This game is unfortunately on life support at this point and is not worth spending time in anymore.

Over 100 people have been laid off at the company over the past six months, 70 of them laid off just yesterday, including a lead gameplay designer in charge of new god production, a senior UI artist in charge of god icons and item icons, the monetization lead who was in charge of battlepasses/events and skin production, and several other designers and programmers as well as the entire Esports team, meaning Smite 2 will not have a competitive scene at all. Six months ago they laid off essentially all of the marketing/advertising team and at this point the company is now down to 75 employees total. Hirez as a company has launched over ten games and all of them have either been taken offline or sunsetted except for this one. The only way this game survives is if a larger company buys them out, which with the way live service games have been going in the market, seems incredibly unlikely.

I've put over 1200 hours in Smite 1 and 2 combined and it's incredibly unfortunate and quite depressing knowing that this game is now in its final stages of life after they laid off the vast majority of the team and are now operating on essentially a skeleton crew. The game will likely be dead by end of year if not early next year at the latest and I do not recommend investing your time and money into a game that will not be here in 12 months. I'd love to be proven wrong but it's pretty obvious that they're hemorrhaging money if they're laying off people essential to the development of the game.

This game is unfortunately on life support at this point and is not worth spending time in anymore. Over 100 people have been laid off at the company over the past six months, 70 of them laid off just yesterday, including a lead gameplay designer in charge of new god production, a senior UI artist in charge of god icons and item icons, the monetization lead who was in charge of battlepasses/events and skin production, and several other designers and programmers as well as the entire Esports team, meaning Smite 2 will not have a competitive scene at all. Six months ago they laid off essentially all of the marketing/advertising team and at this point the company is now down to 75 employees total. Hirez as a company has launched over ten games and all of them have either been taken offline or sunsetted except for this one. The only way this game survives is if a larger company buys them out, which with the way live service games have been going in the market, seems incredibly unlikely. I've put over 1200 hours in Smite 1 and 2 combined and it's incredibly unfortunate and quite depressing knowing that this game is now in its final stages of life after they laid off the vast majority of the team and are now operating on essentially a skeleton crew. The game will likely be dead by end of year if not early next year at the latest and I do not recommend investing your time and money into a game that will not be here in 12 months. I'd love to be proven wrong but it's pretty obvious that they're hemorrhaging money if they're laying off people essential to the development of the game.