Smite releasing March 25, followed by $100,000 tournament
Hi-Rez Studios' free-to-play game Smite is coming on March 25, 2014. Progress from the open beta will carry over, and the top teams from a weekly tournament will take part in the finals on March 29-30.
Hi-Rez Studios' free-to-play MOBA Smite will release on March 25, 2014, the studio announced today. Alongside the release news, Hi-Rez announced a $100,000 tournament to be held just after release.
The top four teams from Europe and the top four from North America will be selected from a weekly tournament series starting on January 4. Those four teams will be the competitors in a final showdown to take place in Atlanta, Georgia on March 29-30. It will take place before a live audience, but it will also (naturally) be streamed on Twitch.
Hi-Rez boasted in the announcement that it has gained 2.5 million registered players in the open beta, and all those people can count on their progress from the beta carrying over to the full release. If you reach level 30 before the launch date, you'll unlock a Cacodemon skin for the character Ymir.
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replySteve Watts posted a new article, Smite releasing March 25, followed by $100,000 tournament.
Hi-Rez Studios' free-to-play game Smite is coming on March 25, 2014. Progress from the open beta will carry over, and the top teams from a weekly tournament will take part in the finals on March 29-30.-
If they handle this the way they handled Tribes, they'll wait until it has a really solid player base and pretty awesome community, then they'll totally drop all interest whatsoever in it in favor of something none of their current fan-base gives a shit about.
To their credit though, Tribes: Ascend is pretty fucking awesome. Just wish they continued showing it the love.-
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Well the game already has a pretty solid player base and pretty awesome communtiy. Other than the occassional Toxic player, but that is something you will get in just about any multiplayer online game. Especially MOBAs.
Though Smite currently does have one thing that Global Agenda and Tribes Ascend never had. Backing from an major external source. Namely China's Tencent, an investment company that pretty much runs China's internet media and also has Riot Games as its Subsidiary. -
There was a post in Reddit about this:
http://www.reddit.com/r/Smite/comments/1m7ybi/what_will_hirez_do_with_smite/
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Oooh very cool. I'm not a fan of MOBAs but I liked my time with Smite. Its one of the few MOBAs that has an opportunity to stand out from the pack.
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Yeah, I feel the same
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Like Razlebol said, there is a Lord of the Rings one on Consoles, but from what I heard there haven't been any updates for it in a while.
Smite and Smashmuck Champions are 2 MOBAs on PC that use WASD rather than Click-to-Move. Smite is Third Person and Smashmuck has the isometric view that most MOBAs use.
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