Played this game since the early beta, and clocked in about 2000 hours of playtime afterwards.
I discovered that MOBAs aren't good for you. When you lose, you feel miserable, but when you win, you don't even feel happy. It's a constant loop of being flamed by teammates, fighting unfun characters feeling hopeless when your team is losing but you are doing fine.
Despite this, I did have a fun time early on. Played it a ton with friends and this game does have fun characters to play. Smite feels very satisfying to play, and I'd be interested in seeing this game's engine and mechanics applied to something else, like a MMO.
The developers of this game suck. Characters in this game are gods from mytholgy, like Zeus, Thor, Ares, Loki, Anubis, etc. Yet they take creative liberty to alter their lore to fit the Smite theme, which has led them to receive negative feedback.
Same goes for skins: some of the gods are depicted like whores, because that makes players actually buy the game, while the god has nothing to do with being about sex at all.
They're also very quick to hop on trends. Hearthstone got popular? Make a smite-themed hearthstone clone. Overwatch got popular? Make Paladins and pretend it was in development for years (it wasn't.).
The devs feel very scummy.
I discovered that MOBAs aren't good for you. When you lose, you feel miserable, but when you win, you don't even feel happy. It's a constant loop of being flamed by teammates, fighting unfun characters feeling hopeless when your team is losing but you are doing fine.
Despite this, I did have a fun time early on. Played it a ton with friends and this game does have fun characters to play. Smite feels very satisfying to play, and I'd be interested in seeing this game's engine and mechanics applied to something else, like a MMO.
The developers of this game suck. Characters in this game are gods from mytholgy, like Zeus, Thor, Ares, Loki, Anubis, etc. Yet they take creative liberty to alter their lore to fit the Smite theme, which has led them to receive negative feedback.
Same goes for skins: some of the gods are depicted like whores, because that makes players actually buy the game, while the god has nothing to do with being about sex at all.
They're also very quick to hop on trends. Hearthstone got popular? Make a smite-themed hearthstone clone. Overwatch got popular? Make Paladins and pretend it was in development for years (it wasn't.).
The devs feel very scummy.