"Because you can put your Astral Diamonds up on an auction house and sell them for micro-transactable points. Then you can purchase anything you'd like in our micro-transaction store."
Yeah, but someone else has to buy those points with Cash to sel…
I gotta say, it kinda rubs me the wrong way that the majority of the services which are supposedly to help you play with your friends are the ones that have a premium placed upon them.
Originally posted by David99 Medium or high tags mean nothing. I was on a medium server and there was nobody around... during peak times there was like 6 level 50's in total on my side, and 9 on the other. Medium pop? Hardly, more like dead.
But y…
I hate to burst your bubble, but thinking Rift won't "survive" is poor reasoning.
Considering the server populations are always at Medium or High during normal hours, the population seems to be staying pretty solid.
There are plenty of games whi…
I should point out also that this person is from Mississauga, a suburb from the Toronto area. What this says to me is it's a 50% chance that this person is a "new Canadian", which is our polite way of saying 'immigrant'. (Yes, we really are that pol…
Perhaps consider this:
When MMOs first came out, they were $9.95 a month (EQ and UO), in approx 1998.
In 2002 FFXI came out at 12.95.
In 2003, UO raised their rate to 14.95.
In 2005, EQ and DAoC followed suit and raised their fees to 14.95, …
I'm sorry but I don't think the person who wrote this has taken a second to look at the bigger picture. The stuff the writer is describing isn't something that's unique to "gamers", it's a symptom of our entire society. Look at reality TV, look at t…
Gary Gannon, host of the Rift-themed Gamebreaker.tv show "Sanctum", estimated the player base somewhere around 750,000 players at launch.
The servers are almost always all at either 'Medium' or 'High' population, if not 'Full', as seen on the Rift…
Don't forget that the game portion is being developed by Trion, the company that made Rift. Love it or hate it, Rift has a lot of buzz right now and many people are quite impressed with the transparency and connectivity that Trion has with it's play…
These charts are actually only generalities. There are a few missing/gray areas here and there. Depending on how you spec each soul, they can be used for slightly different things, and having one doesn't necessarily mean you fill that role.
Ideall…
What I've gathered from the information in this thread as well as what I've read on the investor site itself (in relation to a launch date) are as follows:
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Beta will be expanding with more players over the next few months
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They're not …
I love it when people pre-judge a game they haven't played based on a different game by different developers, just because it shares the same tool set.
A masterpiece can be sculpted from the same clay that makes dinner plates. The difference lies …
Originally posted by skoupidi "Rift is the complete next generation in online gaming"
Says their official beta trailer.
Considering the phrase "next-gen" means it's iterated and builds on the generations of MMOs before it, that is an apt des…
The problem is with what you're expecting (or from what I can gather of what you appear to want).
You're essentially saying that you want info on systems as soon as possible so we can tell the developers where they're going wrong. The problem with…
Originally posted by gt4980b Quick thoughts...
The way I look at reviews is this...If a reviewer really knew what they were talking about, they would have the title game designer or at least QA. This poster doesn't even have the title of editor.…
For me it's a few reasons.
- I don't think Tera and Rift are quality games that will create a foothold in the community. I don't think there's anything exciting about them and I think they'll fall by the wayside like low-pop games, ie Vanguard/WAR…