The game was in alpha/beta last year and has only truly been released to the public during June of this year. I wouldn't say it seems like a failure to soon, it's doing decently well in viewership though not as much as many would have expected.
There are pro teams such as complexity, Cloud 9, and MVP being part of the scene, as they also have the KR's approval a bit. It'll take time for the scene to grow, but the game itself is very casual and easy to learn considering there are no items, you could really the basics of the game within about 3-5 games which is important for gaining players. If there ever was a competitor to Dota 2/LoL, HotS has the biggest chance compared to all the other MOBAs that have failed. Also I'm a Dota 2 player so hope I didn't show much bias, just my insight on HotS. In the end it's a Blizzard game that is free, so it'll do fairly well for a while I would guess, as long as they continue to update and make good changes of course.

Although there will be arguments at how times an offclass can be viable at certain times, maybe there should be a way to make lobbies strictly scout, soldier, demo, and medic only for the new players? As for coaching, how would that work? I imagine being spectate, but one can easily cheat like that(unless someone made a plugin to limit a certain spectator to only be able to spectate the color team he had chosen in the lobby process?) by calling out uber % and positions. I coach new people in Dota 2 and that has an implemented coach system so that works, but we're not close to that in TF2 I think until we have MM. Also I don't count the current coach system for pubs lol.

Aw man, I know that feel. I got a McDonalds meal to get Elemental Hero Burstinatrix and that was as far as I got. But nowadays people just buy the cards online or play DP/DN. Elemental Heroes are still cool to me though, I loved GX for it's enthusiasm to never give up and to just have fun.

Kind of understandable, and what smiteey said. But it's one way to make the game progress and make it somewhat more interesting and build up a new meta. Could've balanced it and changed it a bit more though. I still don't think E-heroes ruined the game in the regard that you said, E-Heroes kind of describe what you say with their fusions having some cool effects but not always affecting each other's effect and etc.

How did E-heroes ruin the game? Are you talking about how it was kind of the first somewhat structure deck to be shown? Whether it was Elemental Heroes or not, Konami probably still would've made structure decks a thing and many more archetypes that work. If you mean Dark Law, well that deck is only like tier 3 I believe.

Can you teach me how to shoot the rockets through doors in freight :)

Pretty much Nekroz right now. I play DevPro but I only play casually and generally just make joke decks with friends. DevPro is probably the best, the only bad sides that rarely happen is bugs with an effect(generally old effects like parasite) and the server goes down maybe about 2-3 times a month, and may be things with chaining.

He has bloom hacks in that picture.

I don't know man, I think I love AuixUniverse and DendixPuppey more than ArteezyxFear.

True, but the circumstances with ruwin and yz50 seem a bit different, if I recall both had quit the game at some point in there time with TF2? Didn't ruwin sell it all when he went into CSGO?

Awesome! I always enjoyed watching some of your quake videos. Should've replaced ending though.

The typical girl gamer streamers probably do this all the time having people fund their setups. At least donating to powah will later provide actual good gameplay rather than reading the follower/subscribers out for half of the time.

omni aghs too good.

This 10v10 is crazy, it's like the Dota 2 version of a tf2 pub.

Now that I think about it, there's no TI5 thread that I seen. So hoping we can make this it? Unless there's not many dota 2 fans.