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0.0 hrs last two weeks / 1,951.8 hrs on record (29.7 hrs at review time)
Posted: 8 Sep, 2015 @ 4:30am
Updated: 2 Jul @ 6:00am

I wish I could give this game a neutral review.

Pros:
Smite is a great game that can get super addictive. I love the concept of mythological pantheons fighting against each other. The camera that is closer to the player model unlike other mobas is cool and makes teamfights and skins more cool looking.

- Super addictive and fun
- 3rd person camera
- 100+ gods from different pantheons
- Multiple game modes and events
- VGS system is easy to learn and practical
- God mastery system

Cons:
However, I think the Smite community and devs are not the best and bring the potential of this game down. Hirez have probably one if not the worst technical support I have ever witnessed... your account got stolen? Some CPU bug triggered the anti cheat? You answered in a bad manner to the wrong person? Bye bye your account and money, It's gone for good. You will never get help from Hirez support, just stupid automated messages that will waste your time. Anyways, here is a summary of everything I dislike in this game -

- Toxic and un-welcoming community, expect BM and VGS spam
- Terrible matchmaking, ranked/casual gamemodes are a mess
- Ragequitters, afkers, feeders on purpose are not punished
- Clowns that instalock and then demand you play a character
- Insane amount of meta slaves even in casual
- Easy anticheat is one of the worst AC, expect bans for no reason
- Radarhack, aim, speedhack cheats undetected, as usual with EA
- Lack of item build variety, some items are op compared to others
- Popular game modes removed for no reason
- UE3 spaghetti code, performance issues and tons of bugs
- Devs make unnecessary changes that break the game
- New gods have bloated kits and uncreative direction
- Servers are trash since 2012
- Super expensive skins and locked behind gacha loot box.
- Always the same 5 gods that get skins, the rest are forgotten
- Your Smite1 skins won't transfer to Smite2, rip your money
- Hirez doesn't invest into Smite fully
- Lack of marketing, pro scene and resources for the game
- One of the worst technical support I have ever seen

In conclusion:
Smite is a great game, but sadly it's in the hands of a greedy uncreative company with a terrible technical support and the very toxic community will most of the time make the game unfun to play.
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3 Comments
CruelFish 24 Feb, 2023 @ 3:26pm 
Fun fact. I was banned from Smite back in the days because they ban IP adresses and my school IP was banned because of some dipshit launcing cheat engine to do some testing for his school project while the patcher was up.

We were analyzing smite as a school project and every single one got banned. I messaged them every month for like 4 years and got different responses every time with each promising that they would forward my message and fix the issue. They never did.
Vammainen69 3 Apr, 2022 @ 4:28pm 
hirez never helps people
OhhLazar 12 Dec, 2020 @ 1:44am 
I read your review it made me smile too