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Letter from Smite Executive Tod Harris about the games future!

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Forum » General Discussion » Letter from Smite Executive Tod Harris about the games future! 9 posts - page 1 of 1
Permalink | Quote | +Rep by SacredElite » June 24, 2013 10:34am | Report
I have been worried about Smite's future for a while.. and Decided to ask Hi-Rez themselves, I just got a email.. Which really gives me all my hope back of Smite becoming a over-succesful MOBA, Thanks Hi-Rez!

Here is the mail I have receieved:

Hi Christian,



I'm glad to hear you have been enjoying SMITE.




There are NO guarantees of success with gaming... It often takes not only a great game and also good timing and a bit of luck. :)




That said, I can assure you with the following:




- Smite already has a very healthy community (if we were on Steam we would already be a top 15 game in terms of player count)

- Smite continues to grow month over month. (This was not the case with our previous games Global Agenda or Tribes for example)

- Smite has weekly e-sports tournaments already - $1000 every Saturday for NA, $1000 every Sunday for EU. esports.smitegame.com

- Smite already has strong e-sports functionality even though it is not yet released (demo recording, spectator mode w/ delay, etc)

- We have two smite streaming channels that constantly expose new people to the game (twitch.tv/smitegame and twitch.tv/smitepro)

- Upcoming tournaments - we'll have one at RTX and one at GamesCom;

- After we release (no date yet), we'll have a 100k tournament

- SMITE will have a larger marketing budget than any Hi-Rez game to date




The other moba games have certainly claimed a place; but smite is different with the 3d graphics and action-emphasis. Most people will prefer one style or the other; if enough people prefer the 3d-smite style (and we think there is a large audience for that), then smite will continue to grow!


I'm so happy now :D
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Permalink | Quote | +Rep by TheAmazingComicBookGuy » June 24, 2013 10:47am | Report
100k tournament? oh gawd I am gonna play xD
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Permalink | Quote | +Rep by SacredElite » June 24, 2013 10:48am | Report
TheAmazingComicBookGuy wrote:

100k tournament? oh gawd I am gonna play xD


Well goodluck, I'm aiming for it as well xD
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Permalink | Quote | +Rep by Animusliberus » June 25, 2013 7:28am | Report
100k tournament was annouced a long time ago, at the same time of the 10K i believe XD

but this suprised me, Smite already has a very healthy community (if we were on Steam we would already be a top 15 game in terms of player count)

wow, this is good news indeed, but at the same time I have to ask, doesn't this mean its time for better servers hirez?
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Permalink | Quote | +Rep by SacredElite » June 25, 2013 7:51am | Report
Animusliberus wrote:

100k tournament was annouced a long time ago, at the same time of the 10K i believe XD

but this suprised me, Smite already has a very healthy community (if we were on Steam we would already be a top 15 game in terms of player count)

wow, this is good news indeed, but at the same time I have to ask, doesn't this mean its time for better servers hirez?


Yeah it is good news! thats why I posted this here.. so people won't be apocalyptic about the game ^^. And yes, better servers would be nice. But maybe they should focus on balance more?
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Permalink | Quote | +Rep by BestMinionEver » June 25, 2013 7:51am | Report
haha!

Yeah more servers now.
Do anyone know how the playerbase is spread out (Eu,NA,Asia etc)?

I feel really bad for everyone who isn't Na or Eu :/
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Permalink | Quote | +Rep by SacredElite » June 25, 2013 7:55am | Report
BestMinionEver wrote:

haha!

Yeah more servers now.
Do anyone know how the playerbase is spread out (Eu,NA,Asia etc)?

I feel really bad for everyone who isn't Na or Eu :/


Unfortunatly I can't find the website I was looking for to show you a pie chart of smite's playerbase.. Though at the moment Smite is mostly played in EU and America ( In China its rising )
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Permalink | Quote | +Rep by RazeMage » June 25, 2013 9:02am | Report
I'm playing in asia
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Permalink | Quote | +Rep by SacredElite » June 25, 2013 12:00pm | Report
RazeMage wrote:

I'm playing in asia


Cool! but tbh I didn't see any server selection possibilities :P, and I have played with americans..
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