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Apr 13 2012 08:05am
Quote (sicklad @ 13 Apr 2012 07:35)
Not sure if should sleep or hon.


playing HoN tired always lead to troll games or massive rage games for me...or some very ''Idc'' games that I regret when I realise the 1-24 stats after :P
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Apr 13 2012 08:10am
Quote (mickill @ Apr 13 2012 03:05pm)
playing HoN tired always lead to troll games or massive rage games for me...or some very ''Idc'' games that I regret when I realise the 1-24 stats after :P


lol vouch
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Apr 13 2012 10:42am
i just watched moon's stream for a few minutes

the new alt avatars + heroes just make me not take this game seriously at all

its just becoming too obvious S2 is trying to milk every last penny without caring how much they pollute and ruin the game.
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Apr 13 2012 11:03am
Quote (sMACKTRiCKz @ Apr 13 2012 11:42am)
i just watched moon's stream for a few minutes

the new alt avatars + heroes just make me not take this game seriously at all

its just becoming too obvious S2 is trying to milk every last penny without caring how much they pollute and ruin the game.


and alot of the alts are 3k silver... even if they came out like 4months ago
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Apr 13 2012 11:08am
Quote (CamelFinger @ Apr 13 2012 06:03pm)
and alot of the alts are 3k silver... even if they came out like 4months ago


idk i played hon for a pretty fucking long time after the coin system came out.

i think i've earned maybe 5k silvercoins in my lifetime on all accounts, and i used to play alot

i can't imagine anyone putting in like 200 hours of gametime just to afford one single dumb alt avatar

S2 obviously just wants people to fork over the $$ to buy them
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Apr 13 2012 12:32pm
Quote (sMACKTRiCKz @ Apr 13 2012 01:08pm)
idk i played hon for a pretty fucking long time after the coin system came out.

i think i've earned maybe 5k silvercoins in my lifetime on all accounts, and i used to play alot

i can't imagine anyone putting in like 200 hours of gametime just to afford one single dumb alt avatar

S2 obviously just wants people to fork over the $$ to buy them


if you're focusing on cosmetics ruining hon

its new heroes every two weeks and no balance patches.
they have done nothing in i think like 3-4 months to improve gameplay
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Apr 13 2012 12:53pm
if there was only like 1 new hero a month and if S2 would rather do weekly balance patches, HoN could become pretty good again
sadly this won't happen
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Apr 13 2012 12:57pm
quick get on the dota2 ship!!
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Apr 13 2012 01:04pm
Quote (garbo @ 13 Apr 2012 19:32)
if you're focusing on cosmetics ruining hon

its new heroes every two weeks and no balance patches.
they have done nothing in i think like 3-4 months to improve gameplay


the worst thing is how they ignore the competetive scene

people/teams started making threats about leaving a long time ago and they still made nothing about it
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Apr 13 2012 01:09pm
Some guy made this great post on reddit about how S2 is more in maintenance mode rather than development mode

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I have been with a company when huge amounts of technical debt are created through upper level management decisions, and one of two things happen. Key acquisitions are made to backfill, then overcome the newly created technical debt and loss of institutional knowledge, or people are brought in with a minimal skill set and employee cost to support the product as goes into a maintenance mode knowing that no new major development will happen with the projects that person or people have previously worked on. Based on how slowly the HoN product has been developing with what I would consider major features - graphical engine major overhaul, new api of any kind, or rewriting something like the osx sound engine - it really looks like HoN is in a maintenance cycle not an active development cycle.

If you guys come out with a midwars game type, rad. Seriously though, knowing that the map guy was working on a midwars map over a year ago and nothing is on the street yet looks pretty bad. Mali needs to decide if he wants to invest in HoN or let it go, because you are saying one thing about the path of HoN and Mali is saying something totally different with his dollars.


One of their employees quit after working their for 8 years, Jason Morales, he was the guy who said maliken is a homophobic bigot (http://gay-nerds.com/site/internet/really-s2games-really/). He was working on the game and engine for a long time, and they never got anyone good to replace him. Also after he left everyone has to sign NDAs so they can't call maliken a racist homophobic bigot.

However the maintenance the other day was them added hontour shit into the game.

http://hondiff.appspot.com/highlight/2.5.19/game/resources0.s2z/ui/fe2/hontour_lobby.package?xml

So after 15 months they're finally going to add something major to the game.
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