One of the long-hoped-for characters for Heroes of the Storm was announced in the past couple days: Deathwing, the grand-daddy of evil dragons in the Warcraft universe and primary villain of the Cataclysm expansion.
While his announcement is sure to be very welcome amongst HotS players, the timing of this announcement is surprising. As of today we're just a week and two days from the start of Blizzcon, which is when you'd typically expect to find news about new characters being added to the game.
Heroes of the Storm has, infamously, been put on a bit of a back-burner lately amongst Blizzard games, and the fact that they're rolling out this announcement before the big Con suggests to me two possibilities:
The first is that they have really big stuff to share that goes beyond a new character. To be clear, I don't think this is the right one.
The other is that there's much bigger news for other franchises and as such, the Heroes presence at the Con will be very small - announcing Deathwing now means that they pretty much don't even need to mention Heroes of the Storm, so instead they can focus on the new WoW expansion, Diablo IV, possibly Overwatch 2, and whatever else they have in store.
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