HotS feature suggestion: add skins to “Hero Collection” screen

by   •   Heroes of the Storm
 
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There are two primary incentives for purchasing skins. One of them is to satisfy yourself – if you like a skin, you will most likely buy it because you’ll enjoy looking at your character while you’re playing.

The second incentive is that it’s a way of showing off to others; you want to show off your…

  • Style. You want other people to see what you like.
  • Financial status. Having a skin shows that you are financially comfortable to be spending money on cosmetic content in a game.
  • Generosity. You want other people to enjoy looking at the skin as well. (Or, from a different per­spec­tive, you’re generously giving back to Blizzard for making a free game that you like.)

Heroes of the Storm does a great job satisfying people’s desire to show off by including skins in player pro­files. Using mine as an example, you can see that I own Ranger-General Sylvanas, Angelic Valla, and Mas­ter Zagara.

Parkzer - Heroes of the Storm - Profile

This is a very nice touch to the game, and I appreciate the fact that the HotS development team is atten­tive enough to details that they would include this feature.

However, in my opinion, they didn’t take it all the way.

If you click on the Hero Collection tab, you’ll come across this screen:

Parkzer - Heroes of the Storm - Hero Collection

From here, you can click on each hero to zoom in to progression details.

Unfortunately, even though each individual hero’s skins appears on the Profile Summary tab, it does not appear in the Hero Collection tab. As you can see from the screenshots, the three skins featured in my sum­ma­ry are not featured in my collection.

Parkzer - Heroes of the Storm - Sylvanas

Parkzer - Heroes of the Storm - Valla

Parkzer - Heroes of the Storm - Zagara

My feature suggestion is to add skins to the Hero Collection screens as well.

Not only will this allow players to feature their favorite skins, but it also lets them do it for all heroes they own, and not just the three most played that show up in the Profile Summary.

Seeing as skin featuring is already in the Profile Summary, it’s obvious that the technology is already there. I think it would be a nice touch if its implementation was extended to the Hero Collection tab.

This will also allow Blizzard to increase skin sales, as they’re giving another outlet for players to show off what they own.

 

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