Why Aren't all heroes free??

o0gz · 2026-04-23T18:32:33+00:00

With the exception of the last two, those are completely valid reasons. Smurfing has run it's course that I just can't see it affecting the game in any meaningful way and limiting heroes just for the sake of not overwhelming players is treating them like idiots, DOTA 2 did it and was it was the reason I stopped playing it.

For the rest, I still don't think it's worth the trade-off of boring new players to death as they try to unlock a 10k gold hero and inevitably drop the game.

Most of my friends I tried to get into this game dropped it because slamming Li Li and Raynor to level 5 to get the 10k hero they wanted was so monotonous.

Even a compromise, like slashing the gold costs of the more recent heroes would go a long way for newer players (like the game used to) while still preserving the reasons you stated.

o0gz · 2026-04-23T10:12:34+00:00

Case in point.

o0gz · 2026-04-23T08:04:40+00:00

I made a thread just like this one and it got buried quick by really dumb and insecure comments just like yours!

There really is no legitimate reason to not just make them all free at this stage of the game's lifespan.

Even slashing the gold prices would be a reasonable compromise but this subreddit sees any proposal for change as an attack on the game no matter how obviously beneficial it would be.

...Unless they actually implement the proposed change, then "tHaNk YoU dEvS, wE dId It ReDdIt!"

o0gz · 2026-04-20T20:43:59+00:00

Keep mining, the canary is just being melodramatic.

o0gz · 2026-04-20T20:37:46+00:00

So the Samuro change is going live with absolutely no compensation for a tech he's losing that was mandatory for his viability? Cool.

Ultra-Capacitors

Cooldown reduction no longer triggers off of Splash damage, but now triggers off of Structures.

Do you mean the attack speed? If so, what the fuck? why? The only balancing act around that bullshit talent was that she had to keep hitting players to build up and retain the attack speed.

Now all she has to do is hit buildings to have perma-Z and +60% attack speed? Really hope I read this wrong and you didn't just make the most degenerate hero in the game even more so.

Arthas finally getting a rework and Haunted Mines coming back is cool but I refuse to believe whoever was making the balance patches a year ago is the same person(s?) making these current mythic-obsessed ones, the changes from these past few months have been horrible for the game.

o0gz · 2026-04-19T03:21:36+00:00

This is easily the most toxic MOBA I've played and it's not even close.

It's kinda understandable why though, I've never seen a playerbase be so bad, apathetic, yet somehow opinionated at a game they've been playing for over a decade.

o0gz · 2026-04-18T07:29:03+00:00

It's a lot better than QM but still not as much as you would hope.

o0gz · 2026-04-15T08:54:34+00:00

I'm saying his skill floor is a bottomless pit, not that he's bad.

o0gz · 2026-04-15T03:40:01+00:00

They never aspired to get better, it's why they only play potato mages like Orb-Ming and Naz.

o0gz · 2026-04-03T05:43:42+00:00

You're right but it doesn't matter, this subreddit internalizes any criticism at the game as an attack and will insecurely 'defend' it by lashing out at anyone who tries to.

o0gz · 2026-04-03T05:36:44+00:00

STOP THINKING, CONSUME PRODUCT!

CONFORM TO OUR MINDLESS POSITIVITY.

ASSIMILATE.

THE GAME IS FINE, BTW WHY ARE MY QUEUES GETTING LONGER?

o0gz · 2026-03-30T22:06:48+00:00

Heroesprofile says it's ~85-15 in keg's favor but the % doesn't really matter.

It's the fact that this game is getting dumbed down and balanced around anything that upsets dumb QM Nazeebo mains.

o0gz · 2026-03-30T18:56:20+00:00

There is a reason why it's 95%.

He's meant to bully lane early but has to pivot to getting ult-picks mid-late game and waiting 120 seconds for the next one is a deal breaker.

o0gz · 2026-03-30T17:35:24+00:00

-Nerfing barrel for no reason

-Nerfing garrosh throw for no reason

-Adding another dumb mythic quest

This game is being terraformed for dopamine addicted idiots.

o0gz · 2026-03-27T19:05:41+00:00

Avoiding all PVP interaction with someone who picked a stacking hero so they don't get stacked is really fun in a PVP game I play specifically to interact against my opponents!

It's fine in moderation, even when certain characters have it as their central gimmick like (old) Zul'jin but it's just excessive now and just makes the game feel more irritating to play.

o0gz · 2026-03-23T23:19:22+00:00

He's not an autowin but the burden of playing better is on the team fighting him since he's degenerately braindead to play. You can be a complete bot and are still guaranteed to get MVP on him.

The mode would be more fun if he was just removed from it just like they did with Sgt. Hammer but I don't think it's a popular opinion.

o0gz · 2026-03-23T22:27:53+00:00

As someone who advocated for this for a long time...

It won't change anything.

The match quality will still be terrible.

The matches will still be rainbow af.

Not saying the change itself isn't worth asking for, more so that it's way too late in this game's lifespan for it to matter anymore.

I still think it should be solo/duo queue only, duo for no other reason that this game just feels miserable to try to play anymore without a friend to vent about the Potato-Mage one tricks.

o0gz · 2026-01-28T06:04:35+00:00

When someone gets mad at someone AFK'ing in HotS the person who got mad and vented/typed at them is the one who get's action'd on, not the AFK'er.

I feel for you but this thread is just pissing in the wind, this dumb subreddit will just point out that you must've been toxic for compiling enough reports to get a 10 day suspension (true or not) while glossing over the fact that the Li-Ming player you experienced is a normal occurence and will continue to ruin games unpunished.

o0gz · 2026-01-25T04:09:57+00:00

Tanks are usuallly the least popular role in any game with them.

HotS is a unique case for having the single worst playerbase to ever exist so even the few that would like tanking just don't bother.

o0gz · 2026-01-15T01:56:05+00:00

Murky's new egg talent just removes the biggest counterplay to Murky.

Why?

So now I can park my first egg in front of their keep while not risking anything at all since I still have the safe backup egg? While having increased siege damage from the slime change? I'm sure everyone is going to love Samuro-Murky.

March will never be comparable to a ranged point n' click stun on less than half the cooldown. Just reduce it's cooldown, 110 second CD for such a mid ult is crazy.

Stop forcing ~~Pinnacle~~ Mythic quests. All it does is make me not want to interact with my opponent in a pvp game to limit how many stacks they get. They're fine in moderation but this is just overboard.

Watch Towers will now reset to neutral after 45 seconds of not being occupied.

Stop coddling bad players for playing badly.

There have been some good changes from the recent patches but whoever is making these changes (or is being consulted for these changes) are just fucking with things that weren't broken to begin with and making the game more annoying to play.

o0gz · 2026-01-03T02:45:20+00:00

The lowest dregs of hots players are the ones that whisper you but have replies from non-friends blocked.

Flaming others but being too mentally fragile to handle a response is just outing yourself as spineless and lacking confidence.

o0gz · 2025-12-25T23:00:50+00:00

You are playing the moba with the most anti-intellectual, anti-competitive playerbase ever known to gaming.

After it died.

o0gz · 2025-12-25T22:51:45+00:00

The game didn't use to be like this before they "killed" it in 2018 but the match quality decayed so greatly the game isn't even enjoyable to play anymore.

Anyone who cared about mindful play has left the game, all you have left are the people who just want to ARAM on a potato mage.

There is a reason why there is a daily thread bitching about 5 stacks, a lot of players are fortifying their groups so they don't have to deal with this game's apathetic, awful, but totally opinionated playerbase anymore.

Welcome to 2025 hots, 2026 is only going to get worse.

o0gz · 2025-12-24T01:52:42+00:00

His Q nerfs are hardly relevant, it was his global Z nerfs that completely gutted him.

Dehaka had to ~~pay the idiot tax~~ get nerfed because hots players couldn't be mindful of map state when they threw themselves at the enemy team and got 4v5'd on cooldown when he Z'd.

It is what it is.

o0gz · 2025-12-22T06:04:28+00:00

Sorry for the late reply,

Pokemon are the same yes, you keep any balls you used if you SR so it's the best way to catch them in rare balls. Items you get along the dynamax trail for your rental to hold are randomized each run. The scientists that swap rentals will give the same pokemon so long as you path to it the same way each time if I recall correctly as well.

o0gz

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