Heroes of the Storm

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  1. chumpwithnoname
    Jul 7, 2020
    1
    This game is pure garbage because it doesn't know what it is. It was obviously designed for tablets but runs on PC.
    Garbage controls (cause tablets design, garbage meaningless heroes, every game feels the same, garbage cartoonish visuals).
    Try DOTA2 instead, every game is unique and your choices matter all the time. in HOTS nothing what you do is actually matters.
  2. seking812
    Oct 20, 2018
    0
    the worst out of the MOBA genre. while League of Legends and DOTA 2 continue to grow, heroes of the storm only developed their cash grab loot boxes model, beyond that nothing else. uneven and more often than not lop-sided matchmaking makes the match last an average of 12-15 minutes where one team decimates the other. balance only applies as far as any heroes with upcoming skins. new heroesthe worst out of the MOBA genre. while League of Legends and DOTA 2 continue to grow, heroes of the storm only developed their cash grab loot boxes model, beyond that nothing else. uneven and more often than not lop-sided matchmaking makes the match last an average of 12-15 minutes where one team decimates the other. balance only applies as far as any heroes with upcoming skins. new heroes are over-tuned for the first 2 weeks until they are sold enough, then nerf down to below working condition.
    the forums bleed with playes asking for the same two things, balance and matchmaking, yet blizzard continues to work on "lore" that makes no sense and throw giant re opening events, only to fall flat when people AFK and leave games since there is no punishment for leaving.
    this saddens me as a blizzard fan boy, i have played wow, SC I and II and diablo for years. overwatch is my favorite shooter. too bad blizzard simply sees this sad MOBA as a way to pick up whatever pennies its players are willing to throw their way.    … Expand
  3. HotsIsGarbage
    Dec 7, 2018
    0
    Garbage moba, garbage matchmaking,it;s nothing but a cash grab.
    Purposely releasing overpowered heroes so all the 12 year old would get their mom's credit card to buy the latest hero and dominate the battleground and it takes months until they nerf.
    Don't waste your time with this game .
  4. Kontracraft
    Jun 14, 2015
    4
    First of all, I enjoyed this game for about 3-4 weeks but, the more time I spent on it the more I started to dislike this game.

    I'll list some thing that bother me and try to explain it so everyone will be able to understand it. (My english is horrible btw.) 1, Garden Of Terror: My most hated map to date, I just couldn't believe how much Blizzard fu**ed up with this one. They put the    First of all, I enjoyed this game for about 3-4 weeks but, the more time I spent on it the more I started to dislike this game.

    I'll list some thing that bother me and try to explain it so everyone will be able to understand it. (My english is horrible btw.)

    1, Garden Of Terror: My most hated map to date, I just couldn't believe how much Blizzard fu**ed up with this one. They put the most brainless gameplay into it, with farming frequently spawning neutral monsters to spawn a huge player controlled monster with a skill that disables an entire base and basically rapes the whole fort within seconds if there is no player around to prevent this skill from doing so, it would be fine if it was on a high cooldown or it couldn't be used more than twice per monster. But no, this fu**ing skill can just be spammed until the opposite team somehow (the monster also has a movement speed boost and a 2-6 sec aoe cc with low cooldown) managed to kill this f**k.

    2. Haunted Mines: Pray to the matchmaking they put a tank, a support and an assassin with medium to high burst in your team. Otherwise the enemy team will just snowball your as* to nirvana because if your team gets behind at the beginning of the game you could surrender instantly (if you could). The map is again designed on farming frequently spawning neutral skeletons to power up an skullgolem (which spawn for both teams after you killed all skeletons) to push one of your lanes to oblivion. The strength is based on the amount of skeletons killed and skulls collected. Sounds fun at first but if you f**k up once and let the other team collect about 20 more skulls than yours, the golem will simply destroy one building after another put their team about 1-2 levels above yours and lower your chance to turn that match to your favor to almost 0. Also the golems respawns at the spot you killed it.

    3. Permanent stealth/Nova: Who on earth had the idea that permanent invisibility was a good idea in the first place? It's just ridiculous, yeah you can see where they are because they blur the texture slightly, but if you have some vision problems like me (even with glasses) you can't see them most of the time and (as for Nova) they just instaburst your as* and leave as if nothing happend. And in most soloq matches your team doesn't even try to group up, so you have almost no counterplay potentional as an class other than an assassin. Even though Nova is considered a bad pick in matches with experienced players, casual players or beginners lose to her most of the time. Towers also can't see through stealth.

    4. Hero costs: Im not complaining about the cash grab stuff, if you waste money on a Moba it's your fault. The gold prices of some heroes, especially the 10k gold heroes, are just ridiculous. It would be fine if you could earn about 100-200 gold per match, but no, they leave you with 20/30 (lose/win) gold per match. If you spent money on stimpacks you have a bonus of 150%, so it would be 50/75 gold per match. You need about ~500-134 matches or ~10000-2680 minutes just for 1 hero.

    5. Most heroes: Last but not least are most of the heroes. If there were no lore or something relateable to them, I wouldn't even look at some of them. Every class has more than 2 heroes that are basically the same, heck most of them even have to use the same talents in order to fulfill their role. Instead of giving them unique abilitys to fit into their roles, most of them have to use the same attack speed steroid or the same blocking ability.

    I played this game for a while now, and with the highest level of 40 and about 250 games played I have to say that this game is not good. It's is not horrible or trash oder something like this, but it lost it charme way to fast for a Moba.    … Expand
  5. Skemes
    Jul 28, 2015
    4
    Reviewer Perspective:
    I have invested around 1k hrs in both Dota 2 and LoL, along with around 30 or so hours in HoTS. I have also played numerous Blizzard titles and actually quite enjoyed them.
    TL;DR: Cash-grab based on MOBA's that lacks Blizzard's usually quality control. Highly repetitive and poorly fleshed-out. Most professional reviewers were obviously bought-out. There's little    Reviewer Perspective:
    I have invested around 1k hrs in both Dota 2 and LoL, along with around 30 or so hours in HoTS. I have also played numerous Blizzard titles and actually quite enjoyed them.

    TL;DR: Cash-grab based on MOBA's that lacks Blizzard's usually quality control. Highly repetitive and poorly fleshed-out. Most professional reviewers were obviously bought-out. There's little quality to this game.

    By the Categories (Best-Worst):

    Multiplayer Interactivity: (8/10):
    Since the game is incredibly easy to understand and low stakes, Friends are easy to invite to the game, and it's quite enjoyable while intoxicated with people that have highly variable video game skill levels.

    Technological Demand (6/10):
    This game actually runs pretty poorly and has not been well-optimized. It works well for certain rigs and not for others, and is completely independent of the overall quality of the PC.

    Gameplay (4/10):
    Gameplay is highly repetitive with an incredibly low skill cap that makes the game feel quickly unrewarding. Much of the strategy is at the team level, and this isn't a very interesting game to begin with, so solo players will derive very little pleasure from this.

    Graphics (2/10):
    This is a straight up ugly game. Blizzard is known for their quality art style and aesthetic. This looks like garbage. The art direction is a mismatch of Blizzard titles with the anti-aliasing turned off. While hero spells may match their aesthetic individually, when all of them are mashed together on screen, it looks horrendous.

    Monetization Scheme (2/10):
    As of right now, HoTS has around 35 or so heroes. Most of the new or interesting heroes cost more than $10, or almost 2 weeks of grinding. Free heroes rotate weekly, but since the overall hero pool is very low, the number of free heroes is pitifully small, which leads to a new player experience of highly repetitive games.

    Skins cost an obscene amount of money, and hero packs (where one can buy several heroes for a 'reduced' price) are very few and actually not that good of a deal. Those expensive skins, while a luxury, are just plain overpriced. They are simplified hats that don't change hero abilities, idle animations, or anything relevant that provides actual worth for the $20 price tag.

    Yes, LoL's scheme is similar, although it has a far larger share of the overall market since it 'got there' first, and offers significant advantages over HoTS: a significantly larger hero pool, a large pro scene, large discussion base, more overall game complexity. This is coming from a person that actually dislikes LoL. The question needs to be asked why publishers think they can offer a game of inferior quality to current games on the market with the same monetization scheme when actual F2P MOBA's of high quality, such as DOTA2, which offers all heroes and content for free, exist.

    4/10, and that's mostly because it's great to play with friends that are normally trash at video games.    … Expand
  6. AdamM88
    Jun 26, 2016
    0
    The game has been out for years. Virtually everyone who plays it and wants to like it decides not to play it after a short while. Why? Mostly because of the absolutely pathetic matchmaking and ranking system. What's bad about the game will never improve. The WHOLE community is very vocal and unanimous about those things. And what's good about the game will never outshine the bad featuresThe game has been out for years. Virtually everyone who plays it and wants to like it decides not to play it after a short while. Why? Mostly because of the absolutely pathetic matchmaking and ranking system. What's bad about the game will never improve. The WHOLE community is very vocal and unanimous about those things. And what's good about the game will never outshine the bad features of the game. Save yourself from hours of frustration, and play Dota/Lol/whatever. Don't waste time on this steaming pile of crap.… Expand
  7. HeLted
    Jun 4, 2015
    0
    This game is bad.It pushed me away in the moment i started it.So here is my experience from this game summed up.
    1.Heroes are lame-No matter what you think this is the MOBA(Arts) with most lame kit's i have ever seen.It's like they are made for childish playerbase.How do you make competitive game when the heroes are so dumbed down and easy to play
    2.Nothing matters-First of all the    This game is bad.It pushed me away in the moment i started it.So here is my experience from this game summed up.
    1.Heroes are lame-No matter what you think this is the MOBA(Arts) with most lame kit's i have ever seen.It's like they are made for childish playerbase.How do you make competitive game when the heroes are so dumbed down and easy to play
    2.Nothing matters-First of all the heroes are with similar stats and they have equal power.So teamfight's are just one big **** can't kill person alone because it take's 5 **** minutes to do so.You can't chase most of the time because the spell range is so small.You have no gold or items and your level is shared with your teammates.You don't have any advantage what so ever no matter what you do you are weak.You have no progress.
    3.The Maps are stupid-There are like 5 variations of 1 map with different objective wich are so lame.For instance you have to kill one golem in the jungle and collect seeds and if you collect enough he comes to fight for your team and destroys enemy base in 2 pushes.So the objective is not to destroy enemy fortress.The object is to kill a **** neutral and win the game because of that.    … Expand
  8. smloomis
    Jun 21, 2015
    2
    I started playing this game and it was fun at first. It felt casual and fun with dynamic strategy to discover. But after I won a few games, the game took the training wheels of and I was constantly matched with highly skilled players. The game became very unforgiving. It felt like if I died once, the scales would tip in the opponents favor and we could never recover.

    After a while the    I started playing this game and it was fun at first. It felt casual and fun with dynamic strategy to discover. But after I won a few games, the game took the training wheels of and I was constantly matched with highly skilled players. The game became very unforgiving. It felt like if I died once, the scales would tip in the opponents favor and we could never recover.

    After a while the game became very predicable. After the first five minutes, whichever team was in the lead would always win. 9 times out of 10 this was the opposite team.

    If you try to quit and start a new game, the game punishes you and calls you a "leaver" and throws you back into the game you just quit. You cant start a new game until the last one ends.

    Overall this game lifted me to the heights of enjoyment, the left me in the pits of dispair. Shame on you Blizzard. This will be my first and last MOBA.

    Pro Tip: If you want people to keep playing your game, they should actually be able to win once in a while. Nothing makes someone lose interest faster than constantly losing with little hope of success.    … Expand
  9. Psyga
    Sep 19, 2015
    0
    Casuals are quitting because of the toxicity and overpriced heroes.

    Hardcores are quitting because of the dumbed down mechanics (too much focus on team-fight and objective) and utterly broken MM. Everyone is leaving thanks to the devs who only cares about cash-grabbing and keep ignoring the player-base. Currently the game is not worth playing, the development plan is too tied up    Casuals are quitting because of the toxicity and overpriced heroes.

    Hardcores are quitting because of the dumbed down mechanics (too much focus on team-fight and objective) and utterly broken MM.

    Everyone is leaving thanks to the devs who only cares about cash-grabbing and keep ignoring the player-base.

    Currently the game is not worth playing, the development plan is too tied up with other Blizzard IPs (i.e new heroes and maps) so devs have ZERO flexibility to deal with feedbacks. Also, the game is not casual friendly, it's more like ''clueless friendly'' , as long as you have a brain, you will greatly suffer from clueless players who play like yolo swags and never try to communicate with others. Since the MM is broken and the player-base is too small, no matter how good you are you will often have to play with those clueless bastards.

    Just avoid this game like a plague, whether you like MOBA or not, this game is not worth your time.    … Expand
  10. Someonon
    May 19, 2016
    0
    Heroes are cool, gameplay would be fun if not for those **** premades in quick match
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  11. Loocsinatas
    Jun 3, 2015
    2
    I made a metacritic account just to express my distaste towards this horrible example of an MOBA game.
    -No items, -no gold, -no rewards for killing players, -almost no customization. Getting minion kills doesnt even matter because your whole team shares XP. Heroes of the Storm is incredibly watered down and over-simplified. I've played about every MOBA out there and this is by FAR the WORST
  12. The11thGlitch
    Jun 3, 2015
    0
    I entered in the closed beta and I STILL can't play a full game without my game dropping to 1fps halfway into the match, blaming it on "connection problems" when I'm playing in my region with decent internet. Also, it's the only game that does this. I can play Dota, League and HoN just fine but not this piece of **** Unplayable.
  13. Eggyclaw
    Jun 4, 2015
    0
    Currently unplayable in the EU. There are thousands of posts about stuttering, lag and high pings from Blizzard servers. For a MOBA this just breaks the game. How this hasn't been picked up by EU reviews I don't know.

    If you're also experiencing this rate this as useful so people can be made aware of how poor the game is until it's fixed.
  14. kevsarus
    Jul 6, 2015
    0
    Gameplay is fun and innovative for a MOBA. Maps are dynamic and change the meta accordingly which makes games more interesting. There are 2 big cons that I feel are going to kill the game for most.

    - This game is very poorly coded. It has so many bugs and FPS issues that you would think an indy developer made this game (nope, it was Blizzard, a billion dollar games company). Powerful    Gameplay is fun and innovative for a MOBA. Maps are dynamic and change the meta accordingly which makes games more interesting. There are 2 big cons that I feel are going to kill the game for most.

    - This game is very poorly coded. It has so many bugs and FPS issues that you would think an indy developer made this game (nope, it was Blizzard, a billion dollar games company). Powerful gaming rigs are getting massacred by this game.

    - The matchmaking is horrible. Quick match has the worst system to take team comps into account and often puts unbalanced teams against each other. The skill range for hero league is also too wide and players of very varying skill levels get put into a game together. Landslide victories happen more often then competitive games that go back and forth.    … Expand
  15. DwaneDibbley
    May 28, 2016
    0
    Oversimplified, dumbed dota/lol for casuals. Same **** as their MtG (heartstone) or TF2 (Ovewatch). Blizzard therw away quality as they found that they get most money from casual players.
  16. hiddenpheonix
    Sep 26, 2015
    1
    It's a great idea and an almost good game but the frustration with the system removes 99% of the fun. There ranked matches are either complete teams or PUG where you score more than anyone on both teams and still drop points because you're incompetent team failed to win. ANother big problem is the points are based on kills and not achieving team objectives which each maps has different.It's a great idea and an almost good game but the frustration with the system removes 99% of the fun. There ranked matches are either complete teams or PUG where you score more than anyone on both teams and still drop points because you're incompetent team failed to win. ANother big problem is the points are based on kills and not achieving team objectives which each maps has different. More so the least fun maps rotating "randomly" into the game more than the fun maps. Oh and you don't get to pick maps unless you get ten people who want to play the same map before starting the game.
    Every new hero is overpowered to get to it sell at ridiculously high price when compared to other games. Also in game cash drop is pathetic after the few hours.
    Cheating, rage quits, arm chair generals, and general no punishment toxic trolling, at least one of those will every game and Blizzard doesn't nothing real to stop it.    … Expand
  17. Haruna
    Oct 18, 2015
    0
    The game is so young and already the community is extremely unfriendly. Played a few games, the other guys on my team constantly flamed each other. Also, content is extremely overpriced and gameplay feels extremely boring and repetitive after only a few games.
  18. overclocked_13
    Aug 18, 2015
    0
    Play all MOBAs, really like this game, but the matchmaking in this game is the worst out of all the moba games. Quitting due to terrible matchmaking, hopefully blizzard will fix.
  19. Forgotten
    May 13, 2016
    1
    Gameplay is OK. The huge downside with this game is the community. 90% of matches end up in bickering negative hate spreading chat. After about 1k matches I've decided that this game is the first one to go down the bin because of the community. Way to go people. But if you somehow manage to find decent people to play with, it's alright.
  20. Fyralon
    Apr 25, 2016
    3
    At first,i've played Hots since the closed Beta.

    At the early start ist was fun pur.Fast to learn but hard to master.The most players was nice to each other. Since 4 month,i report 5 persons cause they are botting and cheating.And they still play today.24 hours/7 days the week.And Blizzard?Right,they do absolute nothing versus this botters.From Week to week more AFK Leecher,more    At first,i've played Hots since the closed Beta.

    At the early start ist was fun pur.Fast to learn but hard to master.The most players was nice to each other.

    Since 4 month,i report 5 persons cause they are botting and cheating.And they still play today.24 hours/7 days the week.And Blizzard?Right,they do absolute nothing versus this botters.From Week to week more AFK Leecher,more botter,and more cheater.

    It is just another cash cow for Blizzard,with absolute zero service.    … Expand
  21. alexo774
    Jul 18, 2015
    4
    I've played the 4 major MOBAs, Dota 2, LoL, Smite, and now this, and while Smite may be better than this by the slimmest margin, this as as pretty damn close to perfect as a top down MOBA can get. With Smite being the best, this is easily a close second, with League not far behind, and Dota being way way behind, stinking up the joint. Ironically, I've put the most hours into Dota as ofI've played the 4 major MOBAs, Dota 2, LoL, Smite, and now this, and while Smite may be better than this by the slimmest margin, this as as pretty damn close to perfect as a top down MOBA can get. With Smite being the best, this is easily a close second, with League not far behind, and Dota being way way behind, stinking up the joint. Ironically, I've put the most hours into Dota as of now, but that won't be the case for long...

    This game ditches the items of the other three, and also the leveling system! Instead, you all level up as a team. There are no assists, and if you were nearby a kill and contributed, you get credit for the kill. This may annoy some people, but to me, that is an amazing idea. You can contribute so much to the game and not lag behind. Theres' no pointing fingers at who caused the loss any more. It's just a great game, and once you find a character that really speaks to your playstyle, you'll fall in love with this game...    … Expand
  22. Silmarwen
    Jul 10, 2015
    1
    I'm giving this game a low score not because of content, but because this is a great example of microtransaction greed gone crazy.

    I started playing during the tail end of the beta. I bought a few heroes with gold, I bought the starter pack, and I had a few special mounts from playing their other games. I saved up all my gold from leveling characters after my purchase of Sylvanas    I'm giving this game a low score not because of content, but because this is a great example of microtransaction greed gone crazy.

    I started playing during the tail end of the beta. I bought a few heroes with gold, I bought the starter pack, and I had a few special mounts from playing their other games. I saved up all my gold from leveling characters after my purchase of Sylvanas so I had about 30k. To those of you who haven't played, each hero costs approximately 10k gold. Some are less, some are more.

    My child decided to buy the piggy bank mount for me for 20k gold. She's 4. Attempted to contact support for a refund or a roll back, they refuse to do so because it was in my own house. It costs them nothing and they lose nothing from undoing the transaction, but apparently -- as with other microtransaction companies -- they've decided to flip people the big bird and refuse to fix anything. Machine Zone does this, most other app companies do this, now Blizzard does this.

    It should be noted that there is no real way to block kids from clicking that gold purchase button. They can't use your real money, but it's easy to spend your gold. This is definitely by design juding from 90 minutes of sparring with two "Game Masters". Unless you're childless or keep the little monsters on a short leash, be prepared to fully log out every time you step away from your desk or you're stuck with whatever they do. It doesn't matter if you contact support within 5 minutes of discovery as we did or offer to let them roll your account back over a week. You are boned. They want you to buy that sweet, sweet gold or use money to buy their little heroes and accessories.

    If anyone is interested in seeing a copy of our transcript, I'm sure I'll find a way to get it on reddit by the end of the night. It's truly enlightening as to how much Blizzard doesn't give a bleep now that they're on the pay-to-play wagon. No amount of logic can touch that kind of greed.    … Expand
  23. BBQnaoplox111
    Jan 28, 2016
    1
    Whats absolutely the worst about this game is that you dont have all the heroes unlocked all at once, and it takes AGES to grind out everything you want. Extra skins or new heroes take months to obtain especially as a casual non willing to pay for stuff player...
  24. CobaltFox
    Jun 16, 2018
    0
    They should renamed the game to Heroes of the Bots, or Heroes the Map Hacks.
  25. lolking43
    Jun 6, 2015
    0
    Terrible, casual game, no last hitting, no laning, and runs terrible on most PCS. Also has blizzards super casuals and kiddie characters. No items. DO NOT PLAY OR YOU WILL BE A CASUAL.
  26. damanpark
    Jul 19, 2015
    0
    What the heck is this garbage I just played. I played about 7 games and then I realized I was getting about 9 to 20 gold per game,while I need 10,000 to unlock per character. Are you out of fking mind? In addition, I felt that the game was just stupid. Worst blizzard game I ever played.
  27. BloodyRandy
    Jun 4, 2015
    0
    It's a polished turd. What made Dota so good has been stripped away. There's no longer a crafting system just you sharing the same level as everyone on your team even if all they do is die or wander into corners doing nothing. So it feels like socialism come to life in a video game. If you're expecting a MOBA at the same level of fun and excitement as Dota 2 & LOL you're looking at theIt's a polished turd. What made Dota so good has been stripped away. There's no longer a crafting system just you sharing the same level as everyone on your team even if all they do is die or wander into corners doing nothing. So it feels like socialism come to life in a video game. If you're expecting a MOBA at the same level of fun and excitement as Dota 2 & LOL you're looking at the wrong game. Blizzard has once again bought good reviews when in my opinion this is their worst game to date.… Expand
  28. Cramdawg
    Sep 21, 2015
    4
    I can't believe this game is rated so highly. I just deleted it after two weeks of on and off play, being in a 3 month WoW hiatus. Fist of all, the game isn't bad for what it is and can be addictive, albeit monotonous and potentially cheat-plagued, yet it's little more than a zoomed out WoW battleground where they expect you to buy heroes, skins, and pets to run around and blast otherI can't believe this game is rated so highly. I just deleted it after two weeks of on and off play, being in a 3 month WoW hiatus. Fist of all, the game isn't bad for what it is and can be addictive, albeit monotonous and potentially cheat-plagued, yet it's little more than a zoomed out WoW battleground where they expect you to buy heroes, skins, and pets to run around and blast other players in. This isn't exactly what it was hyped up to be (like getting a toy that's much smaller than advertised). My beef though is that I spent 80% of my time in the D/C screen waiting to be reconnected only to appear in the middle of a mob and get killed by a beefed up Diablo; some battles were better than others. I checked my time zone box and tried reducing all of the settings to low and that didn't work at all. I have satellite internet, yet I play WoW, like I said, on high settings with absolutely no D/C and barely any latency so...kind of strange for it to happen in a mini game like this. It tried my patience. Money wasted, although not much ($5). The game is worth a few hours of down time however and you can play for free if you don't mind using the heroes they make available for the day.… Expand
  29. ciopenhauer
    Nov 18, 2015
    0
    The absolute worst game I have played (or tried to play) in my life. Bar none. This game is so poorly optimized. I couldn't run it with 660 TI in SLI. I get a 980 GTX (a $700 graphics card) and I still cannot run this game properly. I cannot tell you how frustrating that is. My PC runs every game I throw at it at ultra settings, except this one. When you get 30-40 FPS in fights with a highThe absolute worst game I have played (or tried to play) in my life. Bar none. This game is so poorly optimized. I couldn't run it with 660 TI in SLI. I get a 980 GTX (a $700 graphics card) and I still cannot run this game properly. I cannot tell you how frustrating that is. My PC runs every game I throw at it at ultra settings, except this one. When you get 30-40 FPS in fights with a high end PC because the game doesn't utilize your GPU properly, you know they have dropped the ball. Forget the buttery smoothness of 144hz 100+ FPS with this one.

    The game itself is not good either. It gets boring very fast.    … Expand
  30. Rhonln
    Apr 1, 2017
    0
    no challenge, pay to win... you have to wait 15 minutes for a game that lasts 10. Hero balance is non existent... unless you buy the most expensive heroes and only play with them
  31. dorout1
    Apr 6, 2016
    3
    *This review includes alpha up to the prior implementation of Cho'gall.*

    A game where you can play nearly all of the Blizzard heroes. Is there a better idea for a game than that? I don't think so. However, looks can most definitely be deceiving. To cut straight to the chase: I love the game play, smoothness, fines, most of the balancing, and overall game design. What I most certainly    *This review includes alpha up to the prior implementation of Cho'gall.*

    A game where you can play nearly all of the Blizzard heroes. Is there a better idea for a game than that? I don't think so. However, looks can most definitely be deceiving.

    To cut straight to the chase: I love the game play, smoothness, fines, most of the balancing, and overall game design. What I most certainly dislike that prevents me from enjoying and even playing the game is the Hero league *matchmaking* system. Without going into a massive rant, the matchmaking in hero league is very flawed (visit the official HOTS forums and read posts regarding the matchmaking system). This issue was recognized in early Alpha, but never addressed and still present to this day. To add, hero league has been in preseason since the release of the game, which was June 2, 2015.

    Another negative aspect is the cost of heroes and how long it takes to gather up gold to purchase one. There are often a type of 'clearance' sale that occurs, but generally the heroes that are not used are the heroes on sale. You get daily quests to do to assist you with accumulating gold, which is nice, but still takes quite some time.

    I don't know if this is a new thing or if anyone cares, but the forums is the place where players should be able to interact with the community and with Blizzard. Again, to be short, but this is a crucial topic: there is no reciprocation between developers and players at all (don't take my word for it, visit the forums).

    On the positive, there are many maps that rotate and there are plenty of team objectives which makes the game unique and fun. You can purchase new skins and new mounts with gold or real money and they as well go on sales.

    My overall score for the game is a 3/10 because I feel that if I were to play the game today, I would be playing a half completed game. Competition is the pinnacle of any game for me and without a balanced hero league matchmaking system I feel that I am only playing half the game. (I feel that its like playing an RTS game in single player against the computer, but your true desire is to get online and play against a person--if that makes sense). Also, the non-existent communication from developers is also disheartening and shows lack of interest with the player base. I feel that these two issues are substantial enough to give this game a negative rating. If these two issues were resolved then I would definitely give the game at least an 8.5/10, maybe even higher.    … Expand
  32. Kirill626
    Jun 13, 2016
    1
    Неаптимизированное сраное гавнище да ема е у меня crysis 3 на высоких настройках нормально работает , а это гавнище умудряется тормозить даже на самых низких настройках!!! ГАААВВВВНИИЩЕЕ!!!!
  33. Kaprawiec
    Nov 4, 2015
    3
    Game makes good first impression, but after a while you start to feel bored and unhappy with the effects of your efforts. You dont mean a sh*t on the field. Its either Your team or their team has better players, and when the system picks teams randomly, this game is like a roulette. You wont carry games and that is really unrewarding.
    What I do like is that the matches are fairly short,    Game makes good first impression, but after a while you start to feel bored and unhappy with the effects of your efforts. You dont mean a sh*t on the field. Its either Your team or their team has better players, and when the system picks teams randomly, this game is like a roulette. You wont carry games and that is really unrewarding.
    What I do like is that the matches are fairly short, they load quite quick and you dont have to wait 1:30 minutes to minions to appear like in LoL so you waste less time. Picking champs is also a lot faster, i hate when i wait 10 minutes to start a match in LoL. Also the community is a bit less toxic than in other f2p.
    Overall: game is just not fun for a long run. Its free so You can check it for Yourself, but be warned, You can pick waaaay better f2p games.    … Expand
  34. Noxious
    Feb 6, 2016
    0
    The game is okay. It's enjoyable, then after about 8 weeks you find out it's just another piece of garbage that Blizzard put out like diablo 3 and sc2. Blizzard was my favorite company back in 2002. Played thousands of hours of d2, wc3, and bw, and they just absolutely have gone to trash. This game has so many things wrong with it. Balance, match making, interface, pathing, queue times,The game is okay. It's enjoyable, then after about 8 weeks you find out it's just another piece of garbage that Blizzard put out like diablo 3 and sc2. Blizzard was my favorite company back in 2002. Played thousands of hours of d2, wc3, and bw, and they just absolutely have gone to trash. This game has so many things wrong with it. Balance, match making, interface, pathing, queue times, it's just garbage. :/… Expand
  35. scarfake
    Jan 8, 2016
    3
    only rule: the team have area of effect will win. there is no mechanic in this game. stay with your teammates and spam skill. half of community is russian
  36. Oralfun
    Nov 3, 2015
    2
    Wow these gaming site reviews are ridiculous. The exclusion of items really kills the genre. What if the other team has a ton of burst damage? Build a tanky item. Oh wait you cant. Each level up gives you an absurd amount of power. Not much thought went into this game. Your individual impact is minimal. So it has become a good eSport for pros that failed at other games such as dota 2 , LoLWow these gaming site reviews are ridiculous. The exclusion of items really kills the genre. What if the other team has a ton of burst damage? Build a tanky item. Oh wait you cant. Each level up gives you an absurd amount of power. Not much thought went into this game. Your individual impact is minimal. So it has become a good eSport for pros that failed at other games such as dota 2 , LoL , or even sc2.… Expand
  37. ratapwnz
    Jul 13, 2015
    4
    This is just casual version of generic MOBA game. Easy way to feel yourself as cyber sportsmen actually playing tetris-like complexity game. However visual design is nice, but there is no game behind it.
  38. somedude14
    Aug 13, 2016
    1
    This game is absolutely abysmal. It has good art and a cool soundtrack, and the idea to differentiate it from other MOBAs is neat (objective based maps and team levels), but holy smokes the gameplay is awful.

    I'm convinced the only reason they released it was because they knew if they made it a F2P they could get sales from people who would play it extremely casually and buy heroes for    This game is absolutely abysmal. It has good art and a cool soundtrack, and the idea to differentiate it from other MOBAs is neat (objective based maps and team levels), but holy smokes the gameplay is awful.

    I'm convinced the only reason they released it was because they knew if they made it a F2P they could get sales from people who would play it extremely casually and buy heroes for the novelty factor. Why throw out something you know is garbage when people will play it anyway?

    Incredibly unbalanced, terrible matchmaking and a massively toxic community that cannot be bothered to work together in a team game.    … Expand
  39. Darius_84
    Jan 15, 2023
    0
    There are no words to describe how bad this garbage is. Spare yourself the pain and do something else, let this trash die the way it's supposed to
  40. CaptainBounty
    Mar 9, 2016
    4
    While the competitive gameplay certainly has its moments, the lack of quality in this game destroys the overall experience. Blizzards attempt to take its shot on the moba genre might attract some casual gamers that look for some entertainment, but horribly fails when it comes to seasoned moba veterans. The gameplay is extremely simplified on 4 skills and only a very few heroes. TheWhile the competitive gameplay certainly has its moments, the lack of quality in this game destroys the overall experience. Blizzards attempt to take its shot on the moba genre might attract some casual gamers that look for some entertainment, but horribly fails when it comes to seasoned moba veterans. The gameplay is extremely simplified on 4 skills and only a very few heroes. The matchmaking system is an abomination, the hero selection is uncreative and shallow. The bullet to the neck for this game is the fact that the new heroes that are released every few weeks are always slightly overpowered in the beginning before they get patched. The result of that is that tryhard players instantly buy these heroes with real cash or crazy amounts of ingame money and you have them in EVERY GAME from that time point on until they are patched. The balance within this game overall is bad. Summing up: Blizzard did bring some good ideas to the moba genre with this game, but fail horribly when it comes to realizing the overall standards of the genre: variety, balance, matchmaking.… Expand
  41. Wolfkovich
    Apr 11, 2016
    4
    well-balanced game but extremely boring game :( :( :( :( :( :( :( :( :( :( :( :( :( :( :( :( :( :( :( :( :( :( :( :( :( :( :( :( :( :( :( :( :( :( :( :(
  42. Veriera
    Dec 17, 2017
    3
    This game can be better. I love the IDEA behind some of their features but be prepared to be frustrated. QM fills like your drawing straws, and feels like it has gotten worst. I have seen a full solo Q of Specialist vs Assassins. How does that happen?? How is that fair? Ranked, you can easily pay for someone who wants to be a troll.
  43. tzimisce
    Feb 1, 2018
    1
    Blizzard chose to be "original" and not to implement any of the mechanics that make mobas worth playing.

    The matchmaking randomly throws players of all skill levels together and on top of that the game does not have any mechanics that would differentiate players like other mobas have - gold and individual xp. This makes ranked modes which really are the whole point of a moba, completely    Blizzard chose to be "original" and not to implement any of the mechanics that make mobas worth playing.

    The matchmaking randomly throws players of all skill levels together and on top of that the game does not have any mechanics that would differentiate players like other mobas have - gold and individual xp. This makes ranked modes which really are the whole point of a moba, completely worthless.

    Solo ranked is getting worse by the season and there are no fixes. There was a performance based MMR implemented and then it was removed shortly afterwards with no explanation or estimation when it would be back.    … Expand
  44. stugpro
    Jun 7, 2018
    1
    Я эту игру не советую
    Во первых: героев нужно покупать, а это очень тупо учитывая, что есть дота ,где все герои сразу открыты .В базовый комплект входят не все герои ,а только 8 (за 850 рублей) учитывая, что есть игра с похожей системой (paladins), но только при покупке похожего набора тебе открываются все, и последующие герои, но только за двое меньшею сумму(а именно за 350 или 450 руб)    Я эту игру не советую
    Во первых: героев нужно покупать, а это очень тупо учитывая, что есть дота ,где все герои сразу открыты .В базовый комплект входят не все герои ,а только 8 (за 850 рублей) учитывая, что есть игра с похожей системой (paladins), но только при покупке похожего набора тебе открываются все, и последующие герои, но только за двое меньшею сумму(а именно за 350 или 450 руб) . Это показывает насколько жадный отдел биззард отвечающий за эту игру.
    Во вторых: баланса тут нет , герои несбалансированные ,а о новых героях я и говорить не хочу ,выходят очень часто примерно по герою в месяц и часто бывает, что способности у них очень однообразны, например иллидан с тираэлем и их ульты, маиев и сильвана с их Eшкой и т.д. не интересно.
    В третьих : игра однообразная ,карты выходят очень редко ,лор типо есть, но о нем практически нет информации говорят будут развивать (уже 3 года развивают) , очень много доната в виде кастомизации ,из нового будет только это ,потасовок новых нет, каждую неделю показывают одно и тоже.
    Игра скучная и однообразная ,если было бы у меня возможность вернуть все то время которое я профукал в hots, я бы воспользовался ею.    … Expand
  45. skitz4me
    Dec 12, 2018
    1
    I have spent hundreds of dollars on battlenet games and HOTS, specifically. After spending about an hour to report a bug that made my game unplayable, I will no longer be spending money on their company. I wish I had stopped sooner. I hope there developers get jobs at places where they care about their clients.

    Blizzard used to be a company I was proud to support. Now it's just another    I have spent hundreds of dollars on battlenet games and HOTS, specifically. After spending about an hour to report a bug that made my game unplayable, I will no longer be spending money on their company. I wish I had stopped sooner. I hope there developers get jobs at places where they care about their clients.

    Blizzard used to be a company I was proud to support. Now it's just another EA. They don't give a crap about good content or helping their customers. If you pay them, they will continue.    … Expand
  46. lop
    May 20, 2023
    0
    Used to have a lot of hype around this game when it first came out. Years gone by, not a single significant change to the game. Game is really easy and very little room for competitiveness. Also the devs/blizz probably gave up on this game.
  47. gammablink
    Jun 25, 2021
    0
    A garbage game by a garbage developer. Spend 1 dime and they will ban you for trying to tell the horifically incompitent teammates to just pay attention
  48. LiniVitro
    Jul 16, 2021
    1
    I registered to write this review. This game is a piece of dried s**t. Blizzard is a greedy, mercantile company. You are given one of three heroes and forced to farm 7-10 thousand gold. But this is the path for only 2 heroes. I tried to play as heroes in rotation. They are extremely weak against those in matchmaking. They have a small radius of attack and use of skills, poorI registered to write this review. This game is a piece of dried s**t. Blizzard is a greedy, mercantile company. You are given one of three heroes and forced to farm 7-10 thousand gold. But this is the path for only 2 heroes. I tried to play as heroes in rotation. They are extremely weak against those in matchmaking. They have a small radius of attack and use of skills, poor escape.Absolutely everything in this game for a beginner comes down to what you need to endure and watch. No competitive interest whatsoever. It looks like Blizzard decided to kill this game 1/10
    1 point for concept    … Expand
  49. Z0MN1A
    Aug 4, 2021
    0
    I have been playing Blizzard's game Heroes of the Storm since the day of the game's Alpha launch. This was around 4/2015. Around 5/2021, I was permanently banned and an account valued at well over $1000 is no longer accessible to me.

    I have been reported numerous times for abusive chat. And this is completely understandable as I have been silenced on multiple occasions for it.    I have been playing Blizzard's game Heroes of the Storm since the day of the game's Alpha launch. This was around 4/2015. Around 5/2021, I was permanently banned and an account valued at well over $1000 is no longer accessible to me.

    I have been reported numerous times for abusive chat. And this is completely understandable as I have been silenced on multiple occasions for it. Understandably. I have a bit of an issue with expressing my irritability verbally and pressuring people to play correctly.

    In many cases, however, it was not a matter of straight up crude vulgarity. Although early in the game's life it certainly was, over the years I matured a bit and stuck to more specific claims of other player's performance. Addressing such issues play by play, as many neurotic players do.

    - My biggest argument is that if Blizzard's matchmaking service was effective, then there would be less frustration displayed by players of their teammates in games. Blizzard, as do all other competitive games developers, provide players with a mute/block button. It is the thin skinned player's responsibility to use such features.

    - My secondary argument is that if blizzard cannot create a perfect match making system, then Blizzard cannot expect perfect player conduct. To expect either is irrational.

    - My third argument is that players should not be permanently banned for conduct. Perhaps silenced for a year, perhaps temporarily banned for a year after so many cases. But mental issues are a thing and they are widely possessed in many forms by gamers. Some are offensive, and some are fragile. It is no place of a developer of any sort of software to try and dictate the behaviors of it's users using outright banning of an account as the consequence of not upholding said predefined behaviors.

    - My final argument has to do with a game's lifespan. If a player displays toxic behavior, be it outright vulgarity or simply the revealing to other players of their individual faults, it is likely that behavior is not going to suddenly disappear. It likely may become toned down over time, especially after numerous and increasing chat restriction penalties, but it is unlikely that it will fully disappear. So the longer the game is up, the chance of the company eventually banning the player increases drematically year by year.

    Blizzard and other game's developers should be legally restricted to a year-by-year rule where you can impose a penalty for the remainder of an annual cycle that restricts them (up to completely) from a game due to conduct, but never indefinitely - at the very least without a complete and total refund of that player's money. And offenses cannot be gray areas. Threats of violence, for example, would be a zero-tolerance example of how a player could be outright banned and refunded their purchases. But disrespect should never be considered a bannable offense, especially considering that in society disrespect is sometimes endearing and a, perhaps poor, desire to help improve the overall player-base's ability to perform, or weed out those who refuse to improve. Thereby improving the efficacy of the matchmaking system and in turn reducing the degree of toxic behaviors in individual matches.

    Lastly, this genre of game, specifically. One that originated as a mod on another of Blizzard's games, Warcraft III, is riddled with toxicity. It always has been. And it is toxic players of this genre that ultimately lead to the genre becoming independent of the mod it originated on.

    Blizzard has in recent years become an absolutely terrible company and I caution anyone even talking about them as it simply gives them more publicity. The company is on it's way out for their abhorrent business practices and general disrespect of their player base and those of us who have been here since the very beginning.

    By all means make your own decisions, but take it from someone who has been playing blizzard games since the beginning, they have turned evil very quickly.    … Expand
  50. BestNoob
    Nov 26, 2020
    1
    Simple, fun, great ... the best game in this genre ! No items just Hero power and Teamplay/Map mechanics ... and thats the problem 90% Braindead ppl. in this game ..

    and i mean BRAIN DEAD

    they have nothing in there... completly empty. (LIke the players of most Activision/Blizzard games) and no its not a question of the age !

    The rest is 5% Cheater and 5% Pro Player.
  51. Khaosom
    Mar 22, 2023
    3
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. It's extremely rare I'll rate a game this low but as a Moba player I feel a true rating and review for this is needed. It's a League of Legends/Dota knock off with all Blizzard heroes. Which wouldn't be bad except it's basically babies first Moba. No strategy for building required, no counter building, no items for purchase and no leveling abilities (talents unlock at certain levels that add effects to skills). Then to top it off you get 1 free character, and maybe a second from a loot chest after the tutorial, meaning you can only play a small portion of the roles. There's no free weekly/monthly rotation of characters, there's no free character from each class like other Moba games. If you want an easy game where you have 0 thinking and pay to get everything this is for you.… Expand
  52. SeniorJoker
    May 14, 2021
    0
    I've been playing game since alpha. It's almost 6 years. Banned this year for chat. Couldn't stand moronic players broken MM provides. And CAN'T IGNORE THEM with leaving game. They report you or system just gives you penalty for leaving. And you get EVEN WORSE PEOPLE with who you must win to get rid of penalty. Also, I don't believe that have same MMR with such people that even don't knowI've been playing game since alpha. It's almost 6 years. Banned this year for chat. Couldn't stand moronic players broken MM provides. And CAN'T IGNORE THEM with leaving game. They report you or system just gives you penalty for leaving. And you get EVEN WORSE PEOPLE with who you must win to get rid of penalty. Also, I don't believe that have same MMR with such people that even don't know damn basics of game. Donated. Had many things unlocked on account. Ofc, no refund. Blizzard cares nowadays only about money. I played student league. Really liked this game. Now it is a trash can with SJV bio-waste, which even the indefinite article in your message offends (so they can use the punishment system in their favor, even if they just don't like you). Do a favor for humanity, don't play blizzard games. Or they will continue to keep the level of their games at the bottom for the sake of the SJV scam. All you find just farming in a beautiful wrapper. They don't even respect their own employees and pay them a bonus with play time in Warcraft while Bobby Kotick gets millions in bonuses. Lmao.… Expand
  53. DKR
    May 25, 2018
    4
    Blizzard. King of MMO's, ARTS, RTS, and now FPS. Last to conquer is the every growing, ever dated MOBA, and it sucks but not totally.

    The graphics deliver what you would expect: saturated & colorful with a wide palette on the heroes and maps. Might be the game's best feature. Sound-wise, the voices are great (when they learn to st*u. BLESS YOU, HEALER! BLESS YOU, HEALER! I've never    Blizzard. King of MMO's, ARTS, RTS, and now FPS. Last to conquer is the every growing, ever dated MOBA, and it sucks but not totally.

    The graphics deliver what you would expect: saturated & colorful with a wide palette on the heroes and maps. Might be the game's best feature.

    Sound-wise, the voices are great (when they learn to st*u. BLESS YOU, HEALER! BLESS YOU, HEALER! I've never been more deterred from healing.), the music is 50-50, and all the sound effects are satisfying.

    Plot. LUL.

    Also note this is a MOBA, so all that implies is here: OP hyper-expensive champs, cheap, sh**** champs, weeks of grinding to unlock one decent champ, new champ every other day to drain the wallets of neckbeards and kids with disposable income, garbage balancing, matchmaking pits a first time player with salty top 500 players, blah blah blah, its all here.

    In brief, Bliz shows off its trademark polish on all categories. Except gameplay and the usual MOBA business model tropes.

    The gamepl- (sorry, the rest of this review is DLC. You can read the rest for just $5.99!)

    *cha-ching*

    gameplay wants you to think there is wide variety of champs and styles and builds. There isn't. As with any other MOBA, the DPS tanks with mobility stomp anything in their path. Bliz's twist on this done-to-death genre is controlling a neutral boss/advantage (think Baron Nashor) for a team/morale crushing super power. Some of these powers can be bosses, bosses you can pilot, swarms of creeps, lasers that zap buildings, big variety of things. How do you unleash these pandora boxes? Mostly has to do with standing in a zone and controlling it for 30ish seconds. These 30s are the meat of HOTS' matches. Above any other strategy, build, champ choice, synergy; above all else, controlling these wins the game. So, just go fight for it, right? If only. See, another age-old problem is here.

    The (Episode 2 of this review is out now for only $9.99!)

    *cha-ching*

    community. Everyone's favorite collective of idiots is alive and well in HOTS. Bad champ choices, not playing tanks/healers, poor engages, chasing across the map into an ambush/turret death, no communication, sh**y connections, flaming, abusing the automated report system (more later), ignoring objectives, not grouping, poor target focus, gorging the enemy to death with their feeding then d/c, oh yeah! Apparently, it's somehow your fault if it happens a lot, according to threads and fanboys. So you go to claim the power. As expected, all 5 of the enemy is there. Looking at the map shows your teammates are either dead, or scattered everywhere. You can either a) rush in and die alone or b) wait for the inevitable. If your team DOES group for it, the opponent has a meat wall of 4-5 high dps, high mobility oafs ready to toss anyone into an event-horizon-blender of CC and DPS. Ofc, you can TRY to reason with your teammates, but they'll just report you. Of all the stupid ideas Bliz learned from Riot, they had to take the fully automated report system which punishes players - NOT BY VIOLATIONS - but by number of reports.

    Justice can't be democratic by it's nature, folks.

    So assuming any position of callouts, leadership, or polite disagreement can net you a THREE. MONTH. ACCOUNT SILENCE, preventing you from saying anything to anyone for 90+ DAYS. Meanwhile, the guy that called me stuff that I can't repeat here, NOTHING happens to him. Why? Did he not break any rules? No. "Not enough people reported him." Now everyone thinks I'm a jerk b/c I don't talk to them....uh....how do I tell them my account is silenced? Do I just wait for more reports of poor teamwork to pile up? Then what do I do? Bliz could care less. The cash is flowing and flowing. Fanboys beat back these legit concerns with "well dont be toxic then DUH!!" *high fives and Oh's all round*

    My last solace is to just have fun in unranked with a champ I like. Unless I crack open my wallet, I'd have to grind. It's about $10ish per hero, or you can save up 10,000 coins. At about 15 coin/25 min game, order some pizza and call in sick, bc u gonna b hur a while, and that's to get ONE. The novelty of each champ wears thin after 3 games, too. Sorry it's just...boring. There's no skill or room for mastery and improvement. You play dps tanks, m2 targets, and mash your 4 buttons. I thought LoL casualized MOBA. HOTS puts LoL to shame. Even LoL had a tiiiiny bit of mastery to it. If you're still curious, I'd say jump in quick, bc HOTS is dying FAST. The queues are taking forever. The last people playing are trolling the chat with politics or watching the pros with their kappa memes bc HOTS is bare-bones BORING.

    Bliz knows the game is dying. Begging people to play.

    Overpriced champs, dumba* community, sh* balancing, no farming/itemizing, and a garbage report system with a dying community. It would stop if morons would stop pouring cash into these practices.

    "Guess stupidity will never go out of style." -Carth Onasi    … Expand
  54. AzazelNGT
    Aug 6, 2016
    3
    Addictive, would be a really nice game if not for the cons:

    - Poor server, often unstable connection, there is usually at least one gamer having connection problems which compromise the match - Unusually long waiting times, on average a game lasts 40 mins, of which 25 mins is the net game time - Teams on quick match can be imbalanced and since no resign option is available that means    Addictive, would be a really nice game if not for the cons:

    - Poor server, often unstable connection, there is usually at least one gamer having connection problems which compromise the match
    - Unusually long waiting times, on average a game lasts 40 mins, of which 25 mins is the net game time
    - Teams on quick match can be imbalanced and since no resign option is available that means 40 mins of your time wasted. Same if one player does not participate.
    - Teams are too small. Should there be any of the issues above present, your whole match is just a waste of time. There is no chance to stand with 4 vs 5.
    - Free part of the game allows not much personalization. The paid part is at ridiculous prices and do not give any valuable extras.    … Expand
  55. DepressedGamer
    Mar 22, 2018
    2
    Power creep and matchmaking have utterly crippled this game. Matches are usually a stomp and there is no fun to be had anymore. This is made worse because, like most MOBAs, the community is extremely toxic.

    Plus Lootboxes are the primary means to get cosmetics.
  56. Saxdrik431
    May 6, 2018
    4
    This game is ridiculous, everytime that a heroe is realeased, the meta burst, blizzard always had had the same problem they dont know how to balance their games wow, ow, heroes what ever.
    Also the community sucks, toxic everywhere, the rank system is a piece of **** that provoked me to leave the game.
    It`s not worth it anymore.
  57. Arsemex
    Feb 19, 2022
    0
    This game fails in every aspect. Terrible balance, terrible matchmaking, terrible UI, and they don't even let you surrender.
  58. kutayc
    Mar 14, 2022
    0
    Blizzard could take instalockers, afk players, and people picking multiple roles more seriously since matchmaking is the core handicap in this game.
    My account is banned for chat violation and you know what I've been through if you played this game. Yes I got really mad sometimes because of the toxic profile you get matched with.
    If you can put up with cancer players go for it and    Blizzard could take instalockers, afk players, and people picking multiple roles more seriously since matchmaking is the core handicap in this game.
    My account is banned for chat violation and you know what I've been through if you played this game. Yes I got really mad sometimes because of the toxic profile you get matched with.

    If you can put up with cancer players go for it and download. Terrible matchmaking and drafting mechanism only awards bad players and pushes dedicated good gamers out of this space.

    I have wasted my years to play with troll players that pick heroes that can be easily countered or the same roles already picked by the other teammates. Matchmaking system is just terrible. No cooperation, no communicaion, no help, players that don't know what they do etc. This game has a lot to go though but its already dead anyways.    … Expand
  59. tumismo
    Dec 8, 2019
    3
    Awfully imbalanced game. You can tell the studio doesn't care enough to fix the pile of issues that the game is dragging.
  60. Murlop
    Feb 25, 2020
    2
    This game is rubbish, they force you to lose to keep you close to 50% winrate by pairing with very low level people vs premade players who know how to play, it is also very unbalanced and the reports are automatic, do not verify the reports and are cumulative, In addition to that there are more and more Trolls and people who do not cooperate and do not play as a team and this is a gameThis game is rubbish, they force you to lose to keep you close to 50% winrate by pairing with very low level people vs premade players who know how to play, it is also very unbalanced and the reports are automatic, do not verify the reports and are cumulative, In addition to that there are more and more Trolls and people who do not cooperate and do not play as a team and this is a game that is based on teamwork and if a single player refuses to play as a team you have already lost.… Expand
  61. Draleroc
    Mar 19, 2020
    4
    Due to HOTS not getting as much focus development wise. The US player population is roughly arouund 100 players now. And I'm pretty sure I must have played with at least half of them. And I gotta say, I hate them all. HOTS does an extremely poor job of promoting communication and independent player value and roles as I spend the end of each matchup reporting one of my teammates becauseDue to HOTS not getting as much focus development wise. The US player population is roughly arouund 100 players now. And I'm pretty sure I must have played with at least half of them. And I gotta say, I hate them all. HOTS does an extremely poor job of promoting communication and independent player value and roles as I spend the end of each matchup reporting one of my teammates because they intentionally played poorly, left, or insulted me or another teammate. Especially when it comes to those who don't see their own faults like I do.

    HOTS used to be full of thousands of players that were equally filled with those who were just as awful you could ignore them to being very helpful and patient. But ever since Blizzard pulled the plug on this game, simply because it was not financially and professionally suitable for them in the short term. The game now has stagnating updates, the Winter Toys event has been running from November up to March 19 as of writing this post. No new heroes or skins have come out. No major patches or updates have been implemented, nothing.

    While the game is the most thoroughly enjoyable MOBA experience I will ever have. I keep leaving it for months because of these issues, and because the player community is either too elitist or hostile to both other players and the developers. The game has a very good progression and questing system and getting gold is not that hard, and every single map and character does an amazing job of keeping the gameplay fresh despite years of playing this title. But again, because of the amount of verbal abuse and ways players can hurt their own teammates intentionally, on top of the development issues. This game is no longer the shining example it set out to be when 2.0 first launched. ANd until Blizzard finally decides to stop messing around and get it's act together, I do not recommend this title, or any of Blizzard's titles for the matter, to any players looking for a long term online video game.    … Expand
  62. deathwall666
    Apr 11, 2020
    1
    this game is full of problems start with matchmaking,unbalance heroes,dumb AI, and grindy pass for getting every hero
  63. kruci
    Nov 12, 2021
    4
    Słaba nikomu niepotrzebna nudna gra. Bez pomysłu na siebie i polotu, totalnie generyczna i szybko zapomniana
  64. Fehnraal
    Jul 26, 2021
    3
    TL;DR - The game is fun, but unlocking heroes either requires an irrationally large chunk of time, or a few bucks. Not P2W, but definitely Pay-2-Progress.

    Heroes of the Storm is a MOBA by Blizzard/Activision that blends together properties of Blizzard's games such as WoW, Overwatch, Diablo, etc. into one universe and even adds a few new characters to the pool. The gameplay (aside    TL;DR - The game is fun, but unlocking heroes either requires an irrationally large chunk of time, or a few bucks. Not P2W, but definitely Pay-2-Progress.

    Heroes of the Storm is a MOBA by Blizzard/Activision that blends together properties of Blizzard's games such as WoW, Overwatch, Diablo, etc. into one universe and even adds a few new characters to the pool.

    The gameplay (aside from the novelty of Blizzard characters in a MOBA) is fairly fun. There are some balancing issues for sure, but it is essentially a watered down MOBA that's good fun for casual and serious players alike.

    The issues I have with this game, however, are with 2 major things that personally break a game.

    Poor matchmaking - Don't expect to get paired up with players equal to your skill level. In my first match, I was paired against players hundreds of levels higher than me. You will either get absolutely stomped, or carried by your team. If you're the type that gets really annoyed when you feel like you can't contribute, play a ton of AI matches first.

    Now for the reason this is a 3/10 for me. The gold and $RL system. Unlocking heroes in this game will cost anywhere from 2,000 - 10,000 in-game 'gold'. Gold is obtained by playing matches and leveling up heroes. I was getting an average of about 30-50 gold per match and after days of playing match after match, I finally reached 1,000 gold. After all of this, I am 10% of the way to purchasing Lucio (or any other 10k hero).

    Lets give a very generous estimate of 50 gold per match. To reach 10,000 gold you would need to play in 200 matches. Each match is about 20 minutes long on average.

    You would need to log 66 hours of actual in-game playtime to reach 10,000 gold. Even spread across the week, that's more than a full-time job. I would argue that maybe even 10% of that number is too high... But I'll let you decide that on your own.

    But don't worry, you can pay a few bucks and buy any hero you want and don't have to worry about the irrational grind. This is why I've rated this game a 3/10. We cannot keep allowing giant companies like Activision/Blizzard to essentially bar all progression if it doesn't give them a few bucks. I've seen this get worse and worse as time goes by and I've become less forgiving about it.    … Expand
  65. metacriticuser8
    Feb 26, 2022
    0
    The ban system killed this game and the community. It harmed thousands, if not millions of players psychologically. They didn't implement anything that makes it fair and doesn't actually favor the reporter. There is no relief for very old bans, you will get the next one staggered. Automatically by reporters who can report as much as they want. In a game, which also has a mute/ignoreThe ban system killed this game and the community. It harmed thousands, if not millions of players psychologically. They didn't implement anything that makes it fair and doesn't actually favor the reporter. There is no relief for very old bans, you will get the next one staggered. Automatically by reporters who can report as much as they want. In a game, which also has a mute/ignore button! This game suffers from toxic reporters who got and get support and high invested players who got and get banned without any need for a reason. The remaining playerbase is has the perfect comparison to hipocrits in the new political situation. E.g. arguing for climate change and co2 reduction but also flying twice per year into holidays.… Expand
  66. Mocasines
    Jun 6, 2022
    0
    Yet another abandoned game by Blizzard, no major updates for 4+ years, a very toxic community, and the worst league system I've ever seen.
  67. jepega
    Jun 9, 2022
    2
    2 random kids make dota in map redactor, big company make this. this is not okay. u know? try urself in another professions pls stop this u cant make games, okay maybe mobile, but its maxixum for u like company.
  68. frostnv
    Jul 18, 2022
    0
    Despite the fact that it is original with well-designed characters and maps, matchmaking and the social system with reports is as terrible as possible. Of the many multiplayer games played, this is the worst game because of its huge lack of sociality. The developers never wanted people to play it
  69. blizzfails
    Jun 21, 2023
    0
    Why bother spending any time or money, no one plays this. While waiting 45mins+ in que for a "quickmatch" I made an entire account just to write this and tell you why blizzard sucks. It sucks. Matchmaking is trash and you will spend more time waiting in line than actually playing the game.
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#16 Best PC Game of 2015
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#12 Most Discussed PC Game of 2015
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#46 Most Shared PC Game of 2015

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86

Generally favorable reviews - based on 57 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 54 out of 57
  2. Mixed: 3 out of 57
  3. Negative: 0 out of 57
  1. Ten Ton Hammer
    Nov 1, 2015
    90
    Heroes of the Storm is an exceptional game that’s thrown the cat amongst the pigeons in this rigid genre.
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  2. Pelit (Finland)
    Sep 9, 2015
    90
    In Heroes of the Storm you play as one of Blizzard's iconic characters from Warcraft, Starcraft and Diablo. At first glance the game looks like a typical 5 vs 5 MOBA, but there are changes that differentiate it from its competitors. The matches are shorter, items have been replaced with talents and all maps have different side objectives. Overall, the changes have made the game more intense and varied. The main thing that I have issues with is the payment model. At first it seems fair and reasonable, but after a while you realize that you have to spend tons of money if you want to unlock all the characters or play the game for a long time. [Sept 2015]
  3. Games Master UK
    Aug 18, 2015
    86
    A welcoming avenue into a visually complex genre, with supreme production values. [Summer 2015, p.74]
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