Projects were launched almost simultaneously, but what different fates.
At the end of last year, the Frostburn studio announced that the once popular MOBA called Heroes of Newerth would be closed without fail. It was yesterday, June 20, that this event happened – all servers were turned off.
Recall that Heroes of Newerth was launched in 2010 almost simultaneously with the well-known and well-feeling League of Legends. There was a period when both projects competed almost on an equal footing, their developers alternately introduced interesting features and held competitions.
Some experts argue that the success of League of Legends was ensured by a more correctly built monetization model.
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If we talk about the recognition of critics and ordinary players, then Heroes of Newerth on the Metacritic review aggregator has 76% rating critics (based on 12 reviews) and a 7.3 average user score (238 reviews). For comparison: League of Legends has 78% rating from the press (37 reviews) and 5.2 average user scores (4275 reviews). It seems that the rating numbers are similar, but the audience sizes of the game are completely different.