Originally posted by Purutzil
See what happens when a team actually has a passion for a game? It accomplishes a lot. I really wish more companies did this instead of making profit their priority. If you focus on making a good game first, your far more likely to yeild more money and a product more people will enjoy or at the very least show great respect for.

 It's basically this, even if Rift fell short for me in the beginning and so many others, we still respect Trion a lot, the game didn't really play like I wanted it to and I'd say it somewhat flopped by losing a lot of it's players...however, more than a year later, because a company wasn't in it just for a quick profit this game is probably going to turn around and start gaining players, something that is very rare in the MMO market.

Heck, i'm definitely going to give storm legion a shot.

The player housing for me at least is something i am looking forward to, (if i can find the time amongst all the other things i do ingame) I know it's instanced but it allows me another way to own a corner of rift that is just mine, which when i'm happy with i can then invite ppl to see my creation.

The anti-social comment made earlier i can't say i have really come accross this, yes you do have some truly moronic ppl (we have one at the moment that i'm sure is going for the highest number of ignore's on a server) but i have seen this in what ever mmo i have played there are also very friendly ppl as well, look for a social guild lot's of ppl willing to spend their time helping other's.

With the features that are constantly being introduced this is a game that has it's hooks in me, i might find i will go and see the next best thing every now and again but i just find i keep going back after a short while.

Originally posted by strangiato2112

Originally posted by Razeekster

Originally posted by Czanrei

The new housing feature looks really awesome and normally this would make me seriously consider re-subbing to Rift.

However, I still recall how anti-social the community was/is in Rift so I doubt I will actually re-sub. 

 

I don't believe you've ever played RIFT if you're actually claiming the community is anti-social. RIFT has one of the best communities a game can have. I always find myself talking to complete strangers. Maybe it's YOU that's anti-social. You can't just sit around and always expect people to talk to you. 

You have to contribute too. Ever think about that? Maybe you should next time you claim a game like RIFT is anti-social when it's community is booming with social butterflies.

You are a wonderful ambassador for the rift community.....

 

If you try to talk during an invasion or a rift, you usually get ignored.  If you try to talk at the start of a dungeon run, you usually get ignored.  Those of us that have played EQ know that this certainly wasnt always the case.

A lot of this is due to the game mechanics of extreme button mashing every gcd (and sometimes inbetween), but its more due to the fact that people don't want to pause 6 seconds inbetween kills to type something.  

 

This isnt a Rift specific things, the voice chat era has killed socialization outside of voice chat groups.  people cant be bothered to type anymore.  And it absolutely sucks for social people that cant use voice chat (family/living reasons, deaf) or dont like using it (like to listen to music while playing for example) or people that arent in a voice chat community.

^ QFT