Rift: Planes of Telara

[Nonentity]

Will probably casually end up playing on some Guardian server PvE with some folks.

[Tannhauser]

US servers time zone neutral?

Nm, they're in Dallas.  Go go FAQ.

So, Faeblight or Shadefallen?  I know a good deal of folks here prefer a RP server to trade their assholes for RPing assholes with appropriate names.

I'm in, and I don't care which side we play.

[Nebu]

I'm in as well.  I don't care who runs the thing.

[Chimpy]

I am going to pass on this one. Was excited about it to start, but my friends who were also interested (probably more than I was as they told me about the game in the first place) lost their interest when they never got a single beta invite even though they registered for the "community" beta the first day it was available. Sure, there were facebook/fileplanet/etc. ways of getting keys, but it seemed lame that people who registered with Trion directly and early were given short shrift.

If I had disposable income of any sort, I might have given it a try. But without my usual group of friends I play these games with I probably would not have lasted a whole month.

[Threash]

That seems like an incredibly silly reason to not play, specially when they could have easily gotten into beta.

[Bzalthek]

Count me in.  I can handle an RP server fine.  I need to order more booze though.

[Morfiend]

That seems like an incredibly silly reason to not play, specially when they could have easily gotten into beta.

Thats what I thought too.

[Chimpy]

That seems like an incredibly silly reason to not play, specially when they could have easily gotten into beta.

That is not my reason not to play, my reason is frankly I lost interest in the game.

I don't know exactly why they decided not to play, but when I told them about VIP key things they were no longer interested.

[Azuredream]

US servers time zone neutral?

Nm, they're in Dallas.  Go go FAQ.

So, Faeblight or Shadefallen?  I know a good deal of folks here prefer a RP server to trade their assholes for RPing assholes with appropriate names.

I'm rolling on an RP-PvE server, if other folks are as well, which one are they rolling on? I'm probably going Guardian.

[Sobelius]

Interesting. For NA servers, just under half are PvP servers. For Europe, just over half are.

I wonder if their Beta stats told them they'd need so many PvP servers at launch? Just surprises me, considering it seems to be primarily a PvE game.

[Rasix]

US servers time zone neutral?

Nm, they're in Dallas.  Go go FAQ.

So, Faeblight or Shadefallen?  I know a good deal of folks here prefer a RP server to trade their assholes for RPing assholes with appropriate names.

I'm rolling on an RP-PvE server, if other folks are as well, which one are they rolling on? I'm probably going Guardian.

We're trying to establish that.   I'm leaning toward whatever is farther down the server list out of the two and Guardian, although I personally like the Defiant races better.  Anyone have a strong preference or is taking a group of people to either Faeblight or Shadefallen (Guardian)?

edit: trying to get a forum thrown up so we can go at this decision democratically and definitively. 

[Lantyssa]

If I played it would be Faeblight Defiant.  So, whenever the Steam sale happens that'll be my server.

[Falconeer]

Interesting. For NA servers, just under half are PvP servers. For Europe, just over half are.

As far as I know, Europe has always been more PvP oriented than North America, and both are probably less than Asia. No idea about other continents.
This is no market data, just what I can recall from the top of my head about all the MMOs I played in the last many years (but if anyone is going to quote WoW, I admit I have no idea about it).

[Shatter]

[Ironwood]

It's good to know that despite the changes in the wide scary world, Ctrl-Alt-Del is still massively unfunny and unoriginal.

[Lakov_Sanite]

It's good to know that despite the changes in the wide scary world, Ctrl-Alt-Del is still massively unfunny and unoriginal.

As bland as Rift? 

Well, not bland enough to shoo me away since I bought the thing but I felt a decent game needs support so I'll play for a bit and hope the setting grows on me.

[Mrbloodworth]

It is a good game and I'll play it for a few months at least, but it is missing "something". 

This is nagging at me.  I have read every post in this thread and feel like I missed something while playing.  Jaded f13 MMO gamers really seem to love this game (though I remember a similar thing in WAR beta).  Why don't I love this game?  It's rock solid.  It transitions well.  Still, it feels like it's missing a hook.  Every time I play I can get a toon to level 10 or 12 and lose interest.  Am I just burned out on MMOs?  I'm really trying to convince myself that I just have to give it more of a chance. 

Could any of you that have made it to level 40 or so encapsulate what it is about this game that has grabbed your attention?  I need some optimism here. 

"You have played this before" is all I could come up with.

[Falconeer]

"You have played this before" is totally what it is. I got the game and I am going to play and enjoy it for a while, aware of the limitations of a genre I first played in 1998 and hasn't really changed that much since.

But the setting, although non original, looks and feels OK to me. Some places, like Gloamwood, are beautiful, and I particularly like time machine trick, the premises that the world is about to die in a few minutes and what players do is actually in the past. Plus, I like how they characterized the two factions and their motives. Both the old and the new intro movies are cool to me and I am sincerely curious about the gameworld and where it will go. Can't think of medieval-fantasy MMORPGs with an obviously more engaging lore.
And seriously, planar invasions? What's not to like about it? Do you seriously think there won't be an expansion or a patch about fighting back on the six planes? Still unoriginal, but absolutely cool.

Anyway, I am not so fond of medieval-fantasy settings anyway. I am not 15 anymore, stuff needs more than wizards, elves or... taurens to feel interesting to me. It's a genre where, unless you are a literary/creative genius, the stuff you are writing is almost certainly going to be bland and childish.

[Jherad]

Steam RIFT patcher has new files now, if anyone wants to pre-download.

[Salamok]

It is a good game and I'll play it for a few months at least, but it is missing "something". 

This is nagging at me.  I have read every post in this thread and feel like I missed something while playing.  Jaded f13 MMO gamers really seem to love this game (though I remember a similar thing in WAR beta).  Why don't I love this game?  It's rock solid.  It transitions well.  Still, it feels like it's missing a hook.  Every time I play I can get a toon to level 10 or 12 and lose interest.  Am I just burned out on MMOs?  I'm really trying to convince myself that I just have to give it more of a chance. 

Could any of you that have made it to level 40 or so encapsulate what it is about this game that has grabbed your attention?  I need some optimism here. 

"You have played this before" is all I could come up with.

Once you've seen the man behind the curtain it's kind of hard to go back to believing in the magic.

[snowwy]

Since everyone played defiant during beta, that's what i'll play come launch. 10 bucks says the "good" que-times will be on that side now  
Hopefully there will be a fuckton of horrible guardians to kill.........

[Shatter]

Just a heads up but uninstalling the Rift beta still left almost 8gb of files on my computer which you need to manually remove.   The default directory for the BETA install is called RIFT - the default directory for the LIVE install is called RIFT Game.

[Sky]

You should've gotten an email telling you to run the patcher once before uninstalling to fix that bug. If you didn't, you probably should still do that. I'm not real happy about having to patch from the end of January just to uninstall the fucking thing.

[Modern Angel]

They're talking on facebook that they have a bit over a million accounts *now*. We might be looking at the second biggest NA launch if things go even moderately well on Tuesday's store release day.

[Lantyssa]

You should've gotten an email telling you to run the patcher once before uninstalling to fix that bug. If you didn't, you probably should still do that. I'm not real happy about having to patch from the end of January just to uninstall the fucking thing.

Yeah... I got that e-mail about three hours after I had uninstalled both my versions.  Nothing seems to have gone wrong, but... yeah.

[Dark_MadMax]

Heh its funny just a few pages ago people here were claiming there was no world pvp in wow . Lo and behold  I bet all same people will claim there was no world pvp at Rift launch, even though they avoided rolling on servers which were pvp focused. (btw its  Briarcliff and Deepstrike )

[Shatter]

So anyone playing yet?  Servers ok?  Logins borked or anything chaotic?  Any delays?

[Gunzwei]

Every server full, que times are like 3+ hours currently.

[Threash]

This is kinda silly.  Only pre orders are playing, they knew exactly how many people would be in.

[Morfiend]

Maybe they didnt expect most of them to be off today.

But yeah, I agree. They should expect 95% of people who preordered to be logging in today.

[Shatter]

THey did say they would open up servers as necessary, guess they havent dont that yet...

[Modern Angel]

Nope, two new ones came up just five minutes ago.

[Abelian75]

Four new ones total, actually.

And remember that they pretty much have to have queues at launch if there's a huge mass of people rearin' to go.  The servers might support X number of people ultimately, but at launch they're going to support a fraction of that number popping into the starting zones at once.  So... yeah.  If they added enough to actually support everyone without queues, there'd be way too many servers in the long run (unless of course people continue to pour in like crazy).

[bhodikhan]

Wow. Logged in at 1:15pm and I'm looking at over 2 hours for Faeblight. I'll take that as a good sign ( or really poor server capacity ).

[Abelian75]

Ooo, badass:

"Public Group leaders will now have a button to combine groups if there's a group of similar or larger size nearby."