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An Update on the Future of Heroes of the Storm

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Moving forward, Heroes of the Storm will enter maintenance mode and the game will be supported in a manner similar to StarCraft games. No new content is planned for the game besides balance patches.

A balance patch will go live next week and all players will receive an Epic Arcane Lizard mount.

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This June marks the seven-year anniversary of Heroes of the Storm. Combining legendary characters from all of our universes, it naturally brought players together into a truly unique experience. Heroes and its community are home to some of the most passionate gamers from around the world and we’re committed to making sure that you can continue to enjoy your adventures through the Nexus. 

Moving forward we will support Heroes in a manner similar to our other longstanding games, StarCraft and StarCraft II. In the future, we’ll continue seasonal rolls and hero rotations, and while the in-game shop will remain operational there are no plans for new for-purchase content to be added. Future patches will primarily focus on client sustainability and bug fixing, with balance updates coming as needed.

As a token of our appreciation, we are gifting the incredibly rare Epic Arcane Lizard mount to all players with next week’s patch.

To our Heroes community, we say, “thank you”. You continue to be one of our most passionate communities, we’re grateful for your continued dedication and support, and as always, we look forward to seeing you in the Nexus.

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Q    75

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Unfortunate but not unexpected since the last major update was over a year ago, IIRC.

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Arcling    764

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That's it for HotS, at least it's officially announced now. The writing was on the wall, as they say.

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TyZone    398

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I loved this game, so gutted they abandoned its growth. So many amazing heroes we never got!
 

 

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Prophet001    403

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This game was OK but it didn't live up to League which is what it was trying to do.

The unique maps thing was nice. I think League could use some more maps.

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Skayan    52

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3 hours ago, Staff said:

As a token of our appreciation, we are gifting the incredibly rare Epic Arcane Lizard mount to all players with next week’s patch.

Great, mount that will be gifted to everybody. Such rare, very wow.

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Arcling    764

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9 minutes ago, Skayan said:

Great, mount that will be gifted to everybody. Such rare, very wow.

All those players who quit the game and don't log in won't get it! 😜

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Rogue    1

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Let's be honest, Blizzard pulled the plug on Heroes back in December 2018 when it scrapped HGC at the last possible minute and moved most of its devs to other internal teams. Heroes is still one of my favorite Blizzard games, but no one wants to play a live game that is no longer supported by its developer. One can only hope Microsoft revives this project or outsources it to a different studio.

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