The best Heroes of the Storm team might retire the game soon
Blizzard’s special MMO Heroes of the Storm got a decent number of competitions so far. Most of the time you’d see “MVP Black” dominating their opponent and beating them to the win. The Korean players made a name for themselves in the game, and now they might retire it all together following some unsatisfactory complaints.
Coach Gwang Bok Kim recently gave an interview to a Korean website where he criticized numerous aspects of the competitive Heroes world.
“In case of Dota 2,” Kim said, “the characters’ skill are all flashy and exciting, but in Heroes you can’t help but feel the skills have been toned down over time. As everyone agrees, the rate of Hero release is also too slow. And there are no tournaments outside of the Blizzard sponsored ones. I don’t know whether MVP Black’s players will continue playing Heroes after this year.”
He also criticized the size of prizepools for Heroes tournaments, saying that often teams will receive less in total than an individual player receives for a StarCraft tournament win in Korea.
Korea isn’t the only region experiencing trouble. One of China’s top Heroes sides, EDward Gaming, recently disbanded, with the players reportedly moving into Overwatch instead.
Outside of events that are part of Blizzard’s Heroes Global Circuit, major events are practically non existent. With all of these problems and the game’s stagnant growth, the future for competitive Heroes of the Storm is starting to look troubled.
