As detailed in a post on Battle.net on Thursday, June 19, Blizzard Entertainment will be entering its Multilplyaer Online Battle Arena Hereos of the Storm through to its next phase of Alpha testing within the coming weeks, which will expand the game’s region lock to countries outside of the US.
“ We know that players from around the world are excited to help us test Heroes,” Blizzard wrote in its post on the matter, “ and we’re pleased to announce that the next major patch will begin the Technical Alpha invite process for players outside of the United States! ”
Blizzard then continued on to explain what countries will now be able to sign up for Heroes of the Storm’s Technical Alpha once its next major patch releases. Blizzard will also continue to use the English client “ for all applicable regions until our fully localized clients are ready. ” Furthermore, new players will be able to use their region’s respective currency when making purchases during the Alpha.
“ These upcoming phases of testing will allow opted-in players from North America, Europe, Latin America, South East Asia, Australia, and New Zealand to have a chance at being selected to take part in the Heroes of the Storm Technical Alpha, ” Blizzard noted.
“ During this upcoming phase of testing, we will continue to use the English client for all applicable regions until our fully localized clients are ready. Regional payment flows will be in place, so invited players will also be able to make purchases using their region’s accepted currency, ” the developer added.
Blizzard also has plans to release fully localized clients in the coming months so as to provide support for additional languages, such as in Taiwan, Korea, and China.
“ Our hope is that in the coming months we can release fully localized clients to support additional languages. Thereafter, we intend to widen our testing to also include Taiwan, Korea, and China. Following that, we are looking to implement fully localized clients for all remaining languages, ” Blizzard added.
You can read Blizzard’s full post on what it plans to do for the next phase of Heroes of the Storm’s Technical Alpha via the source link below.
Heroes of the Storm entered its live Technical Alpha back in early March, which was only available to US-based players who are press, community members and friends and family of Blizzard Entertainment employees. Four new heroes were also revealed during PAX East.
An extensive preview on the studio’s current plans for Hero of the Storm’s gameplay, cosmetics, mounts and player progression was also revealed in March, detailing how you level up your profile and how you can progress in the game’s current state.
[ Battle.net ]