Originally Posted by
Triceron
HOTS is in a weird position.
It's barely above maintenance mode at this point, but I feel like it's a stronger game for it even if the population jumped ship after the HGC cancellation debacle. The reworks are amazing, the game feels a lot smoother to play, and aside from slower hero releases I think the game is still solid where it is.
HGC was cool and all, but it was really holding a lot of things back. They couldn't implement much-needed changes without affecting big tourneys like that, and the constant addition of new heroes had 'feature creep' dominating the meta.