Heroes of the Storm Kicks Off Closed Beta
The technical alpha is dead! Long live the closed beta!
Blizzard's Heroes of the Storm MOBA inched closer to full release today with the start of the closed beta for the game. It's not all bug fixes and general tweaking either; the closed beta brings all sorts of major changes to the game, including:
* A new hero, World of Warcraft's You can read the Thrall, Warchief of the Horde You can read the full patch notes here. As of this writing, the servers are still down for maintenance, but Heroes of the Storm should be available later today. Not playing yet? You can sign up for the beta here.
* A new three-lane battleground, Sky Temple
* The first iteration of Hero League, aka Ranked Play
* Weekly sales in the shop, starting today and kicking off every Monday
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By QuintLyn Bowers - 3 days ago
i love the scrubs the scream stuff while they barely know what the shortcut of the game stands for
ppl that think this is p2p go play lol again plz neer even bother too come here .
hope we can enjoy this community till the the type of players that state bullshit like and still try the game and whine even in there...
till than dw all my heros are 5 i got my bonus ;) and i took my fav hero for the starting cash so yea pay2win fo sho maybe in the world ur living in stay there we dont want ppl like u here k thx.
ppl this this meant for go play mobile games there u can wine p2p qq :D