where did everyone go?

[Palingenesis]

Oh, so you're one of those people.



Why does that matter?



How does this effect you in any way?

1) One of what? I know how Blizz makes their "EXTRA" money. Do you?
2) DRM. Not at my lesiure.
3) See number 1. Which is not fun for me.

I'm one of the people that pushed for Diablo 3; because I liked Diablo 2. It's their fault, I didn't buy Diablo 3. I have the money... but I don't want it now. Just my opinion. I've already voted with (my) money.


I’ve preordered Guild Wars 2. And; depending on what TRION does, I may continue playing Rift as well. I will definitely be playing End Of Nations; by TRION. I've enjoyed Rift; for the time I've played RIft.
WOW was fun in 2006. Diablo 2 was fun, for the game it was... which Diablo 3 is not.

[Perignon]

Well, my guild and I have not left for another game.

We just have not bothered logging in for the last 3 weeks except to do a 20 min guild quest a couple of times.

We feel the game has gone flat (see: constant new threads popping up weekly.) We've been struggling to stay with it since at least December.

Don't say we're complaining. We'd like to see Rift succeed. We've already posted pages of highly detailed discussions about what, how, and why, along with pages of detailed suggestions. And I mean detailed. And I mean pages.

Nothing to do with school (some of us are retired), nothing to do with summer....although I agree both of those absolutely do temporarily affect population. Not sure 1.9 is going to do it for us either. That's not our market segment (points to pages of detailed discussion.)

Will Rift dry up into a wasteland of empty shards? No. Will it survive? Yes. However, quality of that survival is another issue.

We will check back in September, after summer, after other game releases, and revisit and assess from there. Our founder's run out at the end of that month.

[Zerosum]

Basically, the short answer D3.

Even if the game is a different genre, it still pulls from the same 'pool' .....GAMERS. So knock it all you want but people want to see and play the with the shiny new toy. The question is will people come back?

This isn't just directed toward Rift. As I'm sure all other games across the board saw a drop.

[Carnefice]

1) One of what? I know how Blizz makes their "EXTRA" money. Do you?

I should have specified, I apologize. One of those people who seems to take what Blizzard does as a company personally. I don't really care how they make their money, if they're not committing genocide overseas in order to make video games, what's the big deal?

2) DRM. Not at my lesiure.

If you only have a couple of hours or less to play per week then I can understand, especially if those hours are when it's down for maintenance are your only hours to play.

3) See number 1. Which is not fun for me.

You can play the entire game from beginning to end and not ever deal or see those people who buy things off the real money auction house. Therefore, that's a pretty silly reason to not play a game, you could actually not even include that because it makes no sense.

I'm one of the people that pushed for Diablo 3; because I liked Diablo 2. It's their fault, I didn't buy Diablo 3. I have the money... but I don't want it now. Just my opinion. I've already voted with (my) money.

If you don't want to play it that's fine, I was looking at the reasons and they seemed to be a little ridiculous.

WOW was fun in 2006. Diablo 2 was fun, for the game it was... which Diablo 3 is not.

The concept and simplicities of the game are the same; fast-paced hack and slash loot exploding from every destructible thing possible. If not having an offline single player version is a deal breaker that's fine, it just seems a bit strange.

[Goodberry]

That people can leave Rift (OR EVEN WoW) to play such rehashed ******* as D3 beats my imagination. These little things explain a lot, anyway. I'm sure the financial markets are driven by similar mechanisms. Sheesh.

[SanguineDeath]

Thing is Blizzard have never crapped on my character without my consent. Blizzard have never ruined the way my character works and feels without some purpose or reason. Blizzard have never ignored the comments of the player base about such fundamental issues of character creation. Blizzard have never withdrawn a mechanism of my character animation without announcing this with reason. Blizzard have never insulted me by bidding me farewell in response to my concerns. Blizzard still have a great and plentiful number on the RPG server I play on and its always awash with other players. I don't see tumbleweed blowing across my screen playing World of Warcraft.... And finally my efforts, my creation, my dedication to my character is something that BLIZZARD celebrate particularly in the way your avatar and your armory link just what you are and what you do in game. To me my character was the consequence of my efforts. And this bunch of clowns didn't even see fit to respond to the criticism to explain.... Well other than bugga off and goodbye.

And its ' CHARACTER ' by the way. Not that that is important..... obviously.

Not to be nit-picky - well, yes I am If the OP is German, then he spelled the word correctly as character is spelled "Charakter" in german but should be capitalized as it is a noun - I speak German if you haven't already guessed lol

[Maverick8272]

This happens to pretty much every MMO; people come and people go for various reasons, often times even reluctantly.

Unless we're talking about SWTOR, of course. Then everything is somehow different it's clearly the end of the world.

[SanguineDeath]

happened with Swtor already, people quit that game in droves to come back to Rift.

I was a super fan of D2, D3 is insanely disappointing to me, so im playing D3 only when i have time outside of Rift. Sadly i only bought D3 at this point out of a weird sense of obligation to D2. *sigh* I guarantee people will get super bored of D3 real fast. I played Beta and was already bored!!

Agreed. I was a D3 beta tester and finished the first scene with my voodoo priestess and thought, "uh, that was fun, I guess..." It was ok, nice visuals but not a game I would go out and play...

[the_real_seebs]

I've been working on a project that's been sucking up all my free time.

[SanguineDeath]

I've been working on a project that's been sucking up all my free time.

he he he lol no comment ;)

[Hawkmoon0028]

@ the mod who moved this:

Just curious, but how is a thread regarding Rift's overall population and playerbase considered off topic? Or, would it be more precise to say that this thread could be cast in a negative light, and so you thought it best to bury it down here?

Again, just curious.

[Credo]

I'm busy finishing up an Electrical Engineering degree, and it's keeping me plenty busy.

[Karuna]

That people can leave Rift (OR EVEN WoW) to play such rehashed ******* as D3 beats my imagination. These little things explain a lot, anyway. I'm sure the financial markets are driven by similar mechanisms. Sheesh.

I doubt you've even played D3 -- where did such a harsh opinion come from?

[sado2020]

I doubt you've even played D3 -- where did such a harsh opinion come from?

well I am only speaking for myself but after not being able to log in after several attempts the thrill of the game is starting to thin XD