It's needless to say that Rift has hit a wall and it seems to have had a massive impact on the building community too. This of course is not surprising, but I thought I would give my own take on why this has happened, despite me likely stating the obvious:
- Builders want to build in a live and thriving environment. They want to show their talent to more than just a handful of players. Who can blame them? It can be pretty grueling to complete some of these immense projects, but the more that admire it, the more worthy of your time it becomes (for most builders anyway).
- They also want to build alongside players who are actively choosing their own form of progression. This then gives them feeling of uniqueness and importance. For example a dimensioner might not think they're very good at raiding, but have an abundance in talent when it comes to building dimensions and they want to show this to not only other dimensioners but particularly non dimensioners too.
- I also recognise the fact that many players like to dabble in all areas of the game and therefore casually play around with their dimensions too. So how does this affect big projects? Well apart from building they may use it for; rare collecting, achievement boasting, PvP, guild meetings, role playing, damage testing and lots more and all these will increase the likelihood of investing time in building too.
- In summary dimensions as it's own game wouldn't work at all (for example we haven't seen an increase of building when there's nothing to do in PvE!), but as an addon it's truly amazing. But like all addons the main game needs to succeed for the addon to succeed.
Anyway that's just my 2 cents on why I think their has been such a steep decline in new projects. It's not like we're struggling with content anyway! Hardcore builders were never too bothered about main content and relatively speaking we've had so much given to us this year. The problem is we lack an audience! Such a shame really!
So, moving on..
Out of interest, who's still out there building and hoping to wow us with their next reveal? And who's decided to call it a day?
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