Blizzard Entertainment: Heroes of the Storm (HotS)

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Developer: Blizzard Entertainment

Genre: MOBA, Hero Brawler

"LET THE BATTLE BEGIN!
Heroes of the Stormâ„¢ is a raucous online team brawler starring your favorite Blizzard characters. Build and customize heroes from across every Blizzard universe to suit your play style. Team up with your friends and engage in fast-paced mayhem across varied battlegrounds that impact strategy and change the way you play the game." - Official Site

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iviajoi2n | Mordy#1393

I signed up for the beta key a while back but never ended up getting one :/ Seems to me like a casual MOBA compared to something like League of Legends or Dota 2, which I am really looking forward to because I stopped being competitive for a while.

Play Awesomenauts then.

Also signed up for the beta, but I don't know how I feel about this yet. Honestly I just wish Blizz would give me a WC4, but I'm willing to try a MOBA from them. It's better than another WoW expansion.

Anyone get into the Alpha yet?? I got my invite this week and i got no one to play with.

Are they planning to make this into a E-sports game or just casual fun?

Casual fun, originally it was supposed to be Blizzard's dip into the MOBA Esports money racket but they settled for it's current state. Overwatch is trying to take that place now.

This game's so bad I feel filthy for having an alpha invitation on my account.

Game is fun but there lots of balancing that need to be done, specially in abathur case, yah cant just have a hero that can spam both damage and shield freely while being untouchable in addition to passively push a lane throughout it all.

After playing it some more i can vouch for the casual fun, it doesn't have the same feel you get from playing the other Mobas. It doesn't have that "Pressure to win" i guess? they probably wanted to stem the tied of toxicity. Didn't really stop toxic players from coming though, lol.

Well I'm sure you know this but MOBA deviancy is cancer, it's unstoppable and few openly appreciate it while many advocate it's cure.

Blizzard definitely made the right choice in making no all chat like Strife did and while that does nothing to stop bullshit from your own team, it helps. I actually think it's really smart to have no all chat since the only time you would want to talk with the other team is either harmful(flaming, feeding, etc.) or as a joke, and a missed joke is a small price for preventing cancer.

HoTS is the kind of game I would like to play but couldn't stick with. They have some really damn good ideas going with Murky and Abathur(whoops wrong game) but progression is screwed and other heroes don't really seem that appealing or innovative. It's casual, the game you briefly pick up two times in a year when something happens that catches your eye.

Yeah, there's pre-determined emotes you can do to the other side though right? Seen people do them sometimes. Also are you in the Alpha??

Emotes are still better than cancer.

No I'm not in the Alpha. I considered my options and while HoTS offers refreshing ideas, I'm content with the other MOBA selections. Maybe if it gets better later.

I think they should have the all-chat, not because i want to flame or anything like that, but the all-chat jokes are the best (at least from experience in League). What you really need is the /ignore function that should cure the hateful chat.

In my experience most of the toxicity comes from your own team most of the time anyways.

Yep, that is true and that is why the ignore function is very important. I just think they shouldn't remove the all-chat.

FYI i have 5 Beta keys available if anyone wants it post here and i can PM them via the forums.

I would like one please.

PMed them to you also edited the original post, i actually have 5 keys.

I would like to have one too if you hand them out, been wanting to try this game now for some time.

Have another 5 North American HoTS keys if anyone wants them.


EDIT: Down to Three Keys