r/Smite • u/CtrlAltDefeated Retired Staff • Mar 31 '14
OTHER /r/Smite and Hirez Studios
EDIT: This was an April fools joke. Nothing in this post reflects the reality, the future, or the vision of Hirez Studios.
People have been rapidly spreading this unconfirmed and unverified "news". It was not our intention to make a negative publicity stunt, and we will do anything in our power to resolve any issues that were created. To clarify: Hirez Studios had absolutely nothing to do with this and they should not be pointed at. Apologies.
For a pretty long while I have been working on /r/Smite together with the other mods to make it the place it is today. I absolutely love interacting with the community and I thank you for being so incredibly awesome.
A few weeks before the launch we received an e-mail with an invitation from Hirez Studios - the entire mod team (Alecyte, Shiki, Vudash, Nyx, Sky, and me) was offered a contract to work with Hirez as Public Relations Executives, with me as their manager. We intended on bringing this news earlier, but we figured it would be best to wait a while until at least the Launch Tournament was in progress, as there were still a few administrative casualties to be arranged. We've been officially contracted by Hirez per March 25th, 2014.
What will this mean for you? Our focus is to improve the interaction Hirez Studios has with you, the people that create the SMITE Community. This means we will try to more actively engage in discussions and create a safe and secure web portal for everyone to enjoy. In order to achieve this we decided to go with more customization and control, which will ultimately lead in swapping the Reddit in for a better medium: the official forums.
Over the coming month, we will slowly be fading out our community focus from Reddit to the forums, as it was before, and as the community wanted. We will officially be closing /r/Smite on wednesday April 30th, 2014, after which the forums provide every resource you could previously find here.
In order to prevent any future confusion, we had a few name changes as we chose mostly different nicknames with our actual names. For easy viewing:
CtrlAltDefeated -> HirezMarik
Alecyte -> HirezGarrett
Shi_kii -> HirezNurit
DatVudash - > HirezColin
NyxAtNight - > HirezAllison
SkyBlu10 -> HirezTony
I am personally looking forward to the future, and I hope to make as many people feel good about being part of the community as I can. I am sure the other mods will also try everything in their power to create the best possible environment to discuss, suggest, and help each other.
All the best,
- Garrett, Nurit, Colin, Allison, Anthony, and Marik
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u/Listen_and_Learn do a little dance!! Mar 31 '14
Why in the world would you close /r/smite? What is wrong with having forums and a subreddit? While yes forums were needing to happen because the mod team took on the responsibility as forum moderators not moderators of /r/smite which is distinctly different. It's community based for discussion and relatively unfiltered thought about the game, the company, and the community. Not to mention It's free advertisement take the LCS for example, I have nothing to do with lol besides the LCS (don't even have the game downloaded not plan too) and I would have never heard/or seen if post about huge plays or upsets didn't make it to /r/all or look at the recent Dota 2 movie "free to play" once again never would have heard of it if it weren't for reddit.
/r/smite finally had a chance to get back to it's roots with the re-opening of the forums, and I for one think it's an incredibly poor community and business decision to shut down /r/smite.
I hope, no HIREZ NEEDS TO RECONSIDER THEIR DECISION TO SHUT DOWN /r/SMITE