I dunno what to say. Maybe it's just a bad day. But, it's like you wake up at the side of your partner and from one day to the next you stopped loving him/her.
So it happened to me with Rift. I hope it is only a temporary low. Maybe I played too much. But it was quite abrupt. I got to level 38 with my Rogue, and the days before I had entered Moon-something mountains. You know, where the Dorfs are. And there is a subjectively felt 2 million mobs EVERYWHERE, you can't move a frigging inch without fighting it. The area is always filled with rifts and rift idols or what they are called in English. Ever since I passed beyond level 25, people stopped caring for invasions. And where I was often grouped in the beginning, now everyone is soloing. Where once I was always getting new interesting abilities, now in the higher levels they are all just statistical changes of what was known already.
And PVP is a catastrophe now! I played dozens of PVP matches no matter what BG, and we, the Guardians, lost 99% of them. I feel SO disheartened to spice up my levelling with a bit PVP, which in the beginning I used to get away from questing now and then. But now... it seems like impossible.
And questing since late 30ies starts to feel like a grind. Fetch 20 of this, mark 10 altars which all lie of course right in the middle of 2000 mobs.
I feel bored. And I am not very happy with it, since I used to love Rift. Until yesterday. Sigh.
I said all this and got called troll again and again (mostly by folks who had played 1-2 betas admittedly) because I didnt buy into the launch hype. I was even accused of being bored with MMOs if I dared to be bored with Rift (which i definitley am not). At the height of the prelaunch/ launch hysteria the savagery of the attacks made just because someone found the game.. .dull was incredible
Now many are obviously feeling the same. Many of them the same ones that attacked me.
My personal call back then, at the start, was around 6 weeks of play time before the average casual play cancelled for one reason or another. From the posts I am seeing I wasnt that far off.
The game has zero replayability. There is no alternate leveling areas. You basically have to follow the same path as before. Once I played once to 50 it was cancel time. I don't do end game raids and such in games. Most of RL friends had already quit before then too.
I said all this and got called troll again and again (mostly by folks who had played 1-2 betas admittedly) because I didnt buy into the launch hype. I was even accused of being bored with MMOs if I dared to be bored with Rift (which i definitley am not). At the height of the prelaunch/ launch hysteria the savagery of the attacks made just because someone found the game.. .dull was incredible
Now many are obviously feeling the same. Many of them the same ones that attacked me.
My personal call back then, at the start, was around 6 weeks of play time before the average casual play cancelled for one reason or another. From the posts I am seeing I wasnt that far off.
I'm sure that people lost interest with any game on the market but that doesn't make them all bad. Maybe your just tired of it or its no the game for you. Your not going to play every game for years and years.
RIFT is a well made game, flawlessly executed and a great soul system. However, I too am bored and after leveling my cleric to 46 and my Markswomen to 32 I'm bored to tears. The one complaint I have about RIFT is they "sneak" grinding into the game by making you do quests that require you to kill a million mobs to get to the goal. Then the NPC sends you back AGAIN to the same location to complete additional parts of the quest. Tired.
Either way I am done, would rather hang with my WOW buddies than continue with a WOW clone. I will say however that RIFT is a great game for people that don't have the experience of MMOs and aren't jaded. If RIFT was my very FIRST MMO I'd be in heaven.
RIFT is a well made game, flawlessly executed and a great soul system. However, I too am bored and after leveling my cleric to 46 and my Markswomen to 32 I'm bored to tears. The one complaint I have about RIFT is they "sneak" grinding into the game by making you do quests that require you to kill a million mobs to get to the goal. Then the NPC sends you back AGAIN to the same location to complete additional parts of the quest. Tired.
Either way I am done, would rather hang with my WOW buddies than continue with a WOW clone. I will say however that RIFT is a great game for people that don't have the experience of MMOs and aren't jaded. If RIFT was my very FIRST MMO I'd be in heaven.
I agree that Rift is a good first MMO as well. Most veteran players won't stick around that long.
I believe Rift needs to double it's content by early next year, raise level cap, and have more sub-class souls and races to succeed in the future. I know the gameply is nothing new really, but if they can out content others , quicker then others have done, they will keep a lot more subs and folks wont complain as much about its generic mold.
I'm in the same boat as you guys. I leveled two characters to 50. That game has turned into a snoozfest. That and the 1.1 and 1.2 patches have gotten me to the point where its time to move on.
I'm in the same boat as you guys. I leveled two characters to 50. That game has turned into a snoozfest. That and the 1.1 and 1.2 patches have gotten me to the point where its time to move on.
i used to like playing pvp as a side game when getting bored with killing x for quests but now that the last patch 1.1 made pvp even more imbalanced i honestly am struggling to enjoy the game
i used to like playing pvp as a side game when getting bored with killing x for quests but now that the last patch 1.1 made pvp even more imbalanced i honestly am struggling to enjoy the game
Well, 1.2 is just around the corner. 4 days to go and the new PvP changes will be up.
RIFT is a well made game, flawlessly executed and a great soul system. However, I too am bored and after leveling my cleric to 46 and my Markswomen to 32 I'm bored to tears. The one complaint I have about RIFT is they "sneak" grinding into the game by making you do quests that require you to kill a million mobs to get to the goal. Then the NPC sends you back AGAIN to the same location to complete additional parts of the quest. Tired.
Either way I am done, would rather hang with my WOW buddies than continue with a WOW clone. I will say however that RIFT is a great game for people that don't have the experience of MMOs and aren't jaded. If RIFT was my very FIRST MMO I'd be in heaven.
I agree that Rift is a good first MMO as well. Most veteran players won't stick around that long.
I think the term 'verteran player' is misleading - I've been playing MMOs since the EQ/UO days, Rift is more engaging for me then most MMOs out there currently mainly because theres more 'to do' in the game thats just as rewarding then 'gaining items', exploration and collecting IS content in the game worth doing if you enjoy finding titles like 'Dances with Squirrels' and 'Timelord' and finding rare pets and fluff items, key point is many of my friends enjoy this game that are older gamers then my friends whom only came in during the 'high point' with WoW.
I honestly beleave many 'verterans' are really ones whom play almost every day since they started playing a few years ago, people aren't just 'bored with Rift' it's mostly all MMOs when thats all they've played for the past X years and havn't taken time out from MMO gaming - case and point is that Rift is only 3 months old and already many gamers state 'they've done it all' this is VERY unlikely unless they've not stopped playing the game since launch.
It's not just Rift it's like WoW many 'quit Cata' just after launch becuase it was 'more of the same', thats mainly because they've played the same thing over and over again for months.
My advice is don't 'quit' MMOs, just take a break from them, MMOs don't stop growing just because you stop, go play a new game, heck go outside, come back to them after the summer when theres new content (considering Trion are working on a 'major patch every 2-3 months' system so by the end of summer thats two/three updates), if only for a month of gametime a tenner is well worth dropping into a game every 2-3 months even if you bliz thru the 'new' content 8-15 hours of gametime is still more value for money then a single player title that may have even less time for quadrouple the price
I didn't loose intrest in Rift from one day to another, I lost interest in Rift, one day... all together!
idk what it is with Rift, but I have read others post it was just super easy to walk away from, and this is the truth... Just lost all interest in playing one day... However now I'm stuck playing no MMO
I played in the open beta event just prior to launch, and I got almost to 10 before I became bored with everything about the game. Which is too bad because they really had an opportunity to do something really epic with their class system, but they went with a more mundane way to get all the classes you want.
They wrote so much back story on their website for each class and displayed the trials each 'Hero' of that class and how they became the person they are. It's a shame that instead of the players doing something epic to prove to that soul that they're worthy or compatible, the soul is just kind of handed over (or forced in the case of Defiant).
Keep in mind I only ever got the first 3 souls of any given class, so maybe the quest for more became more epic or made more sense at the higher levels. It sure was a turnoff at the beginning, though. That and stale gameplay killed any desire I had to continue.
What Xith said. I was playing it one day and just suddenly realised I was bored. Logged off and didn't log back on. I am also stuck with nothing to play now.
Well i was one of the open eyed ones and after 42 levels in Beta i knew this game was nothing more than a snooze pillow. Guess some of us didn't get caught up in the hype and handed no money to Trion for a sub par boring MMO.
Went back to Vanguard. Even with it's low population and SOE lack of interest it still smacks RIFT all over the place. Now with this crap about hackers and servers being down i am just giving The Witcher another whirl before The Witcher 2 comes out in 11 days time.
RIFT is a well made game, flawlessly executed and a great soul system. However, I too am bored and after leveling my cleric to 46 and my Markswomen to 32 I'm bored to tears. The one complaint I have about RIFT is they "sneak" grinding into the game by making you do quests that require you to kill a million mobs to get to the goal. Then the NPC sends you back AGAIN to the same location to complete additional parts of the quest. Tired.
Either way I am done, would rather hang with my WOW buddies than continue with a WOW clone. I will say however that RIFT is a great game for people that don't have the experience of MMOs and aren't jaded. If RIFT was my very FIRST MMO I'd be in heaven.
I agree that Rift is a good first MMO as well. Most veteran players won't stick around that long.
I think the term 'verteran player' is misleading - I've been playing MMOs since the EQ/UO days, Rift is more engaging for me then most MMOs out there currently mainly because theres more 'to do' in the game thats just as rewarding then 'gaining items', exploration and collecting IS content in the game worth doing if you enjoy finding titles like 'Dances with Squirrels' and 'Timelord' and finding rare pets and fluff items, key point is many of my friends enjoy this game that are older gamers then my friends whom only came in during the 'high point' with WoW.
I honestly beleave many 'verterans' are really ones whom play almost every day since they started playing a few years ago, people aren't just 'bored with Rift' it's mostly all MMOs when thats all they've played for the past X years and havn't taken time out from MMO gaming - case and point is that Rift is only 3 months old and already many gamers state 'they've done it all' this is VERY unlikely unless they've not stopped playing the game since launch.
It's not just Rift it's like WoW many 'quit Cata' just after launch becuase it was 'more of the same', thats mainly because they've played the same thing over and over again for months.
My advice is don't 'quit' MMOs, just take a break from them, MMOs don't stop growing just because you stop, go play a new game, heck go outside, come back to them after the summer when theres new content (considering Trion are working on a 'major patch every 2-3 months' system so by the end of summer thats two/three updates), if only for a month of gametime a tenner is well worth dropping into a game every 2-3 months even if you bliz thru the 'new' content 8-15 hours of gametime is still more value for money then a single player title that may have even less time for quadrouple the price
All those things your talking about "to do" in Rift I already did in EQ2 and WAR. Rememebr, RIFT isn't that original: it has elements of several MMOs. You may enjoy them and that's great but for some of us its too much about "been there, done that and got the T-shirt". Some of us vets are looking for something fresh...not looking for the world here, just something fresh.
The problem is many of us don't know what that fresh idea is. So we flounder and get bored quickly. Staying away from MMOs isn't going to make me want to collect artifacts once I log back into a game.
Broomy, some things are best ignored. Anyone here could argue the positives or negatives of any game until the cows home. Objectivity is the only thing that matters, and if the poster has none, ignore them.
RIFT is a well made game, flawlessly executed and a great soul system. However, I too am bored and after leveling my cleric to 46 and my Markswomen to 32 I'm bored to tears. The one complaint I have about RIFT is they "sneak" grinding into the game by making you do quests that require you to kill a million mobs to get to the goal. Then the NPC sends you back AGAIN to the same location to complete additional parts of the quest. Tired.
Either way I am done, would rather hang with my WOW buddies than continue with a WOW clone. I will say however that RIFT is a great game for people that don't have the experience of MMOs and aren't jaded. If RIFT was my very FIRST MMO I'd be in heaven.
I agree that Rift is a good first MMO as well. Most veteran players won't stick around that long.
This is a good point. While the game is not for me, I have recommended Rift to several of the younger gamers I know in RL that had no previous mmorpg experience. Two of them are now subbed and have thanked me for the suggestion.
Rift really is a great place to start if you're new to the genre.
"Mr. Rothstein, your people never will understand... the way it works out here. You're all just our guests. But you act like you're at home. Let me tell you something, partner. You ain't home. But that's where we're gonna send you if it harelips the governor." - Pat Webb
They made it too easy to get to end game. In fact, a few cynics like myself wondered why we just didn't start out at 50 so we can play the game Trion intends for everyone.
Another problematical aspect is getting to end game isn't that gripping to begin with.
Originally posted by thebigchin11 There is no doubt it is fun until it becomes boring. Depends upon your boredom threshold.
Or one's jaded threshold. I fear that played a larger part in my decision to give this game away than boredom. There really was nothing I hadn't done before in a myriad of games over 12-13 years. It's wrapped in a pretty skin, but underneath, it's the same old skeleton.
idd, when you get down to the bones it is really quite dull, and given the world is so small (quarter the size of original wow) you are gonna get bored. Just part of the worrying trend to favour box sales over subs.
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I said all this and got called troll again and again (mostly by folks who had played 1-2 betas admittedly) because I didnt buy into the launch hype. I was even accused of being bored with MMOs if I dared to be bored with Rift (which i definitley am not). At the height of the prelaunch/ launch hysteria the savagery of the attacks made just because someone found the game.. .dull was incredible
Now many are obviously feeling the same. Many of them the same ones that attacked me.
My personal call back then, at the start, was around 6 weeks of play time before the average casual play cancelled for one reason or another. From the posts I am seeing I wasnt that far off.
As I said back then,'it works' isnt enough.
The game has zero replayability. There is no alternate leveling areas. You basically have to follow the same path as before. Once I played once to 50 it was cancel time. I don't do end game raids and such in games. Most of RL friends had already quit before then too.
Well said, I agree 100%.
I'm sure that people lost interest with any game on the market but that doesn't make them all bad. Maybe your just tired of it or its no the game for you. Your not going to play every game for years and years.
RIFT is a well made game, flawlessly executed and a great soul system. However, I too am bored and after leveling my cleric to 46 and my Markswomen to 32 I'm bored to tears. The one complaint I have about RIFT is they "sneak" grinding into the game by making you do quests that require you to kill a million mobs to get to the goal. Then the NPC sends you back AGAIN to the same location to complete additional parts of the quest. Tired.
Either way I am done, would rather hang with my WOW buddies than continue with a WOW clone. I will say however that RIFT is a great game for people that don't have the experience of MMOs and aren't jaded. If RIFT was my very FIRST MMO I'd be in heaven.
Current Games: WOW, EVE Online
I agree that Rift is a good first MMO as well. Most veteran players won't stick around that long.
I believe Rift needs to double it's content by early next year, raise level cap, and have more sub-class souls and races to succeed in the future. I know the gameply is nothing new really, but if they can out content others , quicker then others have done, they will keep a lot more subs and folks wont complain as much about its generic mold.
I'm in the same boat as you guys. I leveled two characters to 50. That game has turned into a snoozfest. That and the 1.1 and 1.2 patches have gotten me to the point where its time to move on.
Where will you move on to?
It's been bugging me!
i used to like playing pvp as a side game when getting bored with killing x for quests but now that the last patch 1.1 made pvp even more imbalanced i honestly am struggling to enjoy the game
Well, 1.2 is just around the corner. 4 days to go and the new PvP changes will be up.
I think the term 'verteran player' is misleading - I've been playing MMOs since the EQ/UO days, Rift is more engaging for me then most MMOs out there currently mainly because theres more 'to do' in the game thats just as rewarding then 'gaining items', exploration and collecting IS content in the game worth doing if you enjoy finding titles like 'Dances with Squirrels' and 'Timelord' and finding rare pets and fluff items, key point is many of my friends enjoy this game that are older gamers then my friends whom only came in during the 'high point' with WoW.
I honestly beleave many 'verterans' are really ones whom play almost every day since they started playing a few years ago, people aren't just 'bored with Rift' it's mostly all MMOs when thats all they've played for the past X years and havn't taken time out from MMO gaming - case and point is that Rift is only 3 months old and already many gamers state 'they've done it all' this is VERY unlikely unless they've not stopped playing the game since launch.
It's not just Rift it's like WoW many 'quit Cata' just after launch becuase it was 'more of the same', thats mainly because they've played the same thing over and over again for months.
My advice is don't 'quit' MMOs, just take a break from them, MMOs don't stop growing just because you stop, go play a new game, heck go outside, come back to them after the summer when theres new content (considering Trion are working on a 'major patch every 2-3 months' system so by the end of summer thats two/three updates), if only for a month of gametime a tenner is well worth dropping into a game every 2-3 months even if you bliz thru the 'new' content 8-15 hours of gametime is still more value for money then a single player title that may have even less time for quadrouple the price
Bring on the WARRRRGGHH!
Stopped playing WoW and play more RIFT - Love it!!
Amazing game!
OMG I can't believe you wrote that! I stopped playing Rift and every other MMO as well, and have gone back to playing Oblivion myself.
I didn't loose intrest in Rift from one day to another, I lost interest in Rift, one day... all together!
idk what it is with Rift, but I have read others post it was just super easy to walk away from, and this is the truth... Just lost all interest in playing one day... However now I'm stuck playing no MMO
I played in the open beta event just prior to launch, and I got almost to 10 before I became bored with everything about the game. Which is too bad because they really had an opportunity to do something really epic with their class system, but they went with a more mundane way to get all the classes you want.
They wrote so much back story on their website for each class and displayed the trials each 'Hero' of that class and how they became the person they are. It's a shame that instead of the players doing something epic to prove to that soul that they're worthy or compatible, the soul is just kind of handed over (or forced in the case of Defiant).
Keep in mind I only ever got the first 3 souls of any given class, so maybe the quest for more became more epic or made more sense at the higher levels. It sure was a turnoff at the beginning, though. That and stale gameplay killed any desire I had to continue.
What Xith said. I was playing it one day and just suddenly realised I was bored. Logged off and didn't log back on. I am also stuck with nothing to play now.
Chins
Well i was one of the open eyed ones and after 42 levels in Beta i knew this game was nothing more than a snooze pillow. Guess some of us didn't get caught up in the hype and handed no money to Trion for a sub par boring MMO.
Went back to Vanguard. Even with it's low population and SOE lack of interest it still smacks RIFT all over the place. Now with this crap about hackers and servers being down i am just giving The Witcher another whirl before The Witcher 2 comes out in 11 days time.
All those things your talking about "to do" in Rift I already did in EQ2 and WAR. Rememebr, RIFT isn't that original: it has elements of several MMOs. You may enjoy them and that's great but for some of us its too much about "been there, done that and got the T-shirt". Some of us vets are looking for something fresh...not looking for the world here, just something fresh.
The problem is many of us don't know what that fresh idea is. So we flounder and get bored quickly. Staying away from MMOs isn't going to make me want to collect artifacts once I log back into a game.
Current Games: WOW, EVE Online
Broomy, some things are best ignored. Anyone here could argue the positives or negatives of any game until the cows home. Objectivity is the only thing that matters, and if the poster has none, ignore them.
Chins
This is a good point. While the game is not for me, I have recommended Rift to several of the younger gamers I know in RL that had no previous mmorpg experience. Two of them are now subbed and have thanked me for the suggestion.
Rift really is a great place to start if you're new to the genre.
"Mr. Rothstein, your people never will understand... the way it works out here. You're all just our guests. But you act like you're at home. Let me tell you something, partner. You ain't home. But that's where we're gonna send you if it harelips the governor." - Pat Webb
They made it too easy to get to end game. In fact, a few cynics like myself wondered why we just didn't start out at 50 so we can play the game Trion intends for everyone.
Another problematical aspect is getting to end game isn't that gripping to begin with.
There is no doubt it is fun until it becomes boring. Depends upon your boredom threshold.
Chins
Or one's jaded threshold. I fear that played a larger part in my decision to give this game away than boredom. There really was nothing I hadn't done before in a myriad of games over 12-13 years. It's wrapped in a pretty skin, but underneath, it's the same old skeleton.
idd, when you get down to the bones it is really quite dull, and given the world is so small (quarter the size of original wow) you are gonna get bored. Just part of the worrying trend to favour box sales over subs.
Chins