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Our Rift Prime Q&A with Producer Chris 'Archonix' Junior - Rift Interviews
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Our Rift Prime Q&A with Producer Chris 'Archonix' Junior - Rift Interviews
Last week Trion Worlds announced Rift Prime servers sparking a lot of curiosity and questions. We gathered some of your thoughts a long with ours and are very grateful Archonix took the time to respond.
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Obnoxious? No. Tongue in cheek? A little - after a conversation that took place last year with Rift devs and me suggesting Conquest and how fun it would be to have the wall of death thrown on to a map.
Obnoxious would be me asking "IS the new game mode similar to another game that thinks everyone is copying them that has a wall of death in a battleroyale mode?"
I so wanted to be positive and hyped but unfortunately I just can’t see many people playing Prime for a year just to have their character deleted.
If this had been a fresh start server that was permanent and sub only with a limited cash shop I’d have been all over it.
Yeah the idea of paying a monthly sub to develop a character only to have it deleted at the end of 12 months seems...not fun at all.
I was hoping this was just a way to start over without the temptation of boosts, and buffs or a rush to end game dlc.
I've been away from the game for a long time. Does Chloromancer no longer heal through damage like the question suggests? That was my favorite hybrid healing class in any game. Only just above Disciple of Khaine from WAR.
Exactly what I was hoping for also, a fresh start with no cash shop shenanigans.
Another indication that too many MMORPG devs no longer look at the genre as one where retention is the goal, but simply milking what they can while they can.
I see where you're coming from and agree to an extent. One thing that has me weighted kind of in favor of the rex method being allowed is how Trion has crippled many ways of earning platinum in the game. If the old and lucrative methods (that I knew of like farming old raids for direct platinum) weren't nerfed then I would definitely oppose it, but I do feel Trion will do it anyway since Rex nets them more money than just a simple sub (10$ I think per rex? which you typically need 2 to get a sub amount of credits and simple sub being 15$). So technically you still are earning but again I dont know every possible way of making money and chances are the current methods will deflate as well if rex is allowed to get you into Prime. Now if they implement rex into Prime then I'm absolutely out.
I wondered about the REX situation and wouldn't mind REX being used to purchase a subscription for Prime on the live server. Like you though I would be absolutely against REX being available on the Prime server itself.
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These games are WAY too time intensive to bother with a game thats effectively going to end in a year.
Not to mention paying a subscription for such a short term game. I have NO problem with subscriptions, in fact I prefer it. But not in this case.
This looks like yet another case of Trion trying to have their cake, and eat it too.
It's a dick move to begin with. No one is going to want it, so there won't be any profitability in it for them. Few will sub, fewer will spend money in a cash shop I mean FFS, a cash shop with a given wipe? Really?
Anyway. I'll bet there won't be a wipe.
It doesn't, they stay on live which will continue to get updates like live does currently.
I'll wait to see what the final details are.
So long as it looks like fun, and there is no extra cost over the Patron status I already have. I'll give it a whirl. I already have plenty of options for persistent character play.
This format may allow them to try out new and potentially risky ideas, as the definite end of a server season will prevent long lasting harm if they go sour.
If I'm entertained by my play time, even though the character ends with the server season, I already got what I wanted from it, so what does the loss matter.
That's a lot of questions not just one (referring to your original response of not seeing how Rift Prime is going to affect FTP servers.) I didn't ask them that much detail because they had said in the original blog post that they are working on some things on live before Rift Prime launches. Since you already know how things work you might also already know from previous attempts about cross server mail which is still a WIP and the Dimension list being continent wide not shard wide - also a WIP but view-able on live. So no live is not staying the same in some ways but I am unsure to what extent or why there would be "pressure" on the current store? Prime are paying for a sub which is a lot of content you can play for free, they get the souls plus the rest of Prime changes/content we have yet to experience for that sub.
Population on Live will be affected but sincerely, it already is. Not only because of the change in population numbers but a large majority of players play solo more than they did in 2011 especially since - but not limited to - the inclusion of dimensions. Instant Adventures Im sure we will hear more of later, I dont see them being much different to live to achieve the time gap Archonix speaks of but Im sure we will hear more about this when they are ready which isn't right now and no you won't be able to play with anyone who isn't on Rift Prime, they are completely separate.
Hope that helps.