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Rift: Ascended - 1, Irene - 0
SBFord
Former Associate EditorMember LegendaryPosts: 33,129
The Rift development team has announced that the recent Half-Birthday celebration is being extended an additional week due to Hurricane Irene. The team felt that many players missed out on the event due to complications stemming from Irene. Players can take advantage of the birthday party through September 6th.
UPDATE 8/30: We know many of you have been weathering out the storm on the east coast – so we’re keeping the subscriber bonuses turned on an extra week, you now have until September 6th to enjoy all the bonuses to XP, Guild XP, Favor, Prestige, Planarite, and dugeon & raid currencies. Have fun!
Read more on the Rift Half-Birthday page.
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I 2nd this
RIP Orc Choppa
Well, I think no one questions this really. The way this guys have been managing the game, providing support and updates makes them unquestionably the best MMORPG company with a launched game as of now.
Even those who dislike or dont play Rift acknowledge this
I wonder if players in the EU will get an extra week too
of course they should.. you can not give to one child of ones own without giving to the 2nd in the family..
basics of fairness.....
lets see what happens eh?
hehe we in europe will have a collective tantrum if not . All that stamping of feet will create and earthquake and Trion will have to give us another free week .
They did already, this extention is to all players, not only NA. The event finishes on the 6th September worldwide
It's just too bad Rift is a shallow, one dimensional, press 1,2,3 to victory, Online game. I take out the massively multiplayer part because if there was only one player on a server he would hardly notice he was alone.
Rift seems like a game that should be owned and operated by the people at Farmville.
If Trion ever grows some balls and makes an old school MMORPG instead of a wow-offshoot massively singleplayer welfare epic dispensary we would have a new juggernaut on our hands.
Curious, I was under the impression that those WERE the juggernauts.
And that all the other weak attempts were just that weak failed attempts with no significant number of subscribers to even bother. Maybe thats why no company listens to that crowd, cuz they want everything but when a different game, be it sandbox, full pvp loot etc is launched they bash it till it's dead. That crowd isnt even important enough to bother really.
Juggernauts will always be polished games with content for all, easy to pickup, easy to follow, that provide instant or quick gratification. Thats what people like after a good day of work. Although I understand that kids, or those dudes who dont do anything important with their lives in society and spent all day in their house in front of the computer dislike.
But most people arent that way, and that is good
Still you have to admit its good methodone for the WoW additct . :P
{mod edit} As for the effort/reward ratio in Rift... I imagine you wouldn't be saying that it doesn't require knowledge, effort, perseverance, and teamwork in the event you took a step into the new Hammerknell raid. That is exactly what Hammerknell requires, and not even the hardcore raiding guilds have yet to clear it.
There are challenges in Rift, you just need to actually play the game to understand that. {mod edit}
Maybe because all the games that have been sandboxes in the past few years HAVE been piles of shit. Would you play Rift if it had desync issues, animations looked like shit, and lag was terrible beyond terrible? No you wouldn't so don't criticize the fans of this genre of MMO's because we havn't had a real stab at a sandbox in many years. Vanguard was the last stab at something different that might have had a chance if it didn't have a shitty release rittled with all the problems above. So yea keep the trap shut buddy, cause if your precious themeparks all had as many problems as the sandboxes that had come out you would be bitchin for a proper try at one as well.
On topic I do respect Trion for being a decent company. The best? I don't hink so, but they do deserve there props.
OH and FYI:
Rift was going to originally be a more sandboxy game before they completely turned the development around to what it is today. They got scared because of all the failing INDIE developers. If they had gone through with there original designs they would have had an even bigger game then they do now.
"In the immediate future, we have this one, and then weve got another one that is actually going to be so were going to have, what we want to do, is in January, what were targeting to do, this may or may not happen, so you cant hold me to it. But what were targeting to do, is have a fun anniversary to the Ilum shenanigans that happened. An alien race might invade, and they might crash into Ilum and there might be some new activities that happen on the planet." ~Gabe Amatangelo
Well said, Lasterba.
I have often said that RIFT has 2 things going for it: It's class system is one, and Trion is the other.
As someone else said in a post (paraphrasing it): If Trion were behind an innovative game, how awesome would it be?
Seriously - I have nothing but respect for the Trion team from their community managers to their top dogs such as Hartsman. I reckon I can always hope for a major sift in their game design and philosophy down the line, as unlikely as that may be.
"Never argue with a fool; onlookers may not be able to tell the difference."
I need to take this advice more.
So..perhaps Hammerknell is a challenge, I've never been there. However, even if it is, it won't change the fact that 99% of Rift is so facerollingly easy that my 4 year old sister could jump up and down on the keyboard and close a Rift then laugh joyously with a childlike gleam in her eyes when she is showered with planarites and items like a lab mouse pressing the right button for it's cheeseball.
A nice geature by Trion, as I've already said several times Trion has THE best team of any mmo which has been evident even from early beta.
With regards to difficulty anyone that plays RiFT and raids knows how difficult the Hammerknell raid is and people that suggest otherwise that RiFT is easy clearly haven't got a clue and are working from a stereotype. Yes Rift has easy parts to it but there are extreme challenges also and with the announcement of Master Mode dungeons in the next patch its not just limited to raid content.
All these bonuses just erode the game if you ask me.
WOW,eq2,Vanguard,WAR,LOTRO,AOC,Rift Aion, SWTOR, TERA.
Currently playing GW2.
This made me lol. But really, which MMO's dont provide little tibits of stuff for completeing an in-game goal? Alot of the complaining on this website leads me to believe that there is quite a bit of people here who are just tired of mmo's, and until they can provide the challenge and gameplay of single player games they will continue to be. However most "gamers" come from the CoD or Madden cloth and will not be willing to pay a monthly fee for a game that requires more thought or challenge than those two games provide.
My fellow gamers on this website need to realize that the game companies are not gaoing to cater to 10% of the population who want a life simulater when 90% of the population just wants to waste some time.
So, what your saying is that you leveled to 50, went through all experts, and got up to being raid ready within 3 weeks? That sounds like a ton of game time put in each day. Also, since the only thing you didn't clear was RoS, you must have done the 20 man raid GSB.... does this mean you joined a guild learning and progressing through it, or did you join an established raiding guild who had it on farm?
I think the only real piece of advice I could give is to stop imposing your perception of a "challenging" or "real" game on others and expecting it to be viewed as truth or fact, as it is only opinion.
So you prove yourself though a video game.
Others, play the video game to simply have fun and prove themselves in real life.
I am far more proud of being a father and a grandfather than I am of my list of game titles and achievements.
I play Rift because it is enjoyable and doesn't take up so much of my time that I neglect the things that make me who I really am. I would rather be called Papa by my 4 year old granddaughter than L33t by a 13 year old on vent.
I think you answered your own question.
All die, so die well.
Thats what i said on a previous post. This people have nothing to do with their life, spend the days in boredom and they expect games to save them from that life.
I work all day and when I get home at night guess what, I want to spend an hour having fun and evolving my character, i have enough challenges in my work or in my daily life.
Games are just that, games. I still fail to understand after years of game playing how do some people look at games like a mean to feel better with themselves or to feel somewhat special.
If you want to be special be so on real life, not games
Yeah, I bet you do.
Honestly this post doesnt even deserve a response but ok, ill humour you since you are so cool and special and I want to be so much like you... One thing I can tell you, I just work 40 hours a week, it's the usual here in Europe you know? And we have free healthcare and education, how cool is that!
Completely spot on. For those with real lives and real problems an hour or two in a game as polished as Rift is like a much needed mini vacation...thus we still have the capability to sit back and ENJOY ourselves. For those like Lasterba, years of living your life in front of a monitor has made you jaded...your endless quest to find meaning in your life through imaginary online worlds has caused you to seek out acceptance in forums such as this by constantly patting yourself on the back for your so called "sophisticated and advanced tastes". Whats more pathetic?
I do living in the UK its great . Should be a human right to everyone in any civilised country in my opinion . But back onto topic I do agree with some of what you said I found the leveling in a RIFT to be a little too fast for the limited amount of content .When I first played WoW it took me several months to get to level 60 with reasonable intensive play . Nowdays there seams to be a rush to the endgame without enjoying the journey of getting there . I wont knock RIFT though because I recognise it as one of the best mmos in a long time and I think it was concieved as an alternative to WoW and its achieved that goal . I just wish it hadn't fallen into some of the same pitfulls . I would have prefered to a game closer to Vanilla WoW than cataclysm WoW . I applaud Trions comitment to it and the amount of updates it getting which seam thick and fast to me is pretty impressive . Wish Turbine would do the same with Lotro .