My views so far.

Turdinator

 

So far, I'm having fun playing it. I like the story line. I like the graphics. I like the play-style. 3 out of 3 ain't bad.  The soul tree options are pretty sharp. A decent amount of ways to customize one character. Personally, I'm going to wait until some other nerd does all that calculating and I'll copy them. The rifts are hit and miss.  They can be fun, but they can also be really annoying when all you want to do is turn in a quest and it wiped out the entire quest area and killed the npc's.   I even like the animation when I'm casting.  The quests are pretty much like every other MMO on the market(Kill X amount of this, and collect X amount of that). I don't like the extremely fast respawn rate of mobs.  I'm not sure if this is a beta thing or if they actually respawn that fast.  

 

The worst part of the beta has been the WoW fanboys.  These jokers will download this huge game just to sit at level 1 or 2 and keep spamming "Boring game is boring. I'm sticking with Warcraft" and "Warcraft has flying, I'm sticking with that. Remember how fun flying was?" and "This game is a WoW clone! I may as well play the original!".   I finally had to leave the channel to escape it. I'm serious, they will go on for hours repeating those same lines.  

 

So all in all, even though I find it fun (and will be buying it), Rift didn't re-invent the wheel. It's just another game in the genre so don't think it will change the way games are made or anything. Accept it for what it is, and you may actually have some fun.