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Blizzard All-Stars Becomes Heroes of the Storm
It appears the Heroes of the Storm trademark is going to be used with The Game Formerly Known as "Blizzard All-Stars"! You can find some old screenshots from the last preview on the HoTS Wiki.



This article was originally published in forum thread: Blizzard All-Stars Becomes Heroes of the Storm started by chaud View original post
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  1. mmocd3c303b7a4's Avatar
    I hope this gets a release soon, i'm none too happy with Dota 2 atm
  1. Sellest's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Polyhymnia View Post
    Duuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuude
    DUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUDE

    Best news all week! I've been eagerly awaiting Blizzard DotA for over 4 years now!!
    Can't wait to see what Blizzard brings to the Moba scene, DotA 2 is fun but nothing comes close to the lore attached to Blizzard characters.
    exactly man, I would kill to have Dota 2 with official blizzard characters, but this fat ugly man like Storm Spirit..
  1. xaju's Avatar
    Heart of the Swarm


    Heroes of the Storm

    HotS.

    Dunno if anyone else caught that..
  1. mmoc7e272ebec5's Avatar
    Must... Not.. Get....Hyped...
    Everything I get hyped about is always a let down
  1. Sarevokcz's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Crymeriver View Post
    Don't do it F2P please. Do it cheap or atleast make it available for who have one blizzard game. But not free.
    they dont have a choice, really, if they wanna atlast try to compete. dota is completely free to play, LoL somewhat too, HotS cant come up with just a copy of LoL system, as that wouldnt attract LoL players at all, who already invested in their game, nor would it attract dota players tbh. And lets be honest, both dota and LoL are absolutely massive, I dont know exact LoL numbers other than the fact, that its played by much more people than dota, while dota2 has about 7million players and 500k+ concurrent players are the norm, weekends are even bigger (And the fact, that dota2 isnt even launched in china yet). Thats more than WoW had in years (and what whole bnet barely touches in weekend peak), thats how big those two games are and thats what Blizzard wants to compete with.

    This isnt vacated RTS playground, where SC2 had all the room it needed to make a lasting, popular esport (and still failed tbh.) This would be like making an MMORPG that can compete with not one, but TWO WoWs, good luck with that. Its a blizzard game, so obviously, its gonna be solid game and have some foolowing regardless, but its not gonna be a real competition to those two, unless some miracle happens.
  1. mmoc9a58a87011's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Duster505 View Post
    How much you think they paid for this compared if their best animators were put on making it? Besides... its not like Carbot is a big time expensive producer... it's youtube quality work.

    Again - Why should Blizzard launch the trademark name of new franchise with such low quality sloppy work ? Answer is pretty obvious.

    Troll for sure.....

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    Quote Originally Posted by Duster505 View Post
    If Tencent has no effect in Activision BLizzard.... Then why is BLizzard releasing such a junk video when re-branding of new franchise name for the company? And again... its junk compared to what players are used to from BLizzard.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZhNr563aJWs

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=de2KlsLnIVU

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aVtXac6if14

    And again trolling, nobody cant be this dumb.

    Infracted. Flaming is not tolerated here
  1. Maxilian's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Wildmoon View Post
    This is likely F2P. It's the business model for Dota audience.
    Is F2P, We already have a lot of info about the game

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    These is the video that was released when Blizzard Dota (that was its first name) was announced:
  1. Feindy's Avatar
    looks like a joke. hope its a fake
  1. Jokerfiend's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Thevannarch View Post
    Yes this is 100% credible right here. You totally didn't make this up.



    You're telling me that a for-profit company is trying to make more money? What? BLASPHEMY! While LoL may have more players Dota 2 is doing quite fine for itself with a solid 6.5 million active players (not including people who are still playing WC3 DotA). It's a more solid title with better production quality, more depth and more diversity within the gameplay. It's proven its longevity while LoL is more of a fad that is poorly balanced and the company (Riot) treats a good portion of its players like shit and handles the game disgustingly badly. Best of all it's made by a respected company (Valve) that has long seen the value in community made content. Valve also has a little something called Steam which has over 50 million active users, more so than LoL.
    What I said, got under this dude's skin so much, that he had to make another account to comment. LMAO.

    Nerd.

    To actually reply. Sorry, your behind the 8 ball, and had no actual clue what went down. Yeah, you can claim I don't have a clue, but I was there. Guinsoo had a meeting with Blizzard, once in person and once over the phone, over getting official Blizzard support. At least that's what Pendragon said, I mean FFS. Did they, actually, laugh. Probably not. Though it was just simply a joke to Blizzard, easily dismissed.

    It seems you are a bit of a Valve fanboy. I like DOTA2, I played it everyday. Though, it's not as fluid, it's clunky, blocky, and quite frankly dull. LoL, offers a more fluid game and better color scheme. Which makes LOL more appealing. I will agree, that DOTA2 has more depth and diversity as far as Champion customization. That doesn't make it better a game. That makes it a more complicated game. Combined with the FPS issues, delay issues, and overall shitty quality of the game, it makes for unnecessary complication.

    I wasn't wrong with my assessment of WoW = LOL, in terms; when it launched, how it has broken open the market, the color scheme and fluidity of the play.

    With your current attitude it's no wonder you got banned, from both MMO Champ and LOL. Butthurt much?
  1. Nerraw's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Feindy View Post
    looks like a joke. hope its a fake
    When was the last time they did a joke game outside of April 1st?
  1. Maxilian's Avatar
    @Jokerfiend... calm down, you don't have to get angry :S

    @Feindy, no is not fake
  1. Cosmic Janitor's Avatar
    When I first heard about this on TB's Content Patch I might have let out a totally unmanly squeal of self-righteousness to express my Schadenfreude towards all the blizzard fanbois in denial that this title will be anything but the next wow expansion. Looks like my initial hopes were true for once and it is indeed the dota stuff I couldn't care less about.

    I hope the animation is not their art style for this, as that would be kinda cheap for blizzard and only worthy of a browser game.
  1. Jedric's Avatar
    Hey guys. I am launching a fansite for Heroes of the Storm. Please check out HeroesForums.com and register if you are as excited for the game as we are!
  1. Jokerfiend's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by maxilian View Post
    @Jokerfiend... calm down, you don't have to get angry :S

    @Feindy, no is not fake
    Angry? No. Slightly annoyed? Yes. Total humored? Absolutely.

    Valve fanboy, had to make an account just to comment about something I said. Which also allows me to draw a couple of conclusions. That they also had to make another email address, got banned from the forums already, and got banned from LoL. I made them so angry over an experience and opinion I have/had. It's hilarity in it's finest hour. I feel honored.

    I feel like Randall from Clerks. When he made fun of LotR so bad, that he made some nerd puke. Now, I get to make you clean it up.
  1. Maxilian's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Haidaes View Post
    When I first heard about this on TB's Content Patch I might have let out a totally unmanly squeal of self-righteousness to express my Schadenfreude towards all the blizzard fanbois in denial that this title will be anything but the next wow expansion. Looks like my initial hopes were true for once and it is indeed the dota stuff I couldn't care less about.

    I hope the animation is not their art style for this, as that would be kinda cheap for blizzard and only worthy of a browser game.
    I posted a video of their first trailer, there you can see the actual graphics and a little bit of the gameplay, i will post it again for you:

    Note: The name is Blizzard Dota, cause it was the first video released before having problem with the name



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    Quote Originally Posted by RAWRF View Post
    This game is going to be complete shit. Bliz can't even balance their classes in WoW, what makes anyone think they can balance champions in a MOBA? lol.
    And in the end, they are still in the top..., so why don't give them a chance?
  1. mmoce05feee610's Avatar
    If they totally scraped blizzard dota id play it but if it's the same game they showed us 2(3?) years ago i won't even bother, it looked awful, gameplay and design
  1. Maxilian's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by laumex View Post
    If they totally scraped blizzard dota id play it but if it's the same game they showed us 2(3?) years ago i won't even bother, it looked awful, gameplay and design
    Well it was 3 years ago, so many things would have changed, BTW what's wrong with their gameplay? (i like the chess like map T.T )
  1. Aeluron Lightsong's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Jokerfiend View Post
    Angry? No. Slightly annoyed? Yes. Total humored? Absolutely.

    Valve fanboy, had to make an account just to comment about something I said. Which also allows me to draw a couple of conclusions. That they also had to make another email address, got banned from the forums already, and got banned from LoL. I made them so angry over an experience and opinion I have/had. It's hilarity in it's finest hour. I feel honored.

    I feel like Randall from Clerks. When he made fun of LotR so bad, that he made some nerd puke. Now, I get to make you clean it up.
    You like to insult people don't you.
  1. Jokerfiend's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Aeluron Lightsong View Post
    You like to insult people don't you.
    Insulting? I didn't start the fire...

    He questioned my credibility, while, having none of his own. Fanboyed Valve like a 12year old girl. Made an account just to comment, more than likely because he is already banned.

    Yeah... totally on me.

    I can take a good guess on who the account belongs too. ^^^^^
  1. Maxilian's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Jokerfiend View Post
    Insulting? I didn't start the fire...

    He questioned my credibility, while, having none of his own. Fanboyed Valve like a 12year old girl. Made an account just to comment, more than likely because he is already banned.

    Yeah... totally on me.

    I can take a good guess on who the account belongs too. ^^^^^
    Don't try to guess, cause if you're wrong, you will only end up hating someone for no reason

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