Storm Hero is a multiplayer online competitive game, released by Blizzard Entertainment and running on Windows and MacOS. The hero roles played by players in the game all come from Blizzard's Warcraft, Diablo and StarCraft. It is a free online game, and its supporting system is based on Blizzard's Battle.net.
Blizzard conducted limited internal testing. August 20 13, this game stopped internal testing. 20 13, 1 1, Blizzard officially announced that the game was launched on 20 14 at Blizzard Carnival.
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Hero of Storm originally existed as a map in StarCraft II. Blizzard originally called it Blizzard Dota, and announced that it would be released as a customized map of StarCraft II. On 20 10, Blizzard invited players to test Blizzard Dota at Blizzard Carnival for the first time, which was recognized and loved by players. Blizzard claims that the concept of Blizzard Dota lies in "fast" and "balance". On 20 1 1 year, Blizzard announced that it would remake Blizzard Dota and that the game would be jointly developed with Blizzard Battle. Net.
With the development right of Dota2 taken away by Valve, Blizzard failed to seize the development right of Dota2 and failed to acquire RiotGames, and Blizzard is likely to gradually lose the players of antagonistic games. On May 6th, 2002, 20 1 1, Valve announced that it would take Blizzard to court, because Valve believed that Blizzard Dota's use of Dota's trademark and name constituted infringement, and provided a series of evidences to prove that the owner of Dota's trademark and name was Valve, demanding Blizzard to make compensation and apologize, and revoking Dota. However, Blizzard believes that the name Dota belongs to all players, is a type of game, and does not belong to individuals or enterprises. However, the court ruled that Blizzard infringed, and Blizzard had to rename Blizzard Dota as Blizzard All-Star. Subsequently, Blizzard retaliated against Valve and did not allow Valve to use its game character model and name in Dota2.
20 12 June, DustinBrowder, director of StarCraft II development, said that due to copyright and other reasons, the release date of Blizzard All-Star was temporarily uncertain. 20 13, 13 10, he mentioned Blizzard All-Star here, saying that this game is very good and the game experience is very good, but this game is not ready for player testing for the time being. 20 13 In February, Activision Blizzard released the fourth quarter report of 20 12, which indicated that all-stars of Blizzard would continue to develop in 20 13. 20 13 March, DustinBrowder said that some developers and artists of StarCraft II have been assigned to the Blizzard All-Star Development Team.
August 20 13, MikeMorhaime, the founder of Blizzard Entertainment, announced that Blizzard All-Star had entered the internal testing stage, and only a few people participated in the internal testing. He said, "Blizzard All-Star" is ready to shock players all over the world. 201310 June 17, Blizzard All-Star changed its name to Storm Hero.
In the same year165438+1October 8th, DustinBrowder officially released Heroes of the Storm, and said that players can apply for public beta in Blizzard official website.