Heroes of the Storm is closing. The 7-year-old game will be put into “indefinite maintenance mode,” according to Blizzard’s announcement yesterday evening. This means that there will be no new heroes, maps, etc. coming to the game, only balancing patches “if necessary” by keeping the servers active. Mei, the hero of Overwatch, was one of the last characters added to Heroes of the Storm, and the calendars showed the summer of 2020.
Heroes of the Storm is closing, there will be no more updates or new characters in the game
Future patches for Heroes of the Storm (HOTS) will aim to “keep alive” seasonal rewards, a free weekly hero rotation, and game servers. As a gift to the player community, Blizzard will gift the Epic Arcane Lizard mount, an extremely rare mount, to all players with a patch coming next week.
In 2018, Blizzard shut down the game’s “esports wing” and drastically reduced the team to other projects. The last hero officially added to the game was Hogger, who arrived in December 2020. In other words, it can be said that this decision is a declaration of the known. Nevertheless, the developers who continued to work on the game continued to add various skins and similar cosmetics throughout 2021.
