Upcoming Developer AMA, Blue Posts, HGC Minute

Greetings, Heroes!

Mark your calendars—we’re hosting a AMA here on r/heroesofthestorm on Friday, April 13 at 10:00 a.m. PDT!

We recently released a blog to share our thoughts on a few areas where we’ve seen lots of feedback and conversation taking place in the Heroes community. We know it’s impossible for a blog to cover every topic you may be curious about, so we’re bringing in several members of the dev team to answer some of the additional questions you might have.

A few specific areas we’d like to focus on during the AMA include: matchmaking, ranked play, Hero balance, and player behavior.

Attending will be:

• /u/BlizzAlan – Alan Dabiri (Game Director)
• /u/BlizzTravis – Travis McGeathy (Lead Game Designer)
• /u/BlizzCooper – Matt Cooper (Lead Content Designer)
• /u/Blizz_Joe – Joe Piepiora (Lead Systems Designer)

The Q&A will last roughly 2 hours, so make sure to post your questions in the thread we’ll be creating on the morning of April 13.

See you there!

Please note: We’ll also be asking players from non-English speaking communities to partake in the AMA by submitting their questions to the Community Managers representing their regions. As such, you might see a few Blizzard Community Managers posting questions (in English) on behalf of their communities during the Q&A. Feel free to upvote any questions you’d like to see answered.

We just released a new hotfix in order to resolve a bug affecting Nova's Snipe ability. (@BlizzHeroes)


I do want to say that I heavily disagree with the proposed implementation of the third ban, for the following reasons:

- Does not help Hero Diversity enough
- Increases the draft time more
- Does not address the uneven draft opening
- Makes drafting harder

I think that another ban in the opening phase would do even more to help in all of those areas and more, and in my opinion decreases the likelihood of role chokes by forcing the aggressor to show their hand at the opening of the draft phase.

Thanks for sharing your insight, this is super helpful! (@azgaz)