Rift: Planes of Telara

[Hawkbit]

It's good deal, but $120 upfront is a big pill to swallow.  Tempting.

[March]

I'll come back just to play with the new souls. 

But I'll only stay if they add solo content and some sort of character meta-game (something less like achievement check-boxes and more like housing or something to build/buy/grow).  They are losing the Raid game, not sure why they insist on chasing it.

[Tannhauser]

Yeah I hope the new souls are fun.  I find I don't mind re-playing zones if I have a fun soul.  My necromancer/warlock is really fun while my alt role pyro/? is merely OK and is used for rifts.

Not going to do the $120 deal.  I hop from game to game to much for it to be a bargain.

[Rokal]

But I'll only stay if they add solo content and some sort of character meta-game (something less like achievement check-boxes and more like housing or something to build/buy/grow).  They are losing the Raid game, not sure why they insist on chasing it.

They've got Planar Attunement right now, but the expansion is also supposed to add some sort of housing system. I only ever participated in PuG raids, but I always find plenty of stuff to do as someone playing solo.

[Nerf]

It's good deal, but $120 upfront is a big pill to swallow.  Tempting.

I'm probably going to jump on it here soonish, month-to-month it's ~$15ish, and the expansion will probably be $50-60, that means expansion+4 months gametime and you're already behind.  With a 1 year sub I won't feel bad walking away from it for a bit now and then as well.

[Tannhauser]

Rift showed of their new housing system, looks really customizable.  You can place objects in '3' dimensions and even re-size them.  Since you can place a box hanging in air, you can make steps and they had a custom tree house built.  Very neat.

Unfortunately housing will once again be in an instance instead of the real world.  So they will be dead unless Trion figures out a way to make players want to go to other houses.

http://www.riftjunkies.com/2012/08/16/gamescom-2012-housing-in-rift/#disqus_thread

[Amaron]

Interesting to see they are going near on full customization.  Wonder how they're going to handle the flying penis houses.

[Threash]

Did they announce rogue or warrior souls yet?

[Draegan]

Only Mage.  Next reveal won't be until next month at some point.  Or so they say.

[Rokal]

Release date is November 13th. Couple more pre-order options up along with a nice new trailer.

http://stormlegion.riftgame.com/en/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k68DrZohC2g

I'm looking forward to both this and MoP quite a bit. This fall is going to be great. 

[dd0029]

They are switching PA to an account bound shared level system. It's not even the shared pool thing I thought it might be. It's completely shared.

Shared pool means that we intend to combine all PA's earned on all of your characters, up to the maximum PA value available.

If you have 50 on character A, 100 on character B, and 250 on character C that is a total of 400 PA to spend per character.

The exp required to gain a level - the bar itself - is intended to be shared across all of your level 50+ characters. The intent is that if you are playing character A and log off at 50% of a level costing 500,000, and you log onto character B, you see the exp bar at 50% through the same level costing 500,000.

[Threash]

Great change. The shared bar seems a little above and beyond but i guess it's nice.

[Stormwaltz]

NECRO.

Rift shutting down in Korea. Cue prophesies of dooooooooooooooooo-

http://www.mmoculture.com/2013/03/rift-korea-game-closure-finally-announced/

[satael]

No need for doom&gloom (unless it's something with Defiance that forces Trion to start trimming their operations)

[Phred]

Rift shutting down in Korea. Cue prophesies of dooooooooooooooooo-

I guess going free to play in Korea didnt work out so well then.

[Tannhauser]

I played the xpac during the free weekend last weekend.  And no.  Just no.

[Modern Angel]

Trion to start trimming their operations)

It's not Defiance related but they did layoffs once already recently. And you guys caught that Hartsman left/was fired, right?

[Draegan]

Was not fired.

[Modern Angel]

That's good, at least. It seemed at the time like one of those carefully worded firings which were meant to look like a resignation.

I'm a big Hartsman fan. I hope he does something rad next.

[Bann]

Ive got a copy of Storm Legion that I dont think I'll ever use. Free to a good home. If you wanna toss me a DOTA 2 item(s) you'll never use, even better!

[Cadaverine]

I'll take it.  I don't have any DoTA items, though.  At least I don't think I do.  If I get any, they're all yours, though.

[Bann]

whats your steam name/add me on steam.

[luckton]

Tapping out: RIFT going F2P

http://massively.joystiq.com/2013/05/14/rift-goes-free-to-play-promises-no-tricks-no-traps/

Massively: Why is it time for RIFT to go free-to-play? Are subscribers dropping? Did the expansion not do well? Does your market research see better profit potential in F2P? Or is it perhaps a combination of the above or something different entirely?

Bill Fisher: We have been seeing feedback on this subject since the inception of the game -- and not in a negative light. We have received all kinds of in-game feedback reports, passionately written emails, and gathered data from exit surveys over the years. This was one of the most requested, if not the most requested, feature from the community.

We know that the business landscape has changed over the years. In the old days you could pay for these sorts of games by the hour. I don't think anyone reading this really wants to go back to those days.

We've had this in the works for quite some time -- and you could see some of the original inkling of this with the RIFT Lite program, which was a smashing success for us. There has certainly been a stigma over the years regarding free-to-play games, but that stigma is going away every day as more top quality games are released with quality F2P models that don't gouge the user but instead provide fun environments and good value.

[Falconeer]

I'm sure it'll do them good. The game has quality, removing the entry barrier will help people see that.

[Rokal]

Writing has been on the wall for over a year. Hope it works out for them.

[Azuredream]

Nice, I'll have to check it out when it hits. I played the hell out of Rift when it released. So much so that I ran out of content.. it'll be interesting to see what's changed.

[Nebu]

Are warriors still ridiculously OP in PvP? 

I have some friends begging me to come back to this game, but I got pretty bored after my 2756th run through the 5-man dungeons... they were fun the first 100 times though.

[dd0029]

Are warriors still ridiculously OP in PvP? 

Mostly still. With the big dev purge a couple of months ago, the old rogue dev is trying to rein in all of the cool, but ultimately bad for the game ideas the old warrior dev had. They are like an energizer bunny. One thing gets squashed another OP rises up.

Mages are enjoying what I imagine will be a brief resurgence at the moment.

[Sky]

I got pretty bored after my 2756th run through the 5-man dungeons... they were fun the first 100 times though.

Where I found after alpha I had a tough time getting to any dungeon at all. Then in release everyone was jaded and if you didn't know everything beforehand you weren't exactly welcome. Or if you were everyone rushed ahead and left you sitting there wondering what the hell was going on. Ah, mmo.

[luckton]

Took some time to read over the F2P conversion info.  Tell you what, if there really isn't any strings attached and nothing gated behind the subscription wall, this will probably replace my WoW addiction (at until Hex  ).  Why pay $15 when I can pay $0 for the same damn thing?

[Falconeer]

And with 100% less pandas.

[Rokal]

Further lay-offs at Trion

http://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/192495/New_layoffs_reach_Trion.php

[Draegan]

Doesn't surprise me after they release a broken game that is Defiance.

[Tannhauser]

So what's the future for Defiance the game and Defiance the TV show with the Defiance team being 'obliterated'?

Did the game flop that badly?

Just shitty news.  I tried the RIFT xpac, but it's dinosaur MMO design now. 

[Threash]

Defiance actually did pretty good, that doesn't mean you keep around the same number of developers after launch though.