Rift Resurgence: 5 Reasons WoW Players Should Try Rift @ TenTonHammer

[Medawky]

I know this is preaching to the choir, but we all have friends who haven't quite seen the light yet. You know what I mean, those lost souls still wandering aimlessly in a game that only delivers three or four content updates a year. Point them over to our list to help give them that nudge they need, and feel free to give us your top reasons as well.

No one in the history of major MMOGs has cultivated, developed and released as much quality content as quickly as Rift has. With a quick leveling process, most players will be able to experience the lion’s share of Rift’s content fairly quickly. Planar Invasions, rifts and zone events are exciting open world content that WoW players should enjoy as there is nothing comparable on Azeroth. Dungeon runs start at an early level and with a cross-shard LFG tool, WoW players will have no trouble assimilating to Rift dungeons.

[Nightfall]

Simply put, TRION knows what theyre doing. From Hartsman to Elrar, all the way down to mods, who btw, who interact with us awesomely enough.....

YOU CAN TELL THEY CARE ABOUT THE GAME, BUT ALSO HAVE THE KNOW HOW TO IMPLEMENT IT.

'Other games' may try, but cant live up to it. Bio is one example. Constant patching to fix their patches blah blah blah.

I remember nothing like that when RIFT launched. It was a bit limited on content, but otherwise awesome.



If I had one desire, it would be a more indepth pvp codex, see signature haha....Thats the only thing....

[Tumnayar]

I tell every MMOer I come into contact with to try this game, it's just too damn good not to play.

[the_real_seebs]

You should link to the "Welcome Back" post (see my sig)! I think people who haven't actually been through the content patches tend to assume these are only "minor" content updates, which rather understates them.

[Nightfall]

I forgot, the other thing...


This mmo feels 'personal', like its ours/mine. The community seems more cohesive. When I speak, I feel as though Im heard.

TRION INTERACTS WITH THE COMMUNITY....That my friends, says alot. Actions speak louder blah blah blah....

[Zerromi]

I forgot, the other thing...


This mmo feels 'personal', like its ours/mine. The community seems more cohesive. When I speak, I feel as though Im heard.

TRION INTERACTS WITH THE COMMUNITY....That my friends, says alot. Actions speak louder blah blah blah....

Agreed. Rift is the only MMO that I've played where I can have a personal, not-at-all-game-related conversation with the lead community manager on Twitter and have that be his normal MO.

Zann = ♥

[ShinChuck]

Simply put, TRION knows what theyre doing. From Hartsman to Elrar, all the way down to mods, who btw, who interact with us awesomely enough.....

YOU CAN TELL THEY CARE ABOUT THE GAME, BUT ALSO HAVE THE KNOW HOW TO IMPLEMENT IT.

'Other games' may try, but cant live up to it. Bio is one example. Constant patching to fix their patches blah blah blah.

I forgot, the other thing...


This mmo feels 'personal', like its ours/mine. The community seems more cohesive. When I speak, I feel as though Im heard.

TRION INTERACTS WITH THE COMMUNITY....That my friends, says alot. Actions speak louder blah blah blah....

After dealing with Blizzard, Sega, and especially Square Enix (which not only doesn't listen to the playerbase, but when it does, typically implements things without knowing what they're really doing, and it ends up a far cry from what people wanted), Trion is a crazy breath of fresh air. They really listen, and they make the changes incredibly fast. Several times since I started in May, I've said to a friend, "Gee, it'd sure be convenient if they did this and that," only for them to do just that a short while later.

Pretty impressive, and the world keeps growing.

[Forbin]

No one in the history of major MMOGs has cultivated, developed and released as much quality content as quickly as Rift has.

Add free in there. It looks better, and its more honest (compare Rift's year 1 content to EQ1's Kunark, Velious, Luclin, and PoP expansions).

[Medawky]

Add free in there. It looks better, and its more honest (compare Rift's year 1 content to EQ1's Kunark, Velious, Luclin, and PoP expansions).

Excellent point, I take it for granted that this content is included in my monthly subscription

[Medawky]

You should link to the "Welcome Back" post (see my sig)! I think people who haven't actually been through the content patches tend to assume these are only "minor" content updates, which rather understates them.

Great idea, added that in with your permission sir.

[tro44]

Rift's 300k subs
+
SWTOR's 1.7million subs
=
2million subs

12million -2million
=
10million WoW subs.

Now we know where WoW subs went to.

Sadly, most of SWTOR's subs came from Rift. :-/

[tebhi]

After dealing with Blizzard, Sega, and especially Square Enix (which not only doesn't listen to the playerbase, but when it does, typically implements things without knowing what they're really doing, and it ends up a far cry from what people wanted), Trion is a crazy breath of fresh air. They really listen, and they make the changes incredibly fast. Several times since I started in May, I've said to a friend, "Gee, it'd sure be convenient if they did this and that," only for them to do just that a short while later.

Pretty impressive, and the world keeps growing.

Played FFXIV before playing RIFT. At first, I thought it was hilarious that players would post on the RIFT forums asking for changes. The concept of a company actually listening to the player base and quickly implementing changes was completely foreign to me. I was shocked to see the improvements actually being implemented--sometimes it only took a day or two for this to happen.

[ShinChuck]

Played FFXIV before playing RIFT. At first, I thought it was hilarious that players would post on the RIFT forums asking for changes. The concept of a company actually listening to the player base and quickly implementing changes was completely foreign to me. I was shocked to see the improvements actually being implemented--sometimes it only took a day or two for this to happen.

Not even kidding, my dude. SUCH a breath of fresh air - maybe that's partly why I'm so enamored with Rift. Coming from XIV... the air really is cleaner.

[Islingr]

I forgot, the other thing...


This mmo feels 'personal', like its ours/mine. The community seems more cohesive. When I speak, I feel as though Im heard.

TRION INTERACTS WITH THE COMMUNITY....That my friends, says alot. Actions speak louder blah blah blah....

This is my feeling as well. The game overall gives me the sense of being personally invested in the game. As someone pointed out, I haven't been here long but I have been part of the MMO community for a long time and this game/community is by far the best yet. IMHO this and Trion people are the best part.

[Xenoheart]

I haven't played wow but most of my guildies have. I think I speak for truth the following is why rift amazes us:

1) Rift has the fastest response time to ingame problems ever. Like one person said, if you wish something would change for the better, it likely will even without mentioning it. Example: I was like...what if we didn't have to carry crap from the bank to the crafting table everytime and it just took from our bags...BAM, it was in the game, and I never even suggested it. Wouldn't it be cool if I could use these marks for something now that I dont need them any more?...BAM you now can. Its crazy fast. Basically it boils down to if there is anything upsetting me about the game currently, i can be confident it will not last long as trion is already on it.

2) Free content, lots of it. If you are even remotely getting bored (near impossible with the shear amount of content) they have content updates almost every month to two months. For free.

3) You dont have to make a new charactor to switch from healing, to support, to tanking, to single target dps, to CCs, to AOEs, to pvp. That is the biggest selling factor to me. I can change roles at end game without having to level a charactor up to do so.

4) Again from my guildies, the end game content is harder and more creative than wow's stuff. If you want a challenge, come to rift. If you want casual play, there is a ton of that too.