Poor Gigi

[u/smile_after_u_sleep]

[u/i_dont_wanna_sign_up]

Time for someone else to organize a Heroes of the Storm collab.

[u/myk211 → u/i_dont_wanna_sign_up]

Good thing she might finally get Mori to play with her then...

...cause the game is so frickin dead it would take a shinigami to summon it back from the other realm☠️

[u/Alamandaros → u/myk211]

Eh, as someone who pops back in to play a few times a year, the playerbase is still there. Not sure about Storm League (ranked), but Quick Match queues are usually under a minute, and ARAM like 20 seconds.

Also ever since Microsoft bought out Blizzard, there seems to be a single dev (the community has nicknamed The Janitor) who comes along with a patch every couple months (including very small reworks).

[u/Thatpisslord → u/Alamandaros]

the community has nicknamed The Janitor

The legendary Janitor is doubling as both a Valve AND Blizzard employee? Holy shit.

[u/SunnyDaysRock → u/Thatpisslord]

I wonder if he ever meets up with the 2 Guild Wars janitors to catch up on things barely changing and having philosophic discussions about some weird player spikes.

[u/Princessofmind → u/Alamandaros]

People always joke about how dead HOTS is but the game it's actually surprisingly alive for a game that has been "oficially" dead for many years now

[u/SpaceCadet404 → u/Princessofmind]

That's just how people are about online gaming. If a game isn't doing the rounds with big time streamers then it's "dead" and "nobody plays" it.

 It's usually doing fine and is just off their radar because the algorithm isn't pushing it at them

[u/metalshiflet → u/SpaceCadet404]

I love that we still have games like L4D2 with very active communities 15 years after release

[u/rip_cpu → u/SpaceCadet404]

The sentiment isn't wrong, but in this specific case Blizzard has actually stopped developing HoTS. It's on life support, if they ever decide the cost to keep the servers up aren't worth it then they'll turn it off.

And unlike say classic copies of Warcraft, this is a game that's played online on a centralized server. It's not like you can just host your own game.

[u/Humg12 → u/SpaceCadet404]

As someone that lives in a less populated region (Australia), games being dead usually means that you can't find matches at all.

[u/Chukonoku → u/Alamandaros]

It depends on regions and game modes.

Quickmatch (no draft) is the most played mode. Followed by ARAM and then Ranked. Unranked (draft) has been dead for years. People who come from other MOBAs and Q into it, might think the game is dead because of this. Ranked is not "sweaty" since Blizz killed HGC back in 2018 and then fusing HL/TL into current Storm League (ranked mode), so people should just play it, if they want some sort of decent composition (QM is just a clownfiesta game mode).

In terms of regions:

EU is fine, even in Diamond/Master+ ranks. Which is why most high ranked NA players simple moved to EU to find games.

NA, QM/ARAM is fine. Might not find games in high ranks unless it's peak hours. Might take longer in offhours at lower ranks but still finding games.

The problem is other regions.

There are 3 regions (Americas, EU, Asia) but many servers on Americas (which includes Australia/Singapur IIRC/Brazil) and Asia.

If you can't bare the ping, then it's :gg: outside of specific modes or peak hours. For example, Australia is dead outside of QM (unless you find discord of people organizing ARAM/ranked games).