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Rift: Free Guild & Character Transfers Coming in v1.3
SBFord
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Trion Worlds and the Rift dev team have announced that players and guilds will be able to transfer their characters or groups to new servers once per week. Transfers will feature all of a player's titles, items and achievements and the dev team is committed to keeping transfers free for the foreseeable future.
“MMOs are all about playing with your friends no matter which server they’re on, and that’s why we’re offering this as a free service to our subscribers,” said Scott Hartsman, Executive Producer. “RIFT is both a game and a service, and adding free server transfers is just one more way we can make this the best possible MMO experience available.”
Whether you want to play with friends, check out a new server, or avoid queue times on highly populated servers, you’ll be free to move about Telara. As a part of this grand experiment, there will initially be no limits on the number of times you can transfer your characters or guild.
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Thats pretty awesome!
The announcement on facebook:
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Gather your friends in RIFT and play anywhere, any time....
When the next major RIFT™ update hits early this summer, subscribers will be treated to a surprise – free character transfers. Trion Worlds announced today that with RIFT 1.3, players will have the ability to move to select servers in their territory once each week, taking all items, achievements, and titles with them. Additionally, guild leaders will be able to move their guild’s level and experience.
“MMOs are all about playing with your friends no matter which server they’re on, and that’s why we’re offering this as a free service to our subscribers,” said Scott Hartsman, Executive Producer. “RIFT is both a game and a service, and adding free server transfers is just one more way we can make this the best possible MMO experience available.”
Whether you want to play with friends, check out a new server, or avoid queue times on highly populated servers, you’ll be free to move about Telara. As a part of this grand experiment, there will initially be no limits on the number of times you can transfer your characters or guild.
Character transfers will remain a free service for the foreseeable future, and could become a permanent addition to the RIFT experience. Subscribers will be able to perform the transfers inside of the game itself once the patch is live.
The RIFT Free Trial and Ascend-a-Friend programs are currently in full swing. For more information go to www.RIFTgame.com/freetrial and www.RIFTgame.com/ascend."
SWG: Astromechs & Friday Features and Guides from SWG O-forums (2003-2005) (Read last post first for clarity)
It's going to be interesting seeing how they implement this! There are alot of positives...but also alot of corresponding negatives.
I wonder how they will handle duplicates of character/guild names. Will be interesting to see how they implement it.
SWG: Astromechs & Friday Features and Guides from SWG O-forums (2003-2005) (Read last post first for clarity)
If its free it means its going to be some sort of automated system most likely. They're not going to be paying people to be sitting there answering transfer requests. So we'll probably be seeing lots of bugs, pissed off people and exploits in the first couple of weeks at least.
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And so the people who said rift was dying were right. No company offers things liek this unless theyre desperate as hell to keep their subscribers.
Oh ffs, you doom & gloomers are never happy about anything. Maybe the company is offering this to make their customer base happy without raping their wallets like Activision / Blizzard does every time they introduce any type of new service.
This is going to kill communities. Ninja looters can't be held accountable for their jackassery, people you thought were your friends can disappear at any given moment..etx.
I just think they realize that charging people $20+ to move a couple 0's and 1's around is bs. Nothing but positive comments should come of this.
Get off Briarcliff people!!!!!
I hate the 2 hour queue times when I try to log in after 8 pm... :-(.
Can see the forest for the trees springs to mind.
I preffer when company tries to keep customers with free aditional services (Trion), compared to when they just try to get very last cent from remaing customers (like Blizzard with new LFG)
I think this is a smart way to fill up servers without having to use the ugly "server merger" tag.
I'm happy about this move. It shows that Trion is not gonna try to nickel and dime their clients like some of these other failed or successful greedy companies have done in the past.
Why not? Why not be able to move around from server to server until you find one that fits you best?
Destroy communities? Community is destroyed anyhow, People don't give a fuck they ninja your loot. Join a guild if you want a decent community.
I was in a T1 Dungeon awhile back and some guild ninja'd my loot because I was the only person NOT in vent or in their guild.... You think they give a fuck about the community? It's guild for guild now adays. If you aren't in the guild or in vent you get shit on. Just deal with it.
"When it comes to GW2 any game is fair game"
If you're in a raid and not at least on vent with someone, that's on you if you don't get loot or know what's going on. Vent is free, headsets are $8. There's simply no excuse not to join voice chat for raids. Communication is key in raids and if you're the one guy not communicating, then you deserve to not get loot.
I may not currently be subbed to Rift, but this right here is win. Well played Trion. Well played.
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Asshats rejoice! You now have a way to escape everyone who dislikes you for clogging up general chat with nonsense/player bashing. Free from people remembering you as a harrasser/smack talker. Free from people remembering you as the person who ninja loots. Free from people hating you because you purposely whiped the group 5x. Free from all the wrongs you have ever done!
You no longer have to make an alt to act like an ass! You now can just act like one, then next week move to another server and act like one there. Not to worry though because the week after that? YES! You can move again!
The WoWification of Rift is happening! (Save charging money to transfer, heck why do that when we can just let everyone bounce around, ruin communities, create dead servers and allow asshats to run rampant!)
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Agreed, I don't even play Rift (though it looks and sounds like a great game) and more companys should be offering services which help the player base without additional costs. Blizzard has a bad habit of sucking money for everything change they do.
I never understood why I would be charged for a company to transfer like maybe 100kb of info from one server to another, which takes less than a second if they have any decent intranet set up. Thank you Trion. I actually have friends that were on other servers, now we can get everyone of the same server, and all thier friends can join that server too.
Wonder if they can work out a way that if Player X is reported a certain number of times, they're sent to the Outer Darkness server?
Anyone remember the Outer Darkness chat channel in the original Diablo? /off topic
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So you're complaining that select asshats will be able to screw more people over... as opposed to screw you over...
Just to detract from your negative views...
1. Rift takes weeks to hit 50, he could easily make ults
2. If he leaves the server so he doesnt feel the need to make an ult... he wont be screwing you or your friends anymore.
3. What groups keeps someone in it after they seem him try to ninja the first of 6 drops?
what i'm trying to say is stfu... nice work Trion, thank you for not raping your community like Blizzard does. Unfortunately they are such little sheep they will now bash you for not charging 20 bucks as it must be because you are broke!!! You give away free stuff because you are STRUGGLING! Free now equals no money!!!
"Sometimes people say stuff they don''t mean, but more often then that they don''t say things they do mean"
This is a great thing. It's what the COMMUNITY asked for, and on top of that free, which they didn't even ask for.
It's called a final attempt to make themselves look better. On multiple gaming forums, on rifts own forums, there are tons of posts saying the game is already stale, some servers desolate, and others starting to go downhill. Give it a couple more months and youll see server merges or some servers actually being shut down, with the excuse of "more control" or "pooling resources to make other servers bigger". It's happened dozens of times before. And it's happening again.
I really wanted RIFT to be good and to challenge other mmo's. However it seems to be heading the same way as WAR or AoC. Thats not to sie the game will die, but it will dwindle in population, as it already is, then the inevitable closures will happen.
Maybe something like if you get reported x number of times in one week or voted out of a group x number of times, you won't be able to transfer for a set amount of weeks?
Blizzard put the price tag on xfers to make people think, if its really worth parting with cold hard cash to xfer if theyve done something. And to an extent it has worked. Trion however seems to be perfectly happy to let bad players roam free and do whatever they want, screwing over server communities in the process.
The fact that people are blind to this, amazes me.
the game is doin very well on a good number of servers(some still has que with the highest pop server at like 2 hours ques still!) but after the first month just like all MMOs out there the other servers had drop offs wich is expected. Rift with how the rift system works you need a very healthy comunity to keep those things cleared off no matter what they say about it being scaled to population. so them doing this now asap is the best thing they can do to keep people on those servers playing. Rifts over running the low pop servers is enough to make anyone quit i'm sure, the server i played on had a good population but late at night like 4-6am there is never enough on to clear a major rift. and when you're trying to quest/level its frustrating as hell when the quest givers are spawn camped by mobs lol