Rift: Storm Legion is Revealed

I tried Rift, played the lite then picked up a new game with a month's subscription and levelled to 50. It bored me to tears but I was determined to play it to the level cap. It is excruciatingly reminiscent of early WoW and made me realise why they nerfed WoW so much since it was so tedious to play but at the time I was new to on-line gaming and persevered. Rift has the usual major flaw of on-line games: people won't interact very much, let alone cooperate. The culture of the game is far superior to WoW, a lot like Star Wars was, it seems the lower the player base the more civilised the people. I found myself just running past the Rifts (since combat took me forever and it was tedious for me to kill a lot of mobs) just as I skipped the video clips in Star Wars! Seems whatever major development designers implement after two hours I am skipping it just to look on my map and go to the next quest! I really think developers need to develop some kind of mechanism just for people to group for quests so you just group up a bit like left 4 dead 2. I found Rift and Star Wars solo experiences bereft of cooperative play. Am I the only gamer who wants to use on-line games as a source of conversation and companionship?

This is kind of disappointing. I would have hoped RIFT would go back to the original design that they talked about in beta. Having a world that would be dynamically affected by the rift invasions. Like If the Plane of Death consistently succeeded in invading then the zone would start to take on a look and get quests to save it related to aspects of the plane.

They seem to be following typical MMO expansion and that will mean more dead areas as everyone moves to the new area. I would have hoped they would introduced mechanics that involved more running around the whole of the game world saving the day from rift attacks.

The world events are a step in the right direction, but if winning or losing them has a zero sum effect on the zone then it tragic missed opportunity to capture the spirit of what they said in the beta.

@jinseinoseikou

That would be Martinett (or something very similar. He wqas banned but still directs the Goonswarm in things like griefing.

I am one of the *aging fanbase" but dont like the way the game is going. I like making friends with new players but this griefing is going to put a lot of them off very quickly.

Have suspended my account for the moment and will keep in touch with the forums and see how things go - I aint holding my breath on CCP going against the Goons though.

Will probably go to Rift in a couple of weeks. Just getting into a new hobby at the moment though.

See you here and there :) - take care and above all, whatever you do - have Fun!

@jinseinoseikou

People who normally spend a lot of time mining are tending to unsub. There is now a permanent hulkageddon which is actively supported and encouraged by CCP.

See the forums for threads about all this.

There is a lot of bad feeling either way and many players say that the game isnt Fun anymore..

I played Rift and now Star wars, I stopped because of latency issues that I could not get resolved but it was a great game and the ONLY MMO I have seen where developers listen to the community with such passion and interest no one came close to that so far.

@walidras Tera was fun aside from the lolipervs and lack of character customization. but every quest was a grind. The action mmo is fun for a bit but I'm an mmorpg player for a reason. if i want action I'll play skyrim.

looks good any eta on the xpac release?

Thats it then - will be returning to Rift now ... EVE Online is dying anyway!

In terms of gameplay what game is nearest to this?

Interesting. I may have to come back with my friends in the fall.

Neat. Rift is only MMO that has kept my interest.

Too late. GW2 is coming for you.

Amazing! This expansion is going to set up Rift as being a competitive MMO for many, many years to come.

That's pretty awesome and something i anticipated for some time. It's also a way for Rift to face the competition to come and reminding its past subscribers that "Hey, I'm still here!". Although some current players are complaining about the new level cap (because the can't move their butt), i can't for its release!

interestingggggg :o

Cool Beans. Thanks KVO. :0)

Holy crap I am excited!!!! I agree with Roadstar, I'd like to see non-cinematic trailers (which Trion has done numerous times in the past, so it's not like there's no precedent with the company) but just the information alone has me FLOORED!!!! The free content that Rift has given players is enormous, the fact that this expansion is going to be everything we have times 2 just boggles the mind. I'm so excited.

When are these publishers going to learn that I don't want to see the freaking cinematics in game trailers. I want to see the GAMEPLAY. Cinematics are completely irrelevant.

RIghteous! The best MMO is about to get supersized!

I gotta say, I'd love to see Rift go f2p, because they have tons of great end game content, but not enough people to play it with.

I played Rift for 7 months after quitting WoW. Running through the original story was fun and the random Rift encounters were a blast of freshness to the same old MMORPG formula. But getting to level cap kinda ended the fun for me. I love 5 man groups, especially when group generators were established, but raiding to me is just not fun. With 10 or 25 man groups, it seems like you are always waiting on somebody. I want to play a game to lose myself in a fantasy world, not to sit around waiting to get enough people to work on an encounter. The rift aspect was far more dynamic than the raid aspect. Why aren't raids more dynamic? Why do you have to raid to get the best gear? Why aren't random 5 man instances in MMORPGs. I'm holding out hope that Guild Wars 2 will not be shackled to the old "waiting game" perpetuated in end game raids of all MMOs I've played so far.