Blizzard Rumors: "Low Expectations" for Heroes of the Storm?

A post on The Firstadopter has a reworked version of a speculative article about what's going on at Blizzard which was first posted to Yahoo Finance, according to reddit (thanks Wallshadows), offering rumors covering a range of topics attributed to an "Activision Blizzard insider." Word is that Hearthstone numbers are "off the charts," and that a more PvE expansion is due soon. They say the business model for Overwatch is still in flux, and that this is more likely to arrive early next year than late this year. The purported insider also says the company has "low expectations" for Heroes of the Storm (apologies for calling this Heart of the Storm at first), and that the Diablo III team has been moved to an unannounced MOBA set in the StarCraft universe. While it does not mean that all the other speculation in the article is confirmed, it is interesting that the last bit about the Diablo team is the only item addressed by Blizzard, who responded with a denial of that particular point, saying the Diablo III team "is on continuing to support the game with patch content. We generally don’t comment on rumors or speculation, but I do want to make sure it’s clear that they’re not working on a secret project in the StarCraft universe."
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Suppa7 wrote on Jan 30, 2015, 11:00:
BitWraith wrote on Jan 30, 2015, 10:31:
What's wrong with Hearthstone?

Be prepared when all these online only games go offline permanently. i.e. there's going to be a giant gaming whole in history because of kids feeding this online/f2p/mmo bullshit where companies own the fucking game. You won't be able to go back and play old games when you got the itch. The below is just one example.

F2P game Driftopia goes offline

All things are not equal in the real world. Some no-name game from Namco going offline is far more likely than a hit game from Blizzard going offline. The Diablo 2 servers are still running 15 years after release.
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