Here's something else I'd like to say:
blah blah blah

but here's how it actually happened
roughly speaking, around 2005 there was only HP and everyone went there because there was nowhere else to go. then part of the portal split off and went to BUY. later someone from the league came there as well. that's it, there was no further influx of players. players still went to HP. then HeroesWorld appeared and newcomers suddenly started going to HeroesWorld. why? it's simple — when a newcomer searches for heroes3 online in Google, the top results are HeroesWorld and HP, HeroesWorld has a pleasant blue background while HP has an ugly design. for this reason alone, players went to HeroesWorld until 2011, after that they went there because all the streamers are on ГГ and SC2TV from this resource.