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Blizzard's new title is called Heroes of the Storm. It's free to play as well, but works in a similar manner to League of Legends, where there is a rotation of free heroes to play every week. If you want other heroes, you earn them through playing the game, or microtransactions. It seems to be aimed more at a casual crowd, though.

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I don't know about its weekly hero rotation ( sucks ) but you are right its more at a casual crowd. Also one of the things they are proud about is the amount of time per game is not variable as in other MOBA games, rather short 15mins game is what it takes for one game.

Blizzard will only somehow succeed if they manage to get a nice casual community for this game unlike LOL and DOTA2.

Lot's of people are complaining about the people not speaking in English on Euro and US servers and trolling other all the way. Blizzard needs to keep attention on this point as their did on other games.

Unlike Dota2, Blizzard was able to handle that before because they never had to deal with issue where team mates communicate in different language.

You cannot stop a person from joining a English server if he doesn't want to. MOBA games need to be a team play and that issue is hard to solve, unless they come with a real time language transcriber/translator for in-game text chat. That tool is clearly a possible thing to do.[1]

Since thats a third party tool it isn't perfect but platform developers could work on something similar and smart.

[1] Dota2 Translator http://sletmo.com/ / https://github.com/patriksletmo/Dota2Translator

That's true, you can't stop a person to join a specific server but also speaking in different languages and not respecting other team mates is also not good for the game. This create problems and destroy the gameplay.

So there is no easy solution for this problem.

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