Heroes of Newerth

[SlayerII]

Still there is no point buying HoN. If you buy warcraft you get a shitload of more. The number of mods exceeds any imagiantion, and the game itself is still one of the best rts out there.
There something like no balance isuuses in dota, just newbies believe in it. Still in leaguge game some heros are prefered, but more cause there are less luck based.
I still want to try HoN, alltought i think i will stay at playing dota.

[Roros]

If you haven't even tried it, how can you say it's not worth buying?

The ranking, matchmaking, clan systems, replay info (creep denials, time of kills, etc), reconnect support, server filtering, and stat tracking is leaps and bounds better than dota. It's just $30, which is nothing if you plan on playing it for more than a couple of hours.

[An7hraX]

With Free alternatives like DotA and LoL, HoN is a 30$ DotA reconnection and a better replay tool.
And anyone who has Dota Replay Tool and GArena will figure out that HoN offers nothing in reality.

On top of that:

• HoN has 0 potential of ever being anything more than a DotA clone (where LoL can offer completely different games such as TDs, Hero Defenses, etc. etc.)
• It's not supported by any professional teams, simply because it's a rip off of all the hard work that Guinsoo, Icefrog and the other developers have put into it.
• When SC2 gets released and the first DotA map comes out the community of HoN will halve.

[Roros]

Originally Posted by An7hraX

[*] It's not supported by any professional teams, simply because it's a rip off of all the hard work that Guinsoo, Icefrog and the other developers have put into it.

They have the full consent and support of at least Icefrog. He's said several times that they have his blessing.

[SlayerII]

Originally Posted by Roros

The ranking, matchmaking, clan systems, replay info (creep denials, time of kills, etc), reconnect support, server filtering, and stat tracking is leaps and bounds better than dota.

The are dota rankins, there are matchmaking systems(not on bnet), there are clans, there is a replay and you get all needed infas . Some wc3 working on a reconnect for wc3. So in the end i get nothing for 30€ which i can get from googling a bit.

[yerkyerk]

HoN's still free atm (beta), it's an improvement over DotA. Even if you consider it only a slight improvement, it is an improvement nonetheless - can't see how you think it's worse really - I'm assuming that's just the irrational fanboy talking.
HoN's built for DotA, Wacraft is not.

Sure, it's perhaps the most unoriginal title ever to hit the market and that sorta bugs me, but it has the blessing of Icefrog, so that's not really a huge issue.
I'm not even sure what you mean with "it has no professional teams"?

Talking about what will happen with HoN due to SC2 - it might as well effect games as LoL. After all, you can probably create all mods that will go in LoL. Perhaps it'll do little though, as HoN is focussed on DotA gameplay. We'll learn later this year. Making predictions about this makes no sense though..

I don't like hassling with third party mods really. If I really like a game I might try out some mods. But I'd prefer to have it all in a convenient (virus-free) package without searching and investigating for many hours of what mods to use for what.

[subshape]

I play LoL almost daily at lunch. It's a great game. As for Free-to-play I wound up spending about $35 on it to get the heroes I play religiously, and a couple cool skins I wanted (ya it's important to me! I gotta look cool ganking!)
Needless to say I haven't gotten around to playing HoN but I know that it's pretty popular in China.
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[Confuted]

I have an unused beta key for HoN if anybody wants it. pm me.

[andreyy]

Originally Posted by subshape

I play LoL almost daily at lunch. It's a great game. As for Free-to-play I wound up spending about $35 on it to get the heroes I play religiously, and a couple cool skins I wanted (ya it's important to me! I gotta look cool ganking!)
Needless to say I haven't gotten around to playing HoN but I know that it's pretty popular in China.
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I hope you didn't get any of those emo-dark skins, like Poppy's and Yi's. They're so horrible artwise, look like pieces of black. And who cares that Poppy has her face painted alike those idiots from Kiss, if you won't EVER see it, due to the camera angle?

Anyway, would you mind giving out your nick in LoL?

[yerkyerk]

For HoN, I added an Asylum101 to my friend's list. Also added Roros (not sure if that's you though, Roros?). My nick is yerkyerk.