No new content development, to Hios maintenance stage

AOS 'Heroes of the Storm', in which Blizzard's representative game characters such as StarCraft, Diablo, Warcraft, and Overwatch gather together and clash, enter the maintenance phase without new development like the StarCraft series.

On the 8th, Blizzard announced the future direction of the game service through the official website of Heroes of the Storm. In response, Blizzard said, We will operate in a similar way to StarCraft and StarCraft 2, which we have been operating for a long time. We will continue to operate the in-game store, he said.

Blizzard continued, Future patches will focus on client stability and bug fixes, and balance updates will be made as needed. Taken together, there is no new paid content such as new skins, and it is difficult to expect the appearance of a new hero, the main content. It can be seen that the development of new content is stopped and the current service is maintained.

In fact, the last hero to appear in Heroes of the Storm is Deulchanko, who was sortie on December 3, 2020, and there has been no new hero added since last year. The fact that there have been no new heroes for over a year and a half means that the number of development manpower invested in Hios has decreased considerably from the past, and through this announcement, it can be seen that the fact that ‘content development will be stopped’ has been made official.

Meanwhile, Heroes of the Storm celebrated their 7th anniversary in June. To commemorate this, Blizzard is presenting a rare mount called 'Honorable Mystic Thunder Lizard' to all users through a patch to be released next week.