# Heroes of the Storm HotS is Blizzard's effort at taking on League of Legends and DotA2 in the MOBA genre. It features characters from Blizzard's other games (chiefly the Warcraft, Starcraft and Diablo series) and makes a few changes from the paradigm LoL and Dota are known for.
## Getting it HotS is priced much like LoL. It's free to play, and you earn gold by playing which can be spent on in game items like heroes, mounts, skins etc. You also have the option to spending real money to speed up the process, but this is entirely optional.