7 Reasons why Heroes of the Storm is a fail
Heroes of the Storm was released a few years ago, it was fun at start but soon people realized that it is a total failure.
Here are 7 reasons why this game is a total failure.
1. RNG.
Like Hearthstone, Blizzard made Heroes of the Storm to be based on RNG. Quick Matches are terrible because of the RNG. The heroes from your team, vs the heroes from the enemy team are random. There is no pick mode in quick matches. You could face 2 tanks and 3 strong dps as 5 squishy heroes. And the game already is 90% win in favour of the enemy team.
Sometimes you just want to pick a hero and play it, but the RNG is terrible.
2. Games are too fast.
A game usually lasts for 10-15 minutes. They feel like they don’t even matter. After a game, you feel some sort of fatigue, you can start a new game but you know that you will do the same thing all over again. If the first game felt a bit fun because you didn’t played for a certain amount of hours or days, the second game doesn’t seem to be appealing at all.
3. Heroes are not overpowered.
Heroes don’t have overpowered abilities. They basically can’t solo any player, unless they play a high assassin vs a very squishy hero. There are no 1v1 duels based on skill. There are no overpowered flashy ultimate abilities. Because of that, it seems unfair and not fun at all. Not even near the end of the game when the heroes are at max level. Heroes should feel very powerful, but they don’t. This is also due to the next point.
4. No items and nothing in the background.
Having items is not casual friendly. But that would have improved the game quite a lot, adding some form of complexity. A reason to play a second game after the first. Maybe you didn’t had enough time to get a certain item combo. Or you want to try a different item combination.
With no items, no complexity, the second, third game and so on will be the same as the first one.
Blizzard could have found a casual way to add and use items in the game.
5. Too many maps.
Maybe you don’t like a certain map or two. Like in World of Warcraft, in battlegrounds. You can queue for a certain battleground (map). You can’t do that in Heroes of the Storm.
It would be nice to give the players this option, even if the queue will be longer if they pick a certain map.
There are times when a new map is getting released. You might have to play 10 games and that map still doesn’t pop up.
6. No heroic games.
Since heroes don’t feel powerful, there are no end game heroic moments. I remember playing DotA Warcraft many years ago and we were 2 players vs 5. We managed to defend the base for 30 minutes / 1 hour. Managing to do a heroic defence. That felt powerful and real compared to what we have in Heroes of the Storm. There is no balance and because of that the game is all the time in favour for a team.
You either win flawlessly or you lose flawlessly, you get hammered to the point that you don’t even want to play the game anymore. If you win a game, 80% of the time it feels that it was because of RNG, and not based on skill at all. It’s not rewarding.
7. The interface, the graphic style don’t seem that great.
Compared to the Warcraft 3 Battle.net interface, the graphic level design, Heroes of the Storm is much worse.
The style doesn’t seem very cozy or friendly like the Warcraft 3 style is.
They could have come with a lot of different styles, but the current one is just boring.
And I could continue to talk about the heroes having classes, no rewards after winning a game, no sense of progression, skins don’t matter, mounts don’t matter, that you can’t really improve at the game, it all relies on RNG, the fact that having SF and Fantasy universe heroes/maps don’t really match and it looks weird and unpleasant.
DotA 6.83e will never come out, 6.83d is the last version
DotA 6.83d was released on 10 June 2015, 3 years ago.
Icefrog and all the developing team have moved over to DotA 2, to have better control over the game mechanics, not be limited by the Warcraft 3 editor anymore.
And why not, to make profit from the game, since Warcraft DotA was a simple Warcraft 3 map.
Since then, the official getdota.com website has been abandoned, it still runs but it only displays the latest DotA map version, without anything else being there.
Some other developers have started to develop new maps, based on 6.83d, but the Warcraft DotA map fame has faded over time.
Very few still play this game that was insanely good at some point in time.
There are still servers and places where people can play the game, Eurobattle.net, Battle.net, Garena and so on.
Heroes of the Storm Overview
I have been playing this game for around two months, after receiving a beta key from Blizzard.
The game is very different from the classic DotA map and even compared to LoL or DotA 2.
The gameplay is more focused on teamplay, you can’t really gank like we did in the old DotA or play solo on lanes, your main focus is to get XP for your team and also to win the mini-games from the map that you’re playing.
The best things about HoS are the heroes. We can play the famous Warcraft characters like Uther, Muradin, Arthas. However, most of the heroes are just not fun.
You can find a Muradin gameplay video to understand how this game works.
Heroes of the Storm is still in beta. Blizzard needs to fix a lot of stuff and make the game more fun.
Right now, the games are not very balanced, meaning that a team can easily win and a player can’t do anything, which is very frustrating.
DotA 6.79 AI won’t be realeased soon
It looks like the developers that have worked to the previous DotA AI maps have retired. You can check this topic from the official playdota.com forums (you need an account to access the page).
Taken from that topic:
“The 6.78 AI farewell, will be the last map for the next 3 years I guess. Someone should re-code it because I tried looking at the code, I have no idea of the declared variables and without the knowledge of the makers of “farewell”. I think it will be really farewell as for now.”
There has been a few months since the last AI map was released (January), the initial developers haven’t said a word since then. There are a few raw maps posted on the official 6.78c AI forum thread that should be used for further development.
You might find some 6.79 AI maps on the web but those are not recognized officially by the community and they might be full of bugs.
The latest AI map is DotA 6.78c AI v1.4e, you can download it from here.
How to download and play DotA 2 in 5 steps
Step 1: Install Steam client from here: http://store.steampowered.com/about/ (free).
Step 2: Run Steam. From the “Store” tab, write “DotA” in the search bar. Click on “DotA 2”.
Step 3: From the DotA 2 page, click on “play game” > choose where you want to install the game on your PC > next > wait for the game to download. Close that window if you see a button called “finish”. Click on “Library” > all games. Notice DotA 2 downloading in the left side. The game has around 2 gigabytes so be patient.
Step 4: Once the game was downloaded and installed, click the “play” button in order to start the game.
Step 5: Once the game was launched, click on the “play” tab > click on “find a match” from the left panel > click on “Find Match” from the center of the UI.
Enjoy.
The DotA brand being disputed by Valve and Blizzard
During the last months, Blizzard has tried to obtain the DotA brand. Their dispute was against Valve, the company that is currently developing DotA 2.
The final decision was that Blizzard will keep their “DotA” name for the non-commercial DotA map that is developed by Icefrog (Warcraft 3), while Valve will keep their brand for DotA 2.
Those who follow Blizzard’s news are familiar with the fact that they are developing their own MOBA (Multiplayer Online Battle Arena) video game. Their new game will be named “Blizzard AllStars” and will feature most of the well known characters from the Blizzard’s games, Starcraft, Diablo and the Warcraft universe.
