Hon is officially Free to Play now.
http://forums.heroesofnewerth.com/showthread.php?t=305660

This happened after:
1. LoL revealed how many players there are
2. All of the other moba games became free
3. DotA 2 confirmed to be released soon

HoN is now a crippleware. You originally had access to all heroes and content, but now you have to pay for everything, even game modes. To get everything, it will be an estimated total of around 312 dollars.

To make matters even worse for S2:
http://www.cad-comic.com/cad/20110729/#n2199
As some of you may already know, Tim Buckley (Internet piece of ♥♥♥♥) copied the idea of a "spidershark" from an old japanese comic. After trying to make it into a champion in LoL, he moved on to HoN, and they're going to make it an official hero in the game.

HoN has turned into crippleware, and supports Tim Buckley. Are you sure you want to play HoN?


There was a ton of discussion below but it was mostly bickering about the claims above being valid. -Duh102

Well that was fun. Topic pruned to get back on topic.

Well that's nice. I might as well make a LoL general since there's a huge moba turf war.

I don't think you hating on HoN qualifies as a turf war tbh.

HoN fans and LoL fans generally hate each other to death.

As far as the eye can see you're the only one hating here.

Allstone was honestly just playing devil's advocate, I'm pretty sure he doesn't play either game. You're the only one who's been hostile at all.