Why Everyone Hates Smite 2 | Asmongold Reacts 

I had thousands of hours on SMITE 1, but haven't played for several years. This is exactly the move they had to make to get me back into it.

If gameplay is better than 1, fuck skins, gameplay is king.

Never did I think Asmongold would ever react to anything Smite-related. Personally, I’m happy that Smite 2 is being released.

The only actually scummy thing Hi Rez did regarding Smite 1 and 2 is advertising chances for people to spend a lot of money buying previously very limited Smite 1 skins, when we didnt know Smite 2 is right round the corner, and those skins wouldnt be transferred.

It's not actually caused that much drama. Most people are happy it's finally happening. Just Twitter being Twitter lol

The moment he said that he read it on Twitter, everything immediately fell into the water...

Several things noted to keep in mind despite the current footage of smite 1 that was shown, is actually the graphical limit of UE3. If you go back much further to alpha smite you’ll see how much worse the game did look. The company really did an impressive job pushing the limit of ue3 for over 10 years. Also regarding some skins as well, they said in the current year they have cross gen skins they made that will transfer to smite 2 once you buy them this year. Them using ue5 was a major step in fixing up a game that was run on shabby code 11 years ago. I’m a long time smite player and I couldn’t be more optimistic for the future of the game myself.

Some skins not only are cosmetic but have different effects. Kukulkan and Chaac have skins where everytime you use an Ultimate the skin changes to a different model and all of the sfx like change as well. That's significantly different from how any other skins work and going from one engine to another already has problems and re-rigging the skins to new animations is gonna take time because you don't just press a button and its ported. You have to play test and make sure the skin doesn't break on the rig or that the game doesn't bug out while trying to integrate them. Not to mention the stark contrast between lower poly and the new models might not look so great

I don’t think people understand that smite skins are more than just skins. They change the FX, voices, and lines for each god, so it’s not as simple as copy and paste

I’ve spent hundreds of dollars on Smite 1 and I’m more than happy for Smite 2. It’s a much needed modernization effort and their compromise is very acceptable. It’s gonna be a success

As opposed to cod, every skin in smite have special effect that need to be made. It's not just a coat of paint that need to be put on something like a gun, but shader, vfx, and more that need to be remade for every single skin. For example you have character A that does a green ray as an attack, but his skin might turn it ray into running dogs. idk. But that new ray need to be remade from the ground up just to please every party. That would be hell to do...

The long and short of it is: you purchased content in a game that felt like it had a good lifetime. The game company releases a game to eventually replace it. The content you purchased will eventually be meaningless. It's the video game equivalent of coping with death of a pet. You don't want to see the old content go. Eventually, it will all work out.

I have about 7k hours in smite 1. I have spent way too much money on the game however I did it because it was my favorite game. When I heard about Smite 2, it relit the love I had for the game and I’m so excited to see the changes. Idgaf about loss of money because it got me a newer better version of the game I spent most of my teens playing

Im looking forward to smite 2. fuck my skins, give me more fluid gameplay.

I’ve played the game for years, stopped about a year ago completely. I still love it and have spent thousands on it for skins lol. I could gaf about skins when I know they’re going to make more, even better looking skins than anything they’ve done. It’s going to bring a lot of players back, and from what it seems, they made the best decision for their longevity. I’m going to definitely give it a try.

I have spent hundreds on Smite, probably one of my favorite games. The game has always (since alpha I believe) a $20 "god pack" that was a one time purchase that unlocked every future God release on release day. The fact that they did not end date the God Pack and force people to start money to unlock new characters at any point is amazing. The founders pack for the game will probably be $30? and you will get a 1:1 ratio for every gem you've spent (including the free gems that you could earn in game). For a free to play game I believe this is a super good value IMO. My hope is that there will be a god pack as well for Smite 2.

I’ve been playing on and off since like 2015-16 and have ridiculous money into the game. When they showed smite 2 at worlds it made me want to play again. It was also super nice of the smite devs to offer the legacy gems in the first place. Majority of the people complaining will still probably download smite 2 and play it anyways

Overwatch 2 is the same engine and CS2 is just an upgraded source version, with Smite it is UE3 to UE5 which is not a simple upgrade.

As someone who is a degenerate and wastes money on skins to look cool in a video game I understand both sides but if you look at the small player base vs the amount of new players that would come in trying Smite 2 I think its better to make the game as great as possible for the larger player base rather than worry about skins for the smaller one.

It sucks that we're losing a metric boat load of skins, although my biggest concern was losing the collab skins because those were my absolute favorite ones to use. Although if we really are getting those transferred over then that's awesome. I think they should just have people vote for their 3 favorite skins for every god and then work on porting those over progressively. That way it doesn't feel like people are losing ALL their favorite skins. I mean, let's be honest, does Neith really need the five different re-colors? lol

As someone who has a decent bit invested into Smite 1, this had to happen and honestly its better than we've been joking about for years about how "Cant wait to lose it when Smite 1 becomes defunct!" Bro they are still using UE3 and their UI is made in FLASH! It was literally stunting every career of any person technically working on it still.

As someone who has been playing since beta. I'd say I got between 1-2ish k into the game. But I do get booted from matches frequent enough and notice bugs time to time. So a full upgrade is appreciated. Although it stings, I believe the legacy tokens is generous enough compared to other games that just let you lose everything. With how good Smite is with the community, they will do a good job with the transition. Looking forward to the updated graphics.

Another thing to add is that they are importing the most popular smite 1 skins into smite 2 and these skins are 100% purchasable with the legacy gems.

i dont think them remastering 1300+ skins for a game that pulls 10k players is a good time investment for their devs

They've said they will be bringing back "Select SMITE 1 skins" which will be 100% off with legacy gems. So if you spent 250,000 gems in SMITE 1, and you buy the new SMITE 2 back. You'll enter SMITE 2 with 500,000 legacy gems. Which will cover 100% of the select SMITE 1 skins, 50% of all new SMITE 2 skins. A reasonable solution imo.

also to mention they did say that cross over skins will still transfer(at some point) and also there will be skins you can buy with 100% legacy gems as well , they also said a "select" amount of popular comunnity skins with transfer as well

I think people are reacting this way because they don’t really believe it’s going to be smite 2, they believe it’s really going to be smite 1 on ue5. And now they get to charge the player base all over again. Kinda like overwatch calling it ow2 just so they can change their monetization strategy.

I think the issue is that Smite players expected the game to be like League of Legends where the devs don't ever make a sequel and anything players get they can use forever.

Listen I loved Smite, I dedicated years to it, I have friends that I've known for a decade from it. I have people I consider family across the world that I met from this game and we still meet regularly. We wished they updated Smite a bit earlier, even tho my golden time with the game is gone there is one part of HiRez that always got kudos. Their art team, I have no doubt that over the life span of Smite 2 they will come out with greater art work and try to reiterate some old skins as special bonuses over the patching process, for free. I wish nothing but the best for this game and the people that still play it. The people bitching about skins will never stop bitching about skins, they bitched about skins in Smite 1 and theyll do the same in Smite 2.

Quite funny, seeing two people who have no idea what they're talking about, talk about how you can't transfer the models from one engine to another. Here's the truth: You can, those models are in a particular format, kind of like images are .png, .jpeg, etc. so too are the 3D models. IF the new engine doesn't support the older format, you just add those few lines of code to add the support or you convert the models into a different format. But if they're the same engine just a different version, I would say that there's a HIGH probability that the new version still supports the 3D model formats from the previous version. Game Engine developers would have to deliberately remove the support for the specific 3D model format for that to be a tiny issue, which can be solved using methods I mentioned before. I don't know and don't claim to know why the Smite developers decided to do this. BUT, here's A solution which would be much better received by the community: You upgrade Smite (the first one) to UE5 and of course move all the purchases that the players have made to it. There's is no reason why Smite 2 should exist, ESPECIALLY since Smite (the first one) is basically a live-service game, it wasn't just released many years ago and then the development of the game stopped, it was constantly being maintained. An incredible example of this is League of Legends, did they ever release LoL2? No, because the players would hate it, and guess what, you're making the game for the players (generally). Bolder's Gate 3 doesn't have all of the modern day game monetization bullshit, because they care about the players, because they themselves are the players and they know that the players would hate it. People are, probably, angry because they though that they were, legally speaking, the owners of those skins and now that the reality hit them, they feel robbed. As they should, imagine you buy a Tesla car but then when Elon releases a new version of it, your Tesla turns on auto pilot and drives away back to Tesla or into some river, so that if you want to have a Tesla car again you need to buy it again. I understand that, here we're talking about digital images, but a transaction still happened. Regardless of what you bought, there was a contract. I'm not a lawyer, so use your own mind. But I would love to see someone sue the company so that there would be a president as to if such behaviour from companies is actually legal or not. Don't get me wrong, I don't spend money on digital pictures or whatever the games push. Also, most of the skins weren't released on the game's launch day, so many of them look pretty good even for today's standards. The source video feels more like a free-to-play (someone who doesn't spend real money in games) person (which I am as well) shitting on those that have spend the money to buy the skins (and if they know it or not, support the developers and the development of the game, which in this game's case is needed, since the game is Free to Play. lol, I've basically written a whole video. :D

The biggest thing people are upset about are the season limited skins, if they just ported those over everyone will quiet down.

I think there's a decent middle ground in they should port the T5 and/or unlimited skins. There's not many T5 skins (like around 10) and I think under 100 unlimited. Transferring those would be better than 1500 skins, and those are the expensive skins people spend $30+ for.

The problem are exclusives, limited, unlimited and tier 5, those that you had to spend hundreds of dollars to get. Yes there are +1000 of skins, but those are inflated numbers; recolors and recolor of the recolors make most of them. And well, Titanforge (Hirez) has a history of screwing up everything they do, remember Realm Royale?

this problem really started years ago when the devs released recolor skins of "limited time" event/promo skins. people got fomo and rolled chests that give a chance at a skin, this basically left alot of people feeling jaded.

Something to note the Unreal engine that smite runs on is a heavily modified version pushed to its peak and limits

5:05 completely disagree. It’s 100% a cash grab. Why do legacy gems only give 50% off? Because they want you to spend money regardless and of how hard you got screwed by the port. If they really cared about people losing skins, they’d give you gems that could cover 100% of the cost.

They also said year 11 skins are also being made in smite 2. If you buy the skin in 1 you get it in 2

To be fair OW2 is literally just OW1

There's also the issue that there are some characters like Bacchus and Vamana that got 2.0 updated models, but still have skins based on their 1.0 models from back in 2013-2014 like Rapper Vamana or Redneck Bacchus skins. In Smite 1's case, they're constantly having to update all the gods to newer models, but they still have skins based on the 1.0 version and some gods still retain their 1.0 versions as separate skins.... Yeah those are definitely not gonna transfer over unless they give them an EXTREME makeover to match with the UE5 design. Like you can put a new car engine into the chassis of a 90s car, but you have to make sure the engine *fits* the car.

not to mention many skins are contract skins, promotion skins, things that they legally would not have the rights to transfer over.

Some items WILL be 100% off with legacy gems, they announced that at SWCX. It's unfortunate to have to start over but I think the game needed to be updated from UE3. Some people like the graphics as is BUT UE5 should allow some awesome new interactions. They are also bringing some things you had to unlock for free like voice packs (maybe there is more as well). I think 50% is generous but I hope that skins in Smite 2 aren't just recolors in the beginning (some as recolors is fine sure but I hope those are the 100% off ones with legacy gems).

Thanks for reacting to my favorite game over the past decade. I hope you try out smite 2 when it comes out and give it some attention. I think it has a lot of potential for another great esport.

I can understand not wanting to port over the skins (and I don't really care, haven't played in years and the only thing I ever bought was the all gods pack back in the day), but saying it'd take 246 man-years of work is a little silly when the game has only existed for 10 years or so...

Overwatch 2 and Counter-Strike 2 aren't true sequels. This game is jumping from UE3 to UE5 and is an actual new game, they're not just adding 2 to the name with a few minor changes...

L take from Asmon on this being fair for the company. They dont transfer "All gods unlocked pack", and those "Legacy gems" give 50% discount on skins, not 100%. You still will pay again. To be real i dont care about skins, i care about all of my gods unlocked. Hi-Rez are a greedy goblin company.

any skin that you buy with a cross-gen tag will carry over to smite 2

I’ve played thousands of hours of smite in spurts over the last decade. This needed to happen and I can’t wait.

i feel like the best compromise is by giving out a monthly/seasonal poll for a character and the community selects the most popular skin, after some time maybe they release a smite 1 skin alongside a new smite god. Idk if i were them it wouldnt be a bad idea

That's a loud minority in the community. There's confusion around Legacy Gems and that's why the minority is mad However in actually, you get every Gem you ever spent back and as long as you get the founders pass which theirs 3 tiers and you can even get this deal from the lowest it can pay for 100% of an item. So it's actually an amazing thing they are doing for old fans It's a full refund essentially

An easy fix is to give everyone skin tokens to redeem any future skin releases based on how many skins they own.

When the announcement first dropped I was annoyed about the skins but when I found out more info I totally get why they aren’t. But skins released in the weeks and months before this announcement should’ve been planned for crossovers. I got a new skin the literal day before the announcement and was like wow now I could’ve just waited until Smite 2 instead lol

The real problem isn’t that 1600 skins are going to be missing. The point is LIMITED RARE AND EXCLUSIVE skins that you CAN NOT GET EVER AGAIN aren’t going to be ported over. Some of these skins you would legitimately have to buy 100$ worth of content to unlock in events that are GONE. The devs have already confirmed they won’t be ported over. Both videos completely miss the entire point and just focus on the small minority that’s cries about nonsense. Smite 2 is going to be dead on arrival not because they aren’t porting over 1600 skins but because limited skins from the CLOSED BETA aren’t going to be ported. We literally built this game up and we’re the SOLE reason this game even exists yet everything we’ve spent on these limited never released again skins is just gone. Also, keep in mind smite 1 is no longer getting any new god releases and is rarely going to get any updates. They’ve already confirmed this. Their new focus is on smite 2. So yea, we have a right to feel scammed. It wouldn’t be as bad if smite 2 was a NEW game but it’s literally just smite 1 with a new coat of paint. It wouldn’t be a problem at all if they ported the limited and truly exclusive skins or made them available for everyone to purchase. I’m sure no one would be complaining if they added them for purchase.

I have thousands of hours in Smite across console and PC, over the course of that time I’ve brought and/or earned a lot of skins, some of which are “limited” which can never be attained again after they are no longer acquirable, they’re given this special status by the developers to give you a higher sense of value and create FOMO. I understand both arguments here, I think the main issue lies in the fact that this isn’t really a sequel in a series of games, it’s just a graphical overhaul, there’s zero content in the trailer for Smite 2 that is new other than higher fidelity graphics, I think if they showed an enormous leap of innovation between Smite 1 and Smite 2 then we wouldn’t be having this conversation and nobody would care but there really isn’t much difference.

I think it looks great, I hope it works out. I've spent hundreds and played hundreds of hours on smite. Most of us are super excited.

They have said that smite season 11 skins will all go into smite 2 as they have implemented a system when designing it to cross over, which i think it is good as it can help people see the potential of the future in smite 2.

Overwatch only has like 500-600 skins and a MASSIVE dev team, Smite has over 1600 skins and a small dev team. People comparing these are literally delusional.

A good solution would be releasing old skins little by little, and being gifted to the people who had them before, and available for purchase for those who didn't have them.

Another thing they don’t mention is that you get legacy gems PER gem spent. That includes free gems too.

On the topic of skins, the only skins I would be concerned about keeping going into smite 2 would be the Limited skins like the Archon Thanatos. There is only a few limited skins in smite 1 so my opinion would be its not nearly as much work to just do those at least considering they are the most expensive / the most game-changing as some of them literally change visuals that everyone can see in the lobby.

I have 13k hours in smite since its launch and I’ve spent over a thousand dollars, I can see how people are upset about it though because some of the skins in smite literally cost 1000$ like the Archon Thanatos, all the odessy skins are limited and a new one comes out every year and you have to buy 10 -15 skins just to get the limited skin, all that all side I have 6 limited skins and over 1000 skins but I’m ready for the change people need to get over it fr things have to change

makes me wanna play smite 2 just to support it.

people who played the beta i think of smite 1 had an ymir skin named Cacodemon they ve already shown how that skin will look like in smite 2 I said it even before knowing this, of course they will add some fan favorite skins or special skins for the developers Personally i have almost 3k hours in smite probably a little over 200 euros on it but Im not mad even in the slightest i would trade my skins everyday for smite 2

Although it's scummy to not port the skins over. The bigger concern is actually spending 1000s of $ on skins

I played smite 1 since beta and I started the alpha yesterday and I don't feel or have hear of this controversy, they said from the beginning not all skins will pass over to the new game, it's not like a Overwatch 2 case which is literally the same game. It's a different engine.

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I have over 2k hours and over 600 skins ive collected over the years in smite, as much as i hate that most will be gone, it makes perfect sense why. Its like most other sequels, you lose the cosmetics from the last game. We've had years to enjoy our current skins. I just think they should transfer the most popular ones. I also have a problem with less than half the characters being available at launch. To me this means they announced the game waay too early. If smite 2 came out in 2025/26 with every god and about 100 of the most popular skins, this would be way more ideal

As a Smite player but never spent money on the game, I understand both sides. The labor to port or remodel all the skin would be massive. 1600 different skins is a lot. Then you have people who have played the game for nearly a decade. Some bought the skins or earned them through play time. To have those removed equates to disregarding their time and money. It's a rough situation with no easy outs. Even the 50% off feels like it's not enough. Even if Hi-Rez decided to make the remade skins free to those who had them, that's a drain on money and probably those skins would be pushed back for newer skins. I personally don't know how I feel about it.

The only way you can really own a skin is by being a Modder and mod ur favorite character in ANYTHING

All I really want for Smite 2 is for legacy gems to have the same purchasing power for legacy content that I own (content that gets ported over to Smite 2 from Smite) I'm totally fine and appreciative for 50% off any new content they decide to add, they're a business, not a charity Would be nice to see a couple fan favourites ported over on release such as Swagni Agni, Cartoon Baron and Seamaiden Medusa It's absurd to suggest all 1600+ skins be ported over (especially since most are just re-colours and quite a few are e-sports related) Edit: I've also heard a few things about some items being 100% off with legacy gems from year 11, I'm just hoping that applies for all legacy content that I've purchased in the past, that gets ported over (Hi-rez can do this via linked accounts to check what skins I own in the original)

Who cares the game will always suck. And smite is dead anyway

I think the biggest pain point is that we'll be playing the same Gods in Smite 2. Instead of getting new skins for new Gods, it feels like i'm losing my favorite skins.

I've paid SMITE for 10 years, spent a lot of money in that game. I'm not really that bothered, but I am a little annoyed that they aren't giving legacy gems full purchasing power. I'd be fine losing all my skins if the money I spent could go towards something new in the sequel.

Listening to vocal established players rather than trying to bring in new players is the death knell of most live service games. Porting skins adds 0 value to anyone trying out Smite for the first time.

My only issue would be about legacy gems, like they sound positive, but there's no guarantee they won't just increase the base price of skins, so that "50%" discount doesn't eat into their profits. An example would be X skin would originally cost $10, but we will double it to $20, because we added legacy gems that give 50% discount. This practice is pretty common in other industries and sometimes in games, so that's my only real concern about how legacy gems could affect pricing.

I have thousands of hours in Smite 1 and still play now, with them porting over the most liked skins and letting you buy them with legacy gems 100% off I am completely okay with that ; I assume the licensed skins they will have issues with, because they would have to re buy the license's (stranger things, avatar skins etc) I am really excited for the engine changes and cant wait to play smite 2

I have spent over 8000 hours on Smite 1 and have only ever purchased 3 skins with gems ( partially because I refuse to pay for in game items, but also because I was only 13 when I started playing). I think people forget that the vast majority of skins can be purchased using favour, given as gifts, or in the MANY free events that Smite runs every month. I fully expect this to be the same in Smite 2 as well.

As an Ex Mmite player yeah it definitely sucks my skins won't port over, but I get why it's not. Hell even if they were to port over the Smite 1 skins the only ones I think should get that treatment is the T5 and maybe the T4 skins. Since they're the big/major ones, though that would take a lot of work in itself just with the T5 skins since they're transformative, though seeing those in UE5 would be amazing since a lot of them looked stunning in UE3

im gunna be playing smite 2 and buying the founders pack, smite 1 feels really old and this upgrade will be good for it. i dont care about the few skins i bought ill rebuy the ones i really want at a discount quite happily

I've played Smite on and off over the years and really don't care that skins don't carry over. The base models by themselves already look good in my opinion. Also, it's a moba that is literally focused around gods and mythical creatures, and i think the game looks a lot better if people use models that look like them instead of a Persephone that looks like a farmgirl or Hercules in a speedo. it made the game feel too cartoony and wonky for what it once set out to be. I know those kinds of skins will make their way back into Smite 2, but it will be nice to have a reset of sorts.

I have a ton of old founders and OG skins back when I started playing this with my old group of bros. We stopped talking and drifted apart, even though I have some sick rare skins I kinda like the whole fresh start thing. It’s like playing it for the first time again which is really rare for a lot of games. PS. If you miss the good old days of cod I really recommend playing cod mobile with ear buds and linking a wireless controller. With a good smartphone I guarantee you’ll play for hours.

They could release old skins in batches. Have people vote which OG skins they want ported the most. Honestly, this could be a very good for player retention. Not owning your micro-transactions is exactly what blockchain is trying to solve.

I'm personally super excited for smite 2, I played a lot of smite, and of course I was upset that I don't get my skins, but you know what I did, I got over it cause it looks so good

Imagine wow 2 comes out and asmon couldnt have all his precious mounts cause they arent being carried over

The only thing I think is unfortunate is that they have a lot of collaborations with popular tv shows / artists / musicians and that these won't be ported over. I do not care about most skins, but some collabs are just unf to lose.

My biggest concern skin wise is that the collaboration skins, such as Slipknot, Avatar, and Vshojo won’t transfer over. The only way people could conceivably get those skins was by purchasing them.

If people want their voices heard, just let Smite 2 die.

If the UE5 models and their mesh / uv maps are the exact same as the old UE3 models then they just have to remake the textures for the new shaders that UE5 uses. However if the UE5 models are new and they have different mesh / uv maps then it is almost impossible to port the skins and they have to make new skins.

Not porting skins means they can earn money with new skins.. Thats why OW2, POE2, Smite 2 can be free to play. I DONT MIND

I think the issue comes down to the fact that, so far, the implication is that the skins that you did purchase in Smite 1 that might be ported to Smite 2 are ONLY 50% off even though you already owned them previously. That is what pisses people off, that they would have to essentially re-buy skins that they'd already spent money on, or spent hours of gameplay on earning (especially the animated ones called T5 skins). I've never spent money on skins, though, and all the skins I received were from playing the game and getting gems from events, so I don't have much rage to add to that ballpark. The thing that has most potential to annoy me as a long-term Smite player, is that in Smite you can buy something called an "ultimate god pass" that lets you play and access every single god that has been released and will be released. If you have that pass, I have yet to see any info on a player still retaining that, meaning you might have to buy that again too, which I have an issue with. Especially since, as far as I am aware, most of the gods that will be released for the first year are going to be gods that have already been released - there won't be anything new until they've caught up. If they were to somehow be able to give back access to the point that Smite 1 is at, and THEN require additional purchase for Smite 2 exclusive characters, I would be okay with that, but I have yet to hear anything on the topic. I have some mild other concerns irrelevant to the money, like how keeping Smite 1 open while launching Smite 2 runs the risk of splitting the playerbase, which isn't good for either game. Of course, I haven't done any real research into the topic, so if there's been any updates on the topics I mentioned, I don't know of them yet, so feel free to add to any info I might not know.

It's a pretty small minority of the player base that is upset about the skins. Anyone who actually cares about the game is hyped about Smite 2 and love the graphical upgrades. Everyone I know is blown away that we are getting legacy gems to get 50% off skins in Smite 2. A lot of people are also going to buy the Founders Pack which doubles your legacy gems. Players were plenty happy to continue buying new skins in Smite so what is the big difference in buying those new skins in Smite 2 instead?

This would hurt less if in recent years they hadn't been fairly heavy on skins. I do agree though with the post that Smite skins aren't the same as skins for most other games. At high end, like say the cyber arachne skin, it's like a completely different characters. Visuals, voice, looks, lines. EVERYTHING.T5 skins even have gimmicks, like transforming based on some parameter (such as kills). I understand where they're coming from, but I do want them to port the best ones, such as the cyber skins.

MY VEI SKIN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I'd personally feel better about it if the legacy gems were of equal value to the old skins so that as they get ported over slowly you can buy those back for what you paid, or save them for the 50% off new assets.

I have like 5k hours and 500 skins in smite 1. I am still enthralled with the announcement of smite 2. forget the old and in with the new

I think part of the problem is that in the modern day, people are spending more and more and micro-transactions, its almost like them investing in games they like. So when you tell a player thats potentially spent thousands of dollars on your game that "hey, we made a more modern version of your favourite game! but PS: you dont get to keep your skins" it can really rub some players the wrong way. From what i know from friends that are very dedicated smite players, they didnt really WANT a smite 2, so they fear the thousands of dollars theyve invested in the game they love will be left in a dead game that isnt getting developer attention due to their focus being drawn to Smite 2.

A cosmetic being purchased is a 1:1 transaction. You are NOT paying for ANY longevity. That’s like fucking being a pissy baby that your character in a gacha was powercrept or a scope on a gun had a reticle tweaked.

Why the hell would anyone think that the skins would transfer over to a completely new game?

When you call everybody on Twitter unhinged and yet use it as a touchstone for the overall community. Hmmmmmmm

The fact that they introduced that legacy gem system is the best they could make of their situation, and to be honest that puts them above most other games that have in game purchaseables, like Fifa whos entire business model is based on kids buying the same game and the same packs every year.

Smite 2 is pretty much just a graphics update, it's unreasonable to not port the skins.