Sounds to me like they know their game can't deliver and thus must get as much money out of the fans as possible before going F2P soon after.

But actually pretty fun. I'm playing the free trial (which as far as I can tell I have access to everything up to level 15) so plenty of time to decide and try things out. It certainly has it's flaws but i do appreciate now what Rift has (and tried) to accomplish.

The Good: The graphics are and sound effects are really nice. Even the sound when you accept a quest is well done. The spell effects are all better than most MMOs. The soul trees are also really neat. (Though at level 15 I can't really see the point of investing in more than two sould.) Still this provides a lot of customization. The rifts are also a nice distraction if nothing else.

The Bad: The main issue I have is the quests. They are all pretty much throw away quests. I quickly stopped caring about the story. Hopefully in the future they will revamp their quest line like World of Warcraft did with Cataclysm. Doing the quests is fine. I have no issues killing 10 of this and collecting 5 of that. That's an MMO. But I would like a quest line that makes me WANT to do those things. Again I think WoW: Cataclysm really got it right with the quest lines. Also, as far as not liking the storylilne, that's my opinion. I'm sure there are people who really enjoy it.

The only other probelm is the lack of tutiorial. I have all these planar shards orb stuff that i have no clue what they are for. Later I found you can spend them to buy stuff but.. that was just an example. Another example was the map. I see invaders going this way and that way and things popping up to say defend such and such and rifts opening up all over the place and I didn't know what I was suppose to do really. A little more direction would be nice I think.

If you just read this: I'm not totally sold on Rift but I have a new found appreciate for all they have tried to do with their MMO. It's pretty soild, and the best new MMO to come out in awhile.

Rift is already having a welcome back week.. that doesn't sound good.. but w/e

hm maybe i'll try it.. see what it's about... downloading now >.> why not.

I don't understand why people are making an issue about breathing forever underwater.

**You put on an underwater breathing apparatus.***

That's why you can breath underwater you're wearing scuba gear or sorts..... Guess it's more complicated than it sounds. wow..

I would never play two MMOs at a time. While playing one MMO I would think about all the time I could be spending in the other. That said, I don't plan to play any other MMO other than GW2.. honestly though I might buy TOR or something just out of curiousity to see what it's like and putz around with it for a month. But GW2 will be my main MMO for shizzle.

If you're tempted to play WoW then why look for an alternative? That's silly.. play the game you want..

WoW can be fun.. it's gotten so much hate because it's successful. Of course "only kids and people who like it easy play WoW." Or so the haters say. Though one would think there would at least be and handfull of adults and intellegent people who play... but even the haters can't accept that it seems.

Anyway WoW is probably the best one to play IMO.. and I've played a lot of them. LotRO is fun IMO too.

But it's really the MMOs in development that have the most promise to me.

well wow was a pretty successful so maybe it's the best thing they can do is be a wow clone. could me more of compliment really.

ArenaNet addressed this already. They don't go to E3, becuase frankly they don't care about it. PAX and other events have more direct connection with the fans. E3 is just announcments and stuff, they already  have enough hype and reveal info on their website.

ArenaNet rather interact with the fans than the press. Because well the fans are the best press. Makes sense to me.

I'll just wait for Guild Wars 2, but thanks.

Guild Wars was my favorite MMO (if you want to call it that) so I'm very excited for GW2 and the Engineer is AWESOME. It sounds complex and interesting and different from what I've played in most other MMOs. I was hoping for something more alchemyish but this is pretty  much the same things.

Two thumbs up from an old school Guild Wars fan. ^^

GW2 is where it's at!

Seeing the theif in action is one of the most exciting things i've seen in a long time as far as Guild Wars 2 news goes

I think I'll wait for Guild Wars 2. I Think that will be more of the game that players were hoping Rift would be. And the graphics look nice but the world is overly bland.

Um the graphics looks ugly as sin .. but sounds like it has some interesting concepts.. not enough for me to try it though.

yes you are. :p Seriously I always wished for more open world to explore with others. And you can still have heavely instanced areas to tell the story like the missions.... but the rest of the world should have been open to explore.

I'm pretty sure they will add a new race before they add a new profession.. just a thought.

 Guardian looks cool and sounds more interesting than you're typical Paladin. Can't wait for GW2!

Ouch GW2 is beating Rift in the Rift forums.. but yeah Guild Wars 2 is going to rock so far as i can tell.

FFXIV sound be on this list hands down. I assume this list is of MMO that haven't been cancelled already.

Um I'm guessing/hoping Sping of 2011... the demo itself was really impressive regardless of how far along they are.... hopefully it's sooner rather than later..