The Game Director of Heroes of the Storm is stepping down. He is taking on a new position at Blizzard – is he working on a new game?
Things are currently in motion at Blizzard when looking at the various positions within the company. After J. Allen Brack became the new president of Blizzard and Mike Morhaime stepped down, there is now another change. The Game Director of Heroes of the Storm, Alan Dabiri, is also changing his position.
Who is Alan Dabiri? Dabiri has been working at Blizzard for over 20 years and has been particularly responsible for Heroes of the Storm in recent years. In a forum post, he explains how proud he is to have witnessed the development of HotS. After all, Heroes of the Storm began as a mod for StarCraft 2 and then evolved into a standalone game.
He thanks his dedicated team, who have released some “of the best heroes of all time” this year, including Yrel, Whitemane, and Mephisto.
Blizzard has been working on new projects for at least 2 years
What’s interesting: Since 2016, many of the high-ranking Blizzard personnel have shifted from their previous jobs to “unannounced projects”.
Dabiri’s predecessor as head of Heroes of the Storm was Dustin Browder. He switched to a “new unannounced project” in 2016. Additionally, Tom Chilton from World of Warcraft and Eric Dodds from Hearthstone also transitioned from their previous leadership roles in Blizzard games to such “new projects”.
Blizzard is currently in an “incubation phase”, with several projects simmering, none of which have yet been revealed. This is expected to happen at BlizzCon 2018. Fans are expecting at least a new Diablo here.
Who will succeed Dabiri? Who the next Game Director of Heroes of the Storm will be and thus set the tone and direction for Blizzard’s Moba is still unknown and does not clearly emerge from Dabiri’s farewell post.
Fans speculate that it could be Kaeo Milker, who is currently still working as Production Director of HotS.
What is Dabiri going to do now? Where the former Game Director of HotS is headed now is still uncertain. It is only clear that he is taking on a new position within Blizzard. So there is a possibility that he will be working on a brand new title in the future.
What kind of new title could that be? Speculation is still ongoing about this. However, it is certain that Blizzard is working on a new Diablo installment that we will probably see at BlizzCon in a few weeks. In discussion is “Diablo 4: Reign of Terror”. But also a mobile title and an action game from a first-person perspective are being discussed and are part of many speculations that arise from job postings at Blizzard.
This announcement has made BlizzCon a little bit more exciting. However, whether we will already experience the effects of these job shifts there is questionable.
Soon there will be a new hero in Heroes of the Storm – the Dreadlord Mal’ganis.
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