Heroes of the Storm has been trucking on for some time now without an official director, and a new statement from Blizzard sort of explains why the project has been quasi-rudderless.
Speaking on an official blog, the company explains: “We’ve made the difficult decision to shift some developers from Heroes of the Storm to other teams, and we’re excited to see the passion, knowledge, and experience that they’ll bring to those projects. This isn’t the first time we’ve had to make tough choices like this. Games like Diablo II, World of Warcraft, StarCraft II, Overwatch, and more would not exist had we not made similar decisions in the past.”
Remaining rather vague (and a company rep told us that they wouldn’t be able to elaborate further), Blizzard remains stalwart in supporting the game, noting that they are setting up for “long-term sustainability.” Addressing the concern over eSports, they say that they’re “evaluating” where Heroes currently fits in, and that both HGC (the big, entertaining tournament run that culminates at BlizzCon) and the Heroes of the Dorm championship will not return in 2019.
As someone who has followed Heroes since alpha, this is huge. A lot of people didn’t want to believe that HGC would be completely abandoned, but Blizzard just confirmed it.
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Source: Destructoid Blizzard notes ominous sweeping changes for Heroes of the Storm