{"id":68813,"date":"2018-12-14T00:33:00","date_gmt":"2018-12-14T00:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/332935"},"modified":"2018-12-14T00:33:00","modified_gmt":"2018-12-14T00:33:00","slug":"blizzard-pulls-devs-off-heroes-of-the-storm-and-cuts-esports-support","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2018\/12\/14\/blizzard-pulls-devs-off-heroes-of-the-storm-and-cuts-esports-support\/","title":{"rendered":"Blizzard pulls devs off Heroes of the Storm and cuts eSports support"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today Blizzard <a href=\"https:\/\/news.blizzard.com\/en-us\/blizzard\/22833558\/heroes-of-the-storm-news\">announced plans<\/a> to\u00a0pull\u00a0developers off of its free-to-play MOBA\u00a0<em>Heroes of the Storm\u00a0<\/em>and discontinue\u00a0<em>Heroes\u00a0<\/em>eSports events in\u00a0a bid to position the game for &#8220;long-term sustainability.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Notably, the company says it has no plans to bring back its two big\u00a0<em>Heroes\u00a0<\/em>eSports\u00a0tournaments, the (collegiate level) Heroes of the Dorm\u00a0and the Heroes Global Championship. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The devs taken off\u00a0<em>Heroes\u00a0<\/em>are moving\u00a0to other projects within the company. The game itself has been live since 2015, and in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/329907\/To_balance_Heroes_of_the_Storm_remember_that_MOBAs_arent_a_true_sport.php\">recent chat with Gamasutra<\/a>, two\u00a0<em>Heroes\u00a0<\/em>designers laid out their plans for balancing the game to keep it competitive.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today Blizzard announced plans to\u00a0pull\u00a0developers off of its free-to-play MOBA\u00a0Heroes of the Storm\u00a0and discontinue\u00a0Heroes\u00a0eSports events in\u00a0a bid to position the game for &#8220;long-term sustainability.&#8221; Notably, the company says it has no plans to bring back its two big\u00a0Heroes\u00a0eSports\u00a0tournaments, the (collegiate level) Heroes of the Dorm\u00a0and the Heroes Global Championship. \u00a0 The devs taken off\u00a0Heroes\u00a0are moving\u00a0to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":68814,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68813","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68813","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68813"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68813\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68814"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}