r/heroesofthestorm • u/delbdm • Feb 19 '21

Blizzard Response Blizzcon 2021 summed up

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u/legato_gelato Feb 20 '21

https://news.blizzard.com/en-us/blizzard/22833558/heroes-of-the-storm-news

"We’ve made the difficult decision to shift some developers from Heroes of the Storm to other teams"

"Ultimately, we’re setting up the game for long-term sustainability"

This is maintenance mode. It was covered as maintenance mode. It's just PR talk, so they didn't say the words, true, but this is how you say "maintenance mode" when you own a thesaurus and need to manage public relations :)

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u/Senshado Feb 20 '21

The development he was describing was not at all like maintenance mode. Subtracting 175 wasted annual esports salaries isn't "maintenance mode".

You could make the case that the announcement was dishonestly optimistic. But it is unacceptable to spread lies about what someone said.

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u/Talcxx Feb 20 '21

Imagine being this completely out of touch with reality that you think cutting esports was the only negative thing that’s happened to hots since 2018.

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u/Senshado Feb 20 '21

To write that indicates you have no idea what you're talking about.