HoN Priced At $30 – Good or Bad? Will you buy this? [Poll]

Earlier today S2 Games sent out an email to all of their Beta testers. The email contained news about the pricing, which would now only allow you to reserve your beta account, but also gain ‘special treatment’ until the testing is over.

The email went as follows:

Dear <user>,

The time is now, show your support of S2 Games and pre-purchase HoN for just $30 today. By purchasing your full account today you’ll receive the following:

· Reserve your Beta Nickname and Account

· Ability to Taunt in Game

· Special In-Game Icon

· Unique Chat Name Color

· Beta Invites for your friends

What are you waiting for, you know you love the game, so buy today:

http://www.heroesofnewerth.com/purchase_pref.php

Thank you for your continued patronage and support,

Maliken

S2 Games

With pricing set at $30, which is roughly around R240, it means that hopes and dreams of an awesome free game are now shattered.

Recent Heroes Of Newerth news in South Africa revolved around a local iGame server, which would be running as a ‘master’ server. This pretty much means that you will still need international access to login to the game, and then will it will allow you to select the local server from the drop down box.

The benefits from the local server will allow local game play, which could reduce the already minimal delay.

Although many people are excited about the local server, is it worth it? Well, it’s a tough question. For those that route their own traffic, for example people that only use international for international sites, and local for local sites, the addition of this server will benefit them. However for over 90% of the people that do not use routing, you will still be capped just as fast. It will use your ‘local’ bandwidth, which actually counts towards your first (x) amount of international bandwidth (cap). Once you have reached your cap limit, regardless of what it is or how you used it (locally or internationally) you will still be capped.

The capping wouldn’t exactly be a problem if local ISP’s routed local and international traffic, or if we could get a local authentication server to login before playing on a local server – this will allow you to use a local only account.

Overall we’re unsure about the statistics regarding the amount of players that will be playing in, say, 3 months time. Below we set up a poll to see how the community acts to the the pricing and also a few more details behind the local server. Perhaps many of you can use this as an indication before you buy the game, it might help you decide if you are wasting your money or not.

On a side note, we’ve spoken to a few players in the community, and also overheard that many people would only purchase HoN if it became a lot more competitive. At the moment there are a few ups to the new game over DotA when playing in a public game, however, when it comes to competitive play, does HoN have what it takes?

Public game play beats DotA hands down – it’s a given. Competitive.. Well, we’ll have to see what S2 comes up with to win that market as well.

Let us know what you think about HoN and what it lacks in the comment section below.