How come hero line wars.....stupid question but still wondering

[Gannicus]

its a bit of a stupid question i know, but im seriously wondering why the "tug of war" genre was never a very big hit? more specifically how come hero line wars never came out with there own game? does anyone actually own the rights to the game? if so who? and what contact information do they have publicly available so a person could maybe write to get a more defined answer? just curious

[Alpaca Rotorvator]

Because DotA happened, I'd say. Many Warcraft III players actually hated DotA because it took over everything and practically killed both the Warcraft III standard game and custom map scene. There was basically no space for anything else to become big in the WCIII after DotA became a thing.

[Gannicus]

Right, I get that which is why im saying that its among the same scene, I just figured with enough time passing they could of developed a game like league did or even dota. It wouldn't even have to be the same thing over and over again either they could easily add other little modes like the tower defense modes and stuff just keep it tug of war // defense

[Alpaca Rotorvator]

Why would they? It's not a big genre, they'd have massive costs from going standalone and almost no way to squeeze money out of their small playerbase.

If anything, I think it could work as a microtransaction-driven mobile game, maybe there's even something like that already.

[Gannicus]

I wouldn't say its that small, you can install starcraft 2 right now and play all day with rarely seeing the same name in your game. That isn't a small player base and its only one game that its on. I'd imagine that if I logged into RoC TFT I would find that the game is still surfacing and people would still play it which should tell you that the game can sustain enough to run I mean hell there are games far less unpopulated and surviving. Plus like you said already micro transactions would be ideal, league of legends already has that with new champions and skins and the whole works so why not take those ideas and make them your own.

i've even seen this topic pop up on the forums over on the league community a few times i dont see how you can assume its a small population of folks who would enjoy this game. if its built solid it would survive among the others.