Originally Posted by
Nakaya_Kilrogg
I don't think most people are calling Rift a "wowkiller". It's new content, for sure.. and new content is something Cata was lacking (level 81+). People are scrambling for new shit. Even if Rift was the worst game in the world, I still think there'd be this much buzz about it. Blizzard pretty much just has themselves to blame for that. I would LOVE to see their numbers hurt, just so they'll get off their asses and work to improve WoW. They just haven't had any good competition for a long time to motivate them to do better. When are they going to stop re-hashing old content? (Naxx, Ony, Ony again w/Nef, Rag in 4.1)
You either have to be a casual or an altaholic to not be completely bored out of your mind. I've turned into a raid logger, since I could care less about alts. Still, that's not to say I'm completely hating on WoW. I still love to raid with my guild. Cho'gall nearly dead, then Al'akir and Nef! Sadly, those three nights a week leave little else unless I was to just log on and run heroics or level my paladin through Deepholm. Neither of which appeal to me in the least. At least with Wrath, you had a few options for leveling. Linear storylines are great, but not if you plan to level multiple characters to 85.
Back to Rift.. it's new. The soul trees are pretty awesome. Rifts are different. There IS a story, if you'd bother to read quest text. Is it better than WoW? "Better" is a subjective term. Personally, there are things I like about WoW that Rift doesn't hit, and vice-versa. I will say that I'd be happier with WoW if they'd done more with Cata. I realize remaking the world was huge, and redoing all the old quests was a lot of work. When I was plowing through them getting Loremaster, I could certain appreciate how large of an undertaking it was. Problem was.. I expected the same amount of awesome from 80 to 85 and a HELL of a lot more 85+.
You can bitch about how Rift takes things from WoW, and they probably do. WoW took things from EverQuest and DAoC. Nothing's original, and every MMORPG is going to have "kill x" "gather y" quests. WoW made the best UI ever, so games are going to copy it. It's just how it is.
Hopefully Rift and GW2 sparks more creativity at Blizzard to improve WoW. I'd like to log into my hunter again without it being raid time and not just fly circles around Org after finishing the cooking and JC dailies.
Besides.. it's all just something to amuse myself with until Star Wars: The Old Republic comes out. :P