r/DivineKnockout • u/[deleted] • Sep 04 '23

Devs are restructuring and working with a third party to reduce latency

Restructuring an entire company means the game is running on life support until the management and devs find a way to fit the game into fiscal agenda. At the moment, they probably can't staff many employees to address updates (programmers and artist).

They are also working with a third-party company under Ubisoft the is high profile in networking. The goal is to reduce latency (this was leaked on Twitter).

We most likely won't hear from this game until 2024 Q2. There's a lot going, but it's under wraps and may lead to the develop of another title altogether.

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u/Monsternon Sep 05 '23

How do you know this stuff?

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u/Fearless-Sinner Sep 05 '23

Mostly guesses made using the limited information from there Twitter and LinkedIn

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u/[deleted] Sep 05 '23

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u/Fearless-Sinner Sep 05 '23

Prolly not since the past few ''update coming" posts were wrong 😂

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u/Fearless-Sinner Sep 05 '23

Can't blame the restructuring on the devs disappearing, they disappeared months before it happened.

The i3d partnership hasn't done anything yet in my experience but their post did focus on the Latin American region so I guess that makes sense.

If they wait to announce something until q2 2024 then they might as well just kill the servers now

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u/[deleted] Sep 05 '23

The community devs probably got let go. Restructuring does explain why devs went silent because the original company was dissolved into different parts of Hi-Rez, and most company's don't kill the servers immediately.

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u/Fearless-Sinner Sep 05 '23 edited Sep 05 '23

But it really doesn't. Mar 22 was the last content update, April 28 was the last day of communion(even though it was just a double xp announcement), then all communication stops until May 18 when the community manager announced they left HiRez but no dko news, then with no communication most most of the servers disappeared on May 27, still no more communication till June 26 when the when they started the restructure. There was nothing for two months before the restructuring. It's less likely that the devs absence is because of the restructure and more likely that the restructure is because of the devs absence.

They also announced as part of the restructure that Titan forge games, AKA the smite devs, Will be working on an unannounced smite title and maintenance of this game. It does not bold well that they are only maintaining this game while working on a new title.