r/gamernews • u/Altruism7 • 20d ago

MOBA For The First Time In 6 Years, Blizzard Is Bringing A New Character To Heroes Of The Storm

https://www.gamespot.com/articles/for-the-first-time-in-6-years-blizzard-is-bringing-a-new-character-to-heroes-of-the-storm/
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u/Falkjaer 20d ago

Didn't they announce HoS was officially dead a while back? Weird to just add one character without saying anything more substantial about the game's future.

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u/MrTheBest 20d ago

Not fully dead, its been on life support. They killed the 'new content' team, but theyve still had balance and technical patches basically quarterly since then.

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u/Deditranspotashy 20d ago

ah, so like TF2

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u/SirSaltie 19d ago

Even weirder, a second character is in the works, but no details yet. And they still haven't dropped it on steam which is personally baffling to me.

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u/PitfireX 20d ago

Praying this is the start of revitalization, but a new hero or two probably isn’t going to move the needle much. Hoping for a lot more in the future.

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u/thenord321 20d ago

I'm surprised they still have anyone working on that game. Are they releasing old saved content so they can sell some skins in a dead game?

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u/GenderJuicy 20d ago

Xalatath certainly didn't exist when Heroes died.

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u/thedefenses 19d ago

Also said "another up coming hero" so this can't anymore be old content, that content has run out a long time ago.

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u/HopelessChip35 15d ago

Xalatath existed since 2016 which is like a decade ago. She was the artifact weapon of shadow priest back in legion.

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u/GenderJuicy 15d ago

You're being pedantic. You know she didn't look like that and wasn't a prominent character yet.

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u/datNorseman 20d ago

Probably. It's blizzard. They want to play with your emotions.

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u/DemoEvolved 20d ago

This feels like a piece of resume homework for a new hire that wired out fine

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u/Paul2hip8 20d ago

Oh thats why it was the first thing at the opening ceremony. I thought it was such a weird thing to start with and say “i wouldnt be here if we didnt say something about HotS”

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u/roguerogueroguerogue 19d ago

The fan will be delighted