that's what everybody was saying about Aion, and guess what? It sucked. Sure the game was pretty but both PvE and PvP sucked. Not saying Rift is going to suck, but you can't base a game off of beta. I played Aion in beta and I thought it was great. I bought it and canceled my wow account for the free month. But as soon as I got towards level cap and the instances were horrible and the grinding got overbearing I bounced. Am I going to play rift? Probably not. I just took a 6 month break from WoW and am really digging Cata so far. Plus with SWTOR coming out in a few months I have that to look forward to(assuming it doesn't flop like others have)