A sense of melancholy spread throughout the community as it collectively mourned the game, and what could have been.īut it seems that the eulogising was premature. Casual players either left, cut back their playtime, or went to the Nexus, had a pint and waited for it all to blow over. Professional players scrambled to find new titles to play, while dwindling view counts and a gutted player based forced popular streamers to try and build followings in other games.
It didn’t take much for players to read between the lines: Heroes was on life support. The post promised that Blizzard would continue to support the game, but warned that “the cadence will change”. In a blog post, the company announced that it was shifting development resources away from Heroes of the Storm to other projects and cancelling the game’s official esports programs - Heroes Global Championship and Heroes of the Dorm - altogether. Late in 2018 Blizzard Entertainment all but signed the death warrant of Heroes of the Storm, its MOBA that brings together beloved characters from the Warcraft, Diablo, StarCraft and Overwatch universes.
