I don't always hunt things, But when I do, It's because they're things & I'm a Bear.
yeah... I think my 10-day pass to WoW pretty much confirms I'm actually over it. That "bear" is currently a rug under my desk. He's dead, not sleeping. Many moons ago, I too was a great big cow bear. I stood my ground in Moonglade.
I may dabble a bit in GW2 every now and then and log onto Rift. Tons of new things added judging by the patches I've downloaded every week or two since I leveled my 1st guy to 80. Still not finished a complete storyline, so I expect to do it on my Char Warrior.
As for WoW, I realize graphics do not make a game, but after playing so many single player games these last few months, when I look at WoW, I seriously feel like I'm looking at a glorified Commodore 64. It actually repulses me how ugly and bland it looks - to me personally. I just expect more.
In spite of content slowing down and me being disappointed with the Trion team right now, Rift for me has just upped what I expect from an MMO and even though I am obviously also a bit burnt out on mmo's right now, WoW is definitely never going to be my go-back-to game ever again.
That died with the Lich King - not trying to make a pun - that's seriously the last time I enjoyed it. I raided with a great guild called Ethos EU and it was the 2nd best time I ever spent in Warcraft. My first was in Beyond on Karazhan in TBC.
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Not sure about "within 2 months" but I definitely feel Rift is getting closer by the day to F2P transition. Which I think will help the state of the game greatly- Rift was at it's absolute pinnacle from beta 3 to launch week.
Rift needs players in mass to run around zone events, queue in WFs/Dungeons, running IAs up and down the level range, etc. Rift was meant to be played with lots of people.
Heh, I recall you taking umbrage when I said Rift was an extremely endgame/raid centric MMO. And then you tried to argue it was a matter of POV.Bottom line is that this game seems to be mostly for raiders.
Which of course you were wrong about. Because gameplay is always objective truth; there is ambiguity in that Rift is designed for players at some point to raid in order to progress.
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Right now, I think Free to Play will actually be a good thing - as long as they look after their Vets. I agree with Fencers - Rift needs lots of people!
Rift Scene - Still the best Rift fansite.
Cupcakey 5/5 EE, 4/4 FT
@Wocky I'm pretty much in the same boat. I did a come back to a ten day Wow Mop trial I made it two days in and dumped it. The wow formula is pretty old and tired heck I see ppl moaning about 5.2 already a raid and more dailies not even 24 hours later. /yawn. I'm not interested in a wow private server I'd rather preserve my memories of wow when it actually was good and in its prime.
The charm that Rift classic had is not present in SL it may catch up to it but the slaughtering of the rift dev team makes me think not. I've not logged into Rift since January. I'm on a MMO break since WoW, GW2 and the few others I've played are just all Meh to me at this time. Been messing around with some single player games and PoE. Hopefully Rift gets their finger out of their ass in the next few patches or my desire to return will completely fade.
Oh it's still a matter of POV, not going to give that up so easily.
It's just what I thought would personally sustain me hasn't actually done so, thus my view has shifted. Which is really unfortunate. It could simply be attributed to the fact that I'm getting more casual in my playstyle by the day. I still see that there is 'plenty' of other content outside of raiding, but I've burned through most of it and it's eliminated my desire to achieve other things.
BAD WOLF
Things to do till Patch 2.3:
YES! Path of Exile held my interest quite a bit too. Really amazing stuff.
Civ 5 Gods and Kings too if you like that sort of thing.
But... the ultimate game... Far Cry III - best game ever...
I will probably buy Crysis 3 this Weekend if some time frees up, but I've heard it's quite linear from one of my techies.
maybe buy the two Skyrim DLC's.
I generally don't like to buy a new game till I finish what I have. A bit OCD that way.
XD
That seems fair in all honesty. There is a certain amount of MMO burnout one can go through.It's just what I thought would personally sustain me hasn't actually done so, thus my view has shifted. Which is really unfortunate.
For me at least, that is common no matter the MMO; EQ, GW, Rift, TSW, etc. Sometimes I just get tired of playing for a bit.
Pretty natural, imo/pov.
I'm holding off on my "Rift is dying!" till 2.3 comes out. While I agree that after the shine of the new expansion wore off it's been pretty lackluster (from a non-raider PoV) for the past few months, I'm not quite ready to "abandon ship" (not that I can anyways, I'm subbed till next January : P).
Trion have created insanely high expectations for themselves, and they've delivered for over a year and a half for me. I can forgive them for a few months of lackluster updates, but we'll see how it goes moving forward.
What has me concerned is this is happening with whats going on elsewhere with the Defiance beta we can't talk about and their pre-selling of $40 DLC packs for the game over a month before it's even out, with little to no detail on what the DLC entails (common practice, I know, but it's a shitty common practice). Trion as a whole are beginning to show some cracks in their shining armor : P
Yeah dieing is bit of stretch to say the least. I just feel SL hasn't been fleshed out enough and doesn't hold a candle to classic. I can blame myself for some of it since I torpedoed to lvl 60 in 4 or 5 days and burned through a good chunk of the sparse PvE content that can only be done so many times and you burn out. As I said before for a player who played from launch, Rift 2.0 doesn't keep me engrossed in the content since at max level there isn't really the same charm as there was at max level classic Rift. Unless they blow me away I see patch 2.5+ being the mark where substantial content should have been added to draw me back. I'll be very much interested in 2.3 content, I wonder if we'll see something to the quality of Hammerknell again with the state of the current dev team. Time will tell.
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I don't always hunt things, But when I do, It's because they're things & I'm a Bear.
Yeah, it's only been a few months... and we did get "something" at least - It's not like it's been 9 months or more of waiting for new content like there was in WoW at some other point. Rift doesn't have the base to do that though - they need to be better, faster with content release.
To be fair, even during chocolate rift, I still skipped a few patches every now and then. I like to be behind in my mmo's when I log on. I go through periods where I just don't feel like logging on.
As for defiance, I will probably approach this with caution as it seems as Trion is not the company it was two years ago. I did enjoy defiance, but for me unless there is downright amazing subscription offer on the table, I'll go month to month - if it's sub based, of course.
To be honest, I am not too sure Rift's SL content has been "sparse" or infrequent. Classic Rift had lulls too- where patches where "eh" for a while. SL content isn't too shabby for what it is either.
Here is the thing; Rift is very standard. Not a slight- Rift is just a very "safe" and familiar MMO. Someone above pointed out once you note the differences in Rift from WOW [& similar MMOs in the Everquest style], the novelty wears off. I do believe that to be the root of player attrition.
Rift truly gives me an Everquest 2/LOTRO vibe in that the best & worst one can be say is "EQ2/Rift/LOTRO are solid, well made games."
Not a particularly exciting, flashy or controversial MMO on the whole. Rift just doesn't have the cultural importance that generates millions of page views when the color of a Mage's spell effect is changed. Or Colin Johanson hints at a new backpack plushie next patch.
That sort of communal drive is what sustains MMOs for years on end. Even niche MMOs like Eve proliferate on that kind of strife/vigor.
Well, I am still not entirely convinced it is the game and not me. I think most of it is me, then the doom and gloom posts adding to my feelings along with people leaving. The more I see more "vets" saying these types of things though the more it convinces me even more that it may be the game.
The good news is, since my last post, I have downed Crucia twice, back to back nights. Cleared it Tuesday, then again last night. Now we can work on EE rest of the week and hopefully I all all normal content cleared. Where will that leave me though? Just needed to get rep still and farm gear. Not sure it's going to get any better, probably only worse. I see a lot in my guild are raid loggers now and I am becoming one too because there are so many things I'd rather be doing with my free time than farming GHunts, IA or CQ for hours and hours on end.
I never got to play it, so picked it up finally, but am having a lot of fun with Fallout New Vegas. Nowhere near as good as Fallout 3, but still fun. Makes me want to go back and play Fallout 3 again though, I never did finish a full evil play through. I was playing it last night and almost forgot to log on for raid, which is something I never do.
i dunno why everyone is complaining we gotCross-Shard Group Invites some small Onslaught fixes and some major class changes etc a total of 10 hotfixes they could just have delayed all the hotfixes for 2.2 and we had some big patchnotes and still some folk would complain
oh noez everything is doomed rift is doomed wow is doomed the whole mmo marked is cursed get off while you can
God I hope its not 8 months delay between 20man raids, that would be much slower release than wow lol
While I'm not one to jump on a Chicken Little train, this would be a disaster for this game. Let's hope your estimates are very, very off. Other games are starting to produce content at a very rapid pace compared to their usual operations, but Trion seems to be slowing down. Considering that the amount and pacing of content was one of the game's largest selling points, it would be incredibly negative to see this happen.
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I don't personally have a problem with their content delivery and don't think it's so terrible myself how things are playing out in SL, but looking at the larger picture I think it would be a downturn for the game.
BAD WOLF
lol my statement is based off observations not assumption.
Just got through this thread:
http://forums.riftgame.com/rift-gene...d-revised.html
You will notice they release what I call a concept patch, then shortly after release a content patch. This world event ends in April...give them 1-3 weeks to release 2.3 and you get around May and this is Dendrome and the 10 man content patch.
This last atleast until July or August. Then we get 2.4...probably concept with a 20man thrown in.