HoN is dead, sad but true. I used to play HoN when it was beta until this year(I think June or July) and I moved to Dota2. Guess what? S2 and G a r e n a just f**ked up everything, every patch have like few avatar or collection avatar. Seriously? Instead of keep promote the avatar, they don't want to balance the game itself? When the time of beta, you just need to get the beta key(from G a r e n a gold member) and you can play the game and all hero are unlocked. After a few patch updated, all hero locked and you need pay or earn silver coin to unlock it. Really? For example: 1 hero like 650silver coin(for new hero), how many match you need to play to unlock only 1 hero? Compare to NA/EU HoN(international HoN) all hero are unlocked. Oh? and we still need to earn silver coin or pay cash to unlock the hero we want to play? I think it is kind of unfair. And yes, I did invest a lot in G a r e n a HoN and I enjoy a lot of fun with my friend. But still, it is just sad to see the game slowly dying. Hope that someday I might return to this game.

By the way, sorry for my bad English. It is just all my personal opinion, don't mock me if I offended you.

This post has been edited by x14opigpig: Nov 3 2013, 11:34 AM

Good to hear that they try balance the hero, but still player database getting lesser compared to before.

I don't really mind about free stuff like avatar or name colour since we can get it with gold coin. Let's talk about hero pool, compared between SEA HoN and NA/EU HoN, we still need to play and earn silver coin to unlock hero or pay cash to unlock hero. I think it is kind of unfair since NA/EU HoN they had already unlock all hero to their player. Maybe we have some event like play 25 MM to get few hero in certain period. Seriously? I don't think everyone are free to do so, at least for me.

I really hope G a r e n a will do something to their player but not only care about profit.

I try suggest them to unlock all hero for free in the forum before, but the G M staff told me. We have several hero bundle can purchase which is same to all hero unlock. I was like WTF? Even we have hero bundle , but we still need to pay cash to buy it.(Since hero bundle can only purchase with gold coin.) But whatever, they are profit company and everyone have their own business model, we can't really expect much on them.

Ya, for second point I also agree with you. I still love HoN more than Dota2 due to the game speed and graphic design, include those taunt and announcer. But I feel like Dota2 hero much more balance and it was actually very fun to play with friend. I try ask my friend join HoN before, they answer me why should them pay money to unlock those hero to play the game and they just stick to Dota2.

G A R E N A just f**ked the game up due to their bad management.

I play MOBA games more than 7 year, start from DOTA>HoN>DOTA2 and I am still learning.

Actually every game have their fun part, we can't deny about that. DOTA2 seem like more balance for me. If you wish to play DOTA2, maybe you can try practice with AI first to try out which hero suitable for you and item combination. For the item part, it is more or less similar to HoN.

No points to argue with legacy players and those forumer, they just whine that G A R E N A shouldn't open all hero free to play because either they are legacy account or they did invest many money in HoN. But whatever, I have like 80% of hero from the hero pool. So, it doesn't really matter to me. But, its is kind of painful for new player, because they can only choose certain hero from hero pool.

Ya, I also agree with you. Nowadays, there are just too many cosmetics in MOBA games, like LoL, HoN, Dota2. And the company only care for profit instead of game quality itself.

I think maybe you can give it a try to strife. It is a new MOBA game which develop by S2 games.(same company which develop HoN)

Just a decent player, not a pro. I just reset my stat before I leave HoN. Mostly, I play MM alone and able to reach 1700MMR. Maybe if I installed back the game, we can play together.

Dota2 queue is based on your level. Not sure about ranking, maybe how many match you win?

From what I see, most of legacy player are not support unlock all hero free to play and they will just call other player poorfags why don't just top up and unlock all hero. Maybe they think that access to all hero is the priority for legacy member but without thinking for other player. And I got some friend who play tournament, they get legacy member for free from G M.

Stats game? Or just like mid war?

waoh seem like HoN change a lot, might give it a try when I was free. So now, how about the ranking system? No more MMR and KDR?

ok, thank for info.