played MOBAs a lot or really tooo much of Heroes of the Storm, but it was actually the only MOBA I have actually had a fun time in. So sad to see this happening and I'm progressively losing faith in Blizzard.
The good thing is, the good competitive players will be able to find another game. The skills that made them successful will translate to other games.
I came back to the game 3-4 months ago and were playing like 10-12 hours each day. Started watching pros and youtube guides. Started watching you Kala (recommended you to a lot of people). I was steadily rising from basic gold (since I came back) to diamond 2 with quite a high win rate. I had found ~7 people to play TL often and together we were improving sooo much. But eh. I think it is all over. I disliked the new EXP change anyway, but hell I can get used to it, it is too early to tell. But now this is the nail in the coffin. I played a trial of an MMO last week and didn't want to buy it because of my HOTS would suffer, but now I think I will. It was fun while it lasted! Heh I played dota1 for 5-6 years, moved to LoL because it was better!! for 2-3 years and then to HotS because it was better!! but hahaha. What a joke.
It's really dumb. I don't even play HoTS more that a couple of dozen games per year when I'm too tilted/tired to play league or just looking for some chill time, and I'm pissed at this. I can't imagine what the HoTS Pro players and their staff must be going through right now.
I guess instead of defending and praising the game players who "loved the game" should have brought the flaws, even the ones they tried to deny were clearly there, to attention to be fixed. The game was medicated on new heroes, maps, cosmetics, and such. You guys got the game you wanted and you guys got the outcome you deserve. The game is still alive tho, so chill.... just without the Esports it didn't deserve. Funny how people turned on it now just cause the crutch of Esports making it appear to be better then it is ... is gone. Its not that i hate Heroes, i been in love with it since Alpha, but its problems grew just too much to stomach. I went from so many games played to being unable to stand to play more then a few matches... just waiting for real fixes to roll out, but they never came.
I don't hate the game, but it IS equally frustrating as it is fun. Game mechanics like rejoining and NO match ready check BEFORE entering lobby is gross. The newest Moba with crappier design. League of Legends doesn't punish people in queue cause some person is afk; the person afk gets kicked and the non-afk get thrown back into their position in queue. Hero balancing is fking awful and more awful since Overwatch introduced is High mobile heroes. And don't ever use the excuse of focusing someone with cc and burning them... cause the same can be done to your team and even prevented with stupid abilities like Medivh. Match making can't balance, because its impossible to balance. Warrior class can mean a dozen different actual specializations. Its one thing to have strength and weaknesses then another to be FLAT OUT STOMPED by someone in the same role.
The game isn't as good as people would like to believe and Blizzard just told you so. If it was actually even good fun it would have pulled the players in rather then having them quitting. Its not the end tho, just for Heroes Esports... and that Dorm thing. While I am loving it... i do wish the game made a huge comeback, but Devs don't have a clue nor will you help give it to them.
It was inevitable. Predicted this 3 years ago. This game is just too casual not carry heavy. Better cut it now than over time trust me.
welcome to dota
I remember in 2008 when they announced their partnership with Activision. I was 14 year old and I immediately knew that it was a horrible idea.
Now BFA is dying they got obliterated with dislikes in their channel in their recent vids. And Diablo, a fucking joke. And Ben brode left hearthstone. Not surprised that HotS was next.
I feel you bro, I feel you but all what we can do is thank them for all the past years.
On the 12th day of Christmas
Blizzard gave to me
12 minutes queue time
11 deaths Leoric
10 minute braxis
9 stacks Butcher
8 nerfs on Genji
7 strikes of Khara
6 minute mid brawl
5 man team wipe
4 employed devs
3 minute "GG
2 AFK-ers
and a cancelled HGC
I loved that community. F . PepeHands
I'm so sorry for what's happened here. I don't really follow the esports side of HotS but I know that this has devastated people who deserve so much better. I feel like we're witnessing the death of Blizzard at the hands of Activision and I am fully boycotting anything Activision from now on.
The J. Allen Brackening has begun.
I never was much into HotS, but I've respected their proplayers and their stories, victories and so on. I hope this won't bring you down, man, you will be able to switch. Blizzard really fucked you all guys in competetive scene without any lubrication.
If you watch MFPallytime video on this, it seems that the communication was non-existent internally at Blizzard as well. This is really just Acitivision putting their foot down and cancelling everything Blizzard wanted to do. Sucks. But we all knew it could only go downhill after Activision acquired Blizzard. :(
Why is the game dead if there is no competitive scene? I plan on still playing HOTS even though there is no competitive HOTS
This is absolutley fucking horrible news! I dont play this game anymore due to lootboxes and other things. But even as a esports fan, this is horrible! All the best Kala and others. I hope you find something to solve this situation!
Good thing they decided to show their hand before WoW classic got released, doubt I'll pay for it now.
HGC and Esport in this game is synthetic. Alpha and Beta was best time of HotS for common players.
where is mike morham, can we get a word from this guy?!
You buried your head in the sand. I've been a plat pleb for over a year and a half, qm for 2, and I knew this game was going down the shitter the moment they refused to address the reporting problem. You could notice a substantial drop in the number of players around that time - and Blizzard refused to address it, streamers refused to put pressure on them. I honestly don't feel bad for anyone affected by the death of HotS, in fact I actively wished it upon Blizzard. Their arrogance is hilarious, and only dwarfed by their incompetence.
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Goodbye blizzard
Blizzard could have lowered the budget for HGC and gradually phased it out, but no they just stopped. Put loads of people out of work, no where for the pros to go. I loved HGC, it was what football is to a football fan only much much better. I really hope that another company run a competitive HotS pro league, like it used to be part of the ESL, but I don't think it will happen :(
Thank you for what you did Kala, I learned a lot from your content. I uninstalled HotS hearing this news coz without HGC, this game doesn't have any interest. Good luck for your futur challenges. Peace man
R.I.P Heroes of the Storm :(:(:*(
I'm so sad to see this happening. I'm not crazy into competitive Hots but I still love seeing the pros play... C'mon Blizzard, you used to be better than this.
I love your videos and it was awesome to watch tips from a professional coach. I'm sad and I feel for you. You're a great person with an incredible mindset (aiming the community). I hope you have a wonderful future somewhere your heart can heal these wounds.