RiftUI is now Open!

[Morituri]

Hi Morituri,

I can understand and respect your opinion. I would hope, however, that you can do the same in return.

As long as projects uploaded to our site do not violate any of Trion's or our rules, we don't judge. It's not our place to do so.

Regardless though, I hope you might reconsider. If not, we'll miss having you as part of our Rift community, but hope that we'll continue to see you in our other communities.



Thanks Nehaxak! We're glad that they are allowing UI customization in Rift, too! Really looking forward to seeing what this community comes up with.

Thank you Cairenn. I applaud you guys for the work you do. I downloaded several addons from you when I played WoW, and donated when I felt like an add-on was a keeper. I'm sure to follow suit with RIFT. I have no plans on leaving the game & am sorry you got that impression. However if the community climate changes to the point that it is with WoW, then I will make that decision.

Add-ons such as Gearscore may only be a tool, but I think we both know that this particular tool has been & will be mis-used.

And for the record (to the other poster), I am aware of the add-on description. I am still steadfast in my belief against the Wow version. Calling this particular add-on gearscore was at best a poor attempt at humor since, as described, it doesn't measure gear at all. That won't change my fight to keep the WoW version out of the game.

Thank you.

[Serin9X]

That's the only "GearScore" I saw listed there, and it's absolutely the most ridiculous use of the word "GearScore" I've ever seen.

Makes me want to open an account there with the username GearScore just to see the knee-jerk reactions

[Cairenn]

Thank you Cairenn. I applaud you guys for the work you do. I downloaded several addons from you when I played WoW, and donated when I felt like an add-on was a keeper. I'm sure to follow suit with RIFT. I have no plans on leaving the game & am sorry you got that impression. However if the community climate changes to the point that it is with WoW, then I will make that decision.

No no, I meant our site, not the game.

Add-ons such as Gearscore may only be a tool, but I think we both know that this particular tool has been & will be mis-used.

Oh, I know very much that it (the WoW version) was terribly mis-used in WoW. But that is the fault of the users, not the fault of the addon as such. Back to 'it's not our place to judge, as long as the project doesn't violate any of Trion's or our policies.'

It's a shame that some people will ruin things for everyone else.

[Brad1959]

gotta love it ... push Trion for addons ... open an addon site ... sell advertising ... profit

[Cairenn]

You are entitled to your [mis- or un-informed] opinion.

[Brad1959]

You are entitled to your [mis- or un-informed] opinion.

It looked like there was advertising on the site <i.e. Free Realms> ... if there is none, and if you are not putting up a "Donate" button on your site, I admit I was wrong and apologize.

[Serin9X]

It looked like there was advertising on the site <i.e. Free Realms> ... if there is none, and if you are not putting up a "Donate" button on your site, I admit I was wrong and apologize.

The site has advertising.

I believe Cairenn was referring to your implication that Zam somehow lobbied Trion into implementing addons specifically for the purpose of making ad revenue from another addon site. Which is ridiculous for many many reasons

[Cairenn]

It looked like there was advertising on the site <i.e. Free Realms> ... if there is none, and if you are not putting up a "Donate" button on your site, I admit I was wrong and apologize.

Yes there is advertising on the site, but if you somehow think we are rolling in the dough, you are sadly mistaken. We go through terrabytes every month, sometimes every week. The advertising on our sites barely even cover our costs. As for donation links, the only donation links on any of our sites are ones that the authors put up, and anything you donate to them goes to them. We never even see it.

All of that said, you are still incorrect in your assumptions. We had nothing to do with Trion's decision to allow addons in Rift. We didn't randomly decide to open up a site purely to profit from it (see above). For over nine years now we've been providing safe, friendly presences for both authors and end users to upload and download user interface customizations, and building communities. We have users on our sites that have been members of our community ever since our first site opened back in 2002. We have seven sites covering eight games. We aren't some flash in the pan site that's just trying to make a quick buck off other people's work.

We have an impeccable reputation with the game companies themselves, too, a reputation that we have worked long and hard to establish. We are official fan site program members of every single game that we cover.

I'm sorry that this is coming across as some sort of a rant, but it really does frustrate me when people make judgements without facts. It also really upsets me when someone impunes my honour, which is, in fact, what you did.

[Lorandii]

*passes Cairenn the noob whacker + 9*
Hit him again!