Just gone back to Rift. Been playing on and off since Beta. It is my favourite MMO. It's western, and there's not many of those about, none of this Asian/Korean rubbish.
I played the heck out of this in 2011, and check it out from time to time. I agree with many of the thoughts expressed here; far too many things locked behind the paywall, graphics haven't changed. Also agree with your score assessments.
Thank you for your comment! We for sure wish we could have tried it back in its prime. Far too many games change for the worse over time, and we also have a few that we have a hard time letting go of. Sadly they will never be what they used to be. We hope you have found a new mmorpg to spend time in 😁
Rift is one of those games that I periodically go back to, but it's very much because I have those memories and the nostalgia from having been there at the start. It had a lot that was great at the time and that still holds up today, but it's been functionally in maintenance mode for years after a downhill slide, which is really a shame. I'd personally score it a tad higher... but not if you're a day-1 new player now. There's just too much that's either gone downhill or stagnated to recommend somebody start it as a new MMO at this point. And don't give Gamigo (the current publisher) any money, for sure.
We completely agree, also with the score, if we played it at release the score would have been higher for sure. We didn't need to play it long to feel that its such a wasted potential, we enjoyed playing it, but we played MMORPG's far too long, one look at the store was enough to know not to invest too much time there. I don't know what went wrong for RIFT at the beginning, if it was simply financially not worth it, but then again was that because of the lack of advertisement/promotion, regardless - its a shame.
@@FirestoneTales They had some great ideas, and some really cool class combos (Chloromancer is still my favourite healer ever), but they aimed to be a WoW-killer. And like many others, they didn't figure out that only WoW could be a WoW-killer. :D
Thank you so much for your comment! We are already working on the next one, so keep an eye out 😁 i think a lot of us are searching for a certain feeling atm, and going back to older games kinda gives us that nostalgic feeling like you said. Good thing is that there is a lot to choose from !
a fantastic game in its prime. Things like the soul trees, buildcrafting and the lore are the best I've seen in any MMO. The problem with RIFT was the awfully managed studio that created it and, now, the unscrupulous "thing" that owns and runs it, which I most certainly shall not name. The fact the game still has a player base worth keeping it up, 6 years after it was officially put in a coma, tells you what a truly great game it is, or was.
They are actively shutting down parts of the game. I would be very very weary of investing too much time or any money whatsoever on this game, as Gamigo has made the future of this game very clear: Development time will be spent of putting on sales on the cash shop, and figuring out ways to shut down parts of the game to have satisfactory earnings calls.
Yeah that's what plagues majority of MMORGP's and well games in general, earnings calls, investors, share holders... Luckily there are still some glimpse of hope but less and less of them as well.
The game at the moment is absolutely no where near as good as it was in its prime. It was the first MMO where i seriously got into raiding. Sadly slow content release and poor financial decisions resulted in the game being sold to the most morally bankrupt gaming company "gamigo" who subsequently monetized every.single.thing . Its barely on life support/maintenance at this stage
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Just gone back to Rift. Been playing on and off since Beta. It is my favourite MMO. It's western, and there's not many of those about, none of this Asian/Korean rubbish.
I played the heck out of this in 2011, and check it out from time to time. I agree with many of the thoughts expressed here; far too many things locked behind the paywall, graphics haven't changed. Also agree with your score assessments.
Thank you for your comment! We for sure wish we could have tried it back in its prime. Far too many games change for the worse over time, and we also have a few that we have a hard time letting go of. Sadly they will never be what they used to be. We hope you have found a new mmorpg to spend time in 😁
Rift is one of those games that I periodically go back to, but it's very much because I have those memories and the nostalgia from having been there at the start. It had a lot that was great at the time and that still holds up today, but it's been functionally in maintenance mode for years after a downhill slide, which is really a shame. I'd personally score it a tad higher... but not if you're a day-1 new player now. There's just too much that's either gone downhill or stagnated to recommend somebody start it as a new MMO at this point. And don't give Gamigo (the current publisher) any money, for sure.
We completely agree, also with the score, if we played it at release the score would have been higher for sure. We didn't need to play it long to feel that its such a wasted potential, we enjoyed playing it, but we played MMORPG's far too long, one look at the store was enough to know not to invest too much time there. I don't know what went wrong for RIFT at the beginning, if it was simply financially not worth it, but then again was that because of the lack of advertisement/promotion, regardless - its a shame.
@@FirestoneTales They had some great ideas, and some really cool class combos (Chloromancer is still my favourite healer ever), but they aimed to be a WoW-killer. And like many others, they didn't figure out that only WoW could be a WoW-killer. :D
True :D But to give credit to RIFT, they're the first to do dynamic events, and now that's pretty much in every mmorpg, including WoW.
Exited for your next video. I've also felt like going back to old MMOS recently. They can feel so nostalgic even if you never played them on release.
Thank you so much for your comment! We are already working on the next one, so keep an eye out 😁 i think a lot of us are searching for a certain feeling atm, and going back to older games kinda gives us that nostalgic feeling like you said. Good thing is that there is a lot to choose from !
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a fantastic game in its prime. Things like the soul trees, buildcrafting and the lore are the best I've seen in any MMO. The problem with RIFT was the awfully managed studio that created it and, now, the unscrupulous "thing" that owns and runs it, which I most certainly shall not name.
The fact the game still has a player base worth keeping it up, 6 years after it was officially put in a coma, tells you what a truly great game it is, or was.
Yeah we really wish we have played it on release/prime time. We could see and feel the lost potential of RIFT!
They are actively shutting down parts of the game. I would be very very weary of investing too much time or any money whatsoever on this game, as Gamigo has made the future of this game very clear: Development time will be spent of putting on sales on the cash shop, and figuring out ways to shut down parts of the game to have satisfactory earnings calls.
Yeah that's what plagues majority of MMORGP's and well games in general, earnings calls, investors, share holders... Luckily there are still some glimpse of hope but less and less of them as well.
It's Gamigos business model, they buy dieing games and milk it for every cent. I used to love this game.
The game at the moment is absolutely no where near as good as it was in its prime. It was the first MMO where i seriously got into raiding. Sadly slow content release and poor financial decisions resulted in the game being sold to the most morally bankrupt gaming company "gamigo" who subsequently monetized every.single.thing . Its barely on life support/maintenance at this stage
Its such a shame :(
same here i used to love the raids in rift but cant find groups anymore after i came back to the game. this was an amazing game in its prime.