On December 13, without warning, plans for a 2019 Heroes of the Storm Global Championship season were unceremoniously cancelled. Commentators found out that morning while some pros were alerted mere minutes ahead of the announcements via email. Others didn’t even find out their careers were over until after the news was made public. But the message was clear: Heroes of the Storm’s pro scene was dead.
Recently, Blizzard has released some troubling news for the Heroes of the Storm community. Following an extended period of silence from the game giant, they have finally released a post regarding the future of the Heroes Global Championship in 2019 and it does not look good. They have decided to end the HGC and Heroes of the Dorm completely.
Here is Blizzard’s announcement post.
They explain that if HGC were to continue into 2019, that it would not be to the standard that viewers and players would expect from them. Because of this, they view ending the professional scene as the best path of action as far as business goes.