Back then when we were beta testing it, its focus wasn't PvE.

So, the carebears have finally won?

Momentarely I'm back to wow now, but Rift is my 2nd game in charge. All the rest lags very far behind. Among them once per year I enjoy a lot CO for two or three months.

Originally posted by Neherun

Back then when we were beta testing it, its focus wasn't PvE.

So, the carebears have finally won?

 

 

Rift is built with a PvE game's blueprint with its main concept (and eventual title) very obviously PvE oriented.  Rift was always marketed as PvE first

Originally posted by teakbois

 

Rift is built with a PvE game's blueprint with its main concept (and eventual title) very obviously PvE oriented.  Rift was always marketed as PvE first

Pretty sure Scott Hartsman can be directly quoted as saying "we never expected pvp'rs to be so interested in our game". Go figure Rift is missing all these features and stuff you see in something like GW2.

Could you imagine if they put all that dev power that rolls out pve into pvp? It would be crazy, but the preasure to keep putting out new content is intense. Ember Isle is jam packed with so much crap I feel like I am should be charged for it. Add on to that list for 1.6 tier 2 planar attunement and new runes/quest for the new war front just added.

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Originally posted by teakbois

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Originally posted by Neherun Back then when we were beta testing it, its focus wasn't PvE. So, the carebears have finally won?    

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Rift is built with a PvE game's blueprint with its main concept (and eventual title) very obviously PvE oriented.  Rift was always marketed as PvE first

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The testing I remember in the beta had to do with people running rifts and complaining about how often they were happening, then they tweaked it and people enjoyed it immensely afterwards.

I hardly remember anyone PvPing in the beta at all. /shrug

Speaking about Rift's future, i was wondering if they keep on pumping out patches like they do and having them numbered numerical as 1.*, the addon is most likely not going to be 2.0 then.

So assuming the addon is going to be 3.0, plus Trion is delivering a patch every 6 weeks, it would take them 54 weeks to get to 2.9 from 2.0. Add some more weeks, as we also haven't hit 2.0 yet.

That would mean that they'll slap in the addon somewhere in between as 2.5 or we will have to wait over a year until it'll be 3.0.

But then, this is just some lose mathematics and speculation which you can slap a ton of "if", "but" and "what" upon. So my conclusion of this post is that i'm getting carried away on my train of thoughts again, so i guess i'll get myself a coffee first.

Originally posted by VoIgore

Speaking about Rift's future, i was wondering if they keep on pumping out patches like they do and having them numbered numerical as 1.*, the addon is most likely not going to be 2.0 then.

So assuming the addon is going to be 3.0, plus Trion is delivering a patch every 6 weeks, it would take them 54 weeks to get to 2.9 from 2.0. Add some more weeks, as we also haven't hit 2.0 yet.

That would mean that they'll slap in the addon somewhere in between as 2.5 or we will have to wait over a year until it'll be 3.0.

But then, this is just some lose mathematics and speculation which you can slap a ton of "if", "but" and "what" upon. So my conclusion of this post is that i'm getting carried away on my train of thoughts again, so i guess i'll get myself a coffee first.

 

 

 

1.10 comes after 1.9, not 2.0

Rift just feels like a pointless game right now. They need

-Crafting that matters. I should be able to craft a full set of armor that looks awesome and is equivilent to high end raid gear

-They need to make an Arena for PvP with a public ladder posted in the major cities that everyone can see.

-All raid timers should be taken away, and all raids should be puggable under the dungeon finder

-They need to impliment both player houseing, player boats, and sea battles

-There needs to be new and fun ways to make money, the current economy and crafting system sucks

-The game just feel like it is dying.

Originally posted by Cothor

Rift just feels like a pointless game right now. They need

-Crafting that matters. I should be able to craft a full set of armor that looks awesome and is equivilent to high end raid gear

-They need to make an Arena for PvP with a public ladder posted in the major cities that everyone can see.

-All raid timers should be taken away, and all raids should be puggable under the dungeon finder

-They need to impliment both player houseing, player boats, and sea battles

-There needs to be new and fun ways to make money, the current economy and crafting system sucks

-The game just feel like it is dying.

 

 

No to the arena, yes to everything else.

Rift isnt dying, but it is slowly bleeding.  I think they might be best served by, um, making another 10 or so 'trial servers' as busier servers for most people are more fun.   They seem too afraid of negative publicity of closing servers, so they are slowly converting them to trial servers.  Healthier for the game if they just bite the bullet IMO

The game was alot of fun until I hit 50.  I always enjoy the journey better than the destination especially in these theme park type games.  I tried rolling an alt but it isnt nearly as good the second time around.

Im just so tired of grinding for gear at max level.  Unfortunately Im not sure what they can replace it with to make it feel like progession still.

As I get older, almost 40 ;P, I just dont have the time anymore and when you get in a pug with asses it stops being fun.  Might be time for me to find a new hobby ;(.

Originally posted by teakbois

Originally posted by VoIgore

Speaking about Rift's future, i was wondering if they keep on pumping out patches like they do and having them numbered numerical as 1.*, the addon is most likely not going to be 2.0 then.

So assuming the addon is going to be 3.0, plus Trion is delivering a patch every 6 weeks, it would take them 54 weeks to get to 2.9 from 2.0. Add some more weeks, as we also haven't hit 2.0 yet.

That would mean that they'll slap in the addon somewhere in between as 2.5 or we will have to wait over a year until it'll be 3.0.

But then, this is just some lose mathematics and speculation which you can slap a ton of "if", "but" and "what" upon. So my conclusion of this post is that i'm getting carried away on my train of thoughts again, so i guess i'll get myself a coffee first.

 

 

 

1.10 comes after 1.9, not 2.0

 

Um did you graduate from highschool? 1.9 is greater than 1.10. If anything 1.91 comes after 1.90 not 1.10 . Our future right here folks.

Originally posted by moguy1

Originally posted by teakbois

Originally posted by VoIgore

Speaking about Rift's future, i was wondering if they keep on pumping out patches like they do and having them numbered numerical as 1.*, the addon is most likely not going to be 2.0 then.

So assuming the addon is going to be 3.0, plus Trion is delivering a patch every 6 weeks, it would take them 54 weeks to get to 2.9 from 2.0. Add some more weeks, as we also haven't hit 2.0 yet.

That would mean that they'll slap in the addon somewhere in between as 2.5 or we will have to wait over a year until it'll be 3.0.

But then, this is just some lose mathematics and speculation which you can slap a ton of "if", "but" and "what" upon. So my conclusion of this post is that i'm getting carried away on my train of thoughts again, so i guess i'll get myself a coffee first.

 

 

 

1.10 comes after 1.9, not 2.0

 

Um did you graduate from highschool? 1.9 is greater than 1.10. If anything 1.91 comes after 1.90 not 1.10 . Our future right here folks.

 

 

So when you get to the 10th chapter of Fellowship of the Ring are you now reading the first chapter again?  Or maybe you are now reading The Two Towers?

Originally posted by Beyorn

The game was alot of fun until I hit 50.  I always enjoy the journey better than the destination especially in these theme park type games.  I tried rolling an alt but it isnt nearly as good the second time around.

Im just so tired of grinding for gear at max level.  Unfortunately Im not sure what they can replace it with to make it feel like progession still.

As I get older, almost 40 ;P, I just dont have the time anymore and when you get in a pug with asses it stops being fun.  Might be time for me to find a new hobby ;(.

 

Rift was designed to be about the destination, not the Journey.  There are still games like EQ2 and Lotro that value the Journey.  

I have made suggestions in the Rift forums about a few things that would really kick it up a notch.  I think if anyone can do it, it is probably Trion, since the rate they have been cranking out quality content has been amazing.

1)  RVR Zone - If anyone could make this kick butt it would be Trion.

2)  Housing - Admittedly this is fluff more than necessity and is probably low on the list.

3)  New zones - The world could use a little expansion.

4)  Third faction - This seems unlikely, but would really balance out the 2 faction issue.  I suggested a fairy faction as a third, just because it would be so unique.  Like the fairies are tired of the Guardians and Defiants tromping back and forth across their lands and have decided to take matters into their own hands. 

5)  Cooking/Fishing/etc. - More fluff skills to round out the list of interesting things to do.

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Originally posted by Raventree

1)  RVR Zone - If anyone could make this kick butt it would be Trion.
 

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I don't see what makes Trion potentially better at realm vs realm PvP than anyone else in the industry right now. They haven't shown they have a firm grasp on what makes good normal PvP work yet.

I'd say SoE has shown they know better with games like Planetside than Trion. At least they've already made a game like that and are now making Planetside 2 for 2012, three-faction realm vs realm combat.

Trion has shown that they can push out dungeons and raids very well imo, but that's not what people are asking for.. more of those.

The way I would like to see Rift go eventually is the idea of being able to stave off the invasions into Telara, and giving us the option of "rifting" into the other elemental planes of existence, ie opening a Telarian Rift into the Plane of fire and taking the fight to them! Then being able to not only establish housing in Telara, but having the chance, with a lot of work to establish housing in the other planes. Just a thought.