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re: HotS Alpha
Posted on 3/14/14 at 10:12 am to gamemc
Posted on 3/14/14 at 10:12 am to gamemc
I'm honestly a little disappointed in the type of company Blizzard is becoming. They're catering to extremely casual players across many of their IPs, and HoTS is a prime example of this.
I'm not a hardcore LoL/Dota player, and was hoping HoTS would be a game that could get me into the genre. After watching the streams last night, though, I'm a bit turned off from what I've seen. Player movement in the game is exceptionally slow. There are no items and no individual character levels. No last hits. You can't see how many kills you've registered at the end of the game. You can't communicate with your opponents (just like in Hearthstone). It's all an effort to "protect" bad players and normalize any skill gap.
So, I don't look at this game individually, but more as a referendum on the evolution of Blizzard as a company, and assess it in the context of their other games. They introduced purchasable level 90 characters in WoW, effectively destroying class equilibrium and removing one more RPG element from the game (the actual process of leveling). Their other new IP, Hearthstone, can be played on tablets and phones.
The company that brought us Starcraft and Diablo ~15 years ago is now developing games to appeal to an entirely different audience. It shouldn't be difficult to determine why Titan was cancelled or "rebooted". It was likely a relatively intensive RPG, which Blizzard simply felt wouldn't be viable in today's market.
I'm not a hardcore LoL/Dota player, and was hoping HoTS would be a game that could get me into the genre. After watching the streams last night, though, I'm a bit turned off from what I've seen. Player movement in the game is exceptionally slow. There are no items and no individual character levels. No last hits. You can't see how many kills you've registered at the end of the game. You can't communicate with your opponents (just like in Hearthstone). It's all an effort to "protect" bad players and normalize any skill gap.
So, I don't look at this game individually, but more as a referendum on the evolution of Blizzard as a company, and assess it in the context of their other games. They introduced purchasable level 90 characters in WoW, effectively destroying class equilibrium and removing one more RPG element from the game (the actual process of leveling). Their other new IP, Hearthstone, can be played on tablets and phones.
The company that brought us Starcraft and Diablo ~15 years ago is now developing games to appeal to an entirely different audience. It shouldn't be difficult to determine why Titan was cancelled or "rebooted". It was likely a relatively intensive RPG, which Blizzard simply felt wouldn't be viable in today's market.
This post was edited on 3/14/14 at 10:15 am
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Posted on 3/14/14 at 1:48 pm to Cs
I think the audience is changing as well. The younger crowd wants instant gratification and has less of an attention span. So Blizzard is doing what they have to do to stay on top in the business.
Personally, I love it. I guess you can call it catering to the casual but I feel like they are focusing more on core gameplay and removing the annoying parts. When I level a new character in WoW, I sit in a city and queue for dungeons. That's boring. I do think they should have limited it to only accounts with existing level 90s so that you had to go through it at least once.
But anyway, there will be a lot of changes to HotS so you may see a different game by the time it's released.
Personally, I love it. I guess you can call it catering to the casual but I feel like they are focusing more on core gameplay and removing the annoying parts. When I level a new character in WoW, I sit in a city and queue for dungeons. That's boring. I do think they should have limited it to only accounts with existing level 90s so that you had to go through it at least once.
But anyway, there will be a lot of changes to HotS so you may see a different game by the time it's released.
Posted on 3/14/14 at 2:19 pm to Cs
This is discouraging to me to read C's
-In my brief stint of watching the streams I saw them leveling up and could hear audible queues for the player to choose a talent and saw skills at the bottom of the screen too. So I sort of assumed the rest of the features that the other two moba's featured were also in HotS.
Although it can be seen as a huge nod to the casual market, I think it may be supply and demand pushing the game to more of a casual audience. LOL has plenty of players and Dota as well..Maybe all that is LEFT for the genre is the Casual Market..So that what the game was tailored to.
Reading that Diablo was $7.49 is pretty crazy though..as a mainly dota player, I am spoiled to every single character being free the day it is released.
-In my brief stint of watching the streams I saw them leveling up and could hear audible queues for the player to choose a talent and saw skills at the bottom of the screen too. So I sort of assumed the rest of the features that the other two moba's featured were also in HotS.
Although it can be seen as a huge nod to the casual market, I think it may be supply and demand pushing the game to more of a casual audience. LOL has plenty of players and Dota as well..Maybe all that is LEFT for the genre is the Casual Market..So that what the game was tailored to.
Reading that Diablo was $7.49 is pretty crazy though..as a mainly dota player, I am spoiled to every single character being free the day it is released.
Posted on 3/14/14 at 3:35 pm to Cs
Three things that I think lead to this:
1. Their IPs grew to unprecedented levels ($$).
2. They were purchased by Activision
3. PC Gaming has grown since those days and now the casual PC gamers far outnumber the hardcore.
1. Their IPs grew to unprecedented levels ($$).
2. They were purchased by Activision
3. PC Gaming has grown since those days and now the casual PC gamers far outnumber the hardcore.
This post was edited on 3/14/14 at 3:36 pm
Posted on 3/14/14 at 3:59 pm to Cs
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Their other new IP, Hearthstone, can be played on tablets and phones.
Hearthstone is more or less a casual magic the gathering. It's probably the best product they've released in a long time too.
This post was edited on 3/14/14 at 4:01 pm
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