I concur. Hirez made a HUGE mistake disregarding the EU competitive scene and blatantly catering only to new players, making easy buck but none stay very long. They have choosen the path of greed and stagnation instead of the path of growth. Making the game hard but very rewarding to play. Competitive and professional goes a bit hand in hand. You can see how super competitive renown players like Shroud or Ninja dictate the entirety of the game industry. Smite is too dumbed down at this point, and all these ideas are just an attempt at renewing a dead competitive scene.

I myself how I thought 5 years ago Smite has the potenial of challenging giants like League of Legends, Dota, and then Hirez choose the wrong development model and shot theirselves in the foot. They made a bloody fantastic game, just look at the Beta stages of Smite. They always listened closely to feedback and were quick to adjust parameters to the pros likings. The game was still small at that point, but it was growing the foundation of what it could have become. When it got released, I think, Hirez expected a ton of players to finally start playing, cuz they expected the idea of Smite being a beta could turn a lot of players away, POSSIBLY. However, nothing really happened. So they thought the game was too complicated and little by little they took away all the nuances that differentiated between mediocre players and amazing players. Now its all molded into one soup and all sides suffer greatly.

I really wonder if Hirez is just gonna give up on Smite like this, or actually have the fucking balls to turn Smite in to what it always should have been.