The company ceased support for the professional MOBA scene

Heroes of the Storm is dead. Long live Heroes of the Storm. I do not say it, but the Activision-Blizzard itself that already called this game "classic", a euphemism out of a job offer that places the beloved MOBA at the height of 'StarCraft II', 'StarCraft Remastered' and 'Warcraft III. There will be someone who considers this movement another of his classic skates. Not surprisingly, the death of Heroes of the Storm is empowered by Diablo Immortal, having to dump resources in this mobile game. And yes, Heroes of the Storm may have come to a somewhat saturated market too late, but it had a loyal community that really loved the game. Enough support to at least not abandon them to their fate.

For those who do not know this MOBA, it should be said that their formula was born by connecting characters from the different Blizzard games: Diablo,

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Overwatch, StarCraft, WarCraft and some retro Lost Vikings character. If we go back to 2015 -when the game was announced with pomp and massive investment-, his narrative tells us the gods choose which warriors will play.

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The Nexus - which can be considered a StarCraft Protoss structure - determines a chess game between two superior entities and the heroes confront each other as they know best. Deities in eternal conflict that have pawns at the mercy of a transdimensional storm, one that opens the gap between the different Blizzard universes.

Dozens of heroes faced 5 against 5 on millimetrically studied maps. His birth aroused not a few passions and more than one critic dared to say that HotS would eat with potatoes at LoL and Dota 2. The reality has not been like that, of course.

Are we talking about a forgotten classic? Well, a classic that already ran out of tournaments or official competitive events, deposed at the entrance of 2019.

This was expressed by J. Allen Brack, president of Blizzard Entertainment, and Ray Gresko, producer of the company: «we have evaluated our plans in Heroes e-Sports; After analyzing all our options and priorities taking into account the changes in the game, the 'Heroes Global Championship' and the 'Heroes of the Dorm' will not return in 2019. This has been another very difficult decision for us.

This news was accompanied by another even bigger varapalo, when after a Variety leak, it was confirmed that the company would lay off 8% of its workers. That is, 775 employees out of a total of 9,000. A restructuring to adjust the administrative operation of a company that achieved its most optimistic prospects, achieving a net income of 1.8 billion dollars during 2018, compared to 273 million in 2017.

After the storm, the company insisted by active and passive that the game will not disappear:

«we will continue to actively support the game with new heroes, thematic events and other content that our community loves, although the cadence will change».

It's no lie: The Scarlet Heist event - The Crashed Strike - landed in a patch and brought changes in Junkrat and Melenablanca's abilities. His talent tree has been renewed with three different talents for each character. Although these are not the only reworks. The fall event, which began on September 25 and will last until December 3, also brings new aspects for Orfea and Hammer, as well as new mounts, graffiti, some extra emojis and portraits.

This is not enough, of course. What can all those clubs that spoiled your team do for months, who worked on setting up the team with the best possible synergy to seriously compete? Look away.