Unlock All SMITE Gods Forever With The New SMITE Patch

Likely, they looked at how much money the average user was spending on Tribes: Ascend before the Game of the Year Edition (which unlocks everything other than skins and voices) existed, and then how that average was influenced by people buying the Game of the Year Edition. Furthermore, they could already see how much money the typical beta player was spending on new gods in Smite. There’s no doubt in my mind that played a significant part in this decision.

Then you have to look at what games other than League of Legends are doing, namely Dota 2, which is actually going to give everyone the ability to use every hero for free, in the name of having player skill truly be the most important factor in the outcomes of games. (Heroes of Newerth quickly followed suit.)

People who are way into any of these MOBAs probably do not spend money on character unlocks so much as skins, since the characters are unlocked via gameplay anyway. It makes sense to let people unlock everything now for a fee, because if people have to pay for every character separately, then a lot are probably just going to say, “Screw that,” and just unlock the ones they want most via gameplay. Going back to Tribes: Ascend, when they announced the Game of the Year edition, my view was that I would have paid for it if they offered it early on, but I already have a lot of stuff unlocked now, so it’s not as compelling an offer for me, and thus I’m not really interested. How good that deal is depends on just how much time (or money, but that’s not really the point I’m getting at) someone has already put into the game.

Also, regardless of what a company says its plans are, rarely should one make assumptions about what future content will be when it comes to making a purchase. Just how long they will keep pumping out new gods will mostly hinge on just how long the game keeps making a significant amount of money, naturally.

Much like how there are a bunch of “WoW clones” that resulted from the crazy money that WoW made, there’s getting to be a lot of MOBAs on the market due to how big League of Legends is. Now Smite is definitely offering a rather unique twist on the formula, but oftentimes the key to drawing attention away from a market leader is just to make people feel like they can get more for their money elsewhere.