HoN just turned 3. introduces new Mid Wars map.
Mid Wars is a 1 lane casual friendly map, where games are much shorter. There is no long term stats, you get silver coins and some funny achievements in the end of each game. A much needed break from the hardcore and stressful vanilla way of playing HoN, doesn't give you much time to rage anyways since the max respawn time is only 12 seconds on such a relatively small map.
HoN also broke it's peak record and have 110k users online atm. DOTA2 is at 50k atm, but it's closed beta so not the best indicator. All I know is DOTA2 is gonna have to do a lot more to attract the more casual crowd. Just for interest sake in HoN 38% of all games were played in CM mode.
Although I consider Midwars the first proper casual/fun game-mode HoN has had. I can actually see myself playing that gamemode with friends without them rage quitting after their first game.
