Game: Heroes of the Storm - Impression & Opinion

A lot of people have been waiting for their access to heroes of the storm, so Blizzard did the profitable thing and started selling beta access. They have called it Founder's pack. For the price of 35 Euro you get 3 heroes, 3 skin-variations for those heroes, a mount, 2500 gold and your beta access to the game. So, the heroes you get in the pack are Diablo, Raynor and Tyrande. These all feel like low to medium heroes. It is not often you see anyone with more heroes pick Diablo and there is probably a good reason for that. That makes me come into the way they do heroes. They have free weeks just like LoL and other MOBA's. I don't like this way of doing it mostly because i am coming from DOTA2 where you get all heroes for free. All you pay for there is cosmetics.

The way you get more heroes are easy though. You either buy them for real cash or you use your in-game gold. Like mentioned above you get 2500 gold when you buy the pack so you might be wondering how much that really is. The cheapest heroes are 2000 and the most expensive are 15000. There is only one who is 15000 and that is Thrall, probably so expensive because he is a new hero. Most heroes I personally want are at the 10000 gold mark. So what do we get gold for? We get gold from doing daily quest's, winning matches, playing matches, reaching a certain player-level or reaching a certain hero-level. If you get a hero up to level 5 you get 500 gold. 32 heroes in-game, so there is a lot too get from that but it takes some time. Hitting player-level 2 and 4 will get you 1000 gold for each. Hitting player level 8 and 10 will give you 2000 for each. And then there are daily quests. I don't know all the different awards but i know i have had one that payed 300 gold. The last way i know of that you get gold is by playing matches. You get 20 gold for playing a match and another 10 gold for winning a match. What i see in all this is that it will take me a long time to get all the heroes unless I want to become a credit-card hero and pay cash for my heroes. There is also some packs and bundles in their in game shop but i have not used the shop yet so I know nothing about it.

They do a lot of thing right with this game. One thing I really like about this game is that it got 32 heroes from some of my favorite games of all time in Warcraft, Starcraft and Diablo. There are no items like in other MOBA's so it is up too you, your team and your skill to get it done, no way of stacking protection or crit. This game has more than one map(which usually is the case for other MOBA's). Right now it has six, Sky temple, Garden of terror, Blackheart's bay, Dragonshire, Haunted mines and Cursed hollow. All these maps got some kind of objective for players to do which also is not seen in other MOBA's. For instance, on Cursed hollow there will spawn tributes. The team that can collect 3 tributes makes the other team cursed. All their minions get 1 hp and their towers and keeps stop firing for about 1 minute. Only 1 tribute spawns at a time, never more, so the fighting around the tribute is often hectic and hardcore. Thanks to these objectives, the fact that your team share experience and there no items to farm for makes for more intense games. You never stop to wait for your carry to farm or anything like that nonsense, and this also makes games much faster. I have not had a game be over 35 minutes yet.

When you hit level 30 you can finally get into hero league. I have not hit 30 yet so i don't know how people play there but to have the option between playing ranked or casual is a great thing. It is a long way to go all the way to 30 but it will make you ready for ranked play though.

TL;DR

Heroes of the storm is a fantastic game. Beautiful maps, intense combat and the focus on teamwork is great. No items is great and playing as beloved characters from Blizzard's great universes is fun. Is it worth 35 EURO for beta access to a game that is said to be free to play when it comes out. Only if you are a die hard MOBA fan. It's expensive for very little actual content. Only 3 heroes is not good enough for that price. The game is not finished either. Would you pay 35 EURO for an early access game? I also feel like you get gold to slow. I get that they want to make money but damn that's expensive. But having to pay for beta at all is really sad. I did not think Blizzard would do this. Blizzard, you were the chosen one. The one to break the evil circle. As said, are you a die hard fan, buy it. Its a lot of fun and the short matches makes it easy to just pick up and play one match. If you are not a fan and just curious or got other things to play then wait for the release or maybe an sale.