Hi i just started playing last night and there's thing that I would really like to see as a change to HotS to make it more accessible to MOBA veterans
I really want a reduction in the amount of time it takes to grind things out on an account or an increase in the amount of free champions
here me out
I come from LoL, I've spent probably 2000 hours+ playing league and I've still only unlocked 60%~ of the game after all this time.
But whatever, I may have dumped thousands of hours into that game in order to get access to champions and runes and whatnot, but it was still fun.
But i've gotten a little bored of LoL, and i want to try other mobas
The biggest barrier to me to start playing a moba was the amount of time it took for me to be able to play all the champions/get all the different skills/builds/etc
I started playing a shitton of /r/battleparty around a year ago. Why? Because at level 1 you have access to 50%~ of the game, and by level 10 (level cap is 99) y
HotS has to compete with the titans of LoL and DotA, as well as other smaller mobas to establish any semblance of a market share. The biggest turn off for a veteran moba player such as myself is grind time.
I have so many other mobas at my fingertips, LoL, DotA, HoN, Infinite Crisis, etc, that if one moba only takes 100~ hours to unlock several champions instead of thousands I'd be willing to stop playing LoL to play that one instead.
I played the original Dota mod on WC3 Frozen Throne. Back when LoL came out, the moba genre consisted of Dota all stars, HoN, and LoL. That's it. There was very little barrier preventing Riot from entering the market. However, there are too many mobas out now to justify Blizzard operating in the same fashion that Riot did 6~ years ago when there was almost no competition and the market share wasn't as distributed as before.
I will probably go back to infinite crisis if this doesn't change because Infinite crisis has a bigger free champion pool, AND has events where EVERY champion in the game is free for a week or so to drum up player base. and you know what? it worked. I found out that infinite crisis is really fun and the champions are well designed. I have no idea how well designed the champions in this game are because I rarely get to see anything other than the free ones at my low account level, and I really don't want to spend hundreds of hours grinding out this account on this game when I could just go play a different MOBA.