With today's exciting news about Trion Worlds' financial health as well as this weekend's Return to Rift event, we wanted to find out more about what 2012 has in store. We had the opportunity to chat with Scott Hartsman about what the future holds both for Rift and for Trion Worlds. Read on and enjoy!

Scott started off by explaining that RIFT remains a live game and a live service. He explained that the numbers from 2011 are a validation of Trion’s mission on these two key elements. Having a strong running live game with a team that listens to and responds to players is critical. Many players have enthusiastically said that the RIFT team continues to improve the game quickly and that devs truly listen to player feedback for improvements. Scott considers this a core part of the live service and the RIFT team has grown because of it.

Read more of Garrett Fuller's Rift: Trion & Rift in 2012.

Great news just resubbed for 6 months.

They are a good team and company even though Rift was stale to me, I would have zero issue playing and trying another one of their products in the future.

If they would balance PvP and make PvE harder I'd play it.

I like Trion and Rift is going to be a game I will check in on from time to time, but this interview....was anything new really said in it?  Just seems more like lip service than any preview of the future of Rift.

Well i left because us pvp guys got the backseat big time. And it seems we are still left waiting so i will not resub at this time. Tired of dev's thinking we are minority which is not so atm

Did the two of you talking about PVP even read the paragraph explaining what they are trying to do to fix it? :|

Granted, the soul system makes it a bit hard for them to balance everything but i have faith in the team.

While I ended up quitting the game, I am very happy that they are doing well.  With the amount of content they create for players, they do deserve to succeed.  Dunno if I will try the game out again, but still heres hoping they continue to do well.

"the RIFT team continues to improve the game quickly and that devs truly listen to player feedback for improvements"

I found this bit kinda funny.

I quit Rift 6 months ago mainly because Clerics were the worst tanks by far. I decided to come back for the free 3 days and I find out that Cleric tanks have actually gotten worse. Amazing.

So yeah, Trion ignored class balance 6 months and it looks like they are continuing to ignore class balance. Good for them.

Originally posted by Isaralas

Did the two of you talking about PVP even read the paragraph explaining what they are trying to do to fix it? :|

Granted, the soul system makes it a bit hard for them to balance everything but i have faith in the team.

 

Is snare still on an immunity timer? If so then they haven't done shit to fix PvP.

Good job Trion, I wish you well.

And as usual pvp players as in two billion forum threads whine and moan and hate because surely the only goal of developers is to make them angry. Seriously now, I'm tired of your permanent whining in all threads, give us a break, go play FPS or enjoy pvp in mmo's and stop talking about how broken your class is or the other classes are OP and every game is a pvp failure. Can't you just fuck up once in a while because I'm tired of reading your ignorant BS for years now.

If you are truly looking for a PvP focused MMO.....go back to WoW.  It's all the devs care about...Oh...that, and RAID!!!!!

Originally posted by Fearmeirl

If they would balance PvP and make PvE harder I'd play it.

 

The pve is extrmeely hard. It took over 2 months for anyone to kill the last boss of hammerknell and it is one of the hardest raids in the past couple years. Much harder than any of the heroic raids that wow has done in the past couple years. Before we all overgeared the dungeons, they would take upwards of 4-6 hours to do a 5 man dungeon.... pve in Rift is in no way easy..

rift is one of the good ones.  i feel that those who played it with an open mind saw a lot of great work by good devs with good ideas.

if the swtor thing doesnt work out it will be my themepark of choice once again.

Originally posted by MyPreciousss

Good job Trion, I wish you well.

And as usual pvp players as in two billion forum threads whine and moan and hate because surely the only goal of developers is to make them angry. Seriously now, I'm tired of your permanent whining in all threads, give us a break, go play FPS or enjoy pvp in mmo's and stop talking about how broken your class is or the other classes are OP and every game is a pvp failure. Can't you just fuck up once in a while because I'm tired of reading your ignorant BS for years now.

I agree!

I am so tired of hearing PvP this and I want to be an asshat that. Their are many (well not many but) MMO's out there that cater to that crowd. DF, MO, Eve just for starters. I wish one AAA MMO would come out with no PvP at all. Namely TOR. The community there would be so much better without it.

Veering OT I played Rift from beta til about 3 months in. Was a good game but i just get bored easy. I always recomend it to anyone looking for a quality MMO.

Originally posted by rajadog20

The pve is extrmeely hard. It took over 2 months for anyone to kill the last boss of hammerknell and it is one of the hardest raids in the past couple years. Much harder than any of the heroic raids that wow has done in the past couple years. Before we all overgeared the dungeons, they would take upwards of 4-6 hours to do a 5 man dungeon.... pve in Rift is in no way easy..

 

Akylios and H Ragnaros were very similar in difficulty

I like Trion as a company. I just wish I enjoyed their game.

Wonder when we will get expansion news

I /bow to Trion staff.