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Pyros

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Tenks_sl said:
Blizzard has given the middle finger to competitive Heroes of the Storm as well since their global play resets your entire account on each region. So if you are primarily an NA team and you want to play on EU you have to rebuy all the heroes.
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This is how it's done in LoL also, they just have a pretty organized systems for pro players with free accounts and shit, but if you're not yet pro you're kinda fucked. Though overall, not many people play in other regions due to ping issues, and that's going to be even more true for a FPS. I doubt it'll be much of a concern, as long as they have a way to create full accounts for LAN events and such, which Blizzard could probably set up to do fairly easily. Hell pretty sure that's how their WoW competitive arena thing works, they don't expect people to have gladiator rank on every region or whatever.
 
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Zaphid_sl said:
Did you miss the whole Team Fortress train that has been spawning offspring left and right among F2P shooters ? You know a type of game is established when Blizzard finally gets around to making a game in it.
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and to the others who responded with similar sentiments below this...

I wasn't saying it had never been done before, I was just saying that I'm glad that a creative shooter is coming from a big studio. I was happy when Evolve was released as well for the same exact reasons.
 
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Pyros_sl said:
This is how it's done in LoL also, they just have a pretty organized systems for pro players with free accounts and shit, but if you're not yet pro you're kinda fucked. Though overall, not many people play in other regions due to ping issues, and that's going to be even more true for a FPS. I doubt it'll be much of a concern, as long as they have a way to create full accounts for LAN events and such, which Blizzard could probably set up to do fairly easily. Hell pretty sure that's how their WoW competitive arena thing works, they don't expect people to have gladiator rank on every region or whatever.
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I've heard rumors of completely unlocked accounts for all regions for Heroes as well but since the game is so new Blizzard is highly reluctant to give them out since teams are constantly forming and disbanding at the moment. So it may go away as a problem in the future.
 
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I'm not really interested from what I've seen so far, but if I wanted to play this game I would hope they monetize heroes. IF all heroes here are free and you only pay for cosmetics, then expect the updates to mostly have cosmetics. Bottom line is that money is the only thing that will ensure at least a slow trickle of new additions, otherwise you're looking at a glacial pace. Not sure how it is with LoL these days but I played it nearly daily for a while and back then they added a near champ every other week like clockwork - because that's what gets them money.
 
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Mr Creed_sl said:
I'm not really interested from what I've seen so far, but if I wanted to play this game I would hope they monetize heroes. IF all heroes here are free and you only pay for cosmetics, then expect the updates to mostly have cosmetics. Bottom line is that money is the only thing that will ensure at least a slow trickle of new additions, otherwise you're looking at a glacial pace. Not sure how it is with LoL these days but I played it nearly daily for a while and back then they added a near champ every other week like clockwork - because that's what gets them money.
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Neither option matters to me, since I will most likely won't play it very often.

The biggest thing TF2 has over this (imo) is mappers/modders/etc which made sure TF2 never got stale for me......blizzard stuff usually gets pretty stale with their "content" timelines.
 
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I just... it plays like CoD from the videos. Dude is just running around a control point spamming bullets at people. Where's the MOBA part or were those all bot heroes?
 
Pyros

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Palum_sl said:
I just... it plays like CoD from the videos. Dude is just running around a control point spamming bullets at people. Where's the MOBA part or were those all bot heroes?
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Hmm the moba part was always only the skills and heroes, you see how the character has a blink, a rewind and an ultimate that activates after a while, there wasn't any actual moba mechanics otherwise. The game itself is objective based team based FPS. Like TF2 and such.
 
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I think it will have a pretty strong meta game. If they can balance these abilities well they could make it like a modern day super smash bro. Try to create a scene around the game akin to that anyway.
 
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I guess he means the whole thing? Can't really tell if it's any faster than what they've shown before and too lazy to actually check, but that's the kind of things that could easily have changed during beta based on feedback and stuff.
 
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It does look sped up a bit, even if the character has teleport/speed movesets and skills.
 
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I'm pretty sure Tracer is just that much faster than the other characters.
 
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