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kamiccollo

What if Deathwing had been revealed at Blizzcon with a cinematic alongside Orphea?

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If this had happened would HotS have stolen the show and stood out above the other games? Would more positive public opinion and the overall mood have affected recent events?

Personally I think this could have majorly altered the last couple months of events. The Blizzcon reveal of Orphea, at least in my opinion, is when attitudes and posts on this subreddit and players at large shifted into a much more negative tone.

If instead Deathwing was announced, a massive hype train would have been created as well as excitement towards the future of the game overall. People from other Blizzard games would almost certainly want to try HotS to play such an iconic and anticipated character.

I think the public view of HotS as a whole would’ve been much brighter, and that HGC would still have existed in some capacity this year due to this. Dev cuts may have still happened, but maybe not as badly.

Again this is all just opinion and speculation and with hindsight being 20/20 with what we know now. Who knows if other heroes were/are even that far along in development. What do you guys think?

Posted Dec 15, 2018, 7:49 PM UTC

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deshfyrethe Subreddit's admins are jokes.•

nothing different would have happened.

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YugoBetrugo17Alarak•

I thought about the same thing today and honestly it is really difficult to say. My personal wish for this Blizzcon was a Deathwing vs Imperius announcement and a badass cinematic where both fight each other.

Would it have been impressive? Most definitely. But would have been so impressive to draw a lot of new players? That remains questionable.

I am sure that a lot of people who abandoned the game would have returned to check out Deathwing and probably a bunch of WoW players as well. However, with the direction the current leadership of Blizz takes, it would have been something negative if HotS had taken players from WoW.

So the only other possibility would be non-Blizzard players but do these watch Blizzcon and can be convinced to play a game just because of some dragon?

In conclusion, Deathwing (and possibly Imperius) would have had definitely a positive effect on HotS but it remains questionable if this effect would have been enough.

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Senshado•

Best case Deathwing makes the game 5-10% more popular, and 10% more than a failure is still probably a failure. Just maybe hanging on a few weeks longer.

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Remus88Romulus:malganis: Imperius, Mephisto & Baal•

Well, I thought and hoped it would had been Imperius vs. Deathwing (https://imgur.com/gallery/XwnXVoL). It would hype up the crowd there at Blizzcon and the whole playerbase. At least for a while. I guess Allen had this planned for a while, probably long before Blizzcon.

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