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[Column] Rift: Returning to RIFT
SBFord
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Now that Rift has officially hit free to play, it's only natural that our very own Tourist will once again darken Telara's doorways. See what he thinks of the new iteration before telling us of your experiences in Rift in the comments.
RIFT was accessible. RIFT was progressive. RIFT was iterative. They listened to their players and reacted. When the tides turned towards three-faction PVP, RIFT added Conquest. When players wanted solo and small-group dungeons, Chronicles were introduced. When they asked for housing, they delivered the hands-down best and most customizable system this side of Minecraft. Most importantly, the RIFT team seems to have woven these dispositions into their very DNA. With the launch of free-to-play, they have once again delivered above and beyond what anyone dared expect.
Read more of Chris Coke's The Tourist: Returning to RIFT.
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Woo. Haven't had this much fun in a while.
only if half the races didn't run like they were injured.
PS - All mammals have nipples.
Get over it already.
Rift is the best Free to play out there and it will be so for a long time or well until Wildstar and elder scrolls lands that is
Rift FTW
Rift is the "Best WoW ever" IMO.
But I am thinking I might go give it another shot as F2P....
i played rift before, did world first , eu first achievements raids wise..
even tho the game has really good class system, its tab targeting crap...
at the moment there are games out there with action combat.. they are far more fun and require skillz.. anybody can tab target somebody and spam 1 2 3..
rift or any other tab targeting mmo is no more appealing to me..
next gen mmos must be action combat like neverwinter/tera or hybrid action like gw2
I agree, I tried it again but I just cannot play tab-targeting anymore.
I get lazy with it, and just stand stll while strumming my fingers over the numpad, and every time a mob runs behind me and I have to use my other hand to manually turn around it just infuriates me.
The combat feels so out-dated.
I never played post release - just last stage beta before it went FTP. I saw this article and decided to give it a try as I have been bored and not playing any MMO at this time. The game plays nicely and I am having some fun. The F2P has been designed in such a way as to be fairly seemless. I did not feel at any time at any great disadvantage from the F2P aspect or feel stymied or constrained to any significant degree. I did decide to go ahead and do a one month sub due to the fact I am having fun - I have plenty of money personally and I like to support things I enjoy to one degree or another.
I do not know how long this game will keep my attention - but for now its fun and if your bored and have not yet played the game its worth looking into.
Great game, came back to it last month in anticipation for f2p on a pvp server. Been having an amazing time for my 3rd time (since launch). Free to play has brought an increase in the population of an already great game.
Besides the population increase and already established great game, Rift's f2p model is one of if not the best I've seen to date.
Also to those complaining about the 50-60 grind l sigh, mmo's are way too easy now-a-days. If people are spoiled enough by WoW clones that they want their levels handed to them casually, what's the point of the progression of leveling to begin with? Might as well start at level cap.
21 year MMO veteran
PvP Raid Leader
Lover of The Witcher & CD Projekt Red
"They listened to their players and reacted. When the tides turned towards three-faction PVP, RIFT added Conquest. When players wanted solo and small-group dungeons, Chronicles were introduced. When they asked for housing, they delivered the hands-down best and most customizable system this side of Minecraft."
Come back to reality a little here, this is ridiculous.
The three faction PvP was *not* a major request of the community. The community (in general) wanted meaningful open world PvP. Conquest, as its an instanced battleground, does not provide that. What the three faction PvP likely was is rushing to add it in before GW2 launch. Don't try and act like this was Rift listening to their players.
And the housing, while fantastic, is still not as good as EQ2. Its a near direct copy of EQ2 actually, just EQ2's is a bit deeper because its been out longer. At least give the proper credit here to EQ2. Rift's housing is the closest thing to EQ2, not Minecraft.
It does have the best f2p model from a f2p players perspective though (the sub option is pretty terrible though...it only exists to take advantage of people who prefer to sub instead of rewarding them for their dedication)
The 800 lb Gorilla in the room with Rift is it has a soulless game world and is the possibly the least immersive AAA option out there. If you care about this stuff, there are far better options than Rift. If you don't and only care about the carrots, then Rift is one of the best games on the market.
This has been a fairly common complaint.
It is too grindy for me as well, the time it takes to achieve just one level (above 50) is excessive. I don't necessarily like the trend towards fast and easy leveling, but dragging out the process without any good reason or interesting features along the way (it is mainly kill ten rats) just strikes me as pointless and perhaps a little opportunistic when there are xp potions etc on sale.
Play whichever one has your prefered style of combat and u can't really go wrong. Both are great. Good times for both games.
RIP Ribbitribbitt you are missed, kid.
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Currently playing:
Rift
Played:
SWToR, Aion,EQ, Dark Age of Camelot
World of Warcraft, AoC
WAR and PVE shouldn't be in the same sentence. PvE game generally also equals themepark and we certainly don't need another one of those either.
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The transition to F2P is well done. But once i went back and played some, i again saw why it went F2P in first place.
No thanks.