The new housing feature looks really awesome and normally this would make me seriously consider re-subbing to Rift.
However, I still recall how anti-social the community was/is in Rift so I doubt I will actually re-sub.
I don't believe you've ever played RIFT if you're actually claiming the community is anti-social. RIFT has one of the best communities a game can have. I always find myself talking to complete strangers. Maybe it's YOU that's anti-social. You can't just sit around and always expect people to talk to you.
You have to contribute too. Ever think about that? Maybe you should next time you claim a game like RIFT is anti-social when it's community is booming with social butterflies.
You are a wonderful ambassador for the rift community.....
If you try to talk during an invasion or a rift, you usually get ignored. If you try to talk at the start of a dungeon run, you usually get ignored. Those of us that have played EQ know that this certainly wasnt always the case.
A lot of this is due to the game mechanics of extreme button mashing every gcd (and sometimes inbetween), but its more due to the fact that people don't want to pause 6 seconds inbetween kills to type something.
This isnt a Rift specific things, the voice chat era has killed socialization outside of voice chat groups. people cant be bothered to type anymore. And it absolutely sucks for social people that cant use voice chat (family/living reasons, deaf) or dont like using it (like to listen to music while playing for example) or people that arent in a voice chat community.
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