This game in it's early days used to be awesome. A lot of fun. Loved playing it with friends. Had the perfect balance of difficulty, fun and well, balance.

Now, the game has been bastardized and everything about it changed for the worst. Not only that, the dev himself on Discord treats anybody who doesn't like something he put into the game like they are the scum of the Earth. He acts like his game is perfection and anybody who doesn't agree is an idiot.

He's been shoving DLC down our throats with no improvement to the overall quality of the game. With every DLC and update, the game gets worse. It continuously drifts further away from what it used to be.

The dev truly took something awesome. Something great. Took it and threw it in a dumpster inferno and just disrespected it and everybody else.

Steam is where the majority of the dev's sales comes from. He vehemently refuses to work on a mobile port for the game because it doesn't sell as well as the steam version, meaning his threw all of his eggs into a single basket because he thinks it's the only place worthy of his game existing. All he cares about is money.

His 2.0 update was met with overwhelmingly negative feedback all over the internet and he says everybody is wrong and that 2.0 is an upgrade and improvement to the game. The only people he treats nicely are the blind white knights that valiantly defend him and praise his updates. People lost hundreds of hours of progress. Saves completely wiped out. Everybody had to start from scratch. I used to play this game in offline mode on the go with my laptop, Steam doesn't count those hours, at least, they used to never do that 10 years ago. I had a couple hundred hours myself, uploaded my save to the cloud from that time. It's completely gone. All of my progress. All of my unlocks. Everything. And I'm expected to start over from scratch with a severely inferior version of the game. You have to repurchase all of the DLCs and all of the unlocks in the game to have access to everything again at the detriment of having to play the not so new and "improved" version of the game.

The community has fought tooth and nail with the dev on how to improve the game and he disregards the feedback, insults people, acts childish, or turns on his blinders. Or all of the above. You can see how he acts in the Steam Discussion Board. Remember all those other studios and developers that actively speak out against their community? How they got burned so hard that they effectively killed their games? Yeah, that's what's happening here. The cycle repeats itself and the dev is experiencing it first hand and doesn't even see it because he only wants to see what he wants and not the truth.

Now, he claims he's been planning on bringing the old game back as a "game mode" of all things instead of just calling it "Hero Siege Classic" or something and retaining everything the old game originally was. This sounds great for everybody on paper, but, considering the history of the dev's actions, let's just say, I don't have hope for this whatsoever. His track record so far from what I've witnessed over the years of lurking is the farthest thing from trustworthy. All he had to do was do NOTHING with the game. Everything he's done with the game should have been listed as a sequel title instead of transforming and disfiguring the entirety of the game.

The dev essentially did the same thing that happened with Infinity Wars. Instead of just making a second game, they completely destroyed their original game. Not understanding just how bad of an idea that was and just how much support they lost and how hard they burned everybody. Never to get back the game's rightful glory.

Also, apparently, the dev has been treating this game as if it's a live service. It's advertised as a single player game that can be played offline and offers local coop. The epitome of a "do whatever the f you want with the game". Yet, people who want to edit some kind of value in the game or use Cheat Engine to skip a lot of the absurdity this game has involved with it (and just have fun ffs) are met with getting banned and being unable to play multiplayer.

The devs treat this game like a live service. Of all things. This has been an issue for YEARS that hasn't gotten better and only kept getting doubled down on.

You owe it to yourself to steer clear of this game. You deserve better than this.

Wow. ♥♥♥♥ this game. They deleted all my characters and items, both local and online, then added some new classes at $5.99 a piece, plus purchasable micro cosmetics like custom cursors (what year is it?), seasons, subscriptions for a house, etc, but all with the same old quests and grind. This game is dead to me.

Why the hell did they have to delete my local offline progress???

Dev killed their own game. I've kept this game on my radar for a while, but after watching someone stream season 4 - I've officially written it off for good. The insane micro-transaction Hell that they have inflicted on their playerbase is just too much. They should write a book called "How to kill a good game with bad monetization".