I forgot to mention, it doesn't look like there is any sortof guild system and the ingame chat is pretty limited (a tiny box that you can't resize that randomly stops scrolling to the latest message). People try to chat in the street but its pretty broken conversation usually.

Here is a quick summary of the negatives of the game so far for me:

• There is about 5 hours of content
• There are a lot of debilitating bugs including missing rewards
• There is one public quest / dungeon which is kinda fun
• There is nothing to do after the 5 hours of content other than: *Repeat it on a different character or *Grind coins in the hope that something really cool is released that requires thousands of coins (currently there is only a hat made of pancakes).
• The game is really popular, at 4am EST I can still complete the public quest albeit with 4 people.
• Despite the lack of content, the item mall is fully up and running, happily charging $3-$4 for a pair of sunglasses during an OB.
• The browser based format is quite annoying. You can select something from afar but you have to select it AGAIN when it comes closer., now imagine a quest to kill 40 of somthing :P The game makes Chrome use 1.2GB of ram. The game lags on a quad-core i5 because something about it is single threaded.
• The forum suggests that bugs from two weeks ago haven't been fixed.

I've played / tried every MMO on the market so it's quick and easy for someone like myself to see where RIFT got their ideas and to be honest there is nothing new here, the finished package doesn't feel like a lot of fun either.

'Fun' is subjective so I'm sure some people will have a blast but personally I find that the finished product of a lot of RIFTs features is still flawed. Some of it comes from age old problems like an inability to do what you want when you want such as: waiting 30 minute for a pug that can't finish the dungeon, long average BG queues even on the most popular servers. RIFT obviously pushes their public quests but they get old fast, they are poor XP, attendance is poor most of the time and often you'll find that you're in the lvl 13 zone and someone opens up a lvl 20 RIFT so even if you want to do one you can't.

There are no global chat channels, only level range channels and you're restricted to only your own level range. Not everyone likes global chat channels but personally I think it makes the game feel very isolated when in combination with very long dungeon queues and no one talking on chat you feel like you're playing a game at the end of it's life.

Anywho - very little is fresh about RIFT, kill x of y, do your dailies, log off rinse repeat and frankly not much is new compared to just Wow, it feels like I'm playing WoW vs. a tiny bit of 5 other MMOs.

Originally posted by Sanguinelust

Originally posted by Z3R01

bloated with stuff I generally dont care about.

 

I read your post and this about sums it up.

Happy hunting finding an obscure sandbox game.

That doesn't make sense. Go back to your troll cave.

I wish people would stop hyjacking threads with this 'if you're bored of an A* MMO in 3 months then you have no life' argument - its invalid.

My brother works 2 jobs, has a gf he lives with, friends, 2 cats and goes to the gym - he stopped playing RIFT after a month having completed most of it and cba with yet-another-raiding-grind.

I find the complete opposite to the true, if you have nothing fulfilling in your life then you are more tolerant of how stale the game is but if you have rewarding things in your life then gaming is suppose to be a fun temporary diversion. If It's not fun then what's the point. I could be doing housework, spending time with friends, doing overtime at work and getting PAID to do something stale, go on dates - gaming should be FUN, sooner companies stop lobbing out content designed to give us different types of grinds the better.

Not working fine for me, my brother or lots of people in help chat. Very misleading to bring people back saying it's fixed :P

This is basically eve on land, in a lot of good ways. I won't spoil the good parts, especialy if you are an ex eve player I think you will enjoy this.

BUT.... big BUT...

Game is not ready yet. The game client is far from stable, a lot of people have memory leaks and regular crashes which is no good for an open pvp game. There are a lot of times where you just know that in 6 months time something silly will be phased out and people will have a much easier time playing because X-Y-Z is un-necessary, there aren't that many bots to choose from or zones for that matter. It's like playing an alpha you love.

lol I love that skpye .net joke

lol @ the people queueing up to put their credit card details back into sonys severs.

Most likely only reason sony hasn't been hit again is caus their servers aren't online :P

Originally posted by Akaronia

  So in the end according to choices it could have even taken less time than it did which was only 2 hours and 20 minutes.

This type of response baffles me beyond belief. Why are you on the side of the company that has subjected millions of people to fraud? 2h20? Is that a joke? What are the people suppose to do that are vulnerable to identitfy theft? Sell their homes and legally change their names?

Originally posted by Redemp

Considering none of you can offer anything in the way of damages (besides some mob mentality fear that a third world slub would take out a loan in your name )  your  a bunch of ungratefuls.

I can't believe you're actually trying to argue this point. As soon as I heard about this I swore to not use sony products again and have put my PS3 on ebay. Do you realise how much of a near miss this was for most people? My friend has 10k credit card fraud on the card he used for Sony, is that affected enough for you? Could you be more ignorant of what hs happened?

It's quite clear to anyone familiar with sharedealing that the SNE stock started to plummit on the 9th march, before any hack.

Originally posted by uglywanda

So stop creating havoc where it isn't neccessary saying things you have no proof to back it up. Like people are going to sue them, and they won't be coming back. Say what you want and say what you will, but soon they will have it all under control. I hope they get the person ('s) who caused all this trouble to everyone involved. I've been suffering some major withdrawal because I can't play EQ2, lols, well I love the game. It is by far the best game ever!!! I can't wait to get back into the game and have fun. No way am I giving up my account because of some "you know what" idiot-fool. I could go on and on, but I'm frustrated enough. I'm happy with what they offer us when we get back in the game, free time, and some goodies to download. Be nice to have some choices over what we could get.  I just want to play. NOW....So HURRY BACK EVERQUEST2. By the way, I'm Devellesh on the vox server.

Sony may be hear to stay but SOEs profitability was always in question and this may be the final straw.

SOE has proven themselves incompetent in many ways but to be honest I am quite shocked that their incompetence extends to not storing credit card details securely.

I don't think people quite register what has happened here. We ha/ve a case for a class action suit against SOE.

Interesting game but their reason for not using an existing graphics engine is poor, they could have done the same with the open soure unreal 3 engine.

GA & APB are bland.

Firefall looks like a borderlands clone.

Never had so many problems with one company (SOE) especially when it comes to EQ2X - they are verging on complete incompetence when it comes to EQ2X IMHO. Servers down for 24h or more on a weekly basis.

I've tried to get into this game a few times but I get stuck on not knowing where to lvl up and missions look incredibly joyless. Are there any guides on places to grind or party?

The price will only go down.