Blizzard Leisure has introduced Heroes of the Storm will now not be receiving main content material updates, successfully killing off the sport.
It’s going to solely be thought of part of the “upkeep” stage for them, like with video games reminiscent of Starcraft and Starcraft II. Rather a lot has occurred since Heroes of the Storm first debuted 7 years in the past in 2015 as a extra informal MOBA to compete in opposition to the likes of League of Legends and DOTA 2.
Regardless of it’s preliminary recognition, Blizzard would later cease supporting the eSports aspect of issues for the sport. In addition they moved employees to different initiatives after slowly winding down its energetic growth.
Seasonal rolls and hero rotation will proceed on for the sport. The sport store can even stay open for gamers to buy no matter they might want from the sport. Nevertheless, there might be no extra new gadgets added to the record transferring ahead.
This isn’t the primary MOBA to have misplaced help lately. Heroes of Newerth had additionally ended making main content material updates in the previous few years. Final month, that recreation had formally ended its providers for good as nicely.
With mainline help ending for Heroes of the Storm, this marks the important finish of yet one more MOBA, the place only a few nonetheless stand at this time. It is a far cry from simply half a decade in the past, when the MOBA market was thought of over saturated.